This article focuses on the process of creating a very out-of-date map in GIS. Lots has gone on since I posted Gettysburg: What Could Lee See? last summer. Technology continues to evolve at a dizzying […]
Elevation Web Services: Limitations and Prospects Elevation data is necessary for a wide range of geospatial applications such as creating relief maps and rendering 3D visualizations, deriving the slope and aspect of a geographic area, […]
Mr. Dirk Werle, Partner / Geoscientist, Ærde Environmental Research, Halifax Date: Friday, November 13, 2015 Time: 10:30 – 12:00 Location: Room O-23, 560 Rochester Street Speaking on: Setting the Sights on the Cities: The Halifax […]
Four hundred and fifty years ago, the Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator presented the most popular map projection ever. It became fairly the standard projection for nautical maps because of its ability to represent […]
In the past few months there have been quite a few articles that have shown UAV’s or drones in a negative light. It’s not only humans that have been critical of UAV’s and their use […]
In February 2005, Google Maps was launched as a desktop web mapping service. A few months later, in June 2005, Google Earth was released for personal computers. Since then, people around the globe have been […]
The global commercial drone market size is expected to reach USD 2.07 billion by 2022, according to a new report by Grand View Research, Inc. Increased utility in law enforcement and agricultural applications is expected […]
IGO (for Open GIS Infrastructure) is a Free Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) developed by organisations in the government of Quebec in Canada. The objective is to make it open, common, modular, based on […]