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High Resolution Remote Sensing Supports Victoria International Airport’s Operations

Introduction In a recent project for Victoria International Airport (YYJ), Terra Remote Sensing Inc (TRSI) acquired high resolution photogrammetry and…

Pesticide use public presentation using ArcGIS StoryMaps and Instant Apps

The beginning of the story In the past summer, Kamloops Food Policy Council (KFPC) launched a research project to study…

International Geospatial Briefing October 3rd

1. Climate change is making lakes less blue 2. Next Gen Unicore Communications GNSS available through Rx Networks 3. Participatory…

Project Pandemic

Canada Mobilizing Maps, Data, and Investigative Journalism for Project Pandemic

Access to information should not be determined by where we live. Project Pandemic is a data co-op and collaboration designed…

COVID-19: Supporting Kamloops, BC businesses using Story Maps

In the middle of March 2020, COVID-19 pandemic leads to social distancing rules in Canada. Public areas such as restaurants…

Fire GIS Uses Maps, Data, & Social Media–A Hot Tool for BC Residents, Travellers

Every summer in British Columbia, along with long days, sunshine, heat, and little rain comes an all-too-familiar reality: hundreds of…

GIS in Action: How Does BC Pinot Noir Express Terroir?

Editors note: In this previously published article, Karl Kliparchuk, BCIT GIS Program Head & Instructor uses GIS to explore the…

Upgrade your Geospatial Skills: leveraging the power of MOOCs

What I want to share with you are some resources related to something called Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) where…

Canadian GIS Ambassador Program: Interview with Brent Hall, Director of Education & Research at Esri Canada

Interview with Brent Hall, Director of Education and Research at Esri Canada and, along with his staff, the initiator of…

Canadian Municipalities Unlock Their Data with Esri’s ArcGIS Open Data

TORONTO—April 25, 2016—Esri Canada today announced that more than 20 Canadian municipalities have adopted ArcGIS Open Data.  Esri’s cloud-based geographic…

Putting Map Making Back Into the Hands of the Community

On April 7th, I attended the community mapping showcase at the NSCC Centre of Geographic Sciences (COGS). This project is…

Part 2: Preparing for the Esri Desktop Associate Exam

Last month in Part 1 of my series I shared my reasoning on why I wanted to try for the…