Earlier this year, a CBC report brought to light a disturbing trend among Canada’s student population. Fundamental geographic knowledge (as simple as the locations of continents) is not as instilled in many of today’s college-level […]
With October at a close, we want to take the opportunity to round up the stories most significant to our community this past month. Here are the top Canadian Geomatics Stories of October 2013: Surveyors […]
Geomatics… What is it? Who uses it? How does it relate to the public? These are questions that the Alberta Geomatics Group (AGG) is often asked when we talk about our work, our association and […]
GoGeomatics hosted one of their monthly social events in Halifax recently that coincided well with the Geomatics Association of Nova Scotia (GANS) monthly event that was held at the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History. […]
There is a strong consensus that geospatial information (GI) has become ubiquitous, but what real value is the use of this information contributing to the Canadian economy, and to innovation and productivity improvement in this […]
A seminal event that has the potential to have a powerful impact on geography, geographic education, and all related geospatial fields was held in St. John’s on August 10th, prior to the AGM of the […]
From my memory (which is, unfortunately, diming with each passing year) the word “geomatics”, defined as the automation of geography, was first coined in French (Québec) as géomatique and then translated into English as geomatics. […]
Reprinted from the Ontario Professional Surveyor, Volume 56, No. 2, Spring 2013 Charles Morris was a captain in the Massachusetts militia in the mid 1740s when Britain and France were at war (King Georges War […]