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Northern Canada: Nunavut and a New View of Community Mapping
The writer and his wife, Heather Stewart visited grandchildren in Iqaluit for three weeks in April During the first week…
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…
Paul Barker: What is Web GIS? Exploring the ‘new’ GIS
GIS has always been an integral part of forward thinking organizations. However, it has long struggled to break out of…
Esri Canada Named Gold Standard Winner among Canada’s Best Managed Companies
Esri Canada, the country’s leading enterprise geographic information system (GIS) solutions provider, has been named a Gold Standard winner among…
A Shared Vision
Every year, a small team of Esri staff come to COGS to recruit new talent. As part of the interview…
Esri Canada to Open GIS Centres of Excellence at the University of New Brunswick and York University
TORONTO – February 1, 2016 – Esri Canada, the leading provider of geographic information system (GIS) solutions, has named the…
Discrete Global Grid Systems – A new OGC standard emerges.
The beginning of 2016 was accompanied with a sonorous press release from the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) entitled: “OGC® seeks…
The Real Thing: Robert Maher Examines the Book “The Real Thing” by Briony Penn
Over Christmas, I had the opportunity to go ‘off island’. One of the pleasures of visiting Victoria, British Columbia is…
2016 Canadian Geomatics Events & Conferences
This is our list Canadian geomatics conferences and events for 2016. Here you will find events pertaining to GIS, remote…
Transport Canada encourages new drone users to learn rules before flying
With popular holiday gift comes great responsibility OTTAWA, Dec. 11, 2015 /CNW/ – Drones, also known as unmanned air vehicles,…
