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Geospatial Niagara – Geographic Education Town Hall Meeting

So, what do you do when approximately 8,000 practitioners of the Humanities and Social Sciences domain converge at the university…

2014 Canadian Geomatics Events & Conferences

This is our list of Canadian geomatics conferences and events for 2014.  Here you will find events pertaining to GIS,…

Surveying in Action – Occam’s razor at Gull River Indian Reserve: The south boundary

By Dr. Brian Ballantyne Surveyor General Branch, NRCan Reprinted from the Ontario Professional Surveyor, Volume 56, No. 4, Fall 2013…

December 2013 Canadian GoGeomatics MERX Report

Here is the December 2013 GoGeomatics MERX Report. Login to see the contracts on MERX Cadastral Survey Projects Date Published:…

Starting a GIS Career in a Slow Economy

You’ve finished all your courses, walked across the stage wearing a grad gown, cap and hood with your school’s chosen…

GoGeomatics Social Leader Profile: Aubrey Downie, Calgary

Aubrey Downie first became a part of the GoGeomatics community by being a regular at our socials in Ottawa. He…

LiDAR Reveals Hidden Archaeological Ruins

In April 2012, McElhanney conducted an extensive aerial LiDAR survey in support of archaeological research in Cambodia. It was the…

TomTom chooses DMTI Spatial as provider of Canadian location data

A lot of planning goes into our summer road trips as we plot our routes, alternate routes and the occasional…

Updated 2013 Canadian Geomatics Conferences & Events: GIS, Remote Sensing, Surveying

We decided to update our list of events and conferences that might be of interest to the geomatics community for…

The Myth of COGS

When Jonathan Murphy mentioned to me ‘the myth of COGS’ as a topic of conversation in Ottawa I agreed to…

Amy Mui: High-Resolution Multispectral Satellite Imagery for Identifying Turtle Habitats

Amy Mui was not always in the geomatics industry. Beginning in wildlife biology, she now is a PhD candidate with…

Missed Opportunities in Canadian Geomatics: Lessons for the Future?

Jon Murphy knows how to ask some interesting questions – which is perhaps why I like reading what comes out…