Even today, with so much information at our finger tips, graduates and geospatial professionals struggle to understand the myriad of GIS certifications on offer. I’ve always wanted to explore GIS certifications further. Three years ago […]
What Students and Recent Graduates Can Do Relating to another article I wrote, called “Career Challenges for Students and Recent Graduates in GIS“, I drew awareness to the problem that in the fast-paced, unstable, […]
Information Communications and Technology (ICT) is just like a human body. There is hardware (the bones and organs) as well as software (the brain etc.) and of course there are communication networks (the arteries, veins […]
The Challenges As a recent graduate (2013) of GIS training at BCIT in Burnaby in addition to an Honours Bachelor of Science degree at UBC-Okanagan in Kelowna, I find that students and recent graduates can […]
The beginning of 2016 was accompanied with a sonorous press release from the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) entitled: “OGC® seeks public comment on a candidate standard that may replace legacy coordinate systems” [1]. In other […]
We typically think of a GIS as features on a map with a maximum of three dimensions: Longitude Latitude Height However, there is another dimension that we can add to features, and that is time. […]
The BCIT GIS department is undertaking a needs assessment to determine the feasibility of offering an Advanced Certificate in GIS targeted to individuals who already have a professional degree and career. This Advanced Certificate could […]
With popular holiday gift comes great responsibility OTTAWA, Dec. 11, 2015 /CNW/ – Drones, also known as unmanned air vehicles, are sure to be a popular gift this holiday season. With ownership comes great responsibility, […]