When Jon Murphy asked me to write something about ‘Surveying and CAD’ this month I thought, “no problem, when do you need it?” Upon more reflection, it occurred to me that I should write about […]
Fast forward to 2011. I was conducting research on latest trends in education re web 2.0; and, with my Intermediate/Secondary group of pre-service Social Studies teachers at Memorial University, decided to learn Twitter. This resulted […]
Today we are doing an interview with Janet Finlay from Niagara College. She is an instructor for their GIS-Geospatial Management Postgraduate Program. GoGeomatics: Welcome to the GoGeomatics Canada community. To begin, can you tell us […]
GoGeomatics: Welcome to the GoGeomatics Canada community. To begin, can you tell us where you are from and where you have lived throughout your GIS career? Sheila Churchill: I live in Vancouver, British Columbia, I […]
I believed in 1996 that the future of geography was with technology and I still believe that even more so today. Geography is alive and well in the real world because of technical geography despite […]
Canada’s north has always been a challenge to those living there and to geoscience professionals alike. The sheer size of the arctic and extreme cold have resulted in difficult access and contributed toward significant challenges […]
The City of Ottawa Official Plan set a target of 30% tree canopy cover for the entire city. To the author’s knowledge there is no information on the amount of tree canopy for the entire […]
September 25, 2012 Growing up, my life ambitions changed almost daily, not unlike most young children. Nearing the end of high school, the realization of having to figure out ‘what’s next’ was starting to set […]