Climate Change
Governments of Canada and Manitoba invest in building state-of-the-art Churchill Marine Observatory
Shelly Glover, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages and Minister responsible for Manitoba, and Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger visited…
Open Data Portals and Geomatics: The Polar Data Catalogue
The growing interest in providing open data access has long been integrated into the field of Geomatics. However, the use…
GeoDecisions’ GeoILS Intelligent Location Server Used to Track Icebergs
A Canadian expedition team used GeoDecisions’ GeoILS® platform to help track icebergs during a voyage to better understand how icebergs…
Storytelling: Haida Gwaii
Haida Gwaii is a rich source for stories. There are many perspectives and many different formats. In the Haida culture…
Vancouver Island University GIS Students Take on Real-World Issues with Esri’s Software Suite
Students don’t need to be located in Nanaimo, British Columbia to get a post-graduate diploma in GIS applications from Vancouver…
UN General Assembly urges sharing of geospatial data to benefit people and planet
New York – The science that supports the precise pinpointing of people and places should be shared more widely, according…
Geography Education: First Thoughts from Haida Gwaii
One of the joys of leaving your residence on one coast (Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia) and moving to a new…
McGill Geography Researchers Map Global Impact of Dams
When dams are built they have an impact not only on the flow of water in the river, but also…
The Changing Face of Geography: Learning Opportunitites
This article is a companion piece to the September 23rd article “The Changing Face of Geomatics: Learning Opportunities,” which focused…
GeoConference 2014 – A Global Event in Old Quebec City
It’s been seven years since the last edition of this GeoConference, organized by the Canadian Institute of Geomatics (Section Champlain),…
10 Canadian Border Disputes that Shaped our Country
Canada is one of the wealthiest countries in the world, the second largest country based on land mass, and a…
Fourth Session of the United Nations Committee of Experts on GGIM
The United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management set to clear the path for location based standards…
