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Announcing the BeSpatial & Canopy Mapping Co. Annual Data Architecture and Coding Competition! 

Announcing the BeSpatial & Canopy Mapping Co. Annual Data Architecture and Coding Competition! 

We’re seeking your GeoSpatial solutions—models, scripts, geo-processes, and automations. The winner, revealed at BeSpatial ’24, earns a $500 cash prize…

MGEM Interview with Kathleen Coupland, Coordinator for UBC Forestry’s Professional Masters Programs

GoGeomatics: What is the MGEM Program?  (When did it first start,  where is it,  when did it start, what is…

Code in Place: Free Python course hosted by Stanford University

Last year, almost at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, I attended a Python programming course for almost five weeks.…

Murrium standing outside Github headquarters.

A Canadian GIS Technician Story: Attending FreeCodeCamp hackathon on crutches

I flew out to San Francisco to attend a hackathon led by FreeCodeCamp whose syllabus I had been pursuing in…

Student Passion for Geography and the Google Summer of Code

GoGeomatics has reached across the Atlantic to interview one of our new geospatial contributors in Europe. Join us as we…

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC): proposed GeoRSS Community Standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is requesting public comment on the proposed GeoRSS Community Standard.  First available in 2006, GeoRSS…

Google Summer of Code Projects: Open Source Geospatial 4 every student

Are you are university student who has solid programming skills, geospatial knowledge and is continuously aiming to become better at…

Top Ten Climate Change Maps and GIS Applications

Awareness for climate change has been steadily increasing ever since the Green Revolution in the 1960s. There is a plethora…

The Future of GIS Software? QGIS A Popular Open-Source GIS for the Masses

In today’s geomatics society, ArcGIS, developed by Esri, is a giant and dominates the GIS software market. However, there are…

Open Geospatial Consortium adopts the OGC SensorThings API as an official standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has adopted SensorThings API Part 1: Sensing as an official standard. The OGC SensorThings API…

Postal Codes: Canada Post Backs Down on Crowdsourced Open Data

Have you ever felt the wrath of a Canadian Crown Corporation? In 2011 Canada Post set its sights on Ervin…