I had a chance to attend the 2017 GeoAlberta conference earlier this month in Calgary, Alberta. This was my first geospatial event and I had heard from Jonathan Murphy, the Managing Director of GoGeomatics, that […]
In 1927 a Vancouver bylaw was enacted that limited the height of buildings to a maximum of six stories in height over much of the West End of the city, as illustrated in the Zoning […]
The Community Maps Program (CMP) was introduced by Esri Canada in 2009 allowing organizations to share and host geographic data. The CMP is accessible to public and private organizations and web users. The platform for […]
These days drones are all the rage. Nevertheless, there are other ways to collect data from the sky! Blimps, balloons and kites are alternative was to collecting data or remote-sensing imagery. These are great unconventional solutions for […]
It is rare to learn of a GIS company in which much R&D is done up front to create the programming language used to build its tools. Ecere, a Canadian company based in Gatineau, Québec, […]
What I want to share with you are some resources related to something called Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) where you can learn new skills, refresh your current ones or to simply satisfy your thirst […]
Unmanned Underwater Vehicles One of the most interesting things to happen in regards to marine geomatics technology has been the development of advanced Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs). Think of the UUV as the underwater counterpart […]
Not many companies undertake the ambitious goal of creating a new geospatial software suite from scratch. Ecere, a Canadian company based in Gatineau, Québec has been developing a software platform that has positioned them to […]