I have always had an interest in maps. Every time my family took a vacation, I was always the map holder even though I did not have my driver’s license yet. There is something about […]
GoGeomatics Canada is pleased to announce our second annual segment in honour of International Women’s Day on March 8, 2013. For the entire month of March, we will be publishing articles and interviews on our […]
The Geospatial Siren Call of Western Canada My name is Aubrey and I’m a GIS Graduate who used to live in Ontario. That’s changed now and I’m living in Alberta. I’m a graduate from the […]
Editors note: Dr Maher is writing “The Story of COGS,” and through articles in the GoGeomatics Canada magazine, like the one below, he is sharing his experience and ongoing work on the book. This article […]
Unlike Canadian surveyors, for example, GIS professionals in Canada are not pressed by law to obtain certification. This fact has led to one of the more common questions in Geomatics circles: is a GIS certification […]
When GoGeomatics Canada asked me to write on the topic of “leadership in the geomatics community in Canada” I pondered the question a while. In many ways I see Canada’s geomatics sector from the outside […]
GoGeomatics had a chance to talk with Teresa Baldwin the Community Manager for FOSSLC, an open source based, not-for-profit group. […]
Looking back almost five years ago, if I had been asked, my opinion would be that college is a place where you go if you cannot get into university. So it seemed, anyways. Being asked […]