Community Engagement

Canadian Geospatial Digest January 15, 2024

Remote First Nation Community Getting High-Quality Digital Twin Exploring and Mapping the Environmental Stressors around Wood Buffalo National Park New…

Pesticide use public presentation using ArcGIS StoryMaps and Instant Apps

The beginning of the story In the past summer, Kamloops Food Policy Council (KFPC) launched a research project to study…

OAGEE Fall 2021 Virtual Conference – Call for presenters

#Planning for the future The Ontario Association of Geographic and Environmental Education will host a virtual conference on Saturday, October…

URISA BC

URISA BC – Engage: Make It So With GIS in Community Engagement

What: Engage: Make It So With GIS in Community Engagement Where: Vancouver, BC When: Thursday, 15 June 2017 from 8:00…

URISA BC: Vancouver Call for Presentations on GIS Trends in Community Engagement

Call for Presentations Following the success of our December event, the URISA BC Executive Team is busy planning our next…

Making is Connecting: the social meaning of creativity

I spent Christmas in Sydney, Cape Breton. While there, I had the time to read David Gauntlett’s book ‘Making is Connecting’.…

A Tale of Two Communities

After the Atlantic Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG) workshop: Geography Education (previous blog: http://wp.me/p2586i-4xP), I have a renewed enthusiasm for…

West Parry Sound Geography Network Wins Esri Canada’s Award of Excellence in GIS

Use of mapping technology facilitates efficient data sharing and increased collaboration among rural municipalities Thunder Bay, ON, Esri Canada User…

tecconnect Making Lethbridge a Hub for Geospatial Technology

How can we foster a strong geospatial sector in our cities and communities across Canada? Economic Development Lethbridge’s (EDL) answer…

Celebrating GIS Day at Carleton University

GIS Day is November 19, and GoGeomatics is looking forward to participating in this global celebration at Carleton University’s GIS…

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…

CAG/CCA/ESAC Conference and Geographic Education Town Hall Recap

Having Congress 2014 of the Humanities and Social Sciences in your backyard doesn’t happen very often, and it’s a pretty…