I am a retired geographic educator. I am a geographer. I understand GIS. Or should I say I LOVE Geomatics? I have spent my career promoting geo-literacy/geospatial literacy. I am geospatially-oriented. This is my point […]
TIMMS 2–Smaller, Lighter and Easier to Maneuver System Maximizes Performance in Indoor Spaces While Delivering Accurate, High-Quality Data Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) introduced its next generation Trimble® Indoor Mobile Mapping Solution (TIMMS) that produces fast and […]
Four hundred and fifty years ago, the Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator presented the most popular map projection ever. It became fairly the standard projection for nautical maps because of its ability to represent […]
In February 2005, Google Maps was launched as a desktop web mapping service. A few months later, in June 2005, Google Earth was released for personal computers. Since then, people around the globe have been […]
The BCIT GIS department has been graduating students for 25+ years. Our students come from BC, but as well, across Canada and international. Our program is known to be very demanding, and creates students that […]
It is with great pleasure that I want to introduce a new Web Mapping and Geospatial textbook to the Canadian geomatics community. Prof. Emmanuel Stefanakis (University of New Brunswick, Canada) has authored an introductory textbook on […]
June 23rd marked a special day in the history of aviation and space in Canada. A very special aircraft, a Convair-580, with its advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) sensors, made its final flight after setting […]
Imagine seeing our world through an astronaut’s eye-view from the comfort of your own home… Pretty soon, you won’t have to imagine it. UrtheCast, a relative newcomer to the Canadian earth observation scene, is on […]