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Measuring Access to Services: International and Canadian Experiences in Rural Analysis

The growth of open geospatial data and tools provides new opportunities to map accessibility to services for rural and remote…

In Canada EQ Partners with SafeGraph: Building Footprints and POI data

EQ Inc. , a leader in geospatial data and artificial intelligence driven software, is pleased to announce that it has…

Planet: “Advances in Earth Observation & Analytics Technologies + Deployment in Forest & Climate Solutions” – YouTube Video GeoIgnite 2021

Every day, Planet images the full Earth at 3.5m resolution and anywhere sub-daily at <50cm. This data is critical in…

Optimizing and Accelerating the Globe in 3D, Maxar’s Ryan Hamilton: GeoIgnite 2021 On YouTube

3D mapping is continuing to advance and be crucial to our understanding of the planet we live on and how…

GeoIgnite Talk On YouTube: The National Canadian Elevation Data Strategy Update from NRCan

Natural Resources Canada is hard at work on the National Elevation Data Strategy, which aims to provide Canadians with an…

Ontario Based SkyWatch raises $17.2M for its Earth Observation data platform

SkyWatch Space Applications Inc. (“SkyWatch“), a Waterloo-based space technology startup, announced today the completion of a $17.2M USD Series B round of financing…

6 Reasons Why Data Scientists Choose SafeGraph Data

This was republished from an original post on safegraph.com: 6 Reasons Why Data Scientists Choose SafeGraph Data SafeGraph’s laser focus…

MAXAR GeoIgnite 2021 Spotlight: Optimizing and Accelerating the Globe in 3D

Editor’s note: This article is part of a series by Ryan Hamilton, Senior Manager, 3D Products, Maxar Technologies detailing the…

The Evolution of Mapping Disease

The current pandemic is highlighting how important GIS is in understanding and interpreting data. History shows the evolution of GIS…

Hire Canada’s Top Software, Science, Engineering, & Geomatics Talent

Career Fair: April 14th, 2021Online Career event for everyone in the Canadian technology sector GeoIgnite and GoGeomatics Canada are pleased…

What are Statistics Canada’s geographic terms: CT, CSD, CMA and more

Geographic data are applied in any location-based projects. We all might hear a lot about geographic terms but when we…

NATIONAL ELEVATION DATA STRATEGY UPDATE

July 2020 STATUS OF THE LIDAR ACQUISITIONS The National Elevation Data Strategy team of the Canadian Centre for Mapping and…