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Web Framework for Flood Risk Assessment: Elevation Services and Simplified Flood Models

The development of infrastructure and dense urbanization along water courses and the increasing severity of storm events has brought to…

District of Squamish Wins Esri Canada’s Award of Excellence in GIS

VANCOUVER, Esri Canada User Conference – November 17, 2015 – The District of Squamish is a fast-growing municipality between the…

GIS and Geomatics Mentors

On the Importance of Mentoring in Geomatics

I guess I was lucky. It seems to me that I always wanted to be a civil engineer, but if…

Andrew Goodwin Talks Environmental LiDAR Uses at Next Toronto Social

The Toronto GoGeomatics November Social is taking place November 6th, and we’ve got a great speaker lined up for the…

WSP Announces Closing of MMM Acquisition

WSP Global Inc. (TSX:WSP) (“WSP” or the “Corporation”) is pleased to announce that it has completed its previously announced acquisition…

When did you decide to go into Surveying/Geomatics and Why?

An informal poll by Julia Meldrum Smith This article was reprinted with permission from the Ontario Professional Surveyor, Volume 56,…

Hexagon takes top Honors in the Wichmann Innovations Award at INTERGEO 2015

Hexagon, a leading global provider of information technologies that drive productivity and quality across geospatial and industrial enterprise applications, recently…

WSP to Acquire MMM, a Leading Canadian Engineering Consulting Firm

WSP Concurrently Announces a $175 Million Bought Deal Public Offering and a $125 Million Private Placement WSP Global Inc. (TSX:WSP)…

New Book: Web Mapping and Geospatial Web Services

It is with great pleasure that I want to introduce a new Web Mapping and Geospatial textbook to the Canadian geomatics…

Strategies for Finding a Canadian Geomatics Job

There are a number of strategies for finding a job or contract in the Canadian geomatics industry.  The strategies that…

15 Geomatics LinkedIn Groups You Need to Join

Last year, we brought you our recommendations for 10 geomatics LinkedIn groups you should be following. This year, there were…

UAV-g 2015 Conference: sUAS for Geomatics

The third international conference on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Geomatics (UAV-g 2015) is coming to Canada later this summer for…