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 […]
Projections and Coordinate Systems for GIS: A new perspective on old ideas. (Or, GIS Professionals Should Consider That A Lot Of Our Constants Are, Increasingly, Not So Constant.) “I am constant as the northern star, Of […]
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 recently had the pleasure of speaking with a creative cartographer who has a passion for paper maps. Find out how Meghan came to her current position with Canadian Cartographics Corporation (CCC) and what led […]
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 […]
GoGeomatics had a chance to talk with Teresa Baldwin the Community Manager for FOSSLC, an open source based, not-for-profit group. […]
I would like to welcome Professor Stephen Swales to the GoGeomatics community! Professor Swales teaches at Ryerson University in the Geography department. To find out more please read his article: GoGeomatics: I would like to […]
Project Task: Locate and collect information about open, closed, and historic landfills in order to create a 5 years inspection plan GIS Tools used: ArcInfo v9.3, Spatial Analyst Toolbar, Georeferencing Toolbar Datasets: Rivers, Lakes, Wetlands, Well Records, Soil […]