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Conversations with Michael Goodchild on Questions of Geography
Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down with Michael Goodchild and talk about his book and Geography. Michael was…
Postal Codes: Canada Post Backs Down on Crowdsourced Open Data
Have you ever felt the wrath of a Canadian Crown Corporation? In 2011 Canada Post set its sights on Ervin…
Geography: Thinking About Walking Home
Walking Home is a book by Ken Greenberg on ‘the life and lessons of a city builder’. It describes the…
Georeferencing Scanned Maps Using QGIS
One of the passions of modern day information technologists is to convert the past to digital form and to put…
eyesMap3D: The most accurate and powerful 3D photo modeling software
Global based technology company eCapture announced today the launch of its versatile and intuitive software eyesMap3D, to generate accurate 3D…
Northern Canada: Nunavut and a New View of Community Mapping
The writer and his wife, Heather Stewart visited grandchildren in Iqaluit for three weeks in April During the first week…
GIS Certification: Options and Discussion
There are many GIS and geomatics certification options available to Canadians. They have been discussed in detail in previous articles. …
NetCDF: a growing standard for encoding georeferenced data in binary form
Recently, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has announced an extension to the OGC CF-netCDF 3.0 encoding standard that specifies how…
GIS Certification: Esri Certification
Many GIS Certification options exist for Canadian geomatics professionals, including software-specific certifications. One popular software certification is the Technical Certification…
GoGeomatics Coming to Kelowna, BC
As a former Burnaby resident and fairly new to the field of GIS as a 2013 graduate of BCIT’s GIS…
Putting Map Making Back Into the Hands of the Community
On April 7th, I attended the community mapping showcase at the NSCC Centre of Geographic Sciences (COGS). This project is…
Part 2: Preparing for the Esri Desktop Associate Exam
Last month in Part 1 of my series I shared my reasoning on why I wanted to try for the…
