When does a space become a place? There are a myriad of small open spaces and buildings throughout towns and cities across Canada that offer places for play, walking, social gathering, and contemplation that are […]
Every year since 1999, the geospatial community has been celebrating GIS Day and this year it is on Wednesday, November 16, 2016. GIS Day was created by Esri in order to promote grassroots educational events […]
Interested in how to conduct different types of spatial exposure assessments for air pollution or other exposures to a population? PHDA04: Spatial Epidemiology and Outbreak Detection is a great place to start. Exposure assessment is the […]
Ottawa, August 16, 2016 – The Canadian Institute of Geomatics (CIG), the largest and most influential geospatial knowledge network in Canada, announced the addition of Dr. Brent Hall as Executive Vice President. Brent will be […]
Of all the pleasant events that happen in spring, crow attacks rank at the bottom of the pile. Crows become aggressive as the fledgling crows hatch, and attack anything that passes near the nest – […]
Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down with Michael Goodchild and talk about his book and Geography. Michael was my graduate student supervisor in Geography at the University of Western Ontario between 1969-72 and […]
Technavios market research analyst predicts the global GIS market to grow steadily at a CAGR of more than 10% by 2020. The ability of geographic information systems (GIS) to enhance the end users productivity, decision-making […]
One of the passions of modern day information technologists is to convert the past to digital form and to put it on display. To this end the City of Vancouver recently completed a large project […]