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2022 Back to School Socials in Pictures – Thank you Sponsors & Participants!
The 7th annual GoGeomatics 2022 Back to School Socials have been a tremendous success. Our groups and group leaders across…
Sparkgeo Uses a Geospatial Lens to Look at Earth’s Issues on a Planetary Scale
Cadell Asks Us To Rescale Our Way of Thinking The keynote speaker for GeoIgnite, Winter Geo conference on March 2,…
WGIC Discusses Monitoring GHG From Space Using Commercial Capabilities
Efforts from Public, Private and Hybrid Missions are Key At GeoIgnite, Winter Geo conference, attendees were able to view a…
GIS made in Canada – Doug Seaborn’s VISION*
Editors note – This Interview was originally published March, 2016 and republished now as it highlights an important and interesting…
Your Canadian Geospatial Briefing for November 25th: Mapping Toronto’s Most Bizarre Intersections; Canada’s 5G Network: USA issues warning; GeoVangelist Wins the 2019 Alex Trebek Medal for Geographic Literacy; Mapping Canada’s Hidden Treasure
Mapping Toronto’s Most Bizarre Intersections For most people from Toronto, when they think of what their city is known for,…
My Bookcase: The Geography of Canada
It’s been three years since I wrote up my top ten list geography books in a post called 50 Years…
2019-2020 Back to School Socials in Pictures – Thank you Sponsors & Participants!
The 6th annual GoGeomatics 2019 Back to School Socials have been a tremendous success. After coming off the success of…
Using GIS to study health care services and utilization––from local to national
Access to timely and quality health care is an important determinant of health and well-being. Despite universal health coverage in…
A Canadian Geographer’s Notes from Nunavut
For the last five years, I have annually had the opportunity to spend time in Iqaluit, Canada’s fastest growing community in Canada’s fastest growing territory or province. On arrival, I check out the selection of new books at Arctic Ventures and the screening of new movies about the North. This year, there was the chance to see John Walker’s Passage and to buy a copy of Darrel Varga’s book of the same name in the Canadian Cinema series.
Google Earth Engine – What is a Data Cube and Why Canadians Should Care
What is a data cube and how is it used for big data analytics? How does a data cube work…
Event in Pictures: COGS Industry Expo 2017
The College of Geographic Sciences (COGS) held the 2017 COGS Industry Expo on March 23 in Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia. COGS…
CANMAP, and SHIFTing gears at COGS
At the end of last month, John Wian hosted the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the CANMAP Research Institute in…