OTTAWA, ON – Sudbury-born Alex Trebek, celebrity host of the long-running TV quiz show Jeopardy!, has donated US$100,000 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Canadian Geographic (CG) Challenge. Since 2003, Canada’s geography whiz kids have […]
Are there too many GIS post-diploma programs and University GIS certifications in Canada? In the late 1980s, the prevailing notion was that we had three GIS post-diploma programs in Canada, at BCIT, SSFC and COGS. […]
The Ottawa February GoGeomatics Social is taking place Friday, February 27, 6:00PM in the basement of the James Street Pub. This month, we have a great speaker lined up to tell you all about a […]
The latest in Canadian GIScience research will be on display at the fifth annual Spatial Knowledge & Information (SKI) Conference, taking place February 26-March 1 in Banff, Alberta. Organizers are expecting approximately 75 GIScience researchers, […]
It’s a brand new year of GoGeomatics socials across Canada, and we’ve got a great speaker lined up for Toronto this month. The Toronto GoGeomatics January Social is taking place January 30, 7:00PM, at the […]
In England, as a teenager, we used to conduct ‘table top’ car rallies, using the 1 inch to 1 mile OS maps (1:63,360). The clues had to be restricted to the symbols available at that […]
When dams are built they have an impact not only on the flow of water in the river, but also on the people who live downstream and on the surrounding ecosystems. By placing data from […]
Canadian schoolchildren can get a chance to “walk” across Canada’s Arctic and challenge their perceptions of the North through a new national educational project produced by Canadian Geographic Education and the Canadian Museum of Nature. […]