Geomatics Specialist

My COGS GIS Education, Part II

In my first article, I introduced the how and why I chose to attend COGS from the fall of 2014…

The Canadian Institute of Geomatics Brings Big Data to Ottawa

Last week I was among an interesting group of  participants and presenters who came together to discuss Big Data (June…

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. …

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…

GIS Certification: The Canadian Institute of Geomatics Certification Program

One of the GIS Certifications available to Canadians specifically is the Certified Geomatics Specialist certification available from the Canadian Institute…

Ottawa GoGeomatics Social Nov 25th: Mapping Historic Buildings in Ottawa

This months speaker will be discussing his project mapping historic Ottawa.   Kevin Ballantyne, Geomatics Specialist at MDA, will be…

GoGeomatics Asks about CCOG

The Canadian Council on Geomatics (CCOG) has been around for over 40 years. Despite that, many people in geomatics aren’t…

Blue Marble Announces Featured Speakers for 2014 User Conference in Calgary

Blue Marble Geographics (bluemarblegeo.com) is pleased to announce the featured speakers for the 2014 Blue Marble User Conference (BMUC) to…

Dr. Brent Hall Talks to GoGeomatics about Esri Canada Centres of Excellence

GoGeomatics recently published a press release on the launch of the Esri Canada GIS Centres of Excellence in Higher Education.…

This Sucks Geomatics

Why Using the Word Geomatics Sucks in Canada

A few months ago, GoGeomatics asked a number of distinguished Canadian writers to share their thoughts on a controversial subject.…

Matthew Tait: The Business of Geomatics Engineering

In 2000, I was just finishing a two year stint living in Belgium working on modeling downstream facilities.  Yes, we…

Highway GIS Projects

GIS Analyst with a Highway Department

Patrick Korellis, a GIS Analyst currently working with Warren Township – Highway Department. This interview will be broken into two parts. First we would like to get to know more about Mr. Korellis and then we have some questions that we feel will be very helpful for new graduate students applying for similar jobs as this one.