For the past three months, the Steering Committee (SC) of the Canadian Geomatics Community Round Table (CGCRT) has been publishing articles on the CGCRT.ca blog. They have been doing this in the hopes of stirring […]
“Not good enough damn it! Not good enough!” – Jean-Luc Picard Jonathan Murphy, Managing Director of GoGeomatics asked me many months ago if I’d pen a guest blog entry on the question of Identity […]
GoGeomatics Canada and the Canadian Remote Sensing Society (CRSS) have joined forces to host an afternoon of debate and discussion regarding the new national geomatics strategy. The University of Ottawa is providing the space for […]
The Canadian geomatics community has been discussing and debating the importance of having a thriving and useful geomatics industry association. In the past the Geomatics Industry Association of Canada (GIAC) has been both of those […]
At the end of last year, I came across what I think is an excellent synopsis of what NRCan and the Canadian Federal Government are focused on in terms of geomatics. All of it is […]
In recent years, high–resolution spaceborne imagery (HRSI), up to 50cm spatial resolution, has become readily available for no cost using such applications as Google Earth and Bing Maps. Thanks to this new availability of free […]
GoGeomatics is seeking a bilingual (French/English) GIS Data Specialist to work in Africa on a large scale multicultural project. Responsibilities: Working under the GIS Manager as part of the GIS team, the GIS Data Specialist […]
Great debates about the terms geomatics, geospatial, geoinformation and geoscience have occurred for decades. Additional terms like geoanalysis, geolocation, geocomputation and spatial data infrastructure are mixed into the slurry of ‘geo-ness’. There are even ‘invented’ […]