My friend, Edward, directed me towards the Internet and the podcast website entitled ‘The Accidental Geographer’. Edward, in his version of the concept, describes a field trip, where a group of students go into a […]
A few months ago, I decided to obtain the Esri Associate certification for ArcGIS Desktop and wrote about my reasoning here. I wanted to take the exam for a few reasons: First, I wanted to have […]
Walking Home is a book by Ken Greenberg on ‘the life and lessons of a city builder’. It describes the experiences of a urban designer/architect who was strongly influenced by Jane Jacobs. I picked up […]
SaveTheMap Campaign: “to encourage citizens and startups to use geospatial data in everyday lives and create businesses that serve India” Interesting (geospatial) times in India lately… On May 4th, 2016, just three months after […]
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 […]
The writer and his wife, Heather Stewart visited grandchildren in Iqaluit for three weeks in April During the first week in Iqaluit, we went to a public lecture by David Pelly on his new book […]
There are many GIS and geomatics certification options available to Canadians. They have been discussed in detail in previous articles. A summary of these different options is listed in the table below. How they compare, […]
Jambo from Nairobi, Kenya! I, Jon Murphy – GoGeomatic’s intrepid Managing Director, am in Kenya having a look at how Canadian geomatics technology is being deployed in East Africa. The G-Locate team in […]