Interview with Brent Hall, Director of Education and Research at Esri Canada and, along with his staff, the initiator of Esri Canada’s GIS Ambassador program. Dr. Brent Hall is director of Education and Research at […]
The geospatial community has been “abuzz” since a game called called “Pokémon Go” landed on cell phones in Australia and New Zealand. Yesterday the game became available in Canada for download on the Google Play […]
OK. They don’t want all your data, just some of it. What they really want is your most compelling and interesting data to showcase on their new website Do you have some drone video you’ve […]
GoGeomatics got an interesting email this week about the proposed regulatory framework regarding UAVs from Transport Canada. It’s really an executive summary of what they describe as proposed changes. Globally, drones and unmanned aerial vehicles […]
Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down with Michael Goodchild and talk about his book and Geography. Michael was my graduate student supervisor in Geography at the University of Western Ontario between 1969-72 and […]
Last week I was among an interesting group of participants and presenters who came together to discuss Big Data (June 1st, 2016). The day long event was framed as an exploration of “Big Data: Technology […]
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 […]