With Support from Amazon Web Services, Esri to Make Free ArcGIS Online Accounts Available to all Elementary and Secondary Schools in the U.S. Redlands, California—Responding to President Barack Obama’s call to help strengthen STEM education […]
So, what do you do when approximately 8,000 practitioners of the Humanities and Social Sciences domain converge at the university in your home town? Well… since it’s not every day when an event of this […]
Recently we, as geomatics practitioners, have witnessed much discussion and debate between colleagues and over a number of social media channels about the Canadian Geomatics Community Roundtable (CGCRT) and specifically the discussion draft of the […]
I was recently asked if I believe a Canadian Geomatics trade association is in some form beneficial to the geomatics community. YES, absolutely, definitely. And I sure hope someone else gets one going soon. Anyone? […]
Darren Platakis has been the group leader for GoGeomatics Canada in Niagara since November 2011. He has written five articles for the GoGeomatics magazine to date, including three publications about his journey as a geographer. […]
Who should I follow and why? The first lesson I learned when I started my experimental account with my university students, was that Twitter is full of cliques. Let me give you an example: Here […]
In previous postings on GoGeomatics Canada (GIS in the School System & GIS Partnerships Between the Community and the Education System) I recounted my past experiences with recognizing the essential inclusion of using GPS and […]
I believed in 1996 that the future of geography was with technology and I still believe that even more so today. Geography is alive and well in the real world because of technical geography despite […]