International Geospatial Briefing February 9th – What are we doing about space traffic management?; new urban planning GIS tool to improve urban climate resilience; Drone Privacy Laws; World’s Longest and Deepest Alternating Current Cable Route; Ex-Uber team – Unfolded.ai

8 February 2021 GoGeomatics Canada | Canada

What are we doing about space traffic management? As spaceX continues to launch more and more satellites through their ridesharing program, most recently the Falcon-9 launched with 143 satellites and as these jam-packed satellite launches […]

Event in Pictures: COGS Industry Expo 2017

5 April 2017 Richard Davenport | 2017

The College of Geographic Sciences (COGS) held the 2017 COGS Industry Expo on March 23 in Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia. COGS has a long-standing tradition of hosting an annual career fair and inviting industry professionals to […]

CANMAP, and SHIFTing gears at COGS

2 April 2017 Robert Maher | 2016

At the end of last month, John Wian hosted the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the CANMAP Research Institute in Bridgetown. The CANMAP Research Institute was formed in the early 1980’s by John, with input […]

Annapolis Community Mapping April 13 at COGS

29 March 2017 GoGeomatics Newsmakers | Acadia University

1866: a twenty three year old blacksmith from rural Annapolis County who could neither read nor write. 1888: a five year old in India, having lost both parents to cholera, finds himself living in Scotland […]

QGIS: Performing Viewshed Analysis on Archaeological Sites

27 March 2017 GIS Program Langara CS | analysis

In 1927 a Vancouver bylaw was enacted that limited the height of buildings to a maximum of six stories in height over much of the West End of the city, as illustrated in the Zoning […]

COGS NSCC students use Geomatics to explore the history of Black Loyalists & Joggins Fossil Cliff

23 March 2017 Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC) | 2017

NSCC students make major impact in two small communities with huge historical significance Students at Nova Scotia Community College’s Centre of Geographic Sciences are combining their skills in geomatics with a desire to propel the […]

My COGS GIS Education

9 March 2017 Richard Davenport | 2014

What About COGS The Centre of Geographic Sciences (COGS) is one of the best colleges in Canada for learning GIS. As a COGS graduate myself I am writing this article to help future students make […]

High Resolution Mapping Along the Coastal Zone Workshop|Anders Ekelund

Event Recap: COGS & CIG & GANS Cooperate for Mapping Workshop

15 February 2017 Robert Maher | Acadia University

The Canadian Institute of Geomatics (CIG) Nova Scotia Branch and the Geomatics Association of Nova Scotia (GANS), two regional professional organizations that foster the application of geographic information within the geomatics sector recently collaborated to host a high resolution mapping workshop at the Centre of Geographic Sciences (COGS) in Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia. […]