Canadian schoolchildren can get a chance to “walk” across Canada’s Arctic and challenge their perceptions of the North through a new national educational project produced by Canadian Geographic Education and the Canadian Museum of Nature. […]
Canadian students are busy getting ready for the start of a brand new school year. And at six schools across Canada, geography programs are preparing to integrate a brand new collaboration into their programs – […]
GoGeomatics Canada is looking back on another successful year in socials. To help us out, we caught up with Darren Platakis, Group leader in Niagara, to get his thoughts on the year in socials and […]
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? […]
“The caravan thunders onward On my way at last, on my way at last I can’t stop thinking big” – Neil Peart Hello everyone. After a number of starts and stops wondering what I’m going […]
When I was in high school I developed an interest in geography as a field of study and perhaps a vocation. However, this all started a lot earlier than that. When I was a child, […]
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. […]