As a former Burnaby resident and fairly new to the field of GIS as a 2013 graduate of BCIT’s GIS Advanced Diploma program, I became a regular attendee at Vancouver GoGeomatics socials for two years […]
On April 7th, I attended the community mapping showcase at the NSCC Centre of Geographic Sciences (COGS). This project is a collaboration between the Age Advantage Association, a not-for-profit group of seniors in the Annapolis […]
Esri Canada, the country’s leading enterprise geographic information system (GIS) solutions provider, has been named a Gold Standard winner among Canada’s Best Managed Companies, a prestigious national award program sponsored by Deloitte, CIBC, National Post, […]
Every year, a small team of Esri staff come to COGS to recruit new talent. As part of the interview process, they give a demonstration of current ArcGIS functionality. Arriving home from Haida Gwaii, (February […]
Geocoding is the process of converting a street address into a physical location that can be described with a pair of geographic coordinates. It is estimated that over 40% of the world population is physically […]
There seems to be great confusion between these two great disciplines, especially noting that some geographers and schools claim that Geomatics is a geographical science when it is not. There has been a general confusion […]
The Challenges As a recent graduate (2013) of GIS training at BCIT in Burnaby in addition to an Honours Bachelor of Science degree at UBC-Okanagan in Kelowna, I find that students and recent graduates can […]
When I started GoGeomatics Canada in 2011, I had no idea how successful it would become as a community. We now have over 6,000 regular participants and continue to grow. GoGeomatics has always been a […]