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New Annual Canadian Geomatics Trade Magazine for the Sector
GoGeomatics Canada is hosting its first annual GoGeomatics Expo November 6-8th in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. To support the Canadian geospatial…
The “New” GoGeomatics Canada: Relaunching Our Magazine
A team of really intelligent squirrels and I have been working on the new GoGeomatics magazine. I’m taking a break…
A Canadian Geographer’s Notes from Nunavut
For the last five years, I have annually had the opportunity to spend time in Iqaluit, Canada’s fastest growing community in Canada’s fastest growing territory or province. On arrival, I check out the selection of new books at Arctic Ventures and the screening of new movies about the North. This year, there was the chance to see John Walker’s Passage and to buy a copy of Darrel Varga’s book of the same name in the Canadian Cinema series.
Montreal: Join me at the Earth Observation Summit June 20-22, 2017
As a recent graduate of the Fleming GIS program I jumped at the chance to attend the Earth Observation (EO)…
My COGS GIS Education
What About COGS The Centre of Geographic Sciences (COGS) is one of the best colleges in Canada for learning GIS. …
Geospatial Development: Enhancing GIS curricula with programming skills at UNB
Geospatial information science and technology (GIS&T) has rapidly evolved over the last few decades. This evolution has created a highly…
What are the Top Programming Languages in the GIS World?
Image source: www.tiobe.com Every now and again we hear about the importance of programming for Geographic Information Systems(GIS) professionals, that…
50 Years a Geographer: My Top Ten books about Geography
In celebration of Geography Week, it seemed like a good idea to issue a challenge: list the top ten books…
Georeferencing Scanned Maps Using QGIS
One of the passions of modern day information technologists is to convert the past to digital form and to put…
GoGeomatics Coming to Kelowna, BC
As a former Burnaby resident and fairly new to the field of GIS as a 2013 graduate of BCIT’s GIS…
Building Bridges: GeoAlliance
On March 15-16th the GeoAlliance is hosting a strategy event in Calgary you can see here. They are trying to bring together members…
Esri Technical Certification: Why am I going to take it?
A couple weeks ago, I decided that I wanted to take one of the Esri Technical Certification Exams to improve…
