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A Look at #COGS Conference in Nova Scotia: Sensors High and Low

The Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC) hosted its third annual Winter conference at the Centre of Geographic Sciences (COGS) in…

My COGS GIS Education

What About COGS The Centre of Geographic Sciences (COGS) is one of the best colleges in Canada for learning GIS. …

LiDAR in Canada: Conversation with Dr. Chris Hopkinson Research Chair Remote Sensing University of Lethbridge

The author Bob Maher (BM) and Chris Hopkinson (CH) both worked as scientists at the Appied Geomatics Reearch Group (AGRG)…

Conversations with Michael Goodchild on Questions of Geography

Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down with Michael Goodchild and talk about his book and Geography.  Michael was…

The Real Thing: Robert Maher Examines the Book “The Real Thing” by Briony Penn

Over Christmas, I had the opportunity to go ‘off island’. One of the pleasures of visiting Victoria, British Columbia is…

Local Action & Geomatics: the Gowgaia Institute on Haida Gwaii

This blog is a sequel to last month’s discussion on ‘think global, act local‘. It looks at the the Gowgaia…

Dr Robert Maher on Geoliteracy: ‘Think global, act local’

This month (October) Digital Earth 2015 (DE2015) was held in Halifax. There were a number of keynote presentations, including those…

Geomatics in Canada is about to Change: CGCRT Steering Committee Articles

For the past three months, the Steering Committee (SC) of the Canadian Geomatics Community Round Table (CGCRT) has been publishing…

The Canadian GIS Education Handbook

Success is a destination for which a clear path must be drawn.  As GIS technology is relatively young in the…

This Sucks Geomatics

Why Using the Word Geomatics Sucks in Canada

A few months ago, GoGeomatics asked a number of distinguished Canadian writers to share their thoughts on a controversial subject.…

The Story of COGS

Editors note:  Dr Maher is writing “The Story of COGS,” and through articles in the GoGeomatics Canada  magazine, like the…

Giving Thanks to Our Job/Event Posters, Sponsors and Article Contributors

GoGeomatics Canada would like to thank the following contributors, sponsors and companies/organizations for their support since the relaunch of our new…