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OGC announces new Geospatial User Feedback Standards Working Group

Members of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) have formed an OGC Geospatial User Feedback Standards Working Group (SWG). The purpose…

Carleton Researcher Fraser Taylor Releases Interactive Online Arctic Atlas

This new online, interactive atlas,  http://paninuittrails.org/index.html constructed from historical records, accounts, maps, trails and place names and visualized using innovative…

OSCAR-js is Open Source from CARIS

OSCAR-js (oscar.caris.com)is an open source JavaScript Application Programming Interface (API) created by CARIS. The vision of the project is to…

Evaluation of the Data BC Portal, GIS Section

The province of British Columbia (B.C.) recently revised their portal. The main page offers a number of services to the…

Evaluation of the Service New Brunswick Geographic Data & Maps Section

Service New Brunswick  (SNB)  is serving up geospatial data to the community so lets have look at what they are…

Open Source Geomatics Software & Geomatics Careers

GoGeomatics had a chance to talk with Teresa Baldwin the Community Manager for FOSSLC, an open source based, not-for-profit group.

Trends and Opportunities: the Geospatial Dispora

If you are reading this, more likely than not, you’re interested in all things geospatial. The vast majority of the…

British Columbia Institute of Technology

Sheila Churchill: GIS Instructor at British Columbia Institute of Technology

GoGeomatics: Welcome to the GoGeomatics Canada community. To begin, can you tell us where you are from and where you…

Thinking Canadian: What is the Power of GIS?

        What is the power of GIS? What we have to do is separate GIS from software…