Four hundred and fifty years ago, the Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator presented the most popular map projection ever. It became fairly the standard projection for nautical maps because of its ability to represent […]
An exciting new online publication, Drone Coalition, launched in conjunction with the InterDrone 2015 Conference and Exposition in Las Vegas, with the goal of bringing extensive information and current trends into the spotlight. “Drones” or […]
It is with great pleasure that I want to introduce a new Web Mapping and Geospatial textbook to the Canadian geomatics community. Prof. Emmanuel Stefanakis (University of New Brunswick, Canada) has authored an introductory textbook on […]
While IoT continues to grow in hype and in real importance, all of this excitement will start to wane if we do not see a significant degree of standardization of device types, measured quantities, and […]
There are a number of strategies for finding a job or contract in the Canadian geomatics industry. The strategies that I describe are ones that I have used in the past and methods that I […]
You have landed your job in geomatics and you want to move ahead. Maybe you are interested in leading a team of geomatics professionals, or you want to move into a new and more challenging […]
Enterprise implementation of geospatial platform transforms electric utility operations San Diego, CA, Esri International User Conference – Esri Canada congratulates Nova Scotia Power for receiving the 2015 Esri Special Achievement in GIS (SAG) Award. The […]
The growing interest in providing open data access has long been integrated into the field of Geomatics. However, the use of Geomatics within open data portals is relatively uncommon. This inclusion provides an interactive and […]