China collects data from foreign car firms More than 200 car makers selling electric vehicles in China — including Tesla, Volkswagen, BMW, Daimler, Ford, General Motors, Nissan and Mitsubishi—are feeding real-time location information and dozens […]
Bert de Bruijn is an Ottawa IT security consultant and founder of the WikiWar Project. Bert is passionate about Crowdsourcing and Geovisualizing War History. A former member of the Canadian armed forces he’s been a […]
“You’ll never walk alone” I attended the seventh session of the UN Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM7) last month. It is my sixth year of involvement with UN-GGIM and with almost […]
What: Engage: Make It So With GIS in Community Engagement Where: Vancouver, BC When: Thursday, 15 June 2017 from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM (PDT) From private companies to municipal and national governments, from parents […]
Sentinel constellations and data products As the ENVISAT program is coming to an end, the European Space Agency has begun the process to develop the Sentinels family of satellites to fulfill the Copernicus earth observation […]
Semi-Automatic Classification Plugin Today I’m going to take a quick look at one of the remote sensing plugins for QGIS. Let’s have a look at what I think is one of the more useful […]
Call for Presentations Following the success of our December event, the URISA BC Executive Team is busy planning our next seminar for the Vancouver Marriott Pinnacle Downtown. Join us in mid-June, 2017 for URISA BC’s […]
Awareness for climate change has been steadily increasing ever since the Green Revolution in the 1960s. There is a plethora of data, maps, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) applications available freely or accessible to the […]