Opinion
GIAC & the Search for Canada’s Geomatics Business Leadership in the CGCRT
In case you haven’t heard, the Canadian geospatial community is actively working towards a strategy that will propel our sector…
GeoEd: Where Surveyors Can Learn and Connect
Present day technology has the ability to facilitate so many things that it’s sometimes hard to comprehend how fast it…
Surveying in Action – Occam’s razor at Gull River Indian Reserve: The south boundary
By Dr. Brian Ballantyne Surveyor General Branch, NRCan Reprinted from the Ontario Professional Surveyor, Volume 56, No. 4, Fall 2013…
A Call to Action: The Canadian Geomatics Community Round Table
GoGeomatics Canada wants to introduce you to the Canadian Geomatics Community Round Table website. The CGCRT is an ambitious endeavor…
Do Canadian Geomatics & GIS Professionals Dumb it Down for the Public?
Less than a week ago I was thinking about “Identity” and the Canadian geomatics community. Recently there have been a…
Fish Weirs, Ktaronto & 13 Other Riparian Boundary Fallacies
By Dr. Brian Ballantyne Surveyor General Branch, NRCan Reprinted from the Ontario Professional Surveyor, Volume 56, No. 2, Spring 2013…
The Death of Cartography and the Rise of the Machines
This article explores how technology has influenced map making and how cartography requirements have changed, and what skill sets one…
Missed Opportunities in Canadian Geomatics: Lessons for the Future?
Jon Murphy knows how to ask some interesting questions – which is perhaps why I like reading what comes out…
Open Gov/Data Needs Collaborative Common Spaces
If you want to learn about your customers, you gotta leave the office.. regularly. It’s no different for government who…
Matthew Tait: The Business of Geomatics Engineering
In 2000, I was just finishing a two year stint living in Belgium working on modeling downstream facilities. Yes, we…
Meghan Miller: Creative Canadian Cartographer
GoGeomatics recently had the pleasure of speaking with a creative cartographer who has a passion for paper maps. Find out…
Thinking about GIS or Whatever Happened to the Geography Teacher
(This title borrows from Tomlinson’s book of the same name, as well as a new book by Donald Savoie ‘…
