Final preparations are underway at Lockheed Martin to ship DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-4 earth imaging satellite to Vandenberg Air Force Base for a Sept. 15 launch. The Lockheed Martin team is completing final satellite testing and checkout […]
SAN DIEGO, Esri User Conference—June 29, 2016—Esri Canada congratulates the Government of Yukon for receiving the 2016 Esri Special Achievement in GIS (SAG) Award. The government was chosen from thousands of Esri customer organizations worldwide […]
A few months ago, I decided to obtain the Esri Associate certification for ArcGIS Desktop and wrote about my reasoning here. I wanted to take the exam for a few reasons: First, I wanted to have […]
Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down with Michael Goodchild and talk about his book and Geography. Michael was my graduate student supervisor in Geography at the University of Western Ontario between 1969-72 and […]
Last week I was among an interesting group of participants and presenters who came together to discuss Big Data (June 1st, 2016). The day long event was framed as an exploration of “Big Data: Technology […]
Have you ever felt the wrath of a Canadian Crown Corporation? In 2011 Canada Post set its sights on Ervin Ruci and by 2012 had sued him personally for copyright infringement. The copyright Canada Post […]
SaveTheMap Campaign: “to encourage citizens and startups to use geospatial data in everyday lives and create businesses that serve India” Interesting (geospatial) times in India lately… On May 4th, 2016, just three months after […]
Finding the right device for data collection I was at CNAM recently and a number of discussions reminded me of a question frequently asked to me by users when I was working on Collector for […]