The Challenges As a recent graduate (2013) of GIS training at BCIT in Burnaby in addition to an Honours Bachelor of Science degree at UBC-Okanagan in Kelowna, I find that students and recent graduates can […]
The beginning of 2016 was accompanied with a sonorous press release from the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) entitled: “OGC® seeks public comment on a candidate standard that may replace legacy coordinate systems” [1]. In other […]
Where are the Geomatics job opportunities in Canada? I’ve got some good news and I’ve got some bad news. Let’s start with the bad news first: You would have to be living under a very large […]
This is our list Canadian geomatics conferences and events for 2016. Here you will find events pertaining to GIS, remote sensing, surveying, cartography, and informatics. We’re always updating this list, so if you have a […]
Teledyne Optech is pleased to announce that it will introduce the latest model of its Lynx mobile lidar system, the survey-grade Optech Lynx SG-S at the 95th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) […]
The tiling of large maps is an old practice. Large paper maps have always been divided into a series of map sheets at various scales. With the increasing popularity of web mapping applications and […]
Back in 2006 I (Jim) was a student at BCIT and a Vancouver resident, eager to obtain some local data for a project. I sent a hopeful email to City of Vancouver (COV) requesting the […]
Unmanned Aerial Systems Border Surveillance demo reveals the realism, power and versatility of Presagis’ M&S Suite 15 MONTREAL, CANADA–(Marketwired – Nov. 30, 2015) – Presagis™ will be demonstrating its latest modeling and simulation (M&S) software […]