Technology
The Innovation of Geocoding
According to Esri, a geocode transforms a description of a location to a real location on the Earth. The description can be an address, coordinates, or a name of a place. It is an essential […]
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Top Ten Climate Change Maps and GIS Applications
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 […]
Technology
QGIS & WorldClim: Using Zonal Statistics to Map Temperature Patterns
There has never been a time in the history of GIS when so much free, high quality data has been available. As an example, the WorldClim site (http://www.worldclim.org/) offers temperature raster data, on a global […]
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GIS Health Studies: Conduct Spatial Exposure Assessments
Interested in how to conduct different types of spatial exposure assessments for air pollution or other exposures to a population? PHDA04: Spatial Epidemiology and Outbreak Detection is a great place to start. Exposure assessment is the […]
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Postal Codes: Canada Post Backs Down on Crowdsourced Open Data
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 […]
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A Geomatics Sector that Spatially Enables a Geospatial Community – A Team Canada Perspective
by Ed Kennedy and Evert Kenk. Is there value in formalizing definitions for both the Geomatics Sector and Geospatial Community that capture a meaningful relationship between the two? The ongoing Geomatics versus Geospatial debate once […]
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Content and Growth of Municipal Open Data Catalogues
The open data movement has been the talk of the nation, encouraging transparency of governance and good management of data. Goodness, what a magical moment it must be to witness the head of a government […]
Newsmakers & Press Releases
Caliper Announces new Canada Geospatial Data Package
Caliper is excited to announce a new Canada Data Package! The product includes a wealth of data and functionality not available in any other software. The Canada data includes an up-to-date street layer with address […]