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 […]
Every year since 1999, the geospatial community has been celebrating GIS Day and this year it is on Wednesday, November 16, 2016. GIS Day was created by Esri in order to promote grassroots educational events […]
FREDERICTON, Esri Canada User Conference – October 25, 2016 – Esri Canada today presented the NB 911 Bureau, a branch of the New Brunswick Department of Justice and Public Safety, with an Award of Excellence […]
Last night the Edmonton GoGeomatics Group had the chance to explore the amazing collection of historic maps at the University of Alberta (U of A). Larry Laliberte, the U of A GIS Librarian, introduced the […]
The Alberta-British Columbia Boundary Commission has just completed a monument restoration survey to restore a number of deteriorated provincial boundary monuments in the Elk Pass area of the Rocky Mountains. The work was undertaken by […]
For this announcement, GeoConnections is focusing funding towards projects that address the following themes: -Innovative adoption and further development of CGDI in Canada’s urban environments (also known as Smart Cities); and -Innovative adoption […]
NSR’s Satellite-Based Earth Observation (EO), 8th Edition report, released yesterday, projects data, value-added services, information products, and big data analytics from satellite-based earth Observation (EO) to represent a $43 billion opportunity over the next decade. […]
The author Bob Maher (BM) and Chris Hopkinson (CH) both worked as scientists at the Appied Geomatics Reearch Group (AGRG) between 2004-2011. Five years later, it was time to catch up. Chris is currently Research […]