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SaveTheMap Campaign: What is the future of geospatial information in India
SaveTheMap Campaign: “to encourage citizens and startups to use geospatial data in everyday lives and create businesses that serve India”…
GIS Certification: The Canadian Institute of Geomatics Certification Program
One of the GIS Certifications available to Canadians specifically is the Certified Geomatics Specialist certification available from the Canadian Institute…
GIS Certification: AOLS Certificate of Registration
Among the various types of GIS and Geomatics certifications available to Canadians, The Association of Ontario Land Surveyors (AOLS)…
GIS Certification: ASPRS Certification
One type of certification available for GIS and Geomatics professionals is the ASPRS Certification program available from the American…
GIS Certification: The GISP
Professional certification is nothing new. It is a requirement in many fields to help regulate professional practices in specific industries…
Discrete Global Grid Systems – A new OGC standard emerges.
The beginning of 2016 was accompanied with a sonorous press release from the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) entitled: “OGC® seeks…
Local Action & Geomatics: the Gowgaia Institute on Haida Gwaii
This blog is a sequel to last month’s discussion on ‘think global, act local‘. It looks at the the Gowgaia…
Beyond the Outer Shores
For over fifty years, the islands off the coast of British Columbia and Alaska have been called ‘the outer shores’.…
New Online Publication: Drone Coalition
An exciting new online publication, Drone Coalition, launched in conjunction with the InterDrone 2015 Conference and Exposition in Las Vegas,…
New Book: Web Mapping and Geospatial Web Services
It is with great pleasure that I want to introduce a new Web Mapping and Geospatial textbook to the Canadian geomatics…
Speaker Series: LiDAR & Forest Management at the Edmonton Social
*Editor’s note: Due to unforeseen circumstances, the speaker has been postponed for the April Social. The social is still taking…
MDA receives IEEE Engineering Milestone Award
Richmond, BC – MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (“MDA” or the “Company”) (TSX: MDA), and the Institute of Electrical and…