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Montréal: Joignez-vous au Sommet d’Observation de La Terre le 20-22 juin 2017

En tant que diplômé récent du Fleming GIS programme, j’ai eu la chance d’aller à Montréal pour assister au Sommet…

A Canadian Geographer’s Notes from Nunavut

For the last five years, I have annually had the opportunity to spend time in Iqaluit, Canada’s fastest growing community in Canada’s fastest growing territory or province. On arrival, I check out the selection of new books at Arctic Ventures and the screening of new movies about the North. This year, there was the chance to see John Walker’s Passage and to buy a copy of Darrel Varga’s book of the same name in the Canadian Cinema series.

Montreal: Join me at the Earth Observation Summit June 20-22, 2017

As a recent graduate of the Fleming GIS program I jumped at the chance to attend the Earth Observation (EO)…

UAV Surveys – How to Ensure Accuracy and Precision

For the past four years, I’ve been involved with the capture and delivery of data derived from drones. My experience…

Eastern Canada

Grand Banks to the Gulf of Mexico: My Canadian Geomatics Career

I often contemplate what it would have been like working at the same job for an entire career. Mind you,…

The Accidental Geographer: Thoughts on Coming Home

My friend, Edward, directed me towards the Internet and the podcast website entitled ‘The Accidental Geographer’. Edward, in his version…

Northern Canada: Nunavut and a New View of Community Mapping

The writer and his wife, Heather Stewart visited grandchildren in Iqaluit for three weeks in April During the first week…

Geography Education: Travels to England and Nunavut

Geography education is about understanding our relationship to the world around us. We need to seek out the best examples…

Geospatial jobs

How to Ace your next GIS Job interview

GoGeomatics Canada holds career seminars ever so often that are popular for their industry-specific tips and incites. The last time…

The Death of Cartography and the Rise of the Machines

This article explores how technology has influenced map making and how cartography requirements have changed, and what skill sets one…

Bonnie Lum: Trying to Find a GIS Job without a Map

I have always had an interest in maps.  Every time my family took a vacation, I was always the map…

Open Source Geomatics Software & Geomatics Careers

GoGeomatics had a chance to talk with Teresa Baldwin the Community Manager for FOSSLC, an open source based, not-for-profit group.