As the 2016 United States presidential election careens towards its conclusion in November, GIS plays a prominent role in both planning political strategy and in describing the results of the contest. Media outlets create maps and […]
It’s hard to believe that it’s been over a year since my post introducing Geospatial Niagara to GoGeomatics Canada readers. So much has happened since then that we’re tremendously excited about. If you’re not familiar […]
Of all the pleasant events that happen in spring, crow attacks rank at the bottom of the pile. Crows become aggressive as the fledgling crows hatch, and attack anything that passes near the nest – […]
A few months ago, I decided to obtain the Esri Associate certification for ArcGIS Desktop and wrote about my reasoning here. I wanted to take the exam for a few reasons: First, I wanted to have […]
One of the passions of modern day information technologists is to convert the past to digital form and to put it on display. To this end the City of Vancouver recently completed a large project […]
We typically think of a GIS as features on a map with a maximum of three dimensions: Longitude Latitude Height However, there is another dimension that we can add to features, and that is time. […]
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 […]
This months speaker will be discussing his project mapping historic Ottawa. Kevin Ballantyne, Geomatics Specialist at MDA, will be giving a talk on his work mapping some of the lost parts of our community […]