GoGeomatics: We are talking to Jaime Simpson, formerly an Ottawa resident and recent graduate of Carleton University’s Geomatics program. Jaime recently moved to Calgary from Ottawa to pursue job opportunities in GIS and geomatics. GoGeomatics: […]
When I was in high school I developed an interest in geography as a field of study and perhaps a vocation. However, this all started a lot earlier than that. When I was a child, […]
There is a strong consensus that geospatial information (GI) has become ubiquitous, but what real value is the use of this information contributing to the Canadian economy, and to innovation and productivity improvement in this […]
By Dr. Brian Ballantyne Surveyor General Branch, NRCan Reprinted from the Ontario Professional Surveyor, Volume 56, No. 2, Spring 2013 This article does not necessarily represent the views of Natural Resources Canada or the Government […]
Great debates about the terms geomatics, geospatial, geoinformation and geoscience have occurred for decades. Additional terms like geoanalysis, geolocation, geocomputation and spatial data infrastructure are mixed into the slurry of ‘geo-ness’. There are even ‘invented’ […]
In order to determine whether geomatics is the most appropriate term for this field it may be useful to review some history. In the mid-1980s the various sub-disciplines of what is now called geomatics, consisting […]
GoGeomatics Canada participated in the Recruiting and Retaining the Best and Brightest workshop at the National Surveyors Conference in Niagara, Ontario. Guy Craig (SLS, PEng, Professional Surveyors Canada Chair), facilitated the workshop and introduced the […]
Suppose you could write yourself a working GIS at home, in a very simple language. Would you? In this article, I would like to seriously consider that question. People sometimes think that it is […]