Education & Careers
On the Importance of Mentoring in Geomatics
I guess I was lucky. It seems to me that I always wanted to be a civil engineer, but if asked I think we all have someone that we can identify as a mentor. The […]
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Education & Careers
Getting to First Base with GIS
A friend of mine who volunteers with a girls’ softball team came to me with a request recently. “I have the addresses of all of the girls in our softball league”, she said. “I want […]
Education & Careers
Interview: Canadian Cartographer in Australia
GoGeomatics has reached all the way across the world to Australia to interview our next guest. Today we have a discussion with Jennifer Johnston whom has taken the time to talk about some of her Cartography experiences and what she thinks about the Geomatics industry. […]
Education & Careers
When did you decide to go into Surveying/Geomatics and Why?
An informal poll by Julia Meldrum Smith This article was reprinted with permission from the Ontario Professional Surveyor, Volume 56, No. 3, Summer 2015 A few years ago Blain Martin invited me to participate in […]
Education & Careers
Open Source GIS for Everyone: A QGIS-based program at Langara College Vancouver
This article is the first in a monthly GoGeomatics Canada series on topics related to Open Source GIS for Everyone, by Rick Davidson and Jim O’Leary, Continuing Studies (CS) instructors at Langara College in Vancouver, […]
Education & Careers
Geomatics Job Hunting Tools: ignore LinkedIn at your peril
In a previous article I talked about strategies for helping you to find geomatics jobs in Canada. All the way at the bottom I gave some space for LinkedIn. Some of the questions I get […]
Community
BCIT Program Has the GIS Talent You Need
The BCIT GIS department has been graduating students for 25+ years. Our students come from BC, but as well, across Canada and international. Our program is known to be very demanding, and creates students that […]
Community
Finding Common Ground: CGCRT & GeoAlliance Canada
The full title of Ted Chamberlin’s 2003 book is ‘If this is your land, where are your stories ? Finding Common Ground ‘. This title comes from a Gitksan story told to Chamberlin by Peter […]