As September has come to a close, we wanted to round up some of the most interesting geomatics-related stories of the month. From innovative developments to prestigious award winners, here are the top six Canadian […]
Geomatics Atlantic is a regional conference that switches between the Atlantic Provinces every year, allowing the different geomatics-related professional organizations to take turns hosting the event. This year the event was held in Saint John, […]
Intergraph Canada has kicked off its User Conferences, with the first of three events in Calgary last week. The show comes to Ottawa on October 10 at the Ottawa Convention Centre. In Alberta, we reached […]
Over forty years, the writer has witnessed a series of transitions and changes in terminology related to changes in the technology. In the sixties, at the federal level, the Surveys and Mapping branch was part […]
This is the second part of the interview GoGeomatics Canada has done with Neil Thompson, the Managing partner of the WCGroup. Neil is also the former Director Geospatial Intelligence for the Canadian Forces and a […]
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’ […]
One thing I am sure that almost anybody in geomatics would agree with is that major components of any geospatial projects is the data and, like most things in our society, tend to evolve over […]
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 […]