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 […]
Jambo from Nairobi, Kenya! I, Jon Murphy – GoGeomatic’s intrepid Managing Director, am in Kenya having a look at how Canadian geomatics technology is being deployed in East Africa. The G-Locate team in […]
Population health research is inherently interdisciplinary, multifaceted and firmly rooted in the evolving connections between place, time and related socioeconomic processes. To excel in this rapidly diversifying field requires a broad range of skills. The […]
What Students and Recent Graduates Can Do Relating to another article I wrote, called “Career Challenges for Students and Recent Graduates in GIS“, I drew awareness to the problem that in the fast-paced, unstable, […]
It’s two years now since Roger Tomlinson passed away. Roger’s and my career path have crossed several times over the last fifty years and what follows is my remembrance of the man and some of […]
On February 4th, PCI Geomatics held their Annual User Group Meeting in Ottawa, Ontario. There was a high turnout, with about 60 people attending, from all different backgrounds. The event appealed to GIS users of […]
The beginning of 2016 was accompanied with a sonorous press release from the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) entitled: “OGC® seeks public comment on a candidate standard that may replace legacy coordinate systems” [1]. In other […]
The Challenges As a recent graduate (2013) of GIS training at BCIT in Burnaby in addition to an Honours Bachelor of Science degree at UBC-Okanagan in Kelowna, I find that students and recent graduates can […]