If you want to learn about your customers, you gotta leave the office.. regularly. It’s no different for government who are increasingly told to find better ways to engage their constituents. In the geomatics business […]
GoGeomatics Canada had the chance to interview Madhur K Shrestha, a new arrival to Canada and a GIS specialist. We explore the realities of immigrating to Canada and starting a new life with a family in […]
Unlike Canadian surveyors, for example, GIS professionals in Canada are not pressed by law to obtain certification. This fact has led to one of the more common questions in Geomatics circles: is a GIS certification […]
Projections and Coordinate Systems for GIS: A new perspective on old ideas. (Or, GIS Professionals Should Consider That A Lot Of Our Constants Are, Increasingly, Not So Constant.) “I am constant as the northern star, Of […]
GoGeomatics recently had the pleasure of speaking with a creative cartographer who has a passion for paper maps. Find out how Meghan came to her current position with Canadian Cartographics Corporation (CCC) and what led […]
In previous postings on GoGeomatics Canada (GIS in the School System & GIS Partnerships Between the Community and the Education System) I recounted my past experiences with recognizing the essential inclusion of using GPS and […]
Looking back almost five years ago, if I had been asked, my opinion would be that college is a place where you go if you cannot get into university. So it seemed, anyways. Being asked […]
Interest in mapping is on the rise, as evidenced by services such as Google Earth, Virtual Earth, MapQuest, and any number of other web mapping mashups. These are all exciting developments, yet there is another […]