Education & Careers
My COGS GIS Education, Part II
In my first article, I introduced the how and why I chose to attend COGS from the fall of 2014 to spring 2016. In Part 2, I wanted to give some insight into the first-year […]
Standards
Newsmakers & Press Releases
Free Webinar March 15th: NRCan, OGC, & USGS Arctic Spatial Data Pilot Demonstration
The Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation invites you to attend the Arctic Spatial Data Pilot Demonstration Webinar. Managed and organised by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), the Pilot is sponsored by NRCan (Canada Centre […]
Education & Careers
My COGS GIS Education
What About COGS The Centre of Geographic Sciences (COGS) is one of the best colleges in Canada for learning GIS. As a COGS graduate myself I am writing this article to help future students make […]
Community
Top Ten Climate Change Maps and GIS Applications
Awareness for climate change has been steadily increasing ever since the Green Revolution in the 1960s. There is a plethora of data, maps, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) applications available freely or accessible to the […]
Education & Careers
Grand Banks to the Gulf of Mexico: My Canadian Geomatics Career
I often contemplate what it would have been like working at the same job for an entire career. Mind you, the thought of the same job day in and day out never appealed to me. I’m […]
Education & Careers
Interview with Sam Scovill, GIS Technician and 3 Day Champion on Jeopardy
Every weeknight, my mom and I watch Jeopardy together. Jeopardy always starts with the announcement of the contestants by their profession. Usually we hear about the doctors, the lawyers and the teachers on Jeopardy. But […]
Community
The Integrated Cadastral Information (ICI) Society and ParcelMap BC
This is the first of two articles on the release of ParcelMap BC Data, which we see as a significant event in the movement towards Open GIS Data in Canada. This month we’ll cover the […]
Technology
The Future of GIS Software? QGIS A Popular Open-Source GIS for the Masses
In today’s geomatics society, ArcGIS, developed by Esri, is a giant and dominates the GIS software market. However, there are some other great and powerful GIS software applications. QGIS is a typical GIS application among […]