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 […]
students
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
Dr Robert Maher on Geoliteracy: ‘Think global, act local’
This month (October) Digital Earth 2015 (DE2015) was held in Halifax. There were a number of keynote presentations, including those by Michael Goodchild (Keeping the Dream Alive ) and Lynn Moorman and James Boxall. (Digital […]
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 […]
Community
ESRI City Engine & DEM Art at Next Kingston GoGeomatics Social October 21
GoGeomatics Kingston first social night was great. We had a much bigger turn-out than expected for our first get together. The group comprised many GIS professionals. We want to thank staff from City of Kingston […]
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, […]
Community
GoGeomatics 2015 Back to School Socials: Over 350 Participants Coast to Coast
The 2nd annual GoGeomatics 2015 Back to School Socials have been a tremendous success. Last year we had 200 participants and we thought that was huge. This year we almost doubled that with 365 participants. […]
Technology
Web Mercator: the de facto standard, the controversy, and the opportunity
Four hundred and fifty years ago, the Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator presented the most popular map projection ever. It became fairly the standard projection for nautical maps because of its ability to represent […]