I am a retired geographic educator. I am a geographer. I understand GIS. Or should I say I LOVE Geomatics? I have spent my career promoting geo-literacy/geospatial literacy. I am geospatially-oriented. This is my point […]
Canadian schoolchildren can get a chance to “walk” across Canada’s Arctic and challenge their perceptions of the North through a new national educational project produced by Canadian Geographic Education and the Canadian Museum of Nature. […]
Our social leaders across Canada are champions of building a strong geomatics community, and Marc Thorup is no exception. Marc is one of our social leaders for the Vancouver GoGeomatics socials, and he loves welcoming […]
There’s a brand new geography event in the works, and the best part is you don’t even have to leave your desk to attend! The upcoming Day of Geography is an online, international event taking […]
Back in January 2014, as I was catching up on episodes of the CRM Archaeology podcast hosted by Chris Webster, one topic they covered was the “Day of Archaeology”. This instantly piqued my interest and […]
This piece is generated by my experiences with my own account @RebelGeo and as Tweeter for Canadian Geographic Education @CanGeoEdu. GoGeomatics 2014 Canadian Twitter rankings for geomatics reminded me that I promised to write about […]
It’s been a great year for socials in Vancouver, and we’re looking back on the year with the help of Vancouver group leaders Joy Leimanis and Marc Thorup (pictured right). Joy has been a group […]
Last night’s social, which happened at the James Street Pub, was a great success! We had a total of 47 attendees which included students, entrepreneurs, teachers, professionals, and guest speaker Dr. Andrew Davidson. Andrew has […]