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URISA BC: Vancouver Call for Presentations on GIS Trends in Community Engagement
Call for Presentations Following the success of our December event, the URISA BC Executive Team is busy planning our next…
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…
My COGS GIS Education
What About COGS The Centre of Geographic Sciences (COGS) is one of the best colleges in Canada for learning GIS. …
GIS in Action: How Does BC Pinot Noir Express Terroir?
Editors note: In this previously published article, Karl Kliparchuk, BCIT GIS Program Head & Instructor uses GIS to explore the…
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,…
Montreal: K2 Geospatial launches latest version map-based integration platform JMap
More powerful, even more robust and interoperable, JMap 7 is now available JMap’s 7th version is finally here! K2 Geospatial,…
Call for Papers: CAG: Critical Geographies of Migration
Please consider submitting an abstract for the CAG 2017 York University, May 29 – June 2, 2017. The last day to submit…
New Galileo navigation system is experiencing clock failures
Since December 15, 2016, the new Galileo global satellite navigation system has been up and running. Unfortunately, there are…
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…
Atlantic Canada: COGS: Geomatics Professionals Coming to Discuss High Resolution Coastal Mapping
High Resolution Coastal Zone Mapping This collaborative effort by GANS & the CIG will engage the geospatial community & increase awareness on the value…
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…
Feb 7-8: Two Day Workshop on High Resolution Mapping Along Coastal Zones
The coastal zone, that dynamic geographic region where the interaction of the sea and land occurs, is vital to the…