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 […]
GeoAlberta 2014 has just announced a fun geocache contest for all those attending their upcoming conference! They’ve hidden two GeoAlberta geocaches out in the world – one in Edmonton and one in Calgary – and […]
This new online, interactive atlas, http://paninuittrails.org/index.html constructed from historical records, accounts, maps, trails and place names and visualized using innovative mapping technology, provides a unique window into the spatial extent and connectedness of Inuit occupancy, […]
In recent years, high–resolution spaceborne imagery (HRSI), up to 50cm spatial resolution, has become readily available for no cost using such applications as Google Earth and Bing Maps. Thanks to this new availability of free […]
As climate change and managing our environment responsibly become larger topics in industry, the media, and to everyday people, sustainable practices are continuously increasing in significance. Being able to predict the growth and status of […]
The new Data British Columbia Portal is now open. Here you are going to find an exciting new set of tools and data sources for the geomatics and GIS community in Canada. Within the new […]
Geomatics and other industries which desire data in accurate yet visually stimulating presentations of communication and information are frequently turning heads at the evolving use of infographics. This inquiry of data and technology fused with […]
The essence of this article is: preparing a thick border around polygons for display on ArcGIS Online (but also in ArcMap); note I am using what is now – Nov 2012 – referred to as […]