Blue Marble Geographics Gets Hands On With Change Detection On March 3, 2022, David McKittrick, Outreach and Training Manager for Blue Marble Geographics, made a virtual presentation at GeoIgnite, Winter Geo conference. McKittrick spoke on […]
New map helps policy makers to find out potential areas for intensification In the City of Ottawa, the projected population in 2046 may reach 5 million, urging the government to focus on urban intensification instead […]
The Canadian Urban Environmental Health Research Consortium (CANUE) is a group dedicated to understanding urban living and its impacts on human health. They have created a new assessment tool, GoodScore.City, which looks at multiple factors […]
Geography can become a root cause for inequality when cities are built in a way that fragments social networks A study by international scientists, including members of the Complexity Science Hub Vienna (CSH), shows that […]
Introduction Building height is an important piece of information that has various important applications such as economic analysis, urban planning, and development of 3D city maps. For many geographical areas, such information is not accessible […]
The 2020 Geolgnite conference was put online and brought the Canadian geospatial sector together. One of the topics included updates from the Quantum Spatial Canada as presented by its Program Manager, Mr. Sven Cowan. Quantum […]
In our last article on land use in the Greenbelt, we discussed the Places to Grow Act, an Ontario policy envisaged at curbing the effects of urban sprawl and encouraging population growth where it is […]
On April 7th, I attended the community mapping showcase at the NSCC Centre of Geographic Sciences (COGS). This project is a collaboration between the Age Advantage Association, a not-for-profit group of seniors in the Annapolis […]