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How the Community Creates the Canadian & International Geospatial Digests & Briefs
GoGeomatics has come a long way since it was just me clacking away on my keyboard. The first articles in…
International Geospatial Briefing July 26th, 2021: Esri new GeoBIM product; Iran’s groundwater crisis levels; Space tech companies partner next-generation Earth Observation data; statewide heat-mapping study in Petersburg; NASA, USGS to Launch Landsat 9 in September
Esri and Autodesk’s New Collaboration Product: GeoBIM Esri’s new software, ArcGIS GeoBIM, allows ArcGIS features to appear in the documents within…
Code in Place: Free Python course hosted by Stanford University
Last year, almost at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, I attended a Python programming course for almost five weeks.…
Introducing New GoGeomatics Online Community Managers : Nick, Jacob and Leo
GoGeomatics Canada is excited to introduce our new volunteer managers to the team this March. Our community managers are the…
International Geospatial Briefing for November 16th: Yana Gevorgyan as the next GEO Secretariat Director; Mapping Britain’s footpaths; GIS, fortified Kenya’s response to COVID-19; Time travel to US cities 200 years ago by Google experiment
Appointment of Yana Gevorgyan as the next GEO Secretariat Director Yana Gevorgyan will be the next GEO Secretariat Director, effective…
Introducing New GoGeomatics Online Community Managers : Tanya, Celso, Paul, Rosette and Elizabeth
GoGeomatics Canada is over 7000+ subscribers strong with over 1,000 published articles. Our community managers are passionate and committed to…
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from the entire GoGeomatics Canada Community
A Very Happy Holiday’s and Happy New Year to the entire Canadian geospatial and location technology community. On behalf of…
The “New” GoGeomatics Canada: Relaunching Our Magazine
A team of really intelligent squirrels and I have been working on the new GoGeomatics magazine. I’m taking a break…
Making is Connecting: the social meaning of creativity
I spent Christmas in Sydney, Cape Breton. While there, I had the time to read David Gauntlett’s book ‘Making is Connecting’.…
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…
Volunteer & Map Canada: Statistics Canada Crowdsourcing Pilot Project
Statistics Canada has launched a new pilot project using OpenStreetmap. For many Canadians outside of the geomatics community this is…
How Canadian Remote Sensing Was Made Commercially Successful & Exportable
This piece started as a note on some of my experience as an international consultant in remote sensing specifically and…
