I am sharing an email GoGeomatics received from the delicate flowers at GeoAlliance Canada. We got it a few hours after GoGeomatics published a cartoon on February 22nd. I will leave it to the community […]
A friend of mine who volunteers with a girls’ softball team came to me with a request recently. “I have the addresses of all of the girls in our softball league”, she said. “I want […]
Elevation Web Services: Limitations and Prospects Elevation data is necessary for a wide range of geospatial applications such as creating relief maps and rendering 3D visualizations, deriving the slope and aspect of a geographic area, […]
This article is the first in a monthly GoGeomatics Canada series on topics related to Open Source GIS for Everyone, by Rick Davidson and Jim O’Leary, Continuing Studies (CS) instructors at Langara College in Vancouver, […]
As those of you who have tried their hand at OpenStreetMapping know, OSM can quickly turn from a hobby into a full-blown obsession! OpenStreetMap is a free, editable, open access map created by volunteers all […]
June 23rd marked a special day in the history of aviation and space in Canada. A very special aircraft, a Convair-580, with its advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) sensors, made its final flight after setting […]
Since my last article on the CGCRT project, I’ve been waiting and watching for the CGCRT to address some of the concerns that both I and others in the community raised, particularly about the name […]
OTTAWA, ON – Sudbury-born Alex Trebek, celebrity host of the long-running TV quiz show Jeopardy!, has donated US$100,000 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Canadian Geographic (CG) Challenge. Since 2003, Canada’s geography whiz kids have […]