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Map Tiles and Cached Map Services
The tiling of large maps is an old practice. Large paper maps have always been divided into a series…
District of Squamish Wins Esri Canada’s Award of Excellence in GIS
VANCOUVER, Esri Canada User Conference – November 17, 2015 – The District of Squamish is a fast-growing municipality between the…
John Potter Recognized with Esri Canada’s Roger F. Tomlinson Lifetime Achievement Award
REGINA, Esri Canada User Conference – November 3, 2015 – Esri Canada today presented John Potter, a professional engineer who…
Clearwater Seafoods Wins Esri Award for Promoting Sustainability Using GIS
Clearwater Seafoods is one of the largest vertically integrated seafood companies in North America and provides premium wild, eco-certified seafood…
GIS: Parks Canada Receives Award for Enterprise Approach to Data Management
OTTAWA, Esri Canada User Conference – October 6, 2015 – Parks Canada fosters public understanding, appreciation and enjoyment of Canada’s…
GoGeomatics 2015 Back to School Socials: Over 350 Participants Coast to Coast
The 2nd annual GoGeomatics 2015 Back to School Socials have been a tremendous success. Last year we had 200 participants…
Web Mercator: the de facto standard, the controversy, and the opportunity
Four hundred and fifty years ago, the Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator presented the most popular map projection ever.…
Thanks to the Sponsors of 2015 GoGeomatics Back to School Socials
GoGeomatics Canada thanks our sponsors of the 2015 Back To School Socials that are happening across Canada this month (Dates…
2005-2015: Ten Years with Google Maps
In February 2005, Google Maps was launched as a desktop web mapping service. A few months later, in June 2005,…
BCIT Program Has the GIS Talent You Need
The BCIT GIS department has been graduating students for 25+ years. Our students come from BC, but as well, across…
September: Join us for the 2015 GoGeomatics Back to School Socials
The 2nd Annual GoGeomatics Canada Back to School Socials are happening this September. To kick off the 2015 school year,…
Quebec Launches new FOSS4G GIS called IGO
IGO (for Open GIS Infrastructure) is a Free Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) developed by organisations in the government…