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The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC): proposed GeoRSS Community Standard
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is requesting public comment on the proposed GeoRSS Community Standard. First available in 2006, GeoRSS…
The Integrated Cadastral Information (ICI) Society and ParcelMap BC
This is the first of two articles on the release of ParcelMap BC Data, which we see as a significant…
NetCDF: a growing standard for encoding georeferenced data in binary form
Recently, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has announced an extension to the OGC CF-netCDF 3.0 encoding standard that specifies how…
Elevation Web Services: Limitations and Prospects
Elevation Web Services: Limitations and Prospects Elevation data is necessary for a wide range of geospatial applications such as creating…
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…
New Book: Web Mapping and Geospatial Web Services
It is with great pleasure that I want to introduce a new Web Mapping and Geospatial textbook to the Canadian geomatics…
Standardizing IoT via the Open Geospatial Consortium Registry Platform
While IoT continues to grow in hype and in real importance, all of this excitement will start to wane if…
Geomatics to Geomantics
From my memory (which is, unfortunately, diming with each passing year) the word “geomatics”, defined as the automation of geography,…
