Congrats to the crew at Victoria-based CloverPoint Cartographics, Victoria B.C Canada for the terrific recognition they’ve received recently from the local media, in particular, a full page article and images appearing in the Saturday Business section of the Times Colonist newspaper. The crew has been recognized for their Insights Land Registry system being used by […]
First Nations unlock wealth of lands using the Insight Land Registry
Details of this story come our way via CloverPoint Cartographics in B.C Canada. The Huu-ay-aht First Nations have begun to unlock the wealth of their lands using the Insight Land Registry by CloverPoint. See also http://cloverpoint.com/land-registry
SFU Mapping bike Safety On the Whistler Sea to Sky Highway
A cool mapping / biking safety story out of B.C Canada (via SFU News Online) Cyclists setting out to ride the 120-km Sea to Sky Highway between Horsebay and Whistler, BC can check out hazardous areas on a new map developed by a group of fourth-year SFU geography students. An accompanying study details various safety […]
Real Time GPS Tracking Maps of B.C. Ferries via Microsoft Virtual Earth @BCFerries
OpenGov, transparency etc… it’s all the rage! Here in B.C, Canada the coastal Ferry system is a crucial service for locals, particularly for those of us that live and work on Vancouver Island (home to more than 600,000+ people). The Ferry system is run by what’s called a Crown Corporation, tough to describe but essentially […]
Latitude Geographics @geocortex Featured in Canada's National Newspaper For Hiring Interns
Kudos to fellow GeoGeek and U Vic alum Steven Myhill-Jones, founder of Latitude Geographics (Think Esri Platinum Business Partner and developers of GeoCortex) for a fine writeup this week in The Globe & Mail, Canada’s National newspaper, in an interesting report on the hiring of interns and how they can really pay off for a […]
URISA BC Event – Open Data, So What?
An interesting event near Vancouver as URISA BC (British Columbia, Canada) is hosting an interesting full day event on Feb 16, 2012 in Burnaby BC titled Open Data, So What? About the event… In this upcoming seminar, we will explore how geospatial technologies are being leveraged through open data, and how they are introduced into […]
Islands Trust MapIT online mapping system
Here’s details of a pretty slick online map service in B.C., Canada via the Islands Trust (managing the lands of the Gulf Islands)… his via Canada.com… The new mapping interface provides many new features, such as more frequent updates of geographic information and simple, fast and informative data exploration and discovery tools. How to find […]
The B.C Canada Open Data Hackathon
Are you a fan of the hackathon concept? A hackathon is typically a government sponsored event designed to engage the community, bring developers, hackers, and mashup artists together, introduce them to open data products, tools and resources, and then let the brainstorming and hacking begin – quite often the coffee, redbull, pizza and aspirin are […]
B.C Canada Opens Government Data Portal To All @data_BC
Thank goodness I follow @daeaves on Twitter else I may not have even been aware that the Province of Bitish Columbia (where I live) has rolled out their open data portal at http://www.data.gov.bc.ca/ – the first of it’s kind in Canada. From the portal, DataBC will have about 2500 sets of data to start. This […]
GIS in Oil Spill Response – Think Google StreetView for the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill from CloverPoint
Here’s an interesting report from A News, Vancouver Island on a company from some colleagues in Victoria, BC, Canada at CloverPoint who have a fabulous decision support system that aids in oil spill response systems and could be ideal in response to the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico to map the coastline and […]