Canadian GIS

Pacific Alliance Technologies is proud to announce the release of iVAULT version 4.4 for the ArcGIS platform.
iVAULT is PAT’s web-based mapping solution that allows organizations to easily benefit from linking their existing data to a location. The latest release now better supports client work flows and has enhanced data access capabilities.

Join Pacific Alliance Technologies on March 8th for a Free Webinar to see how some these enhancements could make your web GIS experience easier and more productive!

Latitude Geographics are planning on providing another free webinar due to the great turnout and response that they had for the last one. Latitude Geographics first developed Geocortex software in 1999, and since, Geocortex has evolved through several generations of Esri mapping and GIS technology.

This free 30-45 minute webinar should apeal to GIS administrators, GIS managers and analysts currently using ArcGIS Server platform.

With the steady growth in smart mobile devices and with every modern web browser now supporting HTML5, its adoption for web-based mapping is clearly on the rise. HTML5 will increasingly influence Esri-based web mapping.

This 30-minute webinar will provide an overview of HTML5 for generalists, theorize on likely time lines around adoption, and provide information to help you ensure that your organization is positioned to embrace this important standard at the right time.

The City of Toronto has recently celebrated two years of online Open Data service and they have full intention on continuing to build on that success, by stating that they intend to add more data layers and will further develop their site. Data sets are provided in various standard downloadable file formats such as XLS, CSV, DGN & SHP. All data set contains basic meta info associated with them such as who created the data, date, format, projection, attributes, contact info etc. The bottom line here is the City of Toronto has granted the GIS community a royalty free, non exclusive licence to use, modify, and distribute any of their data sets that they continue to make available via their data catalogue.

I received a notice from ESRI Canada recently about Changes that are being made to the Microsoft Bing Maps Token Service next spring and thought that I should share it with others in the GIS community incase someone did not receive it or was not aware of the changes taking place with ArcGIS Server and Bing Maps.

The change is mainly related to …

Local ESRI User Conferences are important annual events for the GIS community, that provide an opportunities for GIS professionals to discover exciting new developments about ESRI’s GIS solutions and network with your peers. This is an opportunity for people in the Manitoba region to join other GIS professionals for an exclusive opportunity to learn about advances in GIS technology and hear first hand how others are using a geographic approach and ESRI software in their work. The first day will consist of the main conference with a second day set aside for Technical Seminars.