Canadian GIS

The City of Edmonton has been providing an online Open Data service to help make municipal information more accessible since 2009. They feel that through collaboration and innovation that they have become a leader in Open Government by using the latest technology to increase access to their information. One difference that you Edmonton has from the other cities is that they provide the ability to visualize the data sets unsing online ESRI web mapping technology. This way allows users to better unserdtand what the data sets they are downloading consists of.

The City of Toronto has recently celebrated two years of online Open Data service and they continue to build on that success, by stating that they intend to add more data layers and further develop their online data portal. So with that in mind I thought I would take a closer look at how Open Data Frameworks are currently doing here in Canada.

We just received word that the location for URISA’s GIS-Pro 2011 has been announced, and will be held in Indianapolis, Indiana. Stay tuned as this page will be updated as more info becomes available …

Alberta is one of the hotest provinces in Canada with terms of economic growth and has plenty of GIS companies to offer, here are some of the ones that we have listed.

The Geographic Information Systems Technology Certificate program at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology is a part-time Continuing education program made up of a minimum of 8 required core courses.

Courses are offered in evenings and weekends so that students can still work their regular jobs or study other courses at the same time while adding some spatial technicality aspect to their resume or expand into a career that they never considered before.