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St.Johns Declaration

St. John’s Declaration (Help Improve Geographic Literacy in Canada)

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Last month at the Canadian Association of Geographers conference in St.John's, Newfoundland, a group of concerned geography educators came together to discuss deficiencies in geographic knowledge, work on a strategy and create an action plan to help geographic education in Canada. St. John’s Declaration is a document that resulted from the meeting that will be sent out to all the major educational institutes and professional organizations to seek their endorsements for the cause. “The Canadian GIS & Geomatics website has been a long standing supporter of Geography & GIS Awareness in Canada, and in support geographic learning, teaching and research that is the foundation of the Canadian geomatics sector, supports the St. John’s Declaration for Advancing Geographic Education.”
Fanshawe College GIS

GIS at Fanshawe College

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The one year GIS Graduate Certificate Program at Fanshawe College School of Design is a hands on project based and industry leading software intensive training, Students gain a solid foundation of GIS skills coupled with leading edge industry techniques to learn the skills that can provide spatial solutions.
Things to See abd Do in British Columbia

OSCAR-js – First Open Source Initiative for CARIS

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CARIS, an industry leading marine GIS organization based out of Fredericton, New Brunswick has designed and built software solutions for over 30 years. Recently they announced their release of CARIS OSCAR-js (Open Spatial Component Architecture) , their first open source Application Programming Interface (API).  CARIS OSCAR-js, a JavaScript Map API was designed to allow users to create and embed custom web mapping applications into their own websites.
Things to See abd Do in British Columbia

Things to See & Do in British Columbia

BCParks has created a simple online mapping application with data from the DataBC program to help people in British Columbia find things see and do in British Columbia by identifying the various locations of the Province's Parks, Protected Areas, Recreation Areas and Ecological Reserves. The online interactive mapping tool based on the Google Maps platform offers various searching abilities and provides users with some control over the features and map layers that are displayed in the mapping window. This online map application is ...