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The Centre of Geographic Sciences (COGS), and the Applied Geomatics Research Group would like to invite you to an Industry Expo and a conference focused on innovative and wide-ranging applications of geo-technologies in the increasingly important field of resource management.
Cartouche 96 includes reports from CCA2019, featured articles, reports from ICC 2019 and NACIS 2019, and details about awards and prizes presented in 2019 … [Click here to read Cartouche 96 online or download a digital copy]
With respect to the contemporary need to clarify Métis Aboriginal Rights, this analysis will focus on historical cartographic sources as a means to demonstrate the state’s spatial knowledge of the Île-à-la Crosse region as one test of its effective control.
This presentation highlights organizations that are clear open data leaders, as well as some of the relatively new portals, and share some of the great data sets are available to the cartographic community …
I’m on a quest to carve beautiful, tactile, fully three-dimensional maps and globes out of wood. Based in the mountain town of Rossland, British Columbia, I’ve been looking for a way to reflect new social and cultural assumptions – more environmentally aware, more conscious that this planet is our home – by carving the world into wood using CNC router technology .
Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems, photogrammetry software, orthophotographs, digital elevation models, map features of value. Even consumer-grade RPAS can be used in this manner but with some cost of accuracy …
The Augmented Reality Sandbox is an interactive, three-dimensional, augmented reality exhibit that can be used as an educational tool to explore the importance of water, hydrology, earth science, and environmental studies.
In rural British Columbia, the conventional topographic mapping at 1:50,000 scale, from Natural Resources Canada, is now difficult to obtain and Provincial Park Mapping is no longer updated. Yet more recent mapping either does not exist, or involves large formats which are expensive to print. Morgan discusses a new approach, data sources, software, printing issues, some alternatives for the future, and the portability of this approach to other essentially trail-less crown lands in BC.
The six Tŝilhqot’in community names were adopted into the official gazetteer of British Columbia and are now, quite literally, “on the map.”
This presentation explores the story of Adoption of Indigenous Toponomies …