MApps (Maps and Applications) People's Choice Award & Gallery

It's not too early to start thinking and planning to exhibit in the Gallery! 

You've worked hard to create a map or application for your organization and now is your chance to show it off to other GIS professionals and colleagues from around the Province at the annual BeSpatial program event!  Show off your best traditional Map design or create a layout to display your latest Web Application. Open for submissions until April 14th.

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Announcing BeSpatial 2024

May ?-? (Virtual)

BeSpatial Ontario is inviting you to view the PheedLoop Home Page for  program highlights as a sampling of sessions being offered.

Register today to join your colleagues at the geospatial and information community's annual 37th AGM (Annual General Meeting), program event and EXPO.  Bookmark this page and check back often as program details are being updated! 

Registration will soon open to attend  the May ?  workshop:  Title TBA. There are limited seats and registration is on a  first come basis. 

A special thank you to our current sponsors and exhibitors. There are opportunities available for you and BeSpatial has added extra features to enhance your exhibit experience. Come join us in the exhibit hall!

BeSpatial'24 is a once a year opportunity that will provide you with professional development , valuable information and updates about what is happening in your field, a chance to visit with exhibitors to learn about their new products and services and networking with others in the geospatial and information community and much more... 

This blog is interesting. I never thought of the new training opportunities that many low income workers were enabled to pursue during the pandemic. Many used the time to upskill...

I've found an excellent article on https://community.challengefactory.ca/where-have-all-the-workers-gone/ which may interest you.

Lisa Taylor from the Challenge Factory presented at  our BeSpatial'21 conference.

  BeSpatial Ontario is seeking one or preferably two Northern Section representatives. This volunteer Board position(s) is responsible for promoting BeSpatial to potential new members and organizations within Northern Ontario, liaising and representing the organization to existing members, and developing content in the form of webinars or seminars that is relevant to the regional membership. The position and related activities should align with our strategic objectives of...

• Proactively encouraging individuals and organizations to participate and volunteer in the geospatial and information community
• Deliver networking opportunities, programs and services contributing to geospatial and information community growth, enhanced productivity and innovation.
• Engage community participation in actively sharing their geospatial and information knowledge and leadership.
• Advocate for standards that will influence the geospatial and information community.
• Recognize and reward excellence and innovation within the geospatial and information community.

Due to the size of the Northern Section in Ontario, it would be preferable to have the duties split between 2 co-leads, one based in the Eastern half and one based in northwestern Ontario. The position(s) will be supported by the BeSpatial Board of Directors. Other duties would also include assisting with the planning, organizing and staging of our annual AGM, attending monthly Board meetings to report on activities and issues within the Northern Section.

If this volunteer position is of interest, please reach out to president@bespatialontario.ca

Since 1999, VertiGIS Studio products and services have addressed common GIS application development challenges. VertiGIS offers pragmatic solutions to improve developer productivity, help solve complex business problems, and enable a better user experience when deploying Esri web GIS technology. The most popular capabilities of VertiGIS Studio can also be used from within modern Esri platforms such ArcGIS® Web AppBuilder, Experience Builder, and ArcGIS Online to allow you to accomplish even more with your Esri investment. 

Cansel is Canada’s largest supplier of geospatial and engineering field equipment, integrating sensors, field supplies and office processing software. Cansel helps clients capture, transform and manage data leading to increased field to finish efficiency and profitability. We have been providing tailored solutions to our clients for over 50 years in Canada.

Check out the Full list of BeSpatial Sponsors and Exhibitors

It is with deep and profound sadness that we share the loss of our  colleague and friend John Bacon. John has been an active BeSpatial / urisa ontario board and committee member for many years. His contribution to BeSpatial and the geospatial and information community was extraordinary and will be remembered. We could always rely on John’s positive, friendly and supportive approach. He will be deeply missed.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations to Good Shepherd or Neighbour 2 Neighbour would be appreciated by the family.

Please sign the online Book of Condolences at Bay Gardens Funeral Home (www.baygardens.ca), Hamilton (905-574-0405).

Mapping the future of public health with GIS

Alexander (Sandy) Watts

The COVID-19 pandemic revealed once again that location matters when it comes to our health. As we transform Canada’s public health system, it’s clear that GIS has the potential to bolster and enhance public health strategy.

In our keynote talk, we will walk through case studies to demonstrate how recent innovations in location intelligence and geospatial technology can enhance a wide spectrum of public health workflows, improve public health research and evaluation using novel sources of high-resolution spatio-temporal data, and help engage with communities using GIS dashboards and hub sites.

We will highlight how GIS can facilitate collaboration and engagement between multi-institutional health teams, decision makers, and the public. We will discuss the value GIS brings to the ongoing digital transformation of Canada’s public health systems to facilitate data sharing across jurisdictions, improve access to essential health services for all Canadians and ultimately, to help reduce health inequity.

Alexander (Sandy) Watts is the Public Health Industry Manager for Esri Canada. He is the lead of Esri Canada’s Public Health program, designed to support Canada’s public health community through the power of GIS and location intelligence. With a background in ecology, spatial statistics and infectious disease research, he has led various geospatial research projects for epidemic planning, preparedness, and response, developing GIS solutions that influenced policy decisions at the Public Health Agency of Canada, the US-CDC, and the World Health Organization. Sandy is passionate about the potential for location intelligence and GIS innovations to solve longstanding and future public health challenges, especially to reduce health inequity.

How Niantic is building the real-world metaverse

Niantic's mission is to build products and experiences that encourage people to explore the world, exercise, and be social together in the real-world. Our current endeavor is centered around developing AR technology on top of a rich geodata platform that enables developers to build compelling augmented real-world experiences. In this session I'll walk through how we're collecting geodata and building a unique global map of the world in order to realize a real-world metaverse in AR; highlight of the complexities we are facing; and inspire you with the endless opportunities ahead.

Danbi Lee, GISP - Senior Product Manager, Niantic Labs

Danbi is a Senior Product Manager for the Geodata Platform at Niantic - owning the growth, management and delivery of geo-location data for Niantic’s published games such as Pokémon GO, Ingress and Pikmin Bloom. Her passion and curiosity for the built environment has led her down many career paths, including environmental science, urban planning and design, municipal parks planning, geospatial analysis, and information management in Canada, the Netherlands, and the US. Danbi works closely with Niantic game teams to help design and deliver features for Niantic Wayfarer, a community mapping program for players of Niantic games. 

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Dear Colleagues,

GeoConnections announces the Announcement of Opportunities for the Fiscal Years 2022-2023 and 2023-2024. 

For this Announcement of Opportunities for the 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 fiscal years, the GeoConnections Program is focussing its funding on contribution projects totaling $1,000,000.

GeoConnections will fund eight projects and provide $125,000 per Project.

Objectives:

• Keep Canada at the leading edge of accessing, sharing and using geospatial information over the Internet.
• Coordinate the development of national policies, standards and mechanisms and support their implementation to ensure maintenance and updating of geospatial data and compatibility with global standards.

Interested proponents are invited to submit a Proposal to GeoConnections no later than June 2, 2022 - 23:59, Pacific Time

Please visit this web page to download the Announcement of Opportunities documentation.

GeoConnections would appreciate if you could share this information with your stakeholders.

Chers collègues,

Le programme GéoConnexions annonce la publication de l’avis d’offre de participation de GéoConnexions pour les exercices 2022-2023 et 2023-2024.

Via cet avis d’offre de participation, le programme GéoConnexions concentre son financement sur des projets de contributions pour un total de 1 000 000 $.

GéoConnexions financera huit projets qui recevront chacun 125 000 $.

Objectifs:

• Garder le Canada à la fine pointe de l’accès, du partage et de l’utilisation de l’information géospatiale sur Internet.
• Coordonner l'élaboration de politiques, de normes et de mécanismes nationaux et à appuyer leur mise en œuvre afin d'assurer le maintien et la mise à jour des données géospatiales et leur compatibilité avec les normes mondiales.

Les promoteurs intéressés sont invités à soumettre une proposition à GéoConnexions au plus tard le 2 juin 2022 – 23 h 59, heure du pacifique.

Veuillez visiter cette page web pour télécharger la documentation reliée à l’avis d’offre de participation.

Partager cette information avec vos parties prenantes serait opportun et apprécié.

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GeoConnections | GéoConnexions

Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation | Centre canadien de cartographie et d'observation de la Terre

Natural Resources Canada | Ressources naturelles Canada

560 Rochester Street | 560 rue Rochester

Ottawa (Ontario) Canada K1A 0E4

Email | Courriel : geoconnectionsca-acgeoconnexions@nrcan-rncan.gc.ca