SDI Events Roundup – October 2016

October 28, 2016

Gordon Plunkett

Read a recap of the 2016 Back to School GoGeomatics socials across Canada and find out upcoming SDI events in the October SDI Events Roundup.

Here’s a roundup of events happening in Canada and globally, related to spatial data infrastructures (SDI). You’ll also find insightful reports from recently held SDI events that you may find useful for your own projects.

Report on 2016 GoGeomatics Canada Back-to-School Socials

In September, the Canadian geomatics community came together to celebrate the start of the new school year by welcoming new and returning students to colleges and universities across Canada. Over 450 people came out to the 2016 Back-to-School GoGeomatics socials across Canada. With the help of sponsors GoGeomatics had the largest and most successful set of events since they began to host socials across the country.

New Zealand and global geospatial standards demystified

Standards make things work, like the Internet. Fortunately, there are standards for many things, keyboards, screens, hypertext markup language, domain names and the directory service that enables users to look up web sites without having to know the IP address. Recently, a workshop in New Zealand called “Standardising the power of where”, outlined common geospatial standards that are used in New Zealand and across the globe, including Canada.

GSDI Report from 5 October 2016, UN-GGIM Europe Meeting

The GSDI Association was represented at the 3^rd Plenary meeting of the UN-GGIM Europe Regional Committee in Budapest, Hungary, on October 5^th. The meeting was hosted by FÖMI (the institute for Geodesy, Cartography and Remote Sensing), the Ministry of Agriculture and the HM GEOSZ (Geospatial Service of the Home Defense).