On January 19, 2011, the British Columbia Chapter of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA BC) hosted a one day seminar entitled:
GIS Technology Showcase
Date: January 19, 2011
Time: 8:00 am – 4:00 pm
Location: Hilton Vancouver Metrotown 6083 MacKay Avenue, Burnaby, BC
In this seminar, we explored many aspects of GIS and Technology.
SEMINAR AT A GLANCE
We have a dynamic lineup of speakers including:
- Use of Twitter to Provide Crowd Sourced Location Information
Presented by Drew Rifkin, Safe Software
- Reality, reality and augmented reality
Presented by Karl Swannie, Cloverpoint and Len Rodrigues, Stantec
- BCeMap ‐ A Multi Agency Situational Awareness System for the Province of BC
Presented by Gurdeep Singh, GeoBC and Kris Hayne, EMBC
- No Instructions Required: Taking the GIS out of Web Mapping
Presented by Chad Huntington, Langley Township
- Integrated Asset Management at the City of Vancouver
Presented by Martin Tilt, City of Vancouver
- The Many Worlds of OpenStreetMap
Presented by Alan McConchie, UBC
- Leveraging Technology: Using Imagery in Assessment
Presented by Kim Boyd and Dwayne Scallion-Pond, BC Assessment
- Survey-Enabled Imagery ‐ A New Direction in GIS Data Collection or Why Are You Still in the Field?
Presented by Paul Currie, McElhanney Consulting Services Ltd.
- Mobile Tap App/Parks iPhone App
Presented by Peter Cech and Stephen Suddes, Metro Vancouver