GIS in the News

Mapping the North
Municipalities team up to create sophisticated geographic information system
Municipal Monitor, May/June 2008

In many municipalities, especially remote and sparsely populated ones, land and asset records are likely to be organized under separate systems that are hard to compile or compare.  New information-handling technology can solve this problem, and now a few small Northern Ontario municipalities are collaborating to create central and efficient geographic information systems (GIS).

Looking to the future
Teck Cominco has taken a new approach to its global exploration technology plans
AMM  April 2008

Teck Cominco's experience implementing ArcGIS integrated with Geosoft's Oasis and Target to analyze borehole data and process geological, geophysical and geochemical datasets.