Past Program Event Highlights
2009 May 5: Be Spatial'09
The URISA-OC Be Spatial'09 Program and Expo Event drew over 200 registrants to the Parmount Conference Centre in Vaughan. This Annual program event offered a number of interesting speakers, the Municipal GIS and Web Challenges, a Map Gallery, Expo and Project Showcase.Keynote speaker, Shorah Elhami, one of four co-founders, spoke passionately about the GISCorps, URISA's international volunteer program that matches geospatial skillsets with communities in need. Shorah's enthusiasm for this initiative was evident throughout her well-received presentation.
Parallel sessions continued throughout the day, covering a broad range of topics. For the first time, URISA-OC members from the vendor community were also invited to submit papers, and the program offered a good balance of product information and implementation details for specific initiatives.
2009 February 12: Dishing Out The Data - WMS and WFS
Most organizations with an investment in spatial data have a need to share that data with business partners. Traditionally, that meant exporting, reformatting and importing potentially large datasets—a time consuming process, especially for solutions requiring regular updates.The OGC Web Map and Web Feature Services offer an alternative, by providing a mechanism to dynamically produce, serve and share compiled maps for display or spatial features for analysis, on demand from an enterprise GIS database.
Few corporations have the budget or the resources to collect and maintain all the diverse data sets required to conduct business. With an increasing dependency on inter-agency, and multi-agency business solutions, WMS and WFS can ease the workload on data administrators, allowing for custom data solutions tailored to fit specific business requirements.
Today’s presentations outline how these technologies are being used to address the need to access spatial data, easily, quickly and repetitively, to address real world business needs.
2008 October 21: Project Management for Geospatial Initiatives
While Geospatial information can be considered to be just 'more data', GIS projects do perhaps have different challenges to face than more conventional Enterprise Information Systems. A formal Project Management process can often be a key factor in determining whether or not initiatives - GIS or otherwise - will be successful.Attendees at the Fall program event held on October 21, 2008 heard how companies and organizations manage large, organization-wide implementation or upgrades and how GIS fits in to their overall IT strategy, and PM process.
November 5, 2003 Northern Event, Sudbury Cancelled
>> View Program and Sudbury Event Location Details - Cancelled*2003 June 5: 2001 Census Course Queen's University
View Program and Queens University Location Details
2003 March 4: Discussion on Data
- Tim Hu, Teranet Inc. "Ontario Parcel Specifications: A Technical Overview
- Doug Banting, Ryerson University. "An Academic Perspective on Data Concernts"
- Laverne Hanely, Union Gas. "Sharing Data - You Only Need Standards if you do it"
- Tom Malone, Manager, Base Data Geographic Information Ontario, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources. "Ontario's Road Network and Opportunities to Share /Work Together"
- Jury Konga, Town of Richmond Hill. "Data Access and Dissemination: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"
- John Fisher, DMTI Spatial. "Derivative Products: Public and Private Sector Perspectives"
- Tim Werschler, Statistics Canada. "GeoConnections: Policy and License Initiatives"
- Speaker Panel Discussions - This is your forum to ask questions directly to the speakers as a group and the audience
2002 December 4: GIS Applications and Approaches
At this event, speakers discussed approaches to GIS implementation, as well as solutions that can spatially enable organizations of all size. Speakers included Mike McLean, City of Peterborough; Shafik Jiwani, ORION; and Mark Adams, Cuesta Systems.
2002 November 6: Municipal Update
2002 June 24: 4th Annual Golf and Program Event
Our 4th annual Golf Day and Program Event was a success. There were well over 40 members participating on this hot June day. The event was held on Tuesday June 25, 2002 at Granite Ridge Golf Course in Milton.The morning program event included speakers from the Information Technology and GIS fields discussing software and legal issues. Speakers included:
Peter Neve and Adrian Brown from FieldWorker Products Limited presented about their field based technology;
Lou Milrad, a lawyer with Ridout and Maybee LLP, discussed legal issues in database ownership and licensing; and
Don DeGenova from DMTI Spatial, spoke about their partnerships with academia.
Following the round of golf, the members met in the Club House for some refreshments and raffles. Prizes were donated by GDT Canada, ESRI Canada, Teranet, Intergraph Canada, and URISA Ontario Chapter.
A special thanks to our sponsors DMTI Spatial, ESRI Canada, Intergraph Canada, Teranet and URISA-Ontario Chapter, for their donations. The generous support of our sponsors ensure that the URISA Golf Day is a success.
URISA Ontario Chapter would like to acknowledge the generous support from our sponsors. The 2002 sponsors included:
DMTI Spatial
ESRI Canada
