Past Program Event Highlights
Tuesday May 3, 2011
Be Spatial'11
Plan to spend the day with colleagues, learning, sharing experiences and networking to stay current with the latest in spatial data, applications and solutions around Ontario. As always, this will be an information-packed day and this year, we have a special treat for those attending the event - a presentation and sampling of the product from the Black Creek micro-brewery.
March 3rd 2011
GIS and the Law - Key Issues for GIS Professionals - An Introduction to Best Practices.
full day workshop to develop a better understanding of the numerous legal issues that have come to the forefront within the GIS community- responsibility, liability, ownership, licensing etc. Lou Milrad, Associate Counsel with Miller Thomson will be the course leader. As a member and past president of URISA-OC Lou Milrad will leverage his extensive legal experience and contributions to URISA-OC to introduce and clarify best practices and the legal issues impacting the GIS community.
November 26, 2010
Data: Who Owns IT? Who Pays? Delivery?
Presentations discuss data from the perspective of ownership of data, open source data, who pays for GIS data, licensing of data and data delivery solutions.
June 23, 2010
URISA-OC’s 11th Annual Summer Event
A look into ArcGIS 10 and beyond (ESRI Canada), 3D Digital Cities (Autodesk), "What is Google Earth Enterprise", and "How can it help make my organization more efficient?" (Google)
Thursday May 6, 2010
Be Spatial'10
Dr. Colin Ellard, Professor of Psychology at the University of Waterloo and Director of the Research Laboratory for Immersive Virtual Environments was the keynote speaker.
Feb 24, 2010
Business Intelligence, presenting smarter information.
Presentations include business intelligence solutions that present smarter geospatial information enabling users in multiple jurisdictions and overlapping levels of government (provincial, regional, and local) to act collaboratively. Presentations will show solutions for bringing information together and presenting it appropriately to everyone; promoting GIS use to decision makers; better ways to visualize change spatially and temporally; and managing interdependent information infrastructures.
Nov 24, 2009
Fall Program Event - Imagery Theme
Imagery 101 (ESRI Canada), GeoWarehouse 2009 (Teranet), Creating Partnerships for Imagery (Land Information Ontario), 3D Mapping (Grand River Conservation Authority)
July 7 2009
Geospatial Go Green
URISA and GITA hosted a successful summer event on July 7, 2009. Over 50 participants enjoyed presentations followed by a round of golf at
Hornby Glen Golf Course.
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.
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.
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*
- 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
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
