Save the Date: Office Procedures and Checklists Webinar, Part 2
Articling Application Notice
2023 Educational Foundation Annual Meeting of Members
Industry Night 2023 at York University
BeSpatial Webinar: A Cloud-Based Data Library for Managing Municipal Survey and Asset Applications
Hockey at AOLS AGM in Niagara Falls
Save the Date: Office Procedures and Checklists Webinar, Part 2
You are invited to attend the second part of a six-part series of webinars presented by AOLS SRD Consultant Tom Packowski, OLS, on Office Procedures and Checklists.
When: February 15, 2023, 12 p.m. Eastern Time (U.S. and Canada)
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
Articling Application Notice
Attention Evaluated Students:
Please click here for the Application to Article Notice. Those wishing to article must submit the completed forms (PART I only – in the notice linked above) to the Association of Ontario Land Surveyors by no later than Friday, February 10, 2023.
Please DO NOT send credit card information via email.
The Academic and Experience Requirements Committee will consider the applications at its meeting scheduled for April 18, 2023.
Do not hesitate to contact Lena at lkassabian@aols.org if you have any questions or concerns.
2023 Educational Foundation Annual Meeting of Members
The Board of Directors of the AOLS Educational Foundation invites Educational Foundation members, former award winners, and any other interested persons to attend the 2023 Educational Foundation Annual Meeting of Members.
The virtual meeting will be held on Thursday, February 23, 2023 from 12 noon to 1 p.m.
The President of the Educational Foundation and Board of Directors will review the 2022 Annual Meeting minutes, the 2022 Financial Report, and the Educational Foundation Awards presented in 2021/2022. The 2022 Educational Foundation reports will be posted in the Member Tools section of the website prior to the meeting: aols.org/member-tools/get-involved-with-aols/annual-general-meetings.
NOTE: Members attending this meeting can earn one hour of Professional CPD.
Please mark February 23rd on your calendar. We hope you can join the meeting!
Industry Night 2023 at York University
On January 20, Maja Krcmar, Cole Raikes, and Bob Pearson attended Industry Night 2023 at York University. It was organized by the Civil Engineers of Lassonde, ITE York University, and Geomatics Club York University.
This was the third edition of the Industry Night, and the first to be fully in person (post-pandemic), with approximately 150 persons in attendance, consisting of undergraduate students, graduate students, professors, and representatives from leading industry firms.
Maja Krcmar presented for the AOLS with an informative slideshow/video presentation of approximately 20 minutes. The AOLS also hosted a booth, where we met with many students who were interested in the career of land surveying, and the process to achieve the educational requirements, and ultimate AOLS licensing.
It was a great evening, and well attended by many York University Engineering/Geomatics students, who were very interested in learning about surveying as a career.
Bob Pearson, OLS
Pearson and Pearson Surveying Ltd.
BeSpatial Webinar: A Cloud-Based Data Library for Managing Municipal Survey and Asset Applications
When:Thursday, February 16, 2023, 12 to 1 p.m.
Many municipalities are adopting mobile LiDAR/Imagery surveys for populating their municipal infrastructure asset geodatabases, rather than traditional airborne or field surveys. Airborne surveys can miss important municipal assets due to the nature of nadir collection and ground surveys can be very expensive and time-consuming. Whereas, mobile mapping systems offer high-speed data capture, high-density 3D measurements increasing the feature mapping detail, and reduction of erroneous/questionable data.
Sharing and access to these large datasets can pose barriers to use throughout an organization. Cloud-based data storage and new software tools offer a solution to viewing large datasets across a wide network of stakeholders to make faster and more accurate infrastructure management decisions. This presentation highlights several example projects of online cloud-based asset databases and corresponding point clouds and 360 degree imagery derived from mobile mapping surveys.
The webinar will be led by Scott Paterson, who is currently the Business Development Manager for Tulloch Mapping.
A big thank you to all who responded and, from the resounding yes we received, we have gone ahead and booked ice in Niagara Falls during the AGM. Big thank you to Ron Berg for his legwork on this.
When: Thursday March 2, 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Where: Gale Centre, Rink 4, 5152 Thorold Stone Rd, Niagara Falls
Ron confirms it's about a seven minute drive from the hotel, but we are looking at renting a bus to move us all at once.
Please note that this time does conflict with the afternoon concurrent education sessions. We looked at many options and determined this was the best time slot available. I’m not about to suggest that hockey is more important than continuing education; I’d rather suggest it’s a different form of continuing education . . . Sorry to all who are impacted by that!
Big thank you to Van Harten Surveying Inc. and Tulloch for their financial support in continuing this tradition!
W. Bruce Clark (he/him), OLS, ALS,
Surveyor General
Manager, Office of the Surveyor General
Ministry of Natural Resources & Forestry
AGM 2023 Sponsors
We would like to thank our sponsors for their generous support. We could not present this AGM without you. Your contributions are greatly appreciated!
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