International Women’s Day Event for AOLS Women in Surveying 2023
Global Surveyors' Day
March 21, 2023
BeSpatial Webinar: Young Professional Network's Working with APIs in GIS
March 27, 2023
In the News: How the National Land Survey of Finland is Exploring AI Technology
Reminder: Enter Your AGM CPD Hours in GeoEd
If you attended one or more of the concurrent sessions, open forums, or other presentations at last week's AGM in Niagara Falls, please be sure to enter your CPD hours into GeoED.
Log into GeoEd at geoed.ca to view or edit your profile, submit and edit CPD activities, and view your CPD cycle report and past CPD submissions by year.
Members active in professional surveying are required to accumulate, in each three-year period, at least 36 hours of formal activities and at least 66 hours of professional activities.
The May 2023 Professional and Statutes Exams for articling students will be held May 24–26.
Click here for the notice and registration form. The deadline for registration is Friday, April 14, 2023. Exams will be held in person and online.
More details will be available closer to the date.
Please contact Lena Kassabian at lena@aols.org if you have any questions.
International Women’s Day Event for AOLS Women in Surveying 2023
#EmbraceEquity
International Women’s Day (IWD) celebrates the achievements of women worldwide and takes place annually on March 8.
The AOLS Women in Surveying meeting turned out to be a great event with 35 attendees. Among the attendees were Registrar Penny Conners, AOLS staff, and female Ontario Land Surveyors, as well as a few female articling students.
Several discussions were had on this year’s campaign theme, “Embrace Equity.” Equity isn't just a nice-to-have, it's a must-have. The speakers – Sophie Cote, Council member; Angela Jeffray, Senior Project Surveyor at MTO; Nancy Grozelle, Assistant Examiner of Surveys; and Maureen Mountjoy, Deputy Registrar – shared their experiences and words of wisdom. When asked what attracted them to the field of surveying, some mentioned growing up on a farm and loving the outdoors. Anne Cole, OLS, suggested we look at other areas we can influence, including how to attract Indigenous peoples to the surveying field as part of the reconciliation efforts in Canada.
The meeting ended with a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson, a poet and philosopher:
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
We thank the AOLS for providing this platform for female surveyors to come together and celebrate this day.
– Aloka Kumaranayake, OLS
Member of the Marketing and Recruitment Committee
Global Surveyors' Day
March 21, 2023
The path to Global Surveyors’ Day began back in ancient Egypt when society first used surveying techniques to divide land. Throughout history, surveyors have remained the pioneers of discovery shaping our world to its current existence by exploring the unknown on earth and in space. Fast forward to 2013 when the signing of the Budapest declaration created a common worldwide celebration for those leaders, past and present. We are proud to proclaim Global Surveyors’ Day as a way to globally recognize the ground-breakers, pioneers, individuals and the industry that has shaped our history and continues to be the foundation of our communities.
BeSpatial Webinar: Young Professional Network's Working with APIs in GIS
Learn about the evolving capabilities of APIs in GIS with this upcoming webinar that will discuss the accessibility and functionalities of APIs, GIS use cases, and the current strengths and limitations of APIs in GIS.
Note: AOLS recognizes BeSpatial events for CPD credits. Attend this event and be entered to win a gift card.
In the News: How the National Land Survey of Finland is Exploring AI Technology
From GIM International:
The National Land Survey of Finland (NLS) is a good example of how artificial intelligence (AI) is entering national mapping agencies. Approximately two years ago, NLS set up the Advanced Technology for National Topographic Map Updating (ATMU) project supported by funding from the Finnish Ministry of Finance. This project was focused on developing deep learning solutions for object detection and change recognition, for buildings, roads and hydrographic features (watercourses). By the end of the project, building detection achieved an accuracy of 97.9%, and 96% of building and road changes were correctly identified. The evaluations have been conducted by the NLS experts at the object level.
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