{"id":1805900,"date":"2022-01-20T18:49:56","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T23:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1805900"},"modified":"2022-01-20T18:49:56","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T23:49:56","slug":"fraser-taylor-appointed-to-the-order-of-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/01\/fraser-taylor-appointed-to-the-order-of-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Fraser Taylor Appointed to the Order of Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Among <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gg.ca\/en\/activities\/2021\/governor-general-announces-135-new-appointments-order-canada\">the 135 appointees to the Order of Canada<\/a> last month was Carleton University professor <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/people\/taylor-fraser\/\">Fraser Taylor<\/a>, the director of Carleton\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/gcrc.carleton.ca\/index.html\">Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre<\/a>, and coiner of the concept of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.utpjournals.press\/doi\/pdf\/10.3138\/U631-37K3-3NL6-4136\">cybercartography<\/a>.\u201d See the <a href=\"https:\/\/research.carleton.ca\/story\/carletons-fraser-taylor-named-to-the-order-of-canada\/\">Carleton press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the 135 appointees to the Order of Canada last month was Carleton University professor Fraser Taylor, the director of Carleton\u2019s Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre, and coiner of the concept of \u201ccybercartography.\u201d See the&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/01\/fraser-taylor-appointed-to-the-order-of-canada\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[115,131,1552,1551],"class_list":["post-1805900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-cartography","tag-academe","tag-canada","tag-honors","tag-honours","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4541,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/07\/the-algonquian-linguistic-atlas\/","url_meta":{"origin":1805900,"position":0},"title":"The Algonquian Linguistic Atlas","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"1 July 2017","format":"link","excerpt":"The Algonquian Linguistic Atlas, a collaborative, interactive web-based map that provides phrases in various indigenous languages in Canada, has earned its project director, Carleton University linguistics professor Marie-Odile Junker, a Governor General's Innovation Award, CBC News reported in May.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linguistics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linguistics","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/linguistics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4436,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/05\/cca-annual-conference-in-ottawa\/","url_meta":{"origin":1805900,"position":1},"title":"CCA Annual Conference in Ottawa","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"30 May 2017","format":"link","excerpt":"The Canadian Cartographic Association's annual conference gets under way tomorrow at Carleton University in Ottawa. 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