Matt McLean

Topics Covered: Looking at the relationships between Stat Can Boundary Layers Using these data and other data in Google Earth Stats Can Boundary Layers Many students have been confused about the boundaries of the different datasets we have been talking about in lecture and tutorial (as well as using them Read more

Looking at Boundary Files We will look a the differences and relationships between the different Stats Can Boundary layers later on (in Tutorial and in Lecture) , but for now let’s have a look at the two types of DA boundary files we are using in the course. Open up Read more

QGIS to Google Earth As in the lab, we managed to get a layer out of QGIS with the styling using the mmqgis plugin (see last weeks lab section on Exporting to Google Earth). Below is a screen shot of a quick (and ugly) map Scott made in QGIS using Read more

Topics Covered: Setup your UNBC account to access your GIS workspace Download and manipulate Statistics Canada Data through the UNBC library. Create a spatial layer from a text file Join some crime data to spatial data Exercises 1: Settings and Workspaces As we have already started to experience – collecting Read more

Topics Covered: A second look at the postal code and car thefts data Moving data from stat can into excel cleaning data in wordpad joining data in QGIS Joining Data Properly Review the Postal Code data Below is a snippet of the postal code data we worked with last tutorial: Read more