There are a variety of places available for UNBC students to run Jupyter Notebooks On Campus https://jupyter.gis.unbc.ca On Desktop via RDP at anaconda-1.gis.unbc.ca UNBC Credentials Compute Canada: unbc.syzygy.ca ArcGIS Online: University of Northern BC (arcgis.com) (contact SLI for Access) (GPU Support) External *The following services have no connection to UNBC Read more…
Submitting your final project presentation file: Please submit your final project presentation as a .PPT or .PPTX file ONLY: Most programs allow you to export presentation slides as a .ppt file extension – if you are having trouble with this, please let us know before 4:00 PM on Friday, December Read more…
Last week you downloaded OSM data. We are going to use that data for short introduction to network analysis. If you did not download the data, you can work through last week’s tutorial but the dataset is also on the L drive (GEOG204/tutorial7). Project the data To perform network analysis, Read more…
Some Housekeeping Notes: Lab computers: Please do not turn off computers when leaving the lab! They get important updates at night, but only if they are left running (do log out of your personal account, though). Lab flexibility: The next three weeks of lab are going to be dedicated to Read more…
Today you are going to work OpenStreetMap data. Downloading the Data. You can access OpenStreetMap data by downloading it from Geofabrik. For this tutorial though we will downloading directly from within QGIS. Open QGIS and install the QuickOSM and the QuickMapService plugins. On the main menu in QGIS: Plugins > Read more…
Last week you explored raster classification. This week you will work towards the same end but using vector data. The data you will use has been placed on the L Drive under GEOG204/tutorial6. Copy that data to your work folder and add the shapefile in that folder to QGIS. The Read more…
In the last tutorial, you created a shapefile with a name BCDAPop. You are going to use this shapefile to convert data from vector to raster. We will achieve this using the census data to calculate the labor participation rate and the unemployment rate. This is a superficial analysis, designed Read more…
Working With Census Data You will do some basic analysis using the census data you downloaded. You will explore the population distribution in the province Explore employment rates across the dissemination areas To accomplish these tasks, you will do a few tabular calculations and also create cartographic representations. You will Read more…
To view an index of UNBC’s air-photo collection you can connect to the database through QGIS. In the QGIS file browser right click on PostGIS then select “New connection” You may name the connection whatever you like Host: pgadmin.gis.unbc.caPort: 5432Database: airphotoUse basic authentication with Username: sde, and Password: unbc-user Expand Read more…
Creating a shapefile from point data Create a CSV The data you are going to use is in the Tutorial 2 folder on the L drive (L:/geog 204) Create a folder on the K drive where you will save your work for this tutorial 1 Open Excel and create a Read more…