Guest Lecture – Indigenous GeoSpatial Perspectives

Guest Lecturer – Scott Emmons Historical perspectives of indigenous people Check out the historical map of depicting wilderness! http://www3.sympatico.ca/goweezer/canada/can1700.htm Many Nations existing within what is Canadian borders Different governing systems for different nations with large areas of land that were associated with nations. Established relationships (i.e. trade) amongst nations Transportation Read more

GIS Filesystem

The GIS Lab file system has been updated for fall 2020. You can find your personal files in the following locations based upon which operating system you are using. OSMOTAR.GIS.UNBC.CA: All of your files are in the K: drive. Please note that the C: drive is periodically cleaned, you must Read more

Tutorial 05 – PostGIS

Introduction Today we will be looking at doing GIS inside of the Enterprise Database using PostGIS. Now you may be wondering what is our motivation to using PostgreSQL and primarly it is due to its performance and concurrent access. When we talk about performance we are talking about how many Read more