Accessing Dissemination Area stats We are going to download some census data for Dissemination Areas (DA) for BC. This will work for our attribute data for working with DA polygons in the labs and perhaps for student projects. Using Census Analyzer You can connect to the University of Toronto Census Read more
Guest lecture notes from Dr. Neil Hanlon We will be using several datasets in the course this year. We will spend time getting a deeper understanding of Statistics Canada data ( Census data) in particular. Neil Hanlon is a professor in the Geography program an has presented a primer on Read more
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
The video recording link for this lecture is:Video Link Using a Plugin in QGIS for data analysis in PostGIS We have been working towards using the enterprise database management system for our data storage and analysis needs. Today we will get a brief introduction to the logic of data stored Read more
Impressive sounding It really sounds cool to use the term”Enterprise”as well as “Relational Database”. We get to use them both today. The terms are definitely not as impressive as they sound. We will go over the concept of relational models for spatial data in lecture, but for today – we Read more
A few other things as well There are many levels and perspectives on managing projects. We have been poking our heads in at the GIS data management level so far. We have introduced some software that can be used to model the flow in GIS data processing (i.e. FME), and Read more
Last week we looked at some data management principles and investigated the use of FME as a way to manage your data flow for projects. We had a quick look at the infamous shapefile and how ESRI and ALL other pieces of GIS software use it. We also quickly made Read more
The link to the recording for this Tutorial isVideo Recording Project Management illustrated through software As we progress through Geog 413, you are getting closer to being a GIS Geek that can manage large corporate datasets. In order to be able to manage different types of data, you are being Read more
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
What are we going to do this year This year will be a bit of an adventure in getting to know GIS. In fact we will be stumbling along together to learn the fundamentals of GIS to the use of GeoSpatial technologies in general. This means we will be using Read more