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…
Using simple media devices to work with GeoSpatial Technologies The images below are presenting different aspects of the ongoing wildfires in BC in 2017. Each photo has a a story attached to it, but all of them can be made use of with GeoSpatial software – such as what we Read more…
Cartography – not a big part of Geog 204 In this class, we have not paid much attention to cartography and many of the topics associated with it. For our projects we will have to make maps of course , but we are more concerned about analysis than map making. 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…
This term you will be using QGIS to learn how a Geographic Information System (or more commonly referred to as a GIS) operates. QGIS is free and open source software package (FOSS) that is developed using open standards. We will be talking more about Open Source and Open Standards in Read more…