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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…

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…

To get started let’s update our computers and install a python framework known as Flask that is going to get us mapping quickly! Flask is one example of a Model View Controller or MVC for short. The concept here is that we have separate components to make updates easy. For Read more…