Are Dominant Routes the Safest Routes in a Bike Share System? An Investigation of Hamilton Bike Share using Weighted Level of Traffic Stress
Posted 3 months ago
An analysis of the safety of dominant biking routes, using a level of traffic stress classification of Hamilton's cycling network.
Is the world’s largest freshwater archipelago losing islands? How water levels impact coastal marshes
Posted 4 months ago
An archipelago is a collection of islands. Canada is home to 2 of the biggest, a saltwater and a freshwater archipelago. The saltwater archipelago is in the northern part of Canada (> 35 K islands) that no one during geography class was able to fully draw. It is the world’s second largest saltwater archipelago. The […]
About Me…
Posted 4 months ago
Hi there! My name is Claire, I am a fourth-year undergraduate student at the University of Waterloo’s School of Planning. I am thrilled to be one of UW’s student associates with Esri Canada GIS Centres of Excellence, and look forward to sharing my interests, studies, and research on the ECCE Blog, as well as participating in […]
Cooling Locations for the Senior Population in Toronto
Posted 4 months ago
Over the past few years, the city of Toronto has introduced various cooling locations for people to refresh themselves during the summer. See how the spatial distribution of these locations matches with the distribution of some of the people who need it most.
Ideas for Displaying Categorical and Time-Based Data
Posted 5 months ago
Deciding the best way to visualize your data is one of the most important steps in making sure that message is clear and understood by the reader. But when you are working with many different variables, it can be challenging to display them all together on one map to show the connections between different categorical […]
Creating Your Own GIS Guidebook!
Posted 7 months ago
Last summer I worked as an Urban Planning Summer Student at my local municipality. My responsibilities included lots of development reviews and GIS work. I often found that I had to help my coworkers with basic GIS / ArcMap functions such as searching for an address or changing symbology. Instead of waiting to ask the […]
Analyzing Toronto Crime Data using Kernel Density
Posted 7 months ago
Recently, the Toronto Police Service released its 2019 data of major crime indicators. These indicators include assaults, auto thefts, break and enters, homicides, robberies, and thefts over. In this blog, I will analyze the major crime indicators for Toronto in 2019 using kernel density. Kernel Density Kernel Density is a spatial analyst tool that calculates […]
Experience and thoughts with Web AppBuilder and ArcGIS
Posted 8 months ago
This is Philip, a third-year undergraduate student studying in GIS and CS at the University of Toronto Mississauga. In April, I participated in the Esri App Challenge with Andrew Sud and Christine Cong, we designed a web application helping people to avoid tree allergies using Esri’s Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS. Although we did not win […]
Evaluating vegetation change in Wolf Creek, YT with multi-temporal LiDAR: Part 1
Posted 9 months ago
In this post, I’ll be giving a summary of my current MSc progress in the McMaster Watershed Hydrology Group. This thesis project has two main components: using LiDAR and other remotely sensed imagery to quantify vegetation change over time in a subarctic research watershed, and comparing how these changes vary over different landscape properties. This […]
Labeling Fishnets with Unique Codes
Posted 9 months ago
Purpose Fishnets are useful for a variety of projects and fields including conservation where it can be used to assign a reference code for unnamed sites and identify sites with a geographically unique name. The current fishnet tool in ArcGIS does not include a function to label each cell with a unique code. A tool […]
