GIS as a Tool to Solve “Wicked” Problems
Posted 6 years ago
This year I am three quarters done my undergraduate degree in Environmental Science and had the opportunity to take “Application of GIS in Environmental and Ecological Issues” at Dalhousie University as a part of my certificate in GIS. One of the first things I learned in my first year of environmental science was that environmental […]
Top 5 Reasons to Switch to ArcGIS Pro
Posted 6 years ago
Why you should switch to ArcGIS Pro ArcGIS Pro 1.0 was released way back in January 2015 as part of the 10.3 update. The new application has struggled to gain traction among the Esri user base like any new software release. However, I decided to finally make the switch from 10.7 to ArcGIS Pro 2.3 […]
Meet the winners of the ECCE App Challenge 2019
Posted 6 years ago
This year we held the fifth annual ECCE App Challenge, which has proven to be another great success. We had another a record turnout, with 24 teams participating from all 11 ECCE schools across Canada. The teams participating in the challenge this year were all tasked to create an app that addresses issues related to […]
ECCE App Challenge 2019 – sustainABILITY
Posted 6 years ago
The App Challenge project that Rodrigo discusses below can be viewed from his team’s profile on the ECCE GitHub website: https://esricanada-ce.github.io/appchallenge/2019/teams/ucalgary/The_Four_Mapsketeers/ Participating in the ECCE App Challenge for the first time is something that I am going to remember for years to come. My team, The Four Mapsketeers, is composed by graduate students in Geomatics […]
App Challenge 2019, UPWIND
Posted 6 years ago
The App Challenge project that Rajveer discusses below can be viewed from his team’s profile on the ECCE GitHub website: https://esricanada-ce.github.io/appchallenge/2019/teams/mac/McMapsters/ Introduction This year I participated in the ECCE App Challenge for the second time. My teammates included Yorgan Pitt, Edward Seh-Taylor and Sean Leipe. Our app, UPWIND, is a web application that aims to […]
ECCE App Challenge 2019 – How We Made an AR App in 5 Days
Posted 6 years ago
The App Challenge project that Jaydeep discusses below can be viewed from his team’s profile on the ECCE GitHub website: https://esricanada-ce.github.io/appchallenge/2019/teams/uw/SpectaculAR/ ECCE App Challenge 2019 – How We Made an AR App in 5 days This post is co-written by my teammate Manpreet Chahal. Since 2015, the Esri Canada Centres of Excellence (ECCE) has been hosting […]
App Challenge 2019, GISquad
Posted 6 years ago
The App Challenge project that Michele discusses below can be viewed from her team’s profile on the ECCE GitHub website: https://esricanada-ce.github.io/appchallenge/2019/teams/mac/GISquad/ This year I participated in the ECCE App Challenge for the third time. My team included Matthew Brown, lead designer, Tasos Dardas, lead developer, and myself, lead researcher. Our App, Sustainera, is a web […]
Exploring Space: The Chris Hadfield Space Photographs Collection
Posted 6 years ago
This spotlight features Caitlin Cunningham’s overview of the project she worked on to build a storymap of photos by Chris Hadfield. The project was officially launched yesterday (Thursday, April 11 at 3 p.m. AT) at the Killam Library, Dalhousie University. More details are available in a Dalhousie news article, and Caitlin’s work was also featured […]
Processing Millions of Bikeshare GPS Points with ArcGIS
Posted 6 years ago
For this post I wanted to dive into some of the work I’ve been doing for my Master’s thesis in the Transportation Research Lab at McMaster. Our lab has a partnership with the folks at SoBi Hamilton, who manage the city’s bike share program. If you don’t know what a bike share program is, it […]
Creating Customized Bar Graphs with Limits in ArcGIS Online Pop-Ups
Posted 6 years ago
Creating column and bar graphs in ArcGIS Online is an easy way to show numerical data to users in pop-ups, but what it lacks is the ability to customize colours, say which column/bar corresponds to which data, and set limits that correspond more appropriately to the data presented. Why does this matter? Lets say that you […]
