My Experience at the Esri User Conference in Toronto
Posted 6 years ago
Hi everyone! It is Manpreet from UW again and this time, I would like to discuss what I was able to take away from the Esri Canada User Conference that was held in Toronto, Ontario on October 10 and 11 in 2018. I was able to only attend on the first day of the conference […]
COGS First Semester Overview for Non-Geomatics Grads
Posted 6 years ago
If you had asked me in January 2018, when I was just entering my final semester of a computer science degree and never hearing of GIS, if I thought I’d ever be putting my CS knowledge to anything involving geography, I probably would have said “Why? Google Maps and GPS’s already exist, there’s nothing else […]
Learning via Conducting a Lecture and Workshop on Story Maps
Posted 6 years ago
Hi everyone! Once again, it is Manpreet from UW. This time, I would like to discuss my experience of giving a lecture on Esri story maps and conducting a workshop with undergraduate students in one of my graduate courses this term. This was the first time I was giving a full lecture to undergraduate students, […]
COG(S)itation on the Esri Canada Fredericton User Conference 2018
Posted 6 years ago
Greetings everyone, My name is Liam Gowan and I am enrolled in the Advanced Diploma in Geographic Sciences (and will be enrolling in the GIS concentration) at the Centre of Geographic Sciences, NSCC. I am one of the six ECCE Student Associates from COGS, and I am writing to reflect on my experience of the […]
Safer Cycling
Posted 6 years ago
Hello all, my name is Alex Oestreicher, and I’ve spent the last 4 months working at Ottawa city hall as a GIS Assistant, as part of the Carleton University Department of Geography and Environmental Studies practicum program. The practicum program is a program for 4th year honours students that provides them with a professional (albeit […]
About Me
Posted 6 years ago
Hi everyone! My name is Manpreet Singh Chahal, and I am a first-year master’s student at the University of Waterloo. I am doing a Master of Science in the Geography and Environmental Management program specializing in Geomatics. I am working with Dr. Robert Feick and currently, my research entails using Public Participation Geographic Information Systems […]
A Glance at Enterprise Geodatabases and Publishing Content
Posted 6 years ago
Introduction All of us in the field of GIS already know what a geodatabase is. Most of us know how to properly create one, especially for single-use or for our own personal projects. Depending on the GIS project, most of the time academic institutions just need personal or file geodatabases. For industry and government, it […]
City Planning, ArcGIS, and beyond!
Posted 6 years ago
Hi Everyone, My name is Leah Fulton, and I’m a third-year undergraduate planning student studying Community Design at Dalhousie University, in Halifax, NS. I am hoping to get into the honours program for my fourth year to graduate with a Bachelor of Community Design, Honours in Urban Studies with a Minor in Geography and a […]
Playing “Where’s Waldo” with Abandoned Features
Posted 6 years ago
Anyone who knows me well will know I love trains. Ever since I was 6 years old, I’ve been fascinated by their sheer size, power, and the mystery associated with where a train has come from, and where it is going. That’s why I wanted the focus of my final project for a second-year GIS […]
Learning through Teaching
Posted 6 years ago
Hello! My name is Lama and I am currently in my fourth year of my Environmental Science degree with a certificate in GIS. I’ve been taking GIS classes since the end of my second year and have loved it ever since, which is partially why I am pursuing a certificate in it. This semester I […]
