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 […]
Making the Old New Again
Posted 6 years ago
3D Reconstruction of Palmyra cir.300CE Using CityEngine Amidst all that is going on in the world presently, there is an ongoing struggle to preserve pieces of the past in all shapes and forms. This is experienced all around the world in almost every type of environment, and by almost every person on the planet. Whether […]
The Little graduate that could
Posted 6 years ago
Greetings, fellow ECCE associates. My name is Malcolm, a Master’s candidate at Western University in London, Ontario. It’s been almost three months since I shifted my life 4000 kilometers due east of my hometown of Surrey, BC; that’s a network distance, not Euclidean. The usual adjustments to new geographic phenomena occupy a corner of my […]
