Esri MOOC Review: “Cartography.” – A Great Free Resource
Posted 6 years ago
Education nowadays is extremely expensive. The average Canadian tuition cost for the 2017-18 school year was $6,571 – a 3.1% increase from the previous year (Statistics Canada, 2017). E-Learning platforms like Udemy, SkillShare, and Teachable are on the rise as more cost-effective ways of learning new skills or subjects. My university education has been extremely […]
Cloud-based Services for Interactive, Collaborative, Smart Cities Platforms
Posted 6 years ago
This spotlight post showcases the work that Tianming Wei has been involved over the past year related to a series of NSERC grants at the University of British Columbia and the University of Victoria in collaboration with Esri Canada. He became an ECCE student associate at UVic earlier this year after participating in the App […]
My experiences so far…
Posted 6 years ago
Hello Everyone, My name is RJ Mitchell and I’m a 3-rd year undergraduate student at Carleton University. I major in Geomatics Engineering and double-minor in Business: Entrepreneurship and Indigenous Studies. My original motivation to study geomatics was to eventually become a land surveyor, but the more I learn about the environmental applications of GIS, the […]
GIS for Health: An example of the modifiable areal unit problem
Posted 6 years ago
Hi All. This is my first post to the Esri Canada Centres of Excellence blog – it will be a short introduction to me, and an overview of a recent project I worked on for the Middlesex-London Health Unit that exemplifies the challenges of the modifiable areal unit problem (1). I am excited to be […]
Flood Depth Mapping in Calgary, Alberta
Posted 6 years ago
I am currently in the second year of my M.Sc. degree at McMaster University, working with my supervisor, Dr. Darren Scott. Right now, I am in the middle of processing my data and have some preliminary results to share. Extreme weather events, such as floods, can cause severe consequences to the road network, such as […]
The evolution of Web-GIS as a resource for Indigenous communities in British Columbia
Posted 6 years ago
Hello everyone, My name is Dexter, and I’ve just started an MA at the University of Victoria in Geography. I have read some previous posts, and see that the focus is heavily on data analysis. Disclaimer: I’m a little bit of an outsider when it comes to geomatics, and have a background in environmental studies. […]
DGGS: A New Way to Model Geospatial Information
Posted 6 years ago
A few weeks ago, I attended the 2018 Esri Canada User Conference in Fredericton, New Brunswick. As this was my first GIS conference, I learned a lot from the user presentations and technical sessions given by Esri Canada staff, as well as other students and industry partners. It was eye-opening to see how GIS can […]
GIS Day 2018 at Esri Canada GIS Centres of Excellence
Posted 6 years ago
This year, on November 14th, GIS professionals, citizens, educators, and students around the world will celebrate the 20th annual GIS Day since it was first initiated in 1999. This coincides, of course, with Geography Awareness Week, or GeoWeek, which takes place this year from November 11th to 17th. GIS Day plays a vital role in […]
Impressions from the Esri Canada UC Fredericton
Posted 6 years ago
Hi Everyone! I’m Nicole Peters and I’m enrolled in the Advanced Diploma in Geographic Sciences program at COGS. Recently, a group of us attended the Esri Canada User Conference in Fredericton, and I would like to share some insights on both the structure and content of that conference. It was my first Esri conference, and […]
“Nuggets” from the ESRI User Conference Toronto!
Posted 6 years ago
This post is inspired by the attendee I overheard at this year’s Toronto User Conference saying “It’s the little nuggets you pick up at conferences that really make them worth it.” So here are the “nuggets” I picked up at the UC, hopefully there’s something golden here for you! Visual Studio Code is a free […]
