2018 Esri FedGIS Conference: Student Assistantship Experience
Posted 7 years ago
Last March, I attended the 2018 Esri Federal GIS Conference in Washington, D.C. as part of Esri’s student assistantship program. The student assistantship program allows students passionate about GIS software or geospatial applications to help assist the Esri staff with the conference logistics, while also attending the conference with attendance fees covered. Over the span […]
Esri DevSummit 2018 – My Experience Learning to Code in California
Posted 7 years ago
At the beginning of March, I got the opportunity to attend the 2018 Esri Developer’s Summit (DevSummit for short) along with my fellow McMaster Student Associate Tasos Dardas. This conference occurs annually in sunny Palm Springs, California. This is my second time attending, thanks to the ECCE Student Associates program, which provides free registration to […]
Discover ‘Machine Learning’ – without acquiring an Engineering Degree
Posted 7 years ago
If you haven’t heard of Machine Learning or Kaggle, you’re going to want to. Allow me to introduce you to the future of GIS predictive modelling. Machine learning explores the study and construction of algorithms that can learn from data and make data-driven decisions. Its applications are all around you. When the advertisements you see in […]
Homicide Analysis in Metro Vancouver
Posted 7 years ago
Canada measures crime using the crime severity index: an index that measures the volume and severity of police-reported crime. Crime has dropped significantly over the last decade. However, in the past two years it has increased again. A homicide is defined, by Stats Canada as first and second degree murder, manslaughter, and infanticide [1]. Most […]
Mapping Indigenous Boundaries
Posted 7 years ago
GIS is often focused on those things that can be defined through hard lines, singular points and polygons. For me as a settler, my home can be easily defined by the boundaries of the state I am from and the edges of my house, this has been shaped by growing up with an understanding of […]
York University Attends National Geomatics Competition
Posted 7 years ago
From Left to Right: Patricia Dhup, Ario Hadian and David Recchia. After the competition, we got the chance to have some fun and enjoy a Canadian classic, Curling. It was a great pleasure to be able to represent York University alongside my kick-ass teammates, Patricia Dhup and Ario Hadian, at the first ever National Geomatics […]
ECCE App Challenge 2018 has begun
Posted 7 years ago
This year’s ECCE App Challenge has begun! This is the fourth annual iteration of this event since the challenge was first introduced by the Esri Canada GIS Centres of Excellence in 2015. We have seen many great apps produced each year by students using ArcGIS technology, and we anticipate to a record number of participating […]
Custom point clustering for ArcGIS JavaScript API 4.6
Posted 7 years ago
When working on custom web mapping applications that need to display many point features, there is a natural need for point clustering for both performance and to improve the visualization of the point distribution. We’ve had the ability to do this for quite some time with the ArcGIS API for JavaScript in the 3.x version. […]
ArcPy: Convolution Filtering
Posted 7 years ago
ArcGIS is a powerful tool that supports various industries and sectors. However ArcGIS might not have built-in tools for every problem or an easy workflow to solve a problem. These missing built-in functions range from lacking a concave hull generator (to compute a concave hull from a series of points provided as a feature class) […]
Working towards a National Imagery Strategy – Notes from a 3D-Data Workshop
Posted 7 years ago
The booming world of 3D Technology is more compelling than I anticipated. In the last week of January, the Canadian Institute of Geomatics (CIG) Nova Scotia Chapter and the Geomatics Association of Nova Scotia (GANS) held a 3D-Data Workshop at the Centre of Geographic Sciences (COGS). Hundreds from industry, non-profit, academia, and all levels of […]
