Examples of using NumPy to generate a near table
Posted 8 years ago
Generate closest features by distance ————————————- From near.py Emulating Generate Near Table from ArcMap Let us begin with finding the closest 3 points to every point in a point set. Well, that is easy… we just use the ‘Generate Near Table tool’. You have been spoiled. This tool is only available at the Advanced license […]
Making Apps That Promote Citizen Engagement with AppStudio for ArcGIS
Posted 8 years ago
In one of my recent courses I had the opportunity to create an application using AppStudio for ArcGIS as an assignment. This software allows you to create native applications (meaning apps that are created for use on specific platforms, as opposed to mobile web apps) without knowing any programming. Of course, if you have programming […]
Conservation Biology meets GIS
Posted 8 years ago
As a fourth year student at Carleton University, I am constantly finding myself thinking about what I want to do with my life when I am done school. What direction do I want to head in, how will I find a job, will I like my career? How can I integrate all the things I […]
Looking Forward: Availability and Organization of Geospatial Data
Posted 8 years ago
I’ve decided to write about a topic that, I think, consumes anyone working on a geospatial project and at any level of user experience. Finding, understanding, and using geospatial data is often touched upon during introductory classes in GIS, yet can potentially constitute a large percentage of a GIS student/user’s time. The acquisition of reputable […]
Carleton is here…
Posted 8 years ago
Greetings to all… I am Dan Patterson. I am an Instructor at Carleton University and have been teaching GIS related courses since about 1998. My arrival into the world of teaching and academia was through the obvious trajectory of doing graduate work in Physical Geography specializing in the electromagnetic properties of properties. In reality, I was […]
Esri’s Global Content Challenge: Climate Change in Earth’s Polar Regions
Posted 8 years ago
This is a guest post by Kevin Yang, a student in the Honours Earth and Environmental Sciences program at McMaster University, who recently won third prize in the Ocean category of the Esri Global Content Challenge held last fall. For my global content challenge, I wanted to utilize the capabilities of ArcGIS to study a […]
Introduction – Why did I join ECCE?
Posted 8 years ago
Hello everyone, this is my first blog post. My name is Keith Menezes, 4th year Space Engineering student at the Lassonde School of Engineering, York University. My areas of interest are in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (commonly called drones) and Nanosatellite technology. I started working on side projects based on these subjects in December 2014 (in […]
Hello to everyone!
Posted 8 years ago
Hello to everyone! My name is Yulia Antropova and I am a 4th year student at Carleton University, Ottawa, studying Geomatics. I obtained my first bachelor degree in Information Technologies in Business from Russia. When I arrived in Canada I decided to link my knowledge and skills in Information Technologies with a field of my […]
Competing in the Esri Global Content Challenge
Posted 8 years ago
This year, as part of a course project in McMaster’s Special Topics in GIS class, I completed and submitted an Esri story map journal to the Esri Global Content Challenge. When my professor Pat DeLuca announced that our class would be competing in this competition is was I was excited to design my own story […]
Hello From a New Student Associate
Posted 8 years ago
My name is Mark Bennett and I am happy to call Dalhousie University home in Halifax, Nova Scotia. My background is in Biology and I hope to pursue a graduate degree in Epidemiology. My interests lay under the broad umbrella of environmental health, where both ‘environment’ and ‘health’ maintain a wide range of definitions extending […]
