Useful Tools for Making Maps with ArcGIS
Posted 8 years ago
As a student associate with the ECCE at SFU, I was allowed to take two free ESRI Canada instructor-led courses. One of these courses was Designing Maps with ArcGIS. I personally think that I have a pretty solid foundation but ArcGIS but I enrolled in this class with the hope that it would teach me […]
Story Map – Exploring Crime in Canada’s Most Populous City
Posted 8 years ago
Hello again everyone! I hope everyone’s November hasn’t been too stressful. In this post, I’d like to discuss a recent story map I made. In my current GIS course, our final assignment was due a week ago. Our instructor decided to make our final project something that could have tangible rewards beyond the classroom. Each […]
SFU ECCE @ the Vancouver UC
Posted 8 years ago
On November 2, the Esri Canada User Conference was held in Vancouver, BC. During the plenary Dr. Brent Hall, Director of Education and Research at Esri Canada, presented an overview of the progress that we have made over recent years in supporting the adoption and use of GIS technology in education institutions across Canada (e.g., […]
Attending the Esri Canada User Conference – Vancouver
Posted 8 years ago
I recently attended the Esri Canada User Conference in Vancouver which was held at the Vancouver Convention Centre. The conference was filled with a variety of technical presentations from Esri as well as several presentations from local users. During the morning presentations, several different software and ArcGIS extensions were presented. The two that peaked my […]
Exciting Course Work in Geography 4GT3
Posted 8 years ago
As an ECCE, McMaster University offers a long list of great GIS courses. This year I am enrolled in the Special Topics in GIS course. I have been looking forward to taking this course since second year mostly because of the exciting content that it covers related to topics such as mobile and web GIS, […]
Interactive web app: Beer-Me
Posted 8 years ago
I’m currently enrolled in a fourth year course at McMaster called “Special Topics in GIS”. A recent class assignment we had was to create a mobile web application using the Web AppBuilder with ArcGIS Online. Together with my group member, Michael Kirchin, we created an app called Beer-Me, which allows users to find the nearest […]
GIS Software Algorithms: Same Analysis and Different Results
Posted 8 years ago
It is customary for spatial analysts to assume the implementation of various GIS software algorithms would produce the same results. If this was the case, then any errors or inaccuracies would only be a function of the input data sets and user errors. During one of my remote sensing lectures from a previous semester, my […]
My Experience at the Esri Canada User Conference – Toronto
Posted 8 years ago
Yesterday I attended the Esri Canada User Conference held at The Toronto Congress Centre. The first event was the plenary session where attendees sat and listened to demonstrations of various functionalities within Esri software. These demonstrations were very interesting – one of them showed how to make an app that users could report coyote sightings, […]
#ESRIUCCanada 2016 Toronto
Posted 8 years ago
Attending #ESRIUCCanada 2016 Toronto event was an amazing experience to know the new innovations in technology from Esri and the great research and industry accomplishments from organizations from all walks of life. The show was great and I must say that Esri is improving and evolving a lot with time. Each year you see added […]
Higher Education at the 2016 Esri Canada Toronto UC
Posted 8 years ago
The Esri Canada Toronto User Conference yesterday was a great success. Out of a total of 1100 people registered, over 200 were from the education community. We had over two dozen presenters in four concurrent sessions over the course of the afternoon dedicated to the higher education and research track. We saw presentations covering an […]
