Exciting Course Work in Geography 4GT3

Posted 8 years ago

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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, […]

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Interactive web app: Beer-Me

Posted 8 years ago

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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 […]

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Introduction – Matt Brown

Posted 8 years ago

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Hello everyone, My name is Matt Brown. I am a fourth year student at McMaster University. I am majoring in environmental science, and I am also pursuing a minor degree in GIS. Right now, I am working on an undergraduate thesis that examines the robustness of transportation networks in Hamilton, Ontario. I am also learning […]

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Fall Update

Posted 8 years ago

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Despite school being over, the summer presented another opportunity for me to develop my GIS career and get a taste of how GIS is used outside the classroom. I worked alongside a skilled team of GIS professionals at the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs as a GIS analyst for their environmental management […]

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GIS at McMaster: A Winter Update

Posted 9 years ago

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Spencer Elford is a 4th year undergraduate student from the School of Geography and Earth Sciences at McMaster University. You can follow Spencer on Twitter @SpencerElford. The late fall and winter season was an incredibly busy time for me both inside and outside the classroom. Despite the unnaturally warm December temperatures and the stark lack […]

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