Esri Canada GIS Centres of Excellence

The ECCE intiative hosts several blogs contributed to by members of each of the Centres of Excellence. Browse through to see what new and exciting things are happening in the geospatial and academic communities.

The evolution of Web-GIS as a resource for Indigenous communities in British Columbia

Posted 1 week ago

By Dexter Robson

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 [...]

Homicide Analysis in Metro Vancouver

Posted 8 months ago

By Thea Mai

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, [...]

Mapping Indigenous Boundaries

Posted 9 months ago

By Emily Swartz

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 [...]

WebApp for Longboarding Locations in Victoria, BC

Posted 10 months ago

By Trilby Buck

This project was prepared by Trilby Buck (4th year Geomatics student) for an advanced GIS course at the University of Victoria under the supervision of Robin Kite. This is [...]

Mapping Packet Routes

Posted 1 year ago

By Zac Henderson

Hello, I'm Zac, a student at University of Victoria majoring in Geomatics (a joint Computer Science and Geography program). Today I'll be writing about one of the first programs I wrote [...]

Bikes and Big Data

Posted 3 years ago

By Ben Jestico

Ben Jestico is an MSc candidate from the University of Victoria. If you own a smart phone, you have likely come across hundreds of fitness apps that will track running and cycling routes [...]

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