Spatial Statistics Poster

Here is a poster I recently was assigned.

It was an experiment to find trends between socioeconomic factors and cases of Hepatitis C within BC’s local health areas

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Fall Semester Done!

As I type this, I am finishing my last assignment of the Fall semester! This means that I am, along with my peers, half way to accomplishing my advanced diploma in GIS.

It’s been a fun ride so far. I’ve been enjoying the fast-moving courses, the company of my classmates and the skills I’ve picked up along the way.

It’s funny to think back to my first introductory GIS lab in September. I remember wondering:

“…why and how do I unzip a file… what does this mean?!..”

I wasn’t the most techie person. Now we are starting computer programming and translating data formats! It’s pretty cool what just a difference a few months can make.

So, what I’m saying is that I’m looking forward to the next semester. But until then, I am going to put my feet up and sip on egg nog all break long.

GIS Greenprints and Conservation

I stumbled across this interesting video in an Esri video series on the critical role that GIS work plays in conserving green space in urban environments.

Geodesign in Conservation Planning — video

This is actually relevant to the sort of work I want to be involved in, so I was excited to hear about what is currently going on.

The Trust of Public Land works with communities to improve their water quality, land etc. With GIS techniques, they create a “Greenprint” — like a blue print–, which is a design model for the client.

These Greenprints are not just maps for landscaping parks or beautifying dead spaces as a means of gentrification. The GIS analysts conduct research and data collection on the potential issues and solutions of the area to later present to the clients at a conference.

During these conferences with the stakeholders and GIS analysts, the stakeholders are requested to rank the different issues. This data is loaded automatically into ArcGIS during a presentation and the results immediately show what is important to the majority, and where these people are geographically.

Here are some examples of the Greenprints:

               

        

It’s neat to think that GIS is the magnet that pulls the project together.

This technology is used to not just combine environmental sciences to evaluate the needs of conservation, but to also use data to interpret the community’s relationship with their environment.

Adobe Illustrator Infographic

I took the real elevations from a DEM (digital elevation model) and made an infographic that depicts the peaks of the Seven Summits Trail, which is located in Rossland, BC. It was my second time using Illustrator, and while it is a bit simple, I like the outcome!

AutoCAD Final Project

Goodbye AutoCAD! (at least for the foreseeable future).

This is my final project in the subject. It involved hypothetical infrastructure for a new subdivision, Redstone, south of Rossland, BC. This is my CAD drawing:

The following is the outcome after I made it into a GIS-friendly map in ArcGIS.

Screech Owl Habitat in Castlegar

I made this map displaying the habitat of Screech Owls in Castlegar, BC. I  tried out importing my own symbols that I created from PNG files. It was a fun experiment that increased the flexibility in Esri symbology!

Park Maps

A couple maps I made on Esri ArcGIS of BC parks.

The point of this map was to calculate a 100 metre buffer of the highway that runs through Stag Leap Park. This can be useful to determine potentially affected habitat within a specified distance of infrastructure.

These two boundaries of Mount Revelstoke Park show how datasets from different sources can affect the size or location of a feature.

Hand Drawn Map

I used my “artistic” (I use that term loosely) skills to freestyle a simple map of my hometown, Bella Coola, BC! I chose to display the boundaries between the ocean, tidal zone, the Bella Coola River and its tributaries as the focus of the map. It was a fun project.

My First Attempt at Photoshop

In the first week of classes, our New Media class took a simple vector Canada map and added light and colour effects to it in Adobe Photoshop. The end result was an old fashioned bronze coloured map.

First Blog Post!

Hey guys!

Welcome to my humble blog. The stuff on here will mostly cover my recent GIS work that I am oh-so proud of. Be kind! It’s a work in progress

Enjoy