Destination Wallpaper from Extratapete | Apartment Therapy San Francisco
VERY COOL. Big fan of this "mapping" wallpaper. Wonder if they can adapt a PDF I generate myself?
Thursday, 22 April 2010
Thursday, 11 February 2010
Vancouver 2010 Olympic Maps! With More Cowbell!
On the eve of the Opening Ceremonies here in Vancouver, I’ve seen a plethora of maps and guides to the City and Whistler. It’s a lot of info to take in so I’m going to try and post of the more interesting stuff I’ll be following in the days and weeks ahead. One of the guys from work was a torch runner in Aldergrove (Langley) and brought his torch to work. Needless to say, I was happy to hold it and get into the Olympic spirit!
Compiled by “LBrideau” on Google Maps, utilizing CityCausus.com’s 2010 Free Stuff Guide! This is the go-to-guide for stuff to check out.
When the rain in Vancouver gets you depressed, have a look at a better view of the City and the venues from Sept/Oct 2009, courtesy of AERIAL PHOTO IMAGE.com (360 Degree Views of Vancouver!)
More posts to come! GO CANADA!
Saturday, 2 January 2010
2010 Revamping
Bear with me while I try and resurrect this damn thing. One resolution I'll try to keep in the new year, and hopefully showcase some of the work I've done over the last few years.
Cheers!
Cheers!
Thursday, 29 January 2009
Earthbrowser
Via the planet geospatial feed, I stumbled upon this... Earthbrowser. Pretty cool. I'd like to see if I could add it on the side as a Blogger gadget. Until then, I'll have to add it here.
Wednesday, 21 January 2009
URISA BC Winter Seminar 2009
Haven't had much time to blog over the past few weeks - work has been busy with the Pattullo Bridge going down and the recent flooding in the Lower Mainland due to the snowfall. This blog was just one more thing on my plate to fix up so I've got a new look now. That masthead picture is the next thing to change too (as much as I like Vegas.... it's just not geocorrect here...!)
But I do need to mention that I'm off to the Burnaby Hilton Hotel for the biannual URISA BC Workshop. This one will have a range of speakers on the use of 3D tools in the geospatial toolkit. There's been a lot of interesting developments in the past couple of years (much more than Sketchup models of buildings in Google Earth!) so it'll be good to hear what's going on around town.
Later!
But I do need to mention that I'm off to the Burnaby Hilton Hotel for the biannual URISA BC Workshop. This one will have a range of speakers on the use of 3D tools in the geospatial toolkit. There's been a lot of interesting developments in the past couple of years (much more than Sketchup models of buildings in Google Earth!) so it'll be good to hear what's going on around town.
Later!
Friday, 12 December 2008
The Best of 604 on the Interwebs
Miss 604, a local blogger, profiles the Best of 604 Web Awards, held last night at The Cellar, a good little club/bar in downtown Vancouver. If you want the lowdown on the best bloggers in Van City covering everything from local politics to food and photography, check it out.
Photo credit: Raul on Flickr
Safe Software Open House: Tuesday Dec 16
A bunch of us here at the City are heading out to the Open House next week. Should be good to meet up with some old BCIT classmates and see what is going on these days. Last I was there was back in 2005 - a few of us took their intro FME class.
Here's some of Safe's blogs for further reading....
Dale Lutz, The Corporate Blog of Safe Software
The FGE Evangelist, the newletter blog that "delivers insider news, cutting edge examples and the latest functional developments for Safe Software’s FME application."
Here's some of Safe's blogs for further reading....
Dale Lutz, The Corporate Blog of Safe Software
The FGE Evangelist, the newletter blog that "delivers insider news, cutting edge examples and the latest functional developments for Safe Software’s FME application."
Thursday, 20 November 2008
Wednesday, 19 November 2008
GIS Day 2008 - Back to Blogging
It's been a busy, busy year. Everything from a new job here at the City of Surrey, to getting married, to getting back on track with this blog. Maybe James will let me back on Planet Geospatial if I get more consistent!
Today is GIS Day in North America and I've resolved to try and blog at least once a week. We'll see how it goes (must remember these handy tidbits)....
So.... here's a few things happening in Metro Vancouver around GIS Day 2008.
ESRI Regional User Conference: Vancouver. Note to self: Taking place in Burnaby....?
If you need more info on managing your rasters and mobile GIS solutions, this is good place to get the info.
Ron Lake, of locally based Galdos Systems, has blogged about the Geoweb & eGovernance.
URISA BC will holding their winter one-day conference in January 2009. Topic: GIS Analysis and 3D Modelling. These local URISA seminars are pretty good for meeting fellow GIS'ers in municipal gov't and the projects they've worked on lately.
Today is GIS Day in North America and I've resolved to try and blog at least once a week. We'll see how it goes (must remember these handy tidbits)....
So.... here's a few things happening in Metro Vancouver around GIS Day 2008.
ESRI Regional User Conference: Vancouver. Note to self: Taking place in Burnaby....?
If you need more info on managing your rasters and mobile GIS solutions, this is good place to get the info.
Ron Lake, of locally based Galdos Systems, has blogged about the Geoweb & eGovernance.
URISA BC will holding their winter one-day conference in January 2009. Topic: GIS Analysis and 3D Modelling. These local URISA seminars are pretty good for meeting fellow GIS'ers in municipal gov't and the projects they've worked on lately.
Wednesday, 14 November 2007
A late GIS Day entry...
Here's to GIS Day. It's been a few months since my last post but a lot has happened lately. A month long vacation in July meant a maddening amount of frenzied mapping of ECD trends to do in August & Sept. So much so that I had banked a copious amount of flex time (like 2 weeks).
Nevermind the conference in Ottawa - it was great to hear how CDN GIS professionals are starting to merge health data with spatial analysis tools. Some were basic - from "I mapped SES data according to our local boundaries" to developed spatial multi-variate models of traffic accidents in the Island of Montreal. Professionally, it was great to meet other GIS professionals that I had only e-mailed or heard about through local Health Networks. I even managed to check out Ottawa and scowl at the cheap real estate prices (compared to Vancouver anyway).
But after it was all said and done, I've moved on from working at the Human Early Learning Partnership & UBC. Making maps and cartographically styled posters was great but I felt I needed to get back to municipal GIS and flex my old programming skills, especially in ArcGIS. So I'm now at the City of Surrey in the Engineering GIS Section. (Here's the job description.)
My first 3 weeks have been busy - various sections within Engineering rely on the Section for a lot of maps, mostly for Corporate Reports in their reports. Other times require different custom maps so I've gotten used to using templates again in ArcMap. Due to the nature of the work, there isn't a lot of need to have stylized maps created via the "Export-to-AI" route as I did before at HELP. ArcGIS (9.1, phew!) fits the bill for these quick and simple maps. I doubt I'll have to make a cartogram anytime soon.
Unlike the rapid upkeep of the computer systems at UBC, the corporate IT environment is still running on Windows 2000. And Internet Explorer. Ugh. I soooooo miss my Firefox browser at work.
Thankfully, they are heading to Vista in a few months. Skipping XP entirely. It's going to be a wild ride for the oldtimers in the City. ;)
(Maybe if gets to be too much, we can spend some time devoted to planned next year's Halloween festivities....)
Nevermind the conference in Ottawa - it was great to hear how CDN GIS professionals are starting to merge health data with spatial analysis tools. Some were basic - from "I mapped SES data according to our local boundaries" to developed spatial multi-variate models of traffic accidents in the Island of Montreal. Professionally, it was great to meet other GIS professionals that I had only e-mailed or heard about through local Health Networks. I even managed to check out Ottawa and scowl at the cheap real estate prices (compared to Vancouver anyway).
But after it was all said and done, I've moved on from working at the Human Early Learning Partnership & UBC. Making maps and cartographically styled posters was great but I felt I needed to get back to municipal GIS and flex my old programming skills, especially in ArcGIS. So I'm now at the City of Surrey in the Engineering GIS Section. (Here's the job description.)
My first 3 weeks have been busy - various sections within Engineering rely on the Section for a lot of maps, mostly for Corporate Reports in their reports. Other times require different custom maps so I've gotten used to using templates again in ArcMap. Due to the nature of the work, there isn't a lot of need to have stylized maps created via the "Export-to-AI" route as I did before at HELP. ArcGIS (9.1, phew!) fits the bill for these quick and simple maps. I doubt I'll have to make a cartogram anytime soon.
Unlike the rapid upkeep of the computer systems at UBC, the corporate IT environment is still running on Windows 2000. And Internet Explorer. Ugh. I soooooo miss my Firefox browser at work.
Thankfully, they are heading to Vista in a few months. Skipping XP entirely. It's going to be a wild ride for the oldtimers in the City. ;)
(Maybe if gets to be too much, we can spend some time devoted to planned next year's Halloween festivities....)
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