A full day for those keenly interested in the art and science of cartography. The workshop brings together experts and practitioners for one awesome day of cartographic projects and tips.
We will probably find a place to enjoy delicious beverages afterwards :)
Date: FEB 15 2019
Price: $25 (but no one turned away for lack of funds - contact us).
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/van-carto-day-2019-tickets-53706096380
I have gotten interested in reproducible work flows: creating analysis and maps in a way that are 100% reproducible and generated from an R or python notebook that pull in the data, perform data transformations and analysis, visualize (as graphs or maps, static or interactive) and narrate the results. I will do a walk-through of building such a reproducible analysis. Basically the thing that I do on my blog (or when I write reports for clients) or now some news outlets like the Economist, Financial Times and New York Times are doing.
Using open street maps, osmnx, networkx, anaconda and jupyter to precisely map millions of messy GPS to a logical network of bike routes for value-added planning and analysis.
Building blocks to provide rapid, location specific intelligence to forest management professionals.
Time tells, and our desire to know what our collective future looks like is unmatched when we consider the torrent of climate change possibilities we have only begun to experience. Focused initially on SW BC and NW Washington State, a group of scientists and practitioners is working on a regional climate adaptation strategy and dynamic spatial priorities tool to monitor, measure and tell our regional story of a resilient future. In collaboration with Google, we are drawing upon massive data, leading conservation science, and unprecedented infrastructure to capture new, seamless timely information about our human and natural landscapes. To see and manage our story of this region as it adapts to wild climate is to visualize our changing set of priorities and ongoing future hopes over time.
The newest release for Esri's Maps for Creative Cloud is just around the corner. In this talk, you'll see a sneak preview of the upcoming features, including the capability to search unlimited places from the cloud and add them directly to your Illustrator map, custom projections, and - my favorite - generating an automatic legend based upon your own personal Illustrator design.
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While working on a trail map of the area surrounding Squamish, Joe discovered that effective terrain mapping could be a lot trickier than he initially thought. This talk describes the real life process that went into creating a better map - providing an outline of tools, processes and data that were used, along with some of the project’s metaphorical peaks and valleys.
I will do a talk related to a map that I just finished for the Hope Mountain Centre. I was commissioned to create a recreation map for the new Hudson Bay Company's Historic Trail between Hope and Tulameen (75 km trail). The trail's origins date back to 1849 when it was used as a trading route for the HBC and it has recently been revived/re-built by volunteers.
After joining Coquitlam Search and Rescue in 2013, Steve was asked (as the now resident “map expert”) to update the team maps. What followed was a two year journey of trail exploration, cartographic experimentation and the eventual release of a commercially successful hiking/biking map of the Tri-Cities. Inspired by the success of this, Steve decided to “do a sequel”, this time targeting the trails around Golden Ears Provincial Park and benefiting the Ridge Meadows Search and Rescue Team.
Populous Map aims to answer the question: How may we make diverse, private, and unknown archives as accessible and researchable as our primarily white settler archives? How do we do this while maintaining autonomy, privacy, and reciprocity in the histories we gather?
How to make great wall art with some yarn, a projector, tiny nails and some spare time.
Cartographers are a creative bunch. Many of us are drawn to the field, in part, because of our overlapping interests in creativity and spatial science. This talk taps into that creative cartographic spark in all of us, by walking through a handful of steps for drawing hillshade by hand. So sit back, relax, and enjoy learning about this method of making maps - without a computer!