Tools and Workflows in QGIS
This intermediate-level workshop is focused on common tools and workflows in QGIS. By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to set up a QGIS project, find and load data onto a basemap, edit vector data from inside the GIS interface, perform joins and selections, and answer spatial questions using basic vector analysis. […]
Esri Canada Scholarship 2024
Can you make a map? ESRI Canada Scholarship 2024 $2000 award + software & training • Deadline Tuesday, May 7, 2024 • Open to current UBC students Esri Canada GIS Scholarship is open to currently enrolled undergraduate and graduate students at UBC. Successful applicant(s) will receive: one-time payment of $2,000 three-year term license of ArcGIS […]
GIS Day 2023
GIS day 2023 is coming soon! Join us on November 16th, 2023 at the Dodson Room, Number 302, Third Floor, of the Irving K Barber Learning Centre at the University of British Columbia Vancouver campus. GIS Day is an annual worldwide celebration of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology and community, with a goal to promote […]
Georeferencing Historical Maps
This workshop offers an introduction to georeferencing historical maps with QGIS. Georeferencing is the process of taking a digital image or map and connecting it to a real world geographic coordinate system, allowing you to overlay historical and current maps, and to analyze relationships between them using GIS tools. Thursday, February 1, 2024 1 – […]
ESRI Canada Scholarship 2023
Can you make a map? ESRI Canada Scholarship 2023 $2000 award + software & training • Deadline Friday, March 31, 2023 • Open to current UBC students Each ESRI Scholarship applicant should provide no more than three or four pages, two pages of text and one or two pages of graphics (maps, tables, figures, models, […]
Introduction to Web Mapping with Leaflet
This workshop will first give an introduction to web maps, including the differences between digital maps and web maps, their structure, and how they work. The second part of the workshop will be a short hands-on session where we will create our own web map showing UBC campus buildings – with clickable with popups – […]
Designing Web Maps with Mapbox
This workshop is intended for anyone with a basic understanding of web mapping who wishes to expand their skillset and design more customizable maps. There are 3 main sections: an introduction to Mapbox and its products, a guided developer environment set-up, and a hands-on portion where we will modify given code to design an interactive […]
Map Production with QGIS
This is an introductory workshop focusing on the fundamental concepts and skills needed to begin using QGIS to explore and analyze spatial data. By the end of this workshop, attendees will have a basic understanding of spatial data, the QGIS graphical user interface, data attributes and symbolization, and how to publish a map for printing […]
GIS Day 2022
Date: Wednesday, November 16 2022 An all virtual GIS event GIS Day Overview GIS Day is an annual worldwide celebration of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology and community. Organized by Simon Fraser University Library, University of British Columbia Library, and UBC Faculty of Forestry, GIS Day 2022 will be an online event, to be held […]
Workshop: Python for ArcGIS – Working with ArcGIS Notebooks
Friday, September 23, 2022 – Koerner Library Room 217 Registration is required REGISTER The Python programming language was first introduced to the ArcGIS community in 2004, with the release of ArcGIS version 9.0, as one of the scripting languages that provides access to the ArcGIS geoprocessing framework. Since then, Python has become the language of […]