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Tools and Workflows in QGIS

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. […]

Georeferencing Historical Maps

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 scholarship 2023

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, […]

Map of UBC campus with buildings layer and pop-up text

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

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

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

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

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 […]