The Skytrain extension from Commercial-Broadway station to Arbutus street has completed its phase 1 evaluation and on its way to development, but the new phase 2 evaluation is considering a further extension from Arbutus street into UBC campus. My group and I discussed the possible impacts of this phase 2 extension on housing affordability and rapid transit ridership.
Assessing the environmental implications of the newly proposed Garibaldi Ski Resort in Squamish
Further practiced my skills on editing data classification and mapping aesthetically.
Navigated through Canadian Census Analyser site (CHASS) and downloaded cost of housing data for Vancouver and Montreal, then moving them into the file Geodatabase.
I acquainted myself with the data classification attributes. I also learned how to create a file geodatabase in ArcCatalog.
The technical aspect: This lab acquainted me to analyzing the difference between raster and vector data, and when to appropriately use these datasets when creating a map from scratch, i.e. downloading data from an open data source. I further familiarized myself with properly projecting coordinate systems, and how to troubleshoot different coordinate systems among varying layers of a dataframe