Lab 5: Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)
Assessing the environmental implications of the newly proposed Garibaldi Ski Resort in Squamish
Lab 4: Housing Affordability
Further practiced my skills on editing data classification and mapping aesthetically.
Lab 4: Cost of Housing
Navigated through Canadian Census Analyser site (CHASS) and downloaded cost of housing data for Vancouver and Montreal, then moving them into the file Geodatabase.
Lab 4: Quantitative Data Classification
I acquainted myself with the data classification attributes. I also learned how to create a file geodatabase in ArcCatalog.
Lab 3: Planning for Flooding/Storm Surge
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