the map maker

So the City of Ottawa has agreed that they would release some of their data to the public, allowing the public to have a better idea of what is in their city and how it operates. Right off the bat, as soon as it was agreed upon, the flip was switched at their site and [...]

I have now lived in three different cities for over a year in Canada and what always surprises me is the cost of things. I know  and expect that climate will change between cities, as the further away B is from A, the less B has to do with A. So I knew that Regina [...]

I was originally going to write about QGIS and show you some of the maps that I have created. I then decided to make fresh maps, so to speak, so I went over to NRCan’s website, found the ftp server addresses and downloaded gFTP on my Ubuntu install. Theoretically, it should be as simple as [...]

Particularly, knowing your geography and the area of interest matters. When I made the move from Saskatchewan to Ontario, my daily area of interest changed. I was no longer interested in the bus routes that would take me from downtown Regina to the Southland mall, nor was I all that interested in the No 1 [...]

The last time that I was looking for houses with my parents was in 1993. We were living outside of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan and the one bathroom in the house was getting to us,  as there are five of us. I remember looking at a lot of houses in the city of Moose Jaw, many [...]