Mapping to a Better Tomorrow
Yeah, so um, it's been a while... Instead of excuses, I'll show you what I've been doing the last little while. Be warned, there are some rather large images under the cut in order to preserve some quality.
See if you can guess which of these is work and which is fun for me? It's almost both, but only because I'm not going to get paid to play nation simulators.
Here is the map I made of Pugwash, NS for one of my classes. You can make out the hill shading, as well as some of the property owner's names.
While a bit of a short notice, make-work assignment, this land use classification map of Annapolis Royal, NS does look kind of pretty. Basically, it was an aerial photo that I had to eyeball likely land uses for each plot of property.
The biggest piece of work I had to do was an atlas (38mb pdf!) of the area around nearby Aylesford. The cover is a photo taken from the North Mountain, looking south, and the orange colour is what it would look like if you were to drape the watershed polygon from the maps on top of the actual landscape. The legend is on the last page, as it is a cover flap, and the concept only works in print.
It wasn't all maps, and I had to write a paper on a geomatics topic of choice. I picked urban planning, specifically modern attempts at designing utopian future cities. As we were pretty free to do as we liked as long was we met the requirements, I took it as a license to write a less than serious paper. Titled Cities of Imagination, it is formatted in the Open Office suite, but Microsoft Word will open it, if unformatted.
See if you can guess which of these is work and which is fun for me? It's almost both, but only because I'm not going to get paid to play nation simulators.
Here is the map I made of Pugwash, NS for one of my classes. You can make out the hill shading, as well as some of the property owner's names.
While a bit of a short notice, make-work assignment, this land use classification map of Annapolis Royal, NS does look kind of pretty. Basically, it was an aerial photo that I had to eyeball likely land uses for each plot of property.
The biggest piece of work I had to do was an atlas (38mb pdf!) of the area around nearby Aylesford. The cover is a photo taken from the North Mountain, looking south, and the orange colour is what it would look like if you were to drape the watershed polygon from the maps on top of the actual landscape. The legend is on the last page, as it is a cover flap, and the concept only works in print.
It wasn't all maps, and I had to write a paper on a geomatics topic of choice. I picked urban planning, specifically modern attempts at designing utopian future cities. As we were pretty free to do as we liked as long was we met the requirements, I took it as a license to write a less than serious paper. Titled Cities of Imagination, it is formatted in the Open Office suite, but Microsoft Word will open it, if unformatted.