A Cartographic View

A QGIS tool for asking "how fast could this railway actually go?"

In a departure from our usual programming, I have reposted (with permission) this post by my friend Reilly Wood, whose own blog has been subject to repeated takedown attempts by someone attempting to obscure a certain white supremacists' more unguarded pa…

From my presentation to the Vancouver City Council on Wednesday, November 29

On October 14th, a minuscule share of Vancouver's registered voters turned out to elect a new city councillor, called to fill the seat vacated by the resignation of Vision Vancouver's Geoff Meggs.

Montreal is home to Canada's most well-utilized heavy rail system, the Metro, which sees one-and-a-quarter million boardings on the average weekday - 30% more than Toronto's Subway and nearly three times as many riders as Vancouver's Skytrain.

This post is on several interrelated topics surrounding the history and use of railways on Vancouver Island.

At a gathering a while back, a friend posed the question "What do we do if the Expo Line fills up?"

I really love stumbling on an interesting data set, especially when I can put it to a map.

A while back I mentioned playing around with interactive GIS databases, and produced a web-based version of a GIS project that keep at home detailing the built up areas of North America, and how they are arranged along the rail lines.

The Raw ballot-box-by-ballot-box data has been released by Elections Canada More to follow

This is the route of the Amtrak Cascades--a rail service connecting Eugene, Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver funded by the States of Washington and Oregon.

I've been wanting to find a better data presentation method.

The 2015 Polling Division Shapefiles have been released by Elections Canada Do with them as you will

In short: Hope you like sitting in traffic, Vancouver

What would be the easiest way to deal with Vancouver's housing affordability problems?

Pardon my long absence.

Inspired by this marvelous production here and going through the City of Vancouver's excellent open data catalogue, I have some maps for you about the city of Vancouver Click to enlarge As you can see, there are a number of development belts, with the inn…

See my look at Fort McMurray-Athabasca here With the coming by-elections on Monday, let's add some demographic background to the riding, previously NDP held and potentially a Liberal pickup.

With the Resignation of Brian Jean, Tory MP for Fort McMurray—Athabaska since 2004, there be a by-election yet to be scheduled in this far norther riding.

Often times, we speak of a political environment as being a 'two-party' system, such as the United States, or Saskatchewan.

This post is the second in a series on Historical elections, starting with the election of 1896.

Add caption Ever wondered what all the provincial electoral districts look like together?

With the Vancouver Municipal election coming up in the fall, it's time for some election maps!