General Resources
Research Guide on Newspapers
Books
100 Site Analysis Essentials: An Architect’s Guide
Fieldwork: Landscape Architecture Europe
Interpreting Site: Studies in Perception, Representation, and Design
Site Matters: Strategies for… Read more.
Vector
For this guide we will be using an Excel table with information for places that would be great to visit around the world.
Open up a new document in Excel.
Label your headings as the first row of your spreadsheet will contain the names of each… Read more.
Finding, Downloading, and Mapping Census Data
The CHASS Canadian Census Analyser allows members of the University of Toronto research community to generate custom tables from the Census of Canada (1961-2021) and the National Household… Read more.
Use the Add Data button to add each of the datasets you wish to convert to the map document.
In order for your data layers to display properly in AutoCAD, they will all need to be projected into the appropriate coordinate system. (Unsure… Read more.
Use the Add Data button to add the dataset you are interested in selecting from to your map document. For this example, we will use a shapefile that represents the dissemination areas that comprise the Toronto Census Subdivision (From Statistics… Read more.
Use the Add Data button to add each of the datasets you wish to convert to the map document.
You can find out what coordinate system each layer is associated with by right-clicking on the layer name in the Contents pane, selecting Properties…… Read more.
A third-party plugin called OSMDownloader is available that allows for automatic retrieval of OpenStreetMap data for a specified area within the QGIS GUI. After the user interactively specifies an area of interest, this plugin will query and load… Read more.
Data
To follow along with the tutorial videos, please download the following data
Videos
Introduction to StoryMaps - 13:38
Explorer StoryMap Template tutorial - 25:26
Guided Tour StoryMap Template tutorial - - 26:29
Sidecar… Read more.
Scholars GeoPortal is part of a growing collection of the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL). Scholars GeoPortal allows users to customize their data extracts by selecting the appropriate area of interest, temporal extent, file format,… Read more.
The interface enables the selection of relevant variables and census geographies, providing access to data down to the dissemination area (DA) level. Census data can be incorporated into analytical and GIS software. Furthermore, this is a… Read more.