Thoughts on the Final Project
In this project, we made use of the distance layer which have not been taught in the GIS course previously, the project is overall a great experience. While some work on the map, other focuses on the written report to make better use of time.
However, we have come across some problem with finding our data for elderly home. There are only exact address of elderly home of Vancouver which existed online, we could not directly download a shape data file from the internet like we do for the other. When we tried to create a point with the address, we are required to have a “premium user” pass to do the action.
Difficulties we encountered:
- Finding the right data is challenging! In the website in DataBC it is hard to find what you want because it is so specific. Furthermore, it does not always come in the right form. You sometimes need to change the data to excel and convert it.
- Even when we found our data, there are lots of “excess”, “useless” data. We need to decide on what’s important and what isn’t.
- Getting everyone on board with the same idea is hard. Everyone is busy an we cannot meet together at the same time which makes communicating hard.
Things I learnt:
- Be patient and understand that others have work to do too so they might not be able to work at the same time as you.
- Where to find data and what is important data.
- Lots of data out there are private, also there are lots of interesting data out there such as ” carnival and festival location” in Vancouver throughout the year.