Making information visible
Pokie machines... a questionable social vice or good fun. Regardless of your point of view, they are certainly profitable. Palmerston North City and Ashhurst spent $4,623,896.06 on them in 2017. That's $57.70 per person in a city of 80,000. My question is "who is spending all this money?" everyone or one bloke. The department of internal affairs …
When mapping at a local scale we're usually trying to show some sort of targeted data. This makes context important, but not so much that it takes away from the data your trying to show. Love or hate the color scheme here it does show data quite nicely. Its basically a blank canvas, with some …
While working on a project I came across this effect. I was trying to render a height map, for both the country and the local scale; in a grey as is typical for generating a relief shade. I'm using a 30m DEM. While I was doing this I made a symbology mistake and stumbled across …
For many people, a city’s success is judged aesthetically. Basically how pleasant an environment is it. One of the issues which affect this is graffiti. To visualize the severity, scale and scope of this problem I’ve put together a little infographic for discussion, criticism and comments. The title of which I’ve decided to emphasis the …
Looking over the invoices for council I found $##redacted (large sum of money, larger than I was ultimately aloud to publish on the infographic or my blog ) being spent on illegal dumping every year. That is an impressive sum of money for a small city. So I’m producing a map to show the annual cost and …
A lot of manual work can be avoided by using scripts to automate the processes. However, you inevitably end up with a lot of scripts to automate different pieces of a process. Python toolboxes provide a nice way to bundle these scripts for a complete solution to a process. It contains the whole process in …
Maps have an amazing ability to focus a discussion. As a discussions becomes bigger less people can see the map and the conversation breaks down. This is actually a really big problem. We make decisions by discussion Since the time of socrates western countries have had strong traditions of discussion in an open forum. It’s …
Since Roman times city planning has included the provisioning of Water. Moving forwards a couple of thousand years has taken us away from the obvious aqueduct to an immensely complex underground network of pipe’s servicing the 3 water system; Wastewater, Storm water and drinking Water. Changing City, Changing Networks As cities develop and evolve, particularly …
We often find ourselves collecting and maintaining data. For GIS applications we use this data to answer questions about the world around us. Quite often the sheer quantity of data is overwhelming and the more we collect the harder it is to give a simple answer. This project is going to use Hexagon bins for …
In the immediate aftermath of the Kaikoura earthquake a well practiced response went into effect. Within a few days information about the event increased exponentially as the various agencies began reporting. The tide of information was overwhelming. Organisation such as Environment Canterbury began requesting GIS support to help make the relevant information visible to people …
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