Census-Driven Maps is live!

Let’s face it, GIS is a term loosely (if even that) under­stood by the pub­lic. With­out a uni­ver­sity degree in Geog­ra­phy or cer­tifi­cate in GIS, web-mapping enables users to explore geospa­tial data, pat­terns and phe­nom­e­non quite effec­tively. As an exploratory tool, web-mapping bridges the gap between the ana­lyt­i­cal engine that is the GIS soft­ware, and the basic sta­tic map.

This web map­ping appli­ca­tion was cre­ated by Michael Marki­eta and pre­sented to Ryer­son Uni­ver­sity in par­tial ful­fill­ment for the require­ments of Pro­fes­sional Geo­g­ra­pher (GEO871), a cap­stone course of the Geo­graphic Analy­sis pro­gram. It is an inter­ac­tive web-based map­ping tool that pro­vides users with access to a geo­vi­sual rep­re­sen­ta­tion of the Cana­dian 2011 Cen­sus of the Pop­u­la­tion. This research project uti­lizes the Leaflet JavaScript library to pro­duce an inter­ac­tive web-mapping tool, which aims to visu­al­ize the recently released Sta­tis­tics Canada 2011 Cen­sus of the Pop­u­la­tion. The data is hosted in an open-source cloud-based geospa­tial data­base, Car­toDB, which serves our data stor­age and retrieval needs. Car­toDB is based on the Post­greSQL data­base and spa­tial exten­sion Post­GIS, which uti­lizes SQL and a vari­ety of other tools. The jQuery JavaScript library pro­vides the inter­ac­tiv­ity between the user and map environments.

Go ahead and check out the tool, here, or in the nav bar!