Maps from Class Workshops
Here are two maps I created for two structured workshop assignments in my Advanced Geographic Information Systems course. Feel free to comment or email me if you have any questions!
Hi, my name is Emily Hesp.
I am an undergraduate researcher at the University of Toronto with interests in Canadian public policy, geoeconomics and spatial analysis. This site features my academic work, independent research and creative projects.
Thanks for taking an interest in my work! All maps and illustrations on this website are my own, unless specified otherwise.
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Maps from my Port Activity Research Project
Below are a few of the maps I created for a recent GIS research project examining port activity and recent port infrastructure renewal projects announced by the Carney government. This project was completed for my Advanced Geographic Information Systems course and used open source data to answer a research question of interest. After hearing that…
Geospatial Models from my Light Rail Transit Planning Project
This project was completed for one of the two Independent Projects assigned in my Geographic Information and Mapping II course last year. These projects had us apply the theory and ArcGIS pro techniques we learned to analyze spatial data for a given scenario. For this particular project, students were expected to apply their knowledge of…
Mapping the Health of Urban Vegetation in Paris, France
Web Map Link: Click Here! This project was created for the unit on Remote Sensing in my Geographic Information and Mapping II course last year. For this project, we were provided satellite images of different urban centers accross the globe and were expected to create I created an interactive web map of the distribution of…
Visualizing Coordinate Reference Systems
For this project, the following data was used to create six visualizations of six different map projections: Filename File type Description Data reference (source) worldcountriesWGS84 Shapefile Boundaries of countries mapped using the WGS84 coordinate reference system Esri, 2013 canada_prov_terrWGS84 Shapefile Boundaries of Canada provinces and territories mapped using the WGS84 coordinate reference system Esri, 2013…
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