Geographical and Numeric Information Systems (GANIS) is a working group formally charged by the Social Planning Network of Ontario to coordinate data and GIS activities for member organizations.
Check out this great blog highlights a project developed by the Tutor/Mentor Connection to “creates maps that look at the relationship among poverty, community resources, school performance, and locations of non-school tutoring/mentoring facilities for K-12 students.”
This is something new from Statistics Canada today.
The Atlas of Canada, produced by Natural Resources Canada in partnership with Statistics Canada, presents a series of maps and accompanying analysis of national and regional data results from the 2006 Census. The first releases focus on Canadian population, age, marital status, immigration, visible minorities and mode of transportation. The maps are available on the Atlas of Canada website (http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/featureditems/index.html).
Future releases will cover topics such as educational attainment, the labour force, languages, housing and income.
Visible Minority Population 2006
Cool Infographics points to a nice GIS page on the BBC which shows crime data for the city of Oxford using heatmaps to map various crime patterns over a one year period. Check it out.
The Opportunity Agenda, with support from the Health Policy Institute at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, commissioned a series of papers that explore best practices for integrating maps into health advocacy, using case studies to present key strategies for effective use and overcoming technical hurdles.
Using Maps to Promote Health Equity
The title says it all. YEAH!
This comes courtesy of Pundits Guide (www.punditsguide.ca) in the following post:
http://www.punditsguide.ca/2009/07/calling-all-mappers.php
I think I must have been among the three people Pundits Guide mentioned that jumped for joy at this announcement.
To download the files, go to: http://www.geogratis.gc.ca/download/electoral/2008/
To get the election results data by polling division, go to Elections Canada website: http://www.elections.ca/intro.asp?section=pas&document=index&lang=e
Then, after choosing the election you want, make sure to click on the Go to the raw data version (for researchers)
For example, to access the data from the last federal election, the link is: http://www.elections.ca/scripts/resval/ovr_40ge.asp?prov=&lang=e
So go get the data and start making some maps!