GGR442H5: GIS Capstone Project (Fall 2022)

Welcome to the GGR442 GIS Data Resources Guide. This guide is designed to support your data needs for your course term project.

These projects include:

• Project 1: Mapping the Electricity Rates of Electric Vehicles
• Project 2: Sustainability Assessments of a Sea Cucumber Business
• Project 3: Spatial Distribution of Air Pollution and its Impact on Socio-economic Disadvantaged Groups in Peel Region

1. What is the geographic area and scale you are looking at?
   • a country, region, city, neighbourhood, a park, etc.
2. What are your expectations about Data Availability?
   • Tip: Be prepared to make some adjustments.
   • Not all places will have the same data available.It can vary by place, and time series.
3. What would you like to do with the data?
   • Make maps, charts, graphs, etc.
4. What software are you using? Is the Data available in compatible formats?
   • GRASS, QGIS, ArcGIS, R, Excel,etc.

Tip: Any dataset which has geographic attributes (For example: columns with street addresses, place names, postal codes, coordinates, etc) can be used in a GIS application.