Hello everyone,
Just a reminder of next week's talk with Sunny Mak and Tiffany Kwong presenting
an evaluation of geocoding services.
This
season we are again fortunate to be guests in the offices of the Geological
Survey of Canada at 605 Robson Street in Vancouver, in their 15th floor
boardroom.
There is a link on the web site to Google Map. Remember that the talks will
begin at
5:30. The lobby doors and the elevators are locked at 6:00. Please
try and be in before then. When you arrive
on the 15th floor you will see a sign directing you to the
boardroom in the SW corner of the building.
I hope many to see many of you out next week.
Regards,
Doug Hrynyk
Steering Committee Coordinator
Vancouver
GIS Users Group
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December 09, 2015
Time: 5:30 pm
Topic: Evaluation
of Geocoding Services and Reference Datasets for British Columbia
Speaker: Sunny Mak,
BC Centre for Disease Control,
and Tiffany Kwong, BCIT alumna
Geocoding, the process of converting addresses into latitude and longitude
coordinates, is a foundational GIS procedure. Numerous web-based geocoding
services and reference street network datasets exist. The purpose of this study
was to evaluate geocoding success and positional accuracy of 6 geocoding
services and reference datasets. The records were stratified geographically by
Health Authority to assess regional variations. Additional considerations for
identifying the “best” geocoding service and dataset for an organization such
as cost, currentness and privacy are also discussed
Bio: Sunny Mak
is a Medical Geographer with the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control.
He received his BA and MSc in Geography from UBC, and Advanced Diploma in GIS
from BCIT. His role at the BCCDC is to use GIS mapping and spatial analysis to
support disease surveillance, outbreak investigations and research. Sunny is
author of more than 30 peer reviewed papers in the field of spatial
epidemiology.
Tiffany Kwong is a recent graduate from the BCIT GIS advanced diploma
program. She will be co-presenting findings from her industry sponsored project
as part of the BCIT program requirements.
