Waterloo Civic Map Lab

Group members at AAG 2016: San Francisco

Peter Johnson — Sun, 27 Mar 2016 12:00:00 +0000

Looking forward to some sun (or fog) in California! Myself and two group members, Sara Harrison and Qing Lu are off to present at the Association of American Geographers annual conference in San Francisco.

Tags: conferences, geothink, aag, academic, research

Measuring the value and impact of open data: Recruiting doctoral students

Peter Johnson — Sat, 09 Jan 2016 12:00:00 +0000

I’ve recently been successful with obtaining five years of funding from the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation’s Early Researcher Award (ERA). This generous funding will allow me to measure the value and impact of open data initiatives, assessing how open data is accessed, used, and exploited.

Tags: education, geothink, open data, research, academic, funding, giscience, opportunities

New publication: Evolving relationships in community participatory geoweb projects

Peter Johnson — Fri, 16 Oct 2015 12:00:00 +0000

At long last, a team publication from the GEOIDE grant The Participatory Geoweb has been published in ACME journal.

Tags: academic, geothink, geoweb, publications

The Canadian Water Network conference: “from knowledge to action”

Peter Johnson — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 12:00:00 +0000

This post is by PhD student Simone Philpot on her recent experience attending the Canadian Water Network Conference 2015.

Tags: conferences, education, academic, water

Fulcrum – using mobile devices to collect field data

Peter Johnson — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 12:00:00 +0000

As part of Geography 187: Problem Solving in Geomatics, I’ve started using Fulcrum as a tool for students to gain experience collecting in-situ field data. Fulcrum is both a mobile app (for iOS and Android) and a data management/survey design backend.

Tags: education, geoweb, giscience, academic, fulcrum, gis, mobile, students, waterloo

A comparison of traditional and experiential approaches to first-year geomatics instruction

Peter Johnson — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 12:00:00 +0000

I'm currently leading a research project that looks to compare two first-year Geomatics courses (GEOG 181 and the new GEOG 187).

Tags: development, education, giscience, tools, academic, geomatics, grant, teaching

Geopatial Mobility Lab – Launched with support from CFI and ORF

Peter Johnson — Thu, 14 Aug 2014 12:00:00 +0000

I’ve recently been awarded funding from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI) and the Ontario Research Fund (ORF). I’d like to thank both of these government funding agencies for their support of a new research and training initiative that I call the ‘Geospatial Mobility Lab’. This effort is also co-sponsored through direct contributions of equipment and services from Esri Canada and Dell Computer.

Tags: education, giscience, tools, academic, geomatics, mobile, opportunities, research, technology

Civic Hackathons: Innovation, Procurement, or Civic Engagement?

Peter Johnson — Thu, 24 Jul 2014 12:00:00 +0000

I’ve recently published a jointly-authored viewpoint piece with Dr. Pamela Robinson from Ryerson University in Review of Policy Research.

Tags: geothink, hackathon, open data, academic, publications

Graduate student opportunities

Peter Johnson — Fri, 03 Jan 2014 12:00:00 +0000

I am currently recruiting graduate students to start in September 2014. I place a priority on graduate student supervision and try to support all my students as best I can, through providing timely feedback on written work, facilitating networking within academia and industry, and supporting student travel to conferences when possible. The position outlines and instructions are listed below.

Tags: academic, graduate students, opportunities

Geothink.ca: How the Geospatial Web 2.0 is reshaping government-citizen interactions

Peter Johnson — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 12:00:00 +0000

Recently I’ve been fortunate enough to be part of a team that has been awarded a SSHRC Partnership Grant for a 5-year study of “How the Geospatial Web 2.0 is reshaping government-citizen interactions”, also called Geothink.

Tags: geothink, geoweb, giscience, open data, academic, government, neogeography, participation, user generated content, vgi