Is Mode Share Related to Walkability? Michael King Friday, November 8, 2013 Add Comment Cycling, Transit, Walkability, Walking Edit Based on a suggestions from a friend, in this post I will connect my two previous posts and evaluate if people who live in more walkable are... Read More
BC Commuter Challenge Results Michael King Tuesday, November 5, 2013 Add Comment Analysis, Commuting, Cycling, Data, Health, Physical Activity, Sustainability, Transit, Vancouver Edit Over the past few months I have volunteered some of my personal time to work with Stephanie, Masami and Beth from Better Environmentally So... Read More
'WalkMap' Preview Michael King Monday, November 4, 2013 Add Comment Analysis, Fitness, Open Data, Public Health, Walking Edit I am in the home stretch of creating a new open source walkability dataset I am calling "WalkMap" based on open data obtained from... Read More
2011 Commuter Patterns in Metro Vancouver Michael King Add Comment Census, Commuting, Cycling, NHS, Physical Activity, Transit, Walking Edit Percent that Commute by Bicycle Percent that Commute by Public Transportation Mean Commute Time (new survey question added to 2011 NHS!) Read More
Vancouver Community Gardens & Food Trees Michael King Add Comment Asset Map, Community Garden, Food, Interactive, Open Data, Vancouver Edit This interactive map shows the locations and attributes of community gardens and food trees in the City of Vancouver. While these community... Read More
2011 Census Population Density at Three Scales in Vancouver Michael King Add Comment Census, Data, Density, Maps, Open Data, Population, Vancouver Edit What do you notice looking at these maps? Add a comment below... Read More
Pecha Kucha Presentation: Mapping Healthy Built Environments Michael King Add Comment Children, Ecumene, Physical Activity, Public Health, Video Edit I am very grateful for having had the opportunity deliver a Pecha Kucha presentation at the British Columbia Society of Landscape Architects... Read More
Spatial Disparities and Travel to Abortion Clinics in Canada Michael King Add Comment Analysis, Contraception, Health, Remoteness, Sexual Health Edit A few years ago I created a package of very interesting maps under contract to the University of Ottawa. The research question was simple: h... Read More
Running Routes and Yoga Studios Michael King Add Comment Analysis, Data, GIS, GPS, KML, Open Data, Physical Activity, Running, Yoga Edit This post explores two new experimental maps I created after browsing the City of Vancouver (CoV) Open Data site and reviewing my archive o... Read More
Immigration Clusters in Vancouver Michael King Add Comment Census, Enclaves, Immigration, Population, Vancouver Edit Very few people who live in Vancouver were actually born here. I, for one, am a transplant like many others drawn to this beautiful city fro... Read More
Physical Activity Mapping with Strava Michael King Sunday, November 3, 2013 Add Comment GPS, Interactive, Physical Activity, Strava Edit Last week while riding my road bike with a new friend, I was enlightened by a tale of a new website/app that allows you to upload GPS tracks... Read More
Sexual Health Maps, Analysis and Poster Design Michael King Add Comment Analysis, Contraception, Health, Posters, Public Health, Sexual Health Edit This is a project I worked on at HELP over the past year. I personally created each of these maps (and many more!), conducted this simple co... Read More
Mount Pleasant Family Asset Map Michael King Add Comment Asset Map, Children, Health, Interactive Edit You may also view Mount Pleasant Family Asset Map in a full screen view Read More
Mapping Population and Remoteness Patterns in BC Michael King Saturday, November 2, 2013 Add Comment Data, Ecumene, GIS, Health, Maps, Population, Posters, Remoteness Edit I designed the academic poster template shown below to support knowledge translation activities of the Human Early Learning Partnership (HE... Read More