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Seven Years of Cartography

Michael King Wednesday, December 31, 2014 Add Comment Cartography, GIS, Open Data, Population, Public Health, Transit, Urban, urban design, Vancouver, Video, Walkability Edit

This year will mark my 7th year as a professional cartographer. I am full of gratitude for every hour I have spent creating, and still love ...

20 Best Maps of 2014

Michael King Tuesday, December 30, 2014 Add Comment Cartography, Census, Community Garden, Cycling, Data, Density, dogs, Fitness, GIS, Health, Immigration, Metro Vancouver, NHS, Open Data, parks, Population, Proportional Symbols, Public Health, Toronto Edit

Happy new year! In this post I have summarized my 20 favourite mapping projects from 2014. This has been an exciting year for me! I was prom...

Cycling Networks in Vancouver, Toronto and Chicago

Michael King Friday, November 28, 2014 Add Comment accidents, bike lanes, Cartography, Chicago, Cycling, greenway, injury prevention, Open Data, Public Health, streets, Toronto, Transportation, urban design, Vancouver Edit

The following three maps show the cycle tracks (protected bike lanes), painted bike lanes, shared lanes (sharrows) and other types of routes...

Cycling In Toronto

Michael King Thursday, November 13, 2014 Add Comment bike lanes, Cartography, choropleth, Data, urban design Edit

PL800 - Planning and Design Fundamentals

Michael King Wednesday, November 5, 2014 Add Comment Analysis, GIS, graphic design, illustrator, parks, school, streets, Transportation, urban design Edit

Below are my first three design projects from my Masters of Planning in Urban Development at Ryerson University. Each project required speci...

Dot-Density of Visible Minority Population of Toronto

Michael King Thursday, October 23, 2014 Add Comment Data, Density, Immigration, Open Data, thematic, Toronto Edit

This map shows one dot for every person in Toronto. The data are from the 2011 National Household Survey, and shown by Dissemination Areas, ...

Median Household Income in the City of Toronto

Michael King Wednesday, October 22, 2014 Add Comment choropleth, City, Data, Land Value, planning, Toronto Edit

This map shows the median household income of every Census Dissemination Area in Toronto, based on the 2011 National Household Survey collec...

Dogs of Toronto

Michael King Friday, October 10, 2014 Add Comment Analysis, Cartography, Community Garden, dogs, Fitness, Open Data, Toronto, Urban, Walkability, Walking Edit

I love dogs. I love data. I recently found an Excel file in the City of Toronto's Open Data Library that contains the number of pet lic...

City of Vancouver Greenest City Action Plan Review

Michael King Tuesday, September 30, 2014 Add Comment Food, Health, Land Use, Metro Vancouver, Transit, Transportation, Vancouver, Video Edit

This is a class presentation I delivered in the Masters of Urban and Regional Planning program at Ryerson University. This course is called ...

Population Density of Downtown Toronto

Michael King Tuesday, September 23, 2014 Add Comment Cartography, Census, Ecumene, GIS, Maps, Open Data, Toronto, Urban Edit

I am now pursuing a Masters of Planning degree focused on Urban Development at Ryerson's School of Community and Regional Planning in To...

2014 ESRI User Conference Presentation: WalkMap 1.0

Michael King Wednesday, July 16, 2014 Add Comment Analysis, Cartography, Commuting, Data, GIS, happiness, Land Use, Metro Vancouver, Open Data, Transportation, Urban, Vancouver, Walkability, Walking Edit

Tomorrow I will present a 20 minute talk about walkability, urban design and active transportation. Here was my teaser tweet for the ESRI Us...

Vancouver Bike Rave 2014

Michael King Sunday, July 6, 2014 Add Comment Edit

More than five thousand people took to their bikes at 9 p.m. last night to participate in Bike Rave Vancouver, which touts itself as your “f...

2014 BC Commuter Challenge Participation Maps

Michael King Tuesday, June 24, 2014 Add Comment Cycling, Metro Vancouver, Physical Activity, Sustainability, Transit, Transportation, Walking Edit

Last year, I helped BEST prepare some maps showing participation in their BC Commuter Challenge , and this year I was asked to help out agai...