We are happy to announce that the Platial Analysis Lab (with Professor Grant McKenzie as PI) has been awarded 5 years of funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada…
Professor Grant McKenzie discussed the impact of these scooters on a range of media outlets last week including CBC radio, print and CTV cable news.
Last night, approximately 200 vehicles from Uber’s electric-assist bicycle-sharing service Jump, appeared on the streets of Montreal…
We are in the midst of a technology-induced paradigm shift in transportation. Ride-hailing services, short-term car rentals, and autonomous vehicles are altering the transportation landscape.
Last week Grant McKenzie presented a talk entitled “A machine learning approach to identifying urban neighborhood names” at the Montreal Machine Learning Group meetup in downtown Montreal. Check out the video below.
Another American Association of Geographers (AAG) meeting has come to a close, this time in Washington, D.C. By all accounts the meeting was a success and it is always great to catch up with spatial scientists in their natural habitat.
Microsoft just recently published their Building Footprints dataset for Canada. A quick analysis of the coverage for the Island of Montreal shows that there are considerable differences…
A big thank you to everyone that showed up to my (Grant’s) ThinkSpatial talk this week at UC Santa Barbara’s Center for Spatial Studies.
The 7th Conference on Spatial Knowledge and Information Canada (SKI-Canada) just wrapped up in beautiful Banff, Alberta.
