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James Williamson, Labrador GIS Specialist
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(He/Him) I am a GIS Specialist, working from Happy Valley-Goose Bay. I love maps, cartography and cool data visualisations. Currently finishing a PhD with MUNL on the historic landscape of the Exploits River Valley.
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A distribution map of the known archaeological sites on the island of Newfoundland. It shows how archaeological research has focused on the heavily populated coast, away from the boreal interior.
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A Relative Elevation map for the Churchill River. This is interesting because it shows how the river runs through a rugged area between two different relatively low areas, while going from the Smallwood Reservoir to the shores of Lake Melville.
#Labrador #HVGB #qgis #maps #REM
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The healthiest thing we can do for the internet is get as many regular users as possible running their own websites. You could buy a domain and such, but a super easy starting point is to get a free subdomain of neocities.org, which is like geocities but existing now.
A Tanaka map of the topography around Hopedale, Nunatsiavut, Labrador.
data: NRCAN- NTS

#qgis #maps #topography #visualisation #3d #gis #Nunatsiavut #Labrador
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Another Photo of Hopedale, Nunatsiavut, Labrador, from a few years ago.

#drones #Hopedale #Nunatsiavut #geospatial
A joy plot view of Hopedale, Nunatsiavut, Labrador. With data from the Canadian MRDEM.
The watercourses of Newfoundland

with data from NRCAN and the NTS

#gis #qgis #spatial #rivers #maps
The Rivers of Labrador. It's pretty thick with them.

Data from the NTS

#maps #Labrador #QGIS #spatial #gis #nrcan #nts
A map of the Hexagonal churches of England, prepared for the Month of Maps in 2024.

#England #churches #hexagons #gis #qgis #geospatial #maps
A map of the National Parks of Canada, with data from NRCAN and Natural Earth.
There is an amazing variation between the parks, in terms of their sizes and purposes.

#parks #canada #maps #geospatial #gis #qgis
The roads, trails, ferries and transport paths (and some boundaries) of Auckland, New Zealand in a lightening map.

#qgis #geospatial #osm #gis
A map of the Mexican Restaurants of North America, with data from OSM and Natural Earth.

Really, I made this because I miss burritos soo much.

#OSM
#QGIS
#NaturalEarth
#MexicanRestaurants
The watersheds of Labrador from NRCAN and Natural Earth data.
A geological age map of Newfoundland and Labrador. The data used here came from the Department of Natural Resources NL, Natural Earth, and NRCAN
First post! A topographic relief map of Labrador.