This is a fun in depth look into Mobi bike share data over the last three years, exploring trends over time and space.

If you know me, you know I love a good dataset. I am always thinking about people, where they live, and how they move around. What’s my favourite dataset? Hands down, the census. Every five years, something objectively logistically wild happens. Statistics Canada tries to reach every household in the country to learn about them through a survey. And then publishes the data?? For all of us to learn from?? Including me?? My census form (short-form, sadly), was slid under my apa

Although parking usually isn't the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about sustainable transportation, where and how much we park plays a significant role in shaping how our cities move and grow. We recently partnered with TransLink to do a deep dive on non-residential off-street parking across 11 Metro Vancouver study areas . This is the most comprehensive study we know of so far to look at non-residential parking supply, occupancy, and pricing patterns across th

On the day that we bought another team member tickets to the 5th conference of the year in yet another city, we reflected on conferences...

Art! Bike! Beer! Crawl Brewery Tour & Fundraiser! It’s almost time for the Art! Bike! Beer! Crawl coming up July 27th! Don’t miss out on...

When I tell my friends and family about my job at LGeo the response that I get is fairly ubiquitous: “I don’t understand what you do and...

If you live in British Columbia, smoky summers are likely a familiar annual occurrence. Every year over 1,600 wildfires rip across the...

Like many working in the urban planning space, we've been frantically doing analysis around Bill 44 and 47. In the midst of this analysis...

In 2023 LGeo was contracted by the City of Victoria to create a residential modeling tool. The tool was developed to predict where...

Starting May 1st, 2024 good ship LGeo is sailing off to our new digs on extremely cool Commercial Drive. Specifically, we are moving to...

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of our new website. Our team has been hard at work for the past little while plugging away at...

Our previous blog post dove into how GIS can be used as a tool to illustrate spatial patterns of inequity. Today, we are going to break...

Equity is often confused with equality - they are both concepts that stem from a desire to liberate people from conditions of oppression,...

As we all slog through another week of social distancing, increasingly my news and social media feeds are recommending that Cities engage...

Analysis-oriented here at LGeo, we've prepared a succinct summary of our operations that should serve as a benchmark for other...

Valuing GIS… GIS provides value! We keep saying that, but it's not always straightforward how to communicate how much value it actually...

While it is true that the team here at LGeo is not tremendously fond of the word "insight", we do very much like conducting geospatial...

It's totally fabulous to be both a data nerd and fan of public organizations that publish annual reviews. Now, your normal human would...

A favourite pastime of ours at LGeo is supporting local businesses, and in particular local breweries. From the casual vibe to the...

While bopping around in the twittersphere the other day, something I tend to do after my toddler is put to bed and a calm descends on our...