In order to graduate, students must complete an Independent Mapping Project. The Project must must be a complex cartographic project, that fullfills a specific client's requirements.

This map shows the history and geography of the various slave forts and castles on the coast of Ghana, in West Africa. The intended audience is tourists in Ghana.

The map was created using a wide variety of mapping and graphic design applications. Of particular note is the shaded relief effect, which was derived from Digital Elevation Models and edited for cartographic effect in Photoshop.

The map is presented in two parts. The final map is 24 x 20 inches.

This map shows the rapid transformation of modern China. The new Jinghu Highway links the ancient city of Beijing with the modern and vibrant financial capital of Shanghai.

The hill-shading on the basemap was generated in Adobe Photoshop 6, as was the photo-collage and locator map. The buildings are isometric projections, and were created in Adobe Illustrator 9. The final map was created in Illustrator.

Click to see the Oriental Pearl Tower: 34 KB

This is a map of New York City’s Central Park, showing the wide variety of facilities and services available.

This map emphasizes such concepts as colour choice, symbolization, and text placement. The map was digitized, designed and produced using Adobe Illustrator 9. It is presented in two parts. The final map is 22 x 15 inches.

The assassination of President John F. Kennedy is one of the most controversial events of the 20th century. This map shows the path of the Presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza on that fateful day. The map’s title is the actual headline from the next day’s Dallas Morning Star.

The buildings and plaza are isometric projections, and were created in Adobe Illustrator 9. The photographs were edited in Adobe Photoshop 6. The final map was composed in Illustrator.

The United States often claims to be a melting pot for cultures from all over the world. This map shows ethnic divisions for regional populations based on US census bureau data from 1990.

The map was projected and scaled using Avenza's MAPublisher 4. Final design work was done in Adobe Photoshop 6 and Illustrator 9.

The maps were projected and scaled using Avenza’s MAPublisher 4, and the final map was composed in Illustrator 9.

Flow-line mapping shows the origin, destination and volume of people, goods or services. This map shows the flow of refugees to Canada over the last ten years.

This map was projected and scaled with Avenza’s MAPublisher 4. The final map was created in Illustrator 9.

The source files were manipulated using ESRI Arc/INFO Workstation 8.1, Arc Toolbox 8.1 and ArcView 3.2.

Full map: 116 KB

This map displays an orthorectified aeiral photo of the Balsam Lake Provincial Park, with rectified GPS data. The final map was treated with a retro-fifties look.

The photo was rectified and GPS points and vectors were overlayed in Microstation. The final map was composed in Adobe Illustrator.

This is one of a series of four complimentary maps focusing on China’s economic output. The map was entirely created using Autodesk's AutoCAD Map 2000.

The map was manually digitized and the linework cleaned. A topology was built, and thematic data was attached. The final maps were then generated automatically.

This is a thematic map of the housing stock in Peterborough County, Ontario. The map was generated using Bentley Systems Microstation 7.1.

The UTM basemap is geo-referenced, and the thematic data was then added using a Microstation Basic macro.

The Ghana Media Gateway was developed during an eight-month stay in West Africa. The GMG was the first web-portal for Ghana’s media associations, print and electronic media.

The graphics were designed in Adobe Photoshop and the webpages were laid out in Claris Homepage.
(This site is now offline, sorry)

Refugee Repatriation in Africa was the topic for my Master’s thesis. This single webpage was designed to provide a wider audience for the unpublished research.

The thesis chapters were created with Adobe Acrobat PDF Writer. The thesis is housed on the (now closed) University of Manitoba’s Disaster Research Institute website, which I also designed.