Colin Ferster

post-doc at UVic Geography and Citizen science, VGI, and remote sensing.

[Cities, Health & Active Transportation Research @ChatrLab]

How Canada's first national cycling map will benefit both riders and public planners https://t.co/2wDcALHnyu via @ConversationCA

[Txomin Hermosilla @txominhermos]

Our #Landsat-derived #NTEMS harvest and wildfire disturbance datasets 1985-2020 now available on the #GEE community catalog! #opendata.
🔥fire: https://t.co/eyLwwqjfBd
🪓harvest: https://t.co/0tOPZdE2Ip
📰science: https://t.co/0X8NprJoM3

[BikeMaps.org @BikeMapsTeam]

Happy 9th Day of Bike Mapping. Today we are asking people across the prairie provinces to check the accuracy of #bicycle infrastructure on #OSM. Find out how here: https://t.co/rBiQWDfz4r (photo courtesy of @TinyBeaches) #frostbike

[BikeMaps.org @BikeMapsTeam]

On the 8th Day of Bike Mapping we focus on #BC. Kudos to #Kamloops for the great feedback. We're wondering how #bicycleinfrastructure looks in the #kootenays on #OSM. Link to the feedback map in our blog (https://t.co/GtVKt0FNrs). @westkootenay #kootrocks @bccycle #castlegarbc

[BikeMaps.org @BikeMapsTeam]

https://t.co/eKPVlynASi is the basemap for so many apps. Along with @ChatrLab we are hosting a virtual #mapathon across Canada to get that #cycling infrastructure up to date. Find out more: https://t.co/kw5BE0XXhh

[Cities, Health & Active Transportation Research @ChatrLab]

Mapathon update: Edmonton, we need help! Is bike infrastructure accurately represented on this map? Please help us update #OpenStreetMap. #YEGbike

[Cities, Health & Active Transportation Research @ChatrLab]

January Canadian Bike Infrastructure Mapathon https://t.co/nZLXCA7BUz via @BikeMapsTeam

[Trisalyn Nelson @TrisalynNelson]

NEW PAPER by @BikeMapsTeam - Generalized model for adjusting sample bias in fitness app data.

Want maps of ALL bicycling ridership?

@StravaMetro + bicycle safety + income = accurate model of bicycling ridership in 5 North American cities. #8to80

https://t.co/poqoDPkr1k

[BikeMaps.org @BikeMapsTeam]

Exposure matters in determining #bicycling safety risk. Our latest publication where we use @StravaMetro data to normalize crash hotspots in #Ottawa. https://t.co/RUUb5O5XLi

[Urban Studies Journal @USJ_online]

New paper by @colin_ferster et al: 'From advocacy to acceptance: #SocialMedia discussions of protected #bike lane installations' https://t.co/nEMihRp2EI

[Integrated RS Studio @IRSS_UBC]

Thanks for the reference! This lit review on volunteer data for natural hazard analysis cites our Fester et al. (2014) paper for collaborative science with a smartphone app educating forest fire risks!

Read: https://t.co/SLXBxChXuU
Fester et al. 2014: https://t.co/1p3LzE3Awn

[Colin Ferster @colin_ferster]

#openstreetmap is a one-stop-shop for monitoring bike routes in cities. Here’s an article in the @ConversationCA about our recent research and why clear and consistent labels are important for #openstreetmap and #opendata

https://t.co/OmViWKnN7o

[Nathan Yau @flowingdata]

I analyzed 100k happy moments to find out what makes people the most happy, and it made me happy https://t.co/gZ1RUTk5KW

[Colin Ferster @colin_ferster]

@SPDEckernfoerde @BikeMapsTeam @SPD_RDECK @SoenkeRix @TorbenMichler @luettgericht @SPDSH We are happy that you are using https://t.co/JDXY43qRFQ! We found a translator who will review and update the German translation of the website in the coming days.

[Colin Ferster @colin_ferster]

@gregpgriffin @BikeMapsTeam @LindseyConrow @Strava @TrisalynNelson @ChatrLab Darren used https://t.co/5qb3vhZvyE and https://t.co/JUIBNJrjd0 to compute the contingency matrix on the network (i.e. custom computation)

[BikeMaps.org @BikeMapsTeam]

Check out our guest blog post on https://t.co/q2T4yf8QfC!
https://t.co/1OY6cxEy7a via @chandraclarke

[BikeMaps.org @BikeMapsTeam]

New post up on our blog! Using #RandomForest Classification to Model Bicycling Injury https://t.co/dtpnrAq1kI via @BikeMapsTeam

[BikeMaps.org @BikeMapsTeam]

Nice work @LindseyConrow! https://t.co/Eoz8e3p4df

[Trisalyn Nelson @TrisalynNelson]

A map of 12 trouble spots for bicycling in Tempe! Make bicycling safer by mapping crashes & near misses https://t.co/fivHhaVFoX https://t.co/4bPG44C0PU