User:Awmcphee - Wikipedia
Hi, I'm Alex McPhee! I live in Val Marie, am the proud holder of a University of Alberta BSc, and am a professional cartographer (seriously, this is a real job that exists).
On-wiki, I specialize in Canadian graphics and geography. Check out my other work at awmcphee.ca.
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Dr. Mary Jackson School, Keg River
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Sagitawa Lookout, Peace River
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Norman Range, Norman Wells
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Derelict Pine Point mine workings
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Lady Evelyn Falls, Kakisa
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Liard River, Blackstone TP
Alberta municipal district boundary signs
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Athabasca
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Big Lakes
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Bonnyville
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Cypress
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Fairview
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Forty Mile
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Kneehill
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Lac la Biche
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Lacombe
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Lamont
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Lesser Slave River
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Minburn
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Opportunity
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Paintearth
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Pincher Creek
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Ranchland
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St. Paul
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Smoky River
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Special Areas
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Spirit River
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Starland
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Stettler
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Vulcan
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Wainwright
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Warner
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Wheatland
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Willow Creek
I am proud to say that these two projects launched my career and I now work full-time in... staying at home all day and producing maps of Alberta and Saskatchewan.
My electoral history
| 2021 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Conservative | Jeremy Patzer | 24,518 | 71.53 | –9.6 | $35,741.95 | |||
| New Democratic | Alex McPhee | 3,604 | 10.51 | +1.0 | $26,349.39 | |||
| People's | Charles Reginald Hislop | 2,826 | 8.24 | +5.4 | $0.00 | |||
| Liberal | Mackenzie Hird | 1,492 | 4.35 | +0.1 | $2,023.58 | |||
| Maverick | Mark Skagen | 1,360 | 3.97 | +3.97 | $7,334.65 | |||
| Green | Carol Vandale | 284 | 0.83 | –1.1 | $0.00 | |||
| Independent | Maria Rose Lewans | 193 | 0.56 | –0.01 | $0.00 | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 34,277 | 99.6 | – | $122,866.74 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 145 | 0.04 | ||||||
| Turnout | 34,422 | 67 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 49,606 | |||||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | +3.2 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[1] | ||||||||
These are generated using a fairly simple Python script, made as my first programming project after graduation. (Harder than it sounds, as the only thing I learned in university was Matlab.) Arranging the grid squares to minimize distortion is an art, not a science.
Provincial thematic maps
I am currently trying to make as many good thematic maps as possible to illustrate the Canadian province articles.
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Population density
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Elevation
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Population density
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Population density
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Indigenous identity
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Visible minorities
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French ability
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Population density
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Population density
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British Columbia regional districts
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Alberta municipal districts and counties
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Saskatchewan rural municipalities
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Manitoba rural municipalities
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Northwest Territories administrative divisions
County locators (experimental)
Historic federal riding locator maps
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Historic Vancouver ridings
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Historic rural Saskatchewan ridings
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Historic Calgary ridings
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Historic Edmonton ridings
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Historic rural Alberta ridings
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Historic Regina ridings
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Historic Winnipeg ridings
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Bump chart of provincial population ranks.
Articles I am proud of
Navboxes created/reformatted
First Nations + Indigenous peoples
Alberta land-use framework regions
- User:Awmcphee/Land Cover - Instructions for replicating the colourimetry used on my land cover maps.
- User:Awmcphee/Pushpin - Some thoughts on using the locator map template for community articles.
- User:Awmcphee/Maplink - Testing Template:Maplink on some Alberta municipalities. (Verdict: It only works on the largest of the bunch, and then, not accurately.)
- ^ "List of confirmed candidates – September 20, 2021 Federal Election". Elections Canada. Retrieved 2 September 2021.