Geo Leah

Here is the link to my GIS portfolio, including maps I created in my classes at UWF and examples of what I've done at my job with GIS. My current role doesn't require complex or aesthetically advanced maps, so I tried to highlight the process of GIS tasks I've worked on over a visual result. I also included a few sidewalk photos I've taken at work to connect the abstraction of the portfolio to my day-to-day experiences. It was harder than I thought to find good pictures, since I mostly take pictures of badly damaged sidewalks or issues to report to utilities or code enforcement! I found this blog to be very helpful in finding maps to include in my portfolio and remembering how and why I created them! I'm very glad that I have this record of my accomplishments from the certificate program, and I'm sure I will refer to it again in the future to refresh my memory on certain GIS skills and types of analysis.

For my GIS Day event, I attended a meeting for a local OpenStreetMap group called MapRVA that is working on mapping the sidewalk network in Richmond. (Here is a link to their project: https://tasks.openstreetmap.us/projects/438 ). We didn't actually do any mapping, since this was an informal social meetup at a brewery instead of a mapping session. There were four other people there with various backgrounds in GIS and mapping and various OSM projects they were working on. One of the regular members was working on mapping bike trails in addition to the group sidewalk project. Another member worked in traffic engineering and contracted with the city to design some sidewalk projects, so it was interesting to compare notes with him about working on city sidewalk projects from a different organization and with different methods, funding, and goals. We talked about comparing city-owned sidewalk maps with the OSM map they're creating, and I'm trying to figure out if there is a way ...