See the road before you go.
Our latest roadtrip took us to Las Vegas and southwestern Utah last month. The goal was to mix in roads with hiking while also visiting White Pine County in eastern Nevada. Also conferring with the TravelMapping website, we aimed to drive every stretch of state route designated along the Las Vegas area urban arterials. [...]
What a journey it has been in the GIS Undergraduate Certificate Program these last 15 months! As we fast approach the Thanksgiving holiday, the semester is winding down and our final assignment is the compilation of a GIS Portfolio showing some of our best examples of deliverables we produced both in class and professionally. [...]
Following months of planning, of which I contributed starting on the second day of my internship, GIS Day is finally here! Beyond brainstorming ideas in which to better spread the word at FDOT District 7 of the event, I was tasked with creating one or two GIS Day maps for display on the wall of [...]
The internship with the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) at District 7 Headquarters has been quite eventful. I got started a bit later in the semester through the Volunteer Program, so I am approximately one third through the hours for GIS. Beyond mandatory training for state employees, I got started on putting together a training [...]
What a last two weeks it has been this semester. Hurricane Helene threatened the area during the final week of September, shifting everyone's focus to preparation and expected impacts. The storm center passed approximately 90 miles to our west. While coastal impacts were severe, we were spared the brunt inland, even keeping electricity throughout [...]
There are numerous spatial interpolation methods used to generate surfaces in GIS. This is the prediction of variables at unmeasured locations based upon sampling of similar variables at known locations or true points. Related, spatial prediction is the estimation of variables at unsampled locations based partly on other variables and a collective set of measurements. Comprised of spatially [...]
Finally got started with my GIS Internship with the Florida Department of Transportation at District 7 (D7) Headquarters last week. The position affords me the opportunity to work on several GIS related tasks and with multiple departments. I am working with a great team and providing assistance to others with ArcGIS Pro. Settling into [...]
Moving on from Spatial Data Quality in GIS Special Topics, the next Lab focuses on surfaces with a comparison of the Digital Elevation Model (DEM) and Triangular Irregular Network (TIN). A surface in GIS is a geographic phenomena represented as continuous data. Continuous spatial data references geographic objects characterized by very gradual boundaries such [...]
Continuing the focus on Spatial Data Quality in GIS Special Topics, Module 1.3 covers the Accuracy Assessment of Roads. Road networks are widely used as the basemap for many applications. This factors into expectations for positional accuracy and completeness, which this week's lab covers. Road networks are also used for geocoding and network routing. [...]
The GIS Internship part of the UWF GIS Certification program is something I have looked forward to since the start of classes last Fall. While working on AARoads is rewarding, the lack of a team to work with, especially in recent years, has been increasingly discouraging. Also my previous work with GIS Cartography and [...]