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The USCG Waterway Harmonization Project: A Summary

At its core, the Waterway Harmonization Project is a communication tool. Most everyone knows the annoyance of navigating by GPS, especially in areas you already know: it calls named streets by the county road number, or mispronounces what should be common street names. These little glitches are bemusing, but don’t actually impede navigation—imagine how difficult […]

A New Appreciation for Remote Geospatial Research

While I was in graduate school I didn’t understand why people got master’s degrees in geospatial analysis. Well, I guess I understood it, but I thought it looked like a miserable job.   I would come back from a field excursion with dirt covering me from eyebrows to boot tips, a month’s worth of lab samples […]

Best Practices for a Data Collection Event Using a GPS Unit

I have been a part of three different data collection efforts that collected line geometry and infrastructure of recreational trails. One effort was the development of the Fish and Wildlife Services (FWS) Trails Inventory Program. This effort involved collecting trails data in FWS national wildlife refuges across the United States. The second was an effort […]