GIS Projects


 

CARTOMATION

2006: Development of a GIS application that is currently being used by the city to access taxlots, addressing, zoning, elevation and other important (spatial) information. The application makes small cities along the coast operate more efficiently by providing an easy way anyone can access GIS data.


 

Port of Willapa Harbor Strategic Master Plan

2005: Compilation of a strategic master plan for a small port located in Southwest Washington. The final document is currently being used as an effective planning tool and guide to make the ports goals come true.


 

Tsunami Escape Maps

2005: Development of maps containing special information that can be helpful to plan a tsunami escape. The set of six maps covers the extent of the Long Beach Peninsula located in Southwest Washington.


 

Washington State University Cranberry Research

2000-2004: Development of a method to monitor the diffusion of chemical pesticides and herbicides in surface water which might be flowing through cranberry bogs located in Gray Harbor County, Washington. Made new, spatial data collected field data in the summers between 2000 and 2004. GIS tricks such as event modeling in a dynamically segmented stream network. Practical themes were mapped for the benefit of cranberry growers and to promote a local healthy environment.


 

Pacific County Fire District No. 1, First Responder Map Atlas

2003-2004: Development of a map atlas local fire and medic services are presently using to more easily and quickly respond to emergencies.


 

Puget Sound Map

2002-2003: Development of an old way to look at a new place, the intersection of natural landscape and some cooked-up 30 meter DEM, Bathymetry and TM imagery.


 

Washington Coast Map

2002: Development of a 1:100,000 scale Washington Coast Map containing more than 100 data sets from a number of Washington State and Federal agencies.


 

Bike Transportation Alliance Bike Map

2001-2002: Development of a bicycle friendly transportation and recreation map for the Columbia-Pacific region located at the mouth of the Columbia River. The BTA has produced 10,000 copies of the final map for distribution in Oregon and Washington.


 

Columbia Pacific Adventure Map

2001: Development of a fun kind of map that takes liberty with local knowledge, place names and historical events.


 

Oregon Coast Map

2000-2001: Development of a 1:250,000 scale Oregon Coast Map, which contains more than 500 data sets from a number of Oregon State and Federal agencies.


 

Foundation Engineering, Map of 1880's Surface Hydrography of Portland

2000: Foundation Engineering: Creation of a map containing historic shorelines of the Willamette River and adjacent wetlands in downtown Portland, Oregon 1880- 2000. This work was used in a study related to the Portland’s West side combined sewer overflow project.


 

Pacific Conservation District, Anadromous Fish Distribution of the Willapa Basin

1999: Developed GIS data and a cartographic method used to illustrate the spatial distribution of complex in-channel large woody debris in a 4 mile section of the Palix River system.

1998: Developed GIS data and an effective cartographic method used to simultaneously illustrate the spatial distribution of several fish species in the Willapa Basin.


 

Road Atlas of the Long Beach Peninsula

1998: Design and production of an easy to read map book for areas within the Long Beach Peninsula. Since 1998, over 20,000 copies of this map book have been sold.


 

The Willapa Basin Atlas

1996-1997: Development of data and maps for the people of Pacific County via the geography of the Washington State designated WRIA 24 Basin. Maps created for the Willapa Alliance, (a non-profit facilitator of local sustainable economic development) contained many kinds of environmental themes to suit many purposes. This was made possible entirely under the direction of the Rev. Dan'l Markham.


 

Northwest Industrial Area Neighborhood ~ Street Tree Map

1996: Creation of a hand drawn map of street trees with a unique kind of graphic made to illustrate the variety of growing conditions within Oregon's largest industrial area.


 

Hydrothermal Exploration of SE Oregon

1995-1996: Development of a working set of field maps, produced for the exploration of existing and potential geothermal resources in southeast Oregon.


 

1880-1990 Surface Water Changes, Portland Oregon

1995: Development of an atlas of surface water changes in Portland, Oregon based on spatio-temporal data obtained from 1:10,000-1:40,000 scale sources.


 

Phillip Williams and Associates

1995: Performed a GIS analysis of certain soil types within the Willamette Valley for Kevin Coulton P.E. Created a large-scale landuse map of the Willamette Valley indicating prime farm areas in relationship to the flood plane.

1994: Performed a GIS evaluation of temporal changes to the extent of surface water in the Tillamook Bay Basin between 1880 and 1996. Created a large-scale map of the Tillamook Basin with temporal GIS data.


 

Street Tree Base Maps, Portland Oregon

1993-1994: Development of a way to use ARC-Info, the 'Proacsky-vac' and a pen plotter to create base maps and data for use in what would become one of the largest street tree inventory projects in Oregon.


 

Metropolitan Greenspaces

1991-1992: Rigorous map production based on the spatial analysis of existing data in the Portland Metropolitan Area, especially when considering the 25 Mhz 386 'Poracsky-vac' computer with the 200 Mb hard drive and the 8 megs of RAM.


 

Fishhawk Lake

1990-1991: Investigation of causes of sedimentation in the (man-made) Fishhawk Lake located at the base of 23 square mile watershed with active timber operations. This project was supervised by (the late) Dr. Leonard Palmer.


 

Gray Creek, Oakridge Oregon

1988: Development of digital spatial data used to map woody debris on a stream located in the Oregon Cascade mountains.