My Esri Summer Internship Experience
“Community Plan 2040 is a community-wide vision aimed at making the County a place where everyone thrives.” Welcome Welcome to the online summary of how my internship at Esri went during the summer of 2023. This StoryMaps will not only provide you with context with what I’ve been working on by myself in the past…
Using ArcGIS Urban to Demonstrate Solutions to Affordable Housing in Newark, New Jersey
To model one of the pillars of a smart city strategy, planning and engineering, it is possible to use ArcGIS Urban to model the impact of future plans in order to create better decisions regarding the physical structure of our cities. Looking at Newark, New Jersey, a city that notoriously has high rent prices with…
McDonald’s Locations Zoned in Richmond City versus Zoned in Henrico and Chesterfield Counties
Anyone who knows anything about the field of urban planning can tell you one certain fact; as the field of GIS has become more and more necessary to everyday life, it has slowly become more useful in the planning field. One major aspect about urban planning is showing how different zonings around areas lead to…
Landfill Locations and Zoning Around the GWPD
For my spatialanalysis class, oneof the many projectswe were tasked todo was to observelandfill locationsaround the GeorgeWashingtonPlanning District(GWPD) and see theenvironmentalimpacts and zoningregulations eachfollows (Figure 1).By doing this, wewere able todetermine how close each town was in relation to certainlandfills, as shown in Figure 2. By starting out with a base map consisting of shapefilescomprising…
Proposed Road Closures to Accommodate the Black Hill Snail Mating Season in Western South Dakota
From June to August in western South Dakota the snail population of the Black Hills & Badlands experience their prime mating season, allowing population to grow for the next year. Although this is the prime time for population growth in the area, the snails often run into a problem that ends up interfering with their…
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