{"id":1473,"date":"2015-07-22T15:37:08","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T19:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/sal\/?p=1473"},"modified":"2015-07-24T13:48:13","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T17:48:13","slug":"gis-in-action-dc2rva-field-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/sal\/2015\/07\/22\/gis-in-action-dc2rva-field-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"GIS in Action: DC2RVA Field Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Post by Shaquille Christmas &#8217;16<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A couple weeks ago\u00a0we visited the Richmond office of \u00a0Henningson, Durham, and Richardson, Inc (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hdrinc.com\/\">HDR<\/a>), which is an architectural, engineering and consulting firm based in Omaha, Nebraska. UR alum and former SAL researcher extraordinaire <a href=\"http:\/\/news.richmond.edu\/features\/article\/-\/12624\/bridget-ward-11-alumna-working-in-transportation-mapping-sees-the-real-world-application-of-her-work.html\">Bridget Ward<\/a> recently started working there as a GIS consultant in the transportation division. Bridget and her colleagues\u00a0spoke to us\u00a0about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dc2rvarail.com\/\">DC to Richmond South East High Speed Rail<\/a> project they are spearheading the planning for. They detailed the\u00a0different ways in which HDR uses Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to support not only the DC to Richmond rail project, but also many of their other projects. These uses\u00a0include\u00a0preparing bids for contracts, performing analysis for various departments before and during construction,\u00a0and especially communicating with the public. Below is a map they created showing the proposed rail route.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/sal\/files\/2015\/07\/DC-to-Richmond-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1475\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/sal\/files\/2015\/07\/DC-to-Richmond-2.jpg\" alt=\"DC to Richmond (2)\" width=\"4838\" height=\"6181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/sal\/files\/2015\/07\/DC-to-Richmond-2.jpg 4838w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/sal\/files\/2015\/07\/DC-to-Richmond-2-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/sal\/files\/2015\/07\/DC-to-Richmond-2-802x1024.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4838px) 100vw, 4838px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the other\u00a0interesting projects they talked about was an expansion of Route 460 that was delayed and ultimately drastically changed due to another contractor using inaccurate data to make decisions about impacts on wetland health. Since we have worked with wetland data on several projects over the summer it was cool to see how important accurate and detailed analysis is, and how detrimental careless errors can be!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/sal\/files\/2015\/07\/20150710_131235.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1480\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/sal\/files\/2015\/07\/20150710_131235.jpg\" alt=\"20150710_131235\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/sal\/files\/2015\/07\/20150710_131235.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/sal\/files\/2015\/07\/20150710_131235-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/sal\/files\/2015\/07\/20150710_131235-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Overall,\u00a0our time spent at HDR was both invaluable and inspiring.\u00a0Bridget and her team gave us several homework projects of cool tool and methods we should learn to prepare for working in a professional and team environment.\u00a0It is my hope that other students are getting experiences such as this, and are receiving advice on how to best put their GIS skills to use as they consider potential career paths.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/sal\/files\/2015\/07\/20150710_125058.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1478\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/sal\/files\/2015\/07\/20150710_125058.jpg\" alt=\"20150710_125058\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/sal\/files\/2015\/07\/20150710_125058.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/sal\/files\/2015\/07\/20150710_125058-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/sal\/files\/2015\/07\/20150710_125058-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Post by Shaquille Christmas &#8217;16 A couple weeks ago\u00a0we visited the Richmond office of \u00a0Henningson, Durham, and Richardson, Inc (HDR), which is an architectural, engineering and consulting firm based in Omaha, Nebraska. UR alum and former SAL researcher extraordinaire Bridget Ward recently started working there as a GIS consultant in the transportation division. 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