Gannett Fleming and GeoDecisions employees stay active year-round. We are GIS specialists, technologists, engineers, planners, designers, managers, scientists, and multi-talented professionals. As both thinkers and doers, our desire to continuously improve takes place both inside and outside the office.
Read MoreGeoDecisions is currently working with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) and its planning partner organizations (MPOs/RPOs) to redesign and replatform its online process to capture and process forms, data, and environmental assessments related to project identification and scoping. This information and process drives the link between project planning and outreach activities and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).
Read MoreYour phone buzzes, and a text message tells you that you have assets in danger from a pending threat. Embedded in the text message is a link to a map that shows you where the threat is and which of your assets are in danger. You and your team are able to act in advance of the pending threat to manage your assets, and update your supply change. But you took it to another level - you set up the notification to alert your employees, your customers, or your clients of the threat; you provide suggestions on how to protect their assets, family, or friends from the pending threat, and you did it all within one application.
Read MoreCollaboration is the key to success! Working with Dan Hunter and Sam Edwards, GIS analysts based in our Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, office, I had the opportunity to transform how Gannett Fleming conducts dam and levee safety inspections for our clients using the Esri® platform.
Read MoreThis is part two of a two-part blog describing important skills and qualities we seek in young spatial IT professionals. The first blog post stressed the value of effective communication skills, maintaining a natural curiosity in a variety of topics, developing enhanced critical thinking skills, and exhibiting confidence. This blog concludes the topic, and adds a final thought regarding what might be, to some, a conspicuous exclusion.
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