Latest Contributions by DavidWard4

Tower Maps is a commercial data product (www.towermaps.com), not free. ... View more

Name a location and send a request for sample data via email to info@towermaps.com ... View more

See www.TowerMaps.com This bottom up data source has been built up over 20 years from site owners, not FCC ... View more

My name is David Ward and been using GIS since early 1990's. Where do you work and what is your role?  My day job is with Loudoun County government in northern Virginia where I focus on floodplain management, water resources and watershed management using Desktop and AGOL.  My private business is groundwater modeling with GIS interface and also maintain a comprehensive commercially available cell tower (towermaps.com). For fun I have supported citizen scientist in stream monitoring. What GIS success have you had this year and what product did you use? (big or small - no win is out of bounds) In past few years I received overwhelmingly positive response to Story Maps of stream health monitoring maps.  This past year the biggest success has been colloborative efforts to share between local county government and contractor on watershed management.  We were able to maintain geodatabases of land access permission letters, field assessment (stream walks and hot spot identification), watershed improvement project mapping with photos and field sketches with inouts from both parties operating out of multiple offices. What is your expertise (GIS related or not), and how can that help the community? I have significant GIS-related in surface and subsurface water environments and an aptitude towards automation via programming. I cut my teeth on punched cards using Fortran (and still program today) and have been able to apply Python skills to aid in GIS data management. My goals is to bring hydro data into hydro understanding through graphical, location based presentation. ... View more

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