In 2023, the University of Wisconsin at Madison determined they needed to update the inventory of their roadway signs on campus. Student safety, especially at night, is of paramount importance. Cloudpoint Geospatial was subcontracted to perform an update to their roadsign inventory of which the scope included capturing the geographic location of all their signs on both roadways and parking lots. Cloudpoint offers a complete sign inventory system using SignOps, a mobile-friendly application for tracking and managing sign assets, so it was a perfect fit.
A Location-based Career Move
In the rapidly changing world of GIS technology, it is important to pause occasionally and look at how far it has come–where we have been–in order to better appreciate where we are. In my previous series post about my career path, I mentioned that my first job out of college was with Markhurd Aerial Surveys doing manual cartography for a large defense mapping project.
