GISCorps Volunteer Assisting Global Opportunities Unlimited with Esri Application Development

Global Opportunities Unlimited (GO Unlimited) of Albuquerque, NM, was founded in August 2005, with a mission to help people with compromised mobility participate in outdoor adaptive sports and recreation activities. Navigating both water and land, GO Unlimited has become an international leader in design, build, technology, and services creating mobility solutions for various outdoor recreational interests. GO Unlimited tests new technology and designs in its home state of New Mexico. Those products are then incorporated into local recreational involvement by the disability community. GO Unlimited views individual connections with the outdoors as a necessity for the health and wellbeing of both human and our planet. Through working with a collective local and global professionals, GO Unlimited is raising awareness about the interconnections between outdoor recreation, health, education and employment.

GO Unlimited collaborates with the New Mexico State Parks Division and other land managers to evaluate how accessible existing outdoor recreational infrastructure is, including facilities, trails, campgrounds, etc. This effort helps individuals with disabilities find suitable opportunities while also enabling GO Unlimited to identify gaps to enhance and expand accessible infrastructure.

GO Unlimited requested GISCorps assistance in developing a field data collection application to capture accessibility information at existing outdoor recreational sites, a public-facing application that serves as a resource to individuals with disabilities, and an internal application to identify gaps and potential improvement projects.

Following the recruitment, Chris Caro, a GISCorps volunteer in Albuquerque, New Mexico, was selected for this project.

Recruitment complete, project in progress.