GISCorps Volunteers Help Queensland Walks with their GIS Needs

Queensland Walks is a community-based organization dedicated to creating more walkable places across Queensland so that more people choose to walk, roll, or stroll as part of everyday life. Their mission is to improve both the conditions for walking and the public profile of walking as a vital mode of transport, recreation, and community connection. They work to support and encourage government, organizations, and agencies to strengthen policies and funding priorities that enhance walking infrastructure and safety.

As part of this mission, Queensland Walks has been delivering Safe Cities | Safe Streets for Women and Girls walks. These community-led walks invite women and girls to share their lived experiences of safety in public spaces after dark. The insights gathered are story-mapped to visualize where participants feel safe or unsafe, creating powerful evidence to inform planning, design, and advocacy.

The organization is interested to expand and strengthen this work by:

• Further developing their Survey123 forms and mapping workflows,
• Creating a scalable, user-friendly process that enables trained volunteers to host and facilitate their own safety walks,
• Developing high-quality base maps focused on active travel,
• Designing a streamlined onboarding and offboarding process for volunteers, and
• Enhancing the visualization and communication of data collected during walks.

Following the recruitment, Kristine Bilar and Leslie Pobee, GISCorps volunteers in Chicago, Illinois, are selected for this project.

Recruitment complete, project in progress.