It is always so fulfilling volunteering for the hurricane PhotoMappers missions with GISCorps! The staff are so supportive -all virtual- and it is rewarding to be part of a cause and group, helping provide geotagged eyes-on-the-ground and visual-voices for impacted areas where otherwise would be tougher to reach or easily overlooked. I enjoy how each experience has helped sharpen my geospatial deductive reasoning skills as well as expanded my network. Whenever challenges presented, I was ever so grateful for the team’s help in resolving them. Knowing that my hard work is reaching those in need really speaks and I’m grateful to take part in the learning experiences. Looking forward to the next opportunity!
I love doing GIS volunteer work. Even though I do it for my regular job, this gets me in a new environment and allows me to shop people what GIS is capable of. I will definitely do more volunteer missions going forward.
I enjoyed working with Inilek and the Oracabessa team. Working together, we really developed some interesting solutions to some of the issues and variables to track and I was very impressed with Inilek’s foresight and willingness to share these methods with other agencies.