Another great week at the internship following spring break. On Monday janelle taught me how to use blueprints and georeferencing to create a new utilities map. After giving me the run down in how it works she let me work on Arc from her desktop, since it has more capabilities and is easier to use then my laptop, and set me free to create this utility map of a new subdivision. I spent the rest of the afternoon adding in the water, sewer, and storm infrastructure. This included adding structures such as inlets, manholes, fire hydrants, valves, laterals, junctions, and a few others. After the map was completed it was very rewarding seeing the finished product! It was a great experience and an even better learning opportunity!

On Friday janelle had me continue the same type of work but on to a bigger and more complicated scale and with a new development.   This time janelle taught me how in import csx and cad files into arc online as well as how to munipulate these layers and how to use a query when looking for something specefic. For this project I was drawing in the utility infrastructure using the engineering cad files. This was a bit more complex then simplying drawing in the lines from the blue prints like we did Monday.  At first I was a little overwhelmed but as I got into I really enjoyed the task! Janelle even had the confidence to leave me alone while I continued this work and when she came back all was good, which was a relief. A big part of this was modifying the lines that were previously drawn in and this proved to be more time consuming then expected and I only got the water infastruce completed. So we plan to continue the process on Monday and finish up the sewer and storm infastructure!