I have a smattering of skills using GIS and web stacks which I was able to develop through a non-traditional education over the last few years.
Maybe the thing that I'm most proud of is the development of my js. There are many people that get paid to work building things using it and with no formal js training or work I feel at least on par with my abilities. Though I do know that my knowledge and abilities is slight compared to many developers out there.
I like looking through all the bl.ocks I created as examples (some to questions) to see how my abilities have improved.
My current big (for me) project has been making a personal web libary managment system. Designed with the use case of a volunteer library which has no organized system for people to browse or manage their book collection besides maybe a binder or notecards or a combo thereof.
see: github repo for it As the version on the internet is broken. Can demo in person.
My favorite recent cartographic thing:
- (SF fractured bike infrastructure map)[http://mpmckenna8.github.io/sfbike/labs.html)
- (Polk St accidents map)[http://a.tiles.mapbox.com/v3/mpmckenna8.map-67tcuy92/page.html#14/37.7900/-122.4201]
- (Implementing a tilestache server blog post)[http://whywhathowdo.blogspot.com/2014/09/implement-you-tileserver-with-tilestache.html]
- (Turf.js wiki to help with initial usability)[https://github.com/Turfjs/turf/wiki]
- (tessera wiki page for use with OS X)[https://github.com/mojodna/tessera/wiki/Using-Tessera-on-Mac-OS-X-with-Chrome-and-Mapbox-Studio]
- (A fairly recent C.V site made as part of a Udacity class w/ links)[http://mpmckenna8.github.io/frontend-nanodegree-resume/index.html]
In 2013 I obtained a GIS Certification from CCSF after developing an interest in it at the University of Wisconsin. Upon completion I have taken an interest in how to apply the mostly ESRI based skills I had learned using QGIS and other non proprietary tools.
I also prefer to use QGIS as a kind of gui for some of the complicated bash script tools out there like ogr2ogr and doing some of the joins or spatial queries which are possible using just PostGIS.
- Work on collaborative projects with a diverse team
- Use tooling to create more production ready code
- Projects which are more than gimmicks to add to my portfolio (END)