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Mouhamad Diabate

UID: 109-039-840

Intern at

Prince George's County

Office of Information Technology and Communications

Department

Of

Geographic Information System

BSOS 386

Section: 0401

Experiential Learning

My internship is with the Geographic Information System Department of the Office of Information Technology and Communication of Prince George's County government. The OITC deals with any technology related issues in the county. The Geographic Information System Department assists all the other county agencies and some private companies in their need of Geographic services. The department is relatively small compared to the work load. In the previous years there used to be …show more content…

It facilitates the tasks when I cannot find any accurate information about a place that I need to map. I would input the address in Pictometry and it gives me the location and the picture of the area. That helps me in finding whether the place is still existing or not.

Another aspect I enjoyed was the fact that I was welcomed in the department as an expert in the field. Before my internship, some friends warned me that I would mostly like be doing office clerk tasks, such as making copies, typing word documents, or even getting coffee for the entire office. But I was doing dealing with real information that would be actually used or needed by someone. Mr. Patrick once called me in a meeting two weeks after I started. He wanted me to take over a project from the county Department of Public Works, so he arranged a meeting with the head of the snowplowing route administration. He needed to have some maps corrected and updated. The maps included snowplowing routes by areas. The major problems in the map that he made were the streets labels; they were all overlapping at the intersections, and the textures used to symbolize some roads where not adequate. I also gave him some tips and additional suggestions that I can include to improve the maps quality.

The interactions that I have with my supervisors and colleagues are very positive. The relationship can almost be defined as a mentoring relationship. My supervisor is a well educated individual who has been in

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