Meet Our New Staff: Mary Johnson, GIS/Technical Writer

Vol. 4 Issue 3
July 2009

Since learning that we won a spot on the list of the 100 Fastest Growing Inner City businesses in the US, we've been walking on air! But no need to worry, our work is keeping our feet firmly grounded on good ol' Philadelphia soil - sometimes quite literally. Over the past two months we've been attending conferences on the re-use of vacant land, writing software that documents the conservation of historic sites around the globe and working with the city to create LandStat - an exploration of Philadelphia land records - available to the public. So despite our elated trip through the clouds, we're making equally exciting headway with our spatial forays on land. Welcome to another edition of the Azavea Journal...

An interest in maps and textiles seems to go hand in hand ... Mary adds to Azavea's group of avid textile artists.

Mary Johnson, GIS/Technical Writer

Mary Johnson joins Azavea as our GIS/Technical Writer. She has previously worked in the civil engineering field as a technical writer for municipal GIS and cartography projects. In addition to proposals and other marketing materials, she has written about GIS and digital mapping for various GIS conferences around the country. She has also served as writing consultant for the petroleum industry in the Midwest, and she contributed to an interactive CD-ROM that teaches reading to elementary school children. In her spare time, Mary enjoys reading, classic movies, writing children’s stories, and doing all kinds of craft projects, particularly quilting.