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Dan Eckberg
GIS Technician
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Employee Profiles
Dan Eckberg is a GIS Technician with Vandewalle & Associates and has the primary responsibilities of map creation; data acquisition, organization, and manipulation; and spatial data analysis.
Dan has experience with Environmental Systems Research Institute’s (ESRI) ArcDesktop GIS software packages and utilizes this experience to effectively apply cartographic techniques to a range of planning projects. During his time with Vandewalle & Associates, Dan has worked on a variety of projects, such as identifying areas of developable land for the Jefferson County Farmland Preservation Plan, evaluating and mapping bike trail routes for the Village of Oregon, mapping student study abroad data for the UW-Internationalization Project, geo-coding and mapping survey results for a Madison development project, creating maps for the City of Sheboygan’s Comprehensive Plan, and preparing the City of Whitewater’s Official Zoning Map.
Prior to joining Vandewalle & Associates, Dan worked as a GIS research assistant at the Minnesota Population Center. His responsibilities included helping to update the National Historic Geographic Information System (NHGIS) by aligning digital statewide United States census tract maps. Before that, Dan held an internship with U-PLAN, a community planning group for the Frogtown/Rondo neighborhood of St. Paul, Minnesota. In this position, Dan helped design a traffic impact analysis for the neighborhood using the CommunityViz extension of ArcGIS.
Education
B.A. Geography - City Systems
Minor: Geographic Information Systems
Magna cum laude
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota
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