April Showers Bring May Flowers
April Showers Bring May Flowers Spring has sprung in Bloomington, Indiana, and we’ve partnered with the Bloomington Garden Club once again to provide a local map showcasing the locations for their 2021 Garden Walk! The Bloomington Garden Club’s Garden Walk consists of 5 or 6 private gardens, featuring beautiful arrangements and artistry by local gardeners. From petunias to peonies, carnations to chrysanthemums, the Bloomington Garden Walk will surely have something for everyone. Our annual partnership with the Bloomington Garden Club allows us to give back to the community and support local nonprofits! The 2021 Garden Walk runs Saturday June 5th from 10am-2pm, and Sunday June 6th from 12pm-4pm. More information can be found here: https://bloomingtongardenclub.rg/faqs About geoConvergence:geoConvergence is an SBA 8(a) certified, minority-owned small business. The firm specializes in the design and implementation of world-class Geospatial Intelligence, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and Space Management solutions by leveraging technical skills in Software Development, Cloud Engineering, and Data Analytics required to create secure, effective, efficient, and resilient solutions in today’s highly connected network environment. geoConvergence has also earned the following Esri Specialties: Release Ready, Federal Small Business, and ArcGIS Online. For more information, visit https://geoConvergence.com. Tweet
Wrapped In Love 2020-2021
Every year, teams and individual fabric artists lovingly create tree sweaters for dozens of downtown Bloomington, Indiana trees. Each beautiful tree sweater is sponsored by a business, person, or organization committed to helping us provide meaningful alternatives to living with violence. geoConvergence donates resources and time to Wrapped In Love by mapping the locations of sponsored trees, population information and attaching photos to these tree points. The Wrapped in Love project is an annual Bloomington Middle Way House (MWH) tradition. The MWH’s vision is to end domestic and sexual violence in the lives of all people. MWH works to support all survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking; and to educate the community through outreach and prevention programs. Learn More About The MWH View 2020-2021 Interactive Map
Engineers Without Borders (Indianapolis Chapter)
Clean Water Project in Comuna Guangaje, Ecuador Study Area August 3, 2020: geoConvergence develops a geospatial product for the Engineers Without Borders USA (EWB-USA) Indianapolis chapter’s clean water project in Comuna Guangaje, Ecuador. EWB-USA is a non-profit that builds a better world through engineering projects that empower communities to meet their basic human needs and equip leaders to solve the world’s most pressing challenges. When the Indianapolis chapter initially visited the community 3 years ago, they encountered a water storage and delivery system that had reportedly been installed by another NGO, possibly SwissAid, years earlier. The community had no drawings or documentation of its system, and management of it was difficult to explain. While the addressable problem of water input from springs to storage tanks was easy enough to see, the Indianapolis chapter struggled to understand how the system itself was architected for function. That didn’t stop them from improving the springs-to-tank channels earlier this year, but they had continually sought to help both the chapter and the community to better understand the system. Over the past year, the chapter worked with a local Indiana-based geospatial company, geoConvergence, to develop and refine a map of the system. geoConvergence was able to access both topo data and current satellite imagery to produce a useful map of the area and its above-ground infrastructure. This enabled the chapter to work with the local water committee to develop a good map of the water delivery infrastructure. This map has become an invaluable tool for the community leadership in managing system operation as well as for the chapter helping them understand, how to manage it better.