Unfortunately, since I worked mapping coordinates for government projects, I can't post an image of my project. However I will attempt to describe it as best I can. I feel that the project I did will benefit SPAWAR employees for a very long time. First let me give the background on how I came up with my project idea. When I got to SPAWAR I was given maps of the facility to help me get around. Later on my mentor asked me to map out some points on the SPAWAR base using Google Earth just to get a hang of the software. But I immediately noticed that several buildings were missing on the maps that were handed out to me. Many others were marked incorrectly. I asked my mentor about this and she told me that finding buildings has always been a predicament at SPAWAR. At that moment I realized what my project could be. I would mark every single building at SPAWAR and upload that file to the SPAWAR private blog so that every employee at SPAWAR could use that. It was perfect a lot of work but the final product would be extremely beneficial to SPAWAR. So I went on my journey and acquired a bunch of maps both digital and physical and then I used those together (they were all different in some aspects) and started making one master Google Earth map. It was a huge pain acquiring all of these maps since they are considered confidential so that was a huge struggle I had to overcome.I had to overcome a lot of problems. One of them was getting my foreign computer onto a government network. So I took initiative and made some calls to get my computer online. Internet was really essential in getting my project done, my mentor was impressed that I took such initiative to get my computer online all by myself. Those were about the only problems I encountered the only other one being labeling literally hundreds of buildings individually sometimes not sure what each building should be labeled. I started this project on my second day and finished it in only a week. The final result was not rushed though, and I'm confident that it's something that will really help out the good folks at SPAWAR!
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