Geospatial collaboration systems / Public input
GeoVoice
Infrastructure feedback map
The working demo combines a project route, basemap controls, sign-up, measurement tools, and a persistent comment action in one public-facing map surface.
Spatial storytelling for infrastructure: a map-based experience that helps people understand a place, explore project layers, and contribute location-specific feedback.
- My role
- Front-End Web Developer at POWER Engineers — design, responsive interfaces, high-fidelity prototypes, and frontend development for GeoVoice
- Engagement
- POWER Engineers
- Period
- Jan 10, 2021
- Resources
- 8 reviewed artifacts
01 / Context
Creative challenge
•Public Input Was Disconnected from Place
Infrastructure and environmental projects needed feedback from community members, agencies, and private partners, but forums and paper surveys separated comments from the exact locations under discussion.
•GIS Context Was Hard to Share
Project teams had rich spatial data, but conventional GIS tools were difficult for non-technical participants to navigate and did not provide a common public-feedback workflow.
•The Evidence Had to Stay Traceable
A useful response needed to preserve who was commenting, what type of issue they identified, and where that input belonged on the project map.
Stakeholder workflow brief
The project brief connects fragmented public-input channels with the need to collect, map, and review location-specific feedback in one workflow.
02 / Mandate
Direction and intent
•Connect Feedback to a Location
Create a simple path for selecting an address, parcel, current location, or map point before submitting project feedback.
•Make Project Layers Inspectable
Keep routes, structures, notifications, land-use data, and basemap controls visible so each comment could be reviewed in geographic context.
•Support Different Public Projects
Design the interaction model to work across transmission, offshore-wind, municipal, and environmental-planning contexts without changing its core feedback loop.
Location-selection prototype
The prototype lets a participant attach a comment to an address, parcel, identified map point, or current location before continuing through submission.
03 / Build
Creative decisions and execution
1.Mapped Stakeholder and GIS Constraints
The project record documents sessions with planners, environmental experts, and community members alongside an evaluation of existing GIS and collaboration tools.
2.Prototyped Location and Comment Flows
Designed map layouts, layered-data displays, location-selection states, and a structured submission form, then refined the workflow through the iterative testing documented in the case-study record.
3.Integrated Maps, Layers, and Participation
The resulting interface combines route and project layers, basemap and measurement controls, account prompts, categorized comments, and geospatial review within the same public-facing surface.
Structured comment workflow
The submission form captures participant context, comment categories, and detailed feedback without separating the response from its selected map location.
Research and build record
The action record documents stakeholder research, GIS review, iterative prototyping, map-layer integration, and the central feedback dashboard.
04 / Outcomes
Outcomes
•One Inspectable Feedback Loop
The reviewed artifacts show location selection, comment capture, map layers, project notifications, and public review operating as one connected workflow.
•Faster Planning Feedback
The case-study record reports that real-time updates and direct comment submission cut weeks from traditional planning cycles; this outcome is retained as an attributed project claim.
•Reusable Across Infrastructure Contexts
The evidence set includes both a transmission-line project and the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind deployment, demonstrating reuse of the map, layer, notification, and comment model across regions.
Regional project deployment
A Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project view demonstrates the same layer, notification, and comment model across a substantially different infrastructure context.
Documented workflow outcomes
The case-study record attributes fewer information silos, faster feedback cycles, and reuse across regions and project types to the centralized map-and-comment workflow.
Tools
Tools and implementation
Continue the evidence trail
From proof to role fit
Compare GeoVoice with adjacent systems, or carry its reviewed capabilities into an Adaptive Focus brief.