Over the past few months, my internship with the Santa Rosa County Property Appraiser’s Office (SRCPA) has continued to push my GIS skills in ways I didn’t expect. I came into the role with a foundation in remote sensing and GIS coursework, but working directly inside a live parcel fabric has accelerated my learning dramatically. Most of my work focuses on parcel editing, quality control, and maintaining the accuracy of the county’s land records. This includes resolving topology issues, correcting redundant or misaligned boundaries, reconstructing curves from COGO values, and improving the structure of older data that has been carried through multiple system migrations.
One of the more interesting challenges I’ve worked through recently involves troubleshooting the parcel fabric’s curve handling, performing SLACA adjustments, and cleaning up redundant boundary segments so the fabric behaves the way it should. I never realized how much detail goes into keeping a county’s land base accurate — a lot of GIS work happens quietly behind the scenes, but it has a big impact on mapping, taxation, and public records.
I’ve also updated my LinkedIn profile to better reflect the skills I’m developing. My approach has been to emphasize specific, hands-on technical experience rather than broad statements. I highlighted the parcel editing workflows I use daily, including topology validation, COGO-based construction, georeferencing historical imagery, and managing branch versions in an enterprise geodatabase.
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