About Us

Duane is a professional land surveyor licensed in Idaho, Nevada, California and Arizona. He has 27 years of experience in land surveying, civil engineering, mining, and local government projects in Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, California, Colorado, Utah, and Arizona. Duane has owned and operated Geographic Mapping Consultants, since 1989. He has been in charge of and overseen Idaho parcel conversion projects in Adams, Bannock, Blaine, Butte, Camas, Clearwater, Custer, Elmore, Latah, Lewis, Lemhi and Twin Falls counties and also a portion of Garfield County, Colorado. Duane was the project manager for a GPS Survey Control Network for the City of Moscow and vicinity. This was a cooperative project between the City of Moscow, Latah County, and the University of Idaho to consolidate their separate control networks into a single control network. Duane also participated in developing the standards and the corresponding implementation plan for addressing the unincorporated areas of North Custer County and was in charge of the rural addressing project for Latah County. Duane has provided classroom instruction, sponsored by the State Tax Commission, to local government employees throughout Idaho.

Cheryl is a graduate of the University of Idaho with a BS degree in Geography and Cartography and a minor in Computer Science. Cheryl has been a GIS Specialist for a GIS support unit, a wildland fire and disaster support resource for National Fire Management Teams. She has worked directly with Incident Command and the Burn Area Emergency Rehabilitation Leader (BAER) performing GIS consulting and analysis, database and map design, and fire suppression and rehabilitation documentation. She has been responsible for coordination of spatial map data with Fire Team members, local, state and federal agency personnel and supervising and training other GIS and field technicians in ArcGIS, and various GPS platforms. Cheryl has prepared files for habitat analysis of animal study locations and home range by isolating vegetative grids and running focalmean analysis over selected grids in ArcInfo Workstation. Cheryl was involved in the database design and GIS development for a wolverine research project in Canada's Northwest Territories, consisting of transect mapping and design, GPS data collection, and initial map production of downloaded GPS data. She also created field maps and final maps for publication. Cheryl has been a project manager for several Idaho county data conversion projects developing land ownership coverages. She also designed and populated the parcel history database for Bannock County.

 Codi Martin has 7 years experience developing geospatial datasets for city, county, and federal clients of GMCI.  Codi completed her baccalaureate studies in 1998, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in Music Education from Montana State University - Billings.  Codi brings to the GMCI team a wealth of experience in database entry, feature creation and attribution, and project management.  Often referred to as the “COGO Queen”, Codi is known for timely, accurate feature creation via plats, surveys, and tax lots descriptions using coordinate geometry and manual digitization methods.

Jennifer Hogue joined the team at Geographic Mapping Consultants, Inc. in 2006 as a GIS Analyst. She received her M.S. in Geography from Oregon State University in 2005 with a major concentration in Cartography, GIS and Remote Sensing and a minor emphasis in Physical Geography. She is also a graduate of the College of Wooster with a B.A. in Mathematics. Her graduate work entitled ?Volcanic Vulnerability: Determining the Relationship Between Urban Settlements Around Volcanoes and Human Development? utilized GIS and Digital Image Processing techniques to determine the extent of urban areas in close proximity to volcanoes from Landsat ETM+ data. She has presented a portion of her graduate work at the annual AAG conference and is currently attempting to have her work published in multiple academic journals. She has also presented her work in the Map Gallery at the ESRI International User Conference where she was also selected by ESRI to serve as a GIS Student Assistant. Jennifer?s experience in the field includes two years of teaching cartographic lab courses at Oregon State University to undergraduate and graduate students. Such courses included Intro to Cartography, Computer Cartography, and Map and Image Interpretation. Jennifer has also worked in the Maps Division at National Geographic as a GIS/Cartographic Intern in which she was responsible for GIS data development, thematic map production, and quality assessments for the newly developed NGS geodatabase.

Laura Gust joined the Geographic Mapping Consultants, Inc. team in January 2007 as the Office Manager. Since coming to GMCI, she has been involved in data conversion using coordinate geometry to input parcel data, easements and crossing agreements. She has scanned and cataloged acquired documents to relate to the specific parcels in a geodatabase. Laura is responsible for bookkeeping, organization and day to day office duties. She attended Willamette University in Salem, Oregon where she studied Philosophy and spent 6 years in the US Air Force as a Database Programmer.