ArrivalWhat a neat and tidy place. Sure there are wiggly streets going here and there but they all have a sense of being cared for despite that its one of the world's biggest metropolises. I was very excited when I arrived, experiencing what the city and people were like. I arrived very late at night and caught the monorail from the airport to another station where I transferred to normal light rail. The monorail was very quick, much better than the rattling ...

This is the final episode, and is a monitoring report excercise for Engineers Without Borders. Here I present 6 significant images with captions, the topic being about how the EWB project contributed to the aims of the community. The video does not seem to play very well on this website, it is also available here. 

Here I cover some progress with the database and my trip to China to see a friend from GIS master's. DATABASEThe database is coming along well. We now have most data entry complete, including a relation of 1000+ records containing all Mapping, Infrastructure and Titling project demographic information. This has been table joined to a shapefile of all house footprints made during the MIT project, such that users can use the identify tool on a footprint and ret...

Outside the LinesThought I'd let you know of another recent achievement at STT. The head of the mapping team and I wrote a report called Outside the Lines, about the possibility of using vacated plots of land in Boeung Kak for people excluded from the 12.44Ha concession in the area. The production of this map and report was a lengthy process which involved many field trips to the area to get locations of vacated plots with a GPS, and also the locations of hou...

PSYCHOLOGY EDITIONPOST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER (PTSD)"We have all been touched by trauma. Our psychological courage has been broken," he said, in a rough translation of the local Khmer concept known as "baksabat". (Chhim Sotheara, head of TPO Cambodia, quoted by IRIN). The previous episode mentioned that even 3+ decades after the genocide, 11+% of the adult, supposedly healthy population were identified as potentially having PTSD in a national sample. The stu...