The title is a pun, and not a very funny one, but I shadowed John in a meeting, a webinar, and learned a lot about GIS (geographical information system). GIS in the most simple way is just like Google Maps, but it has layers that are much more important than that.
SEPI does so much with GIS for so many different things such as representing roads, but what I respect the most about the company is its focus on minimizing impacts. I heard the term impact over and over at the company because it is such a versatile term with much meaning. One definition of an impact has to do with noise; there is a specific threshold of sound (67 dBs) that the government says houses cannot be louder on average. That is modeled with TNM. Impact also has a lot to do with the environment and the impact that we have on it and SEPI does their best to limit that.