Sam Wells

MSc Rural Planning & Development

Planning and GIS projects focused on land use, infrastructure, and rural development.

Graduate planning student focused on rural transportation, land use, housing, economic development, and applied spatial analysis.

Skills

ArcGIS Pro QGIS Excel SPSS NVivo Qualtrics R MESH Asset Management Municipal Infrastructure Transportation Planning Land Use Planning Economic Development HTML/CSS Python

Selected Projects

Live GIS app

Greyfield Finder

Interactive web mapping tool that identifies surface parking lots with redevelopment potential using OpenStreetMap data, FastAPI, GeoPandas, and Leaflet.

Includes cached Southwestern Ontario case studies for Woodstock, Ingersoll, Tillsonburg, St. Thomas, and Stratford.

Launch app → GitHub →

Agricultural Systems Planning

Oxford County land use policy, PPS 2024 implementation, and agricultural preservation.

View project →

Local PDF OCR

Privacy-focused OCR tool that converts scanned PDFs into searchable PDFs using a local FastAPI backend, Tesseract OCR, and PyMuPDF.