Richard Buckminster Fuller was an american inventor credited with, among other things, the Dymaxion Mapping Projection or sometimes known as the Fuller projection. It was designed to represent the earth as an island, and to emphasis humanitarian efforts across the globe, or as Buckminster Fuller would have said, “on Spaceship Earth”. I am ultimately writing about ‘Bucky’, as he became known, due to his contributions to the mapping community with the Fuller projection. The backstory is sad yet inspiring.
Location Based To Do Lists
Location based to do lists move us towards a map centric way of getting things done. Yes, they improve efficiency but the benefits goes much deeper. They give our workers freedom They give our managers confidence They make our work more pleasant In short they are awesome. In this post we are addressing the messy …
4 Ways to Geocode in a Hurry
a quick and concise guide to geocoding in a hurry
How to Ethically Harvest Online Data with Python for ESRI Integration
How to make GeoJson available to a database. This article demos web scraping with python and writing to an SDE feature.
How to download Free Satellite Imagery
As a GIS professional your workflow very likely includes the acquisition of data to solve problems. In this post I’m going to be laying out a guide to Satellite geospatial data. Hopefully this will make finding data you don’t work with everyday a little easier. This is based primarily around New Zealand but includes everything …
A Formula for Facility Mapping
This is an introductory tutorial for making facility maps using GIS. I’ll be working with ArcGIS Pro, the recipe applies equally well for QGIS or ArcMap. GIS projects are usually data driven. Projects progress to analysis and finally to either web or print map. That’s what GIS people like to do. We’re just not asked …
Four Tips for Working with Workforce
Workforce takes operations from ad hoc paper based system or a disconnected collection of GIS features to a systematic flexible and programmable to do list. At its heart there is a focus on keeping work loads simple. That means seeing only the information you need to perform the tasks relevant to you. I love this …
Making Maps! ArcGIS Pro in under 5 minutes
3 Step Guide to Publishing Hard Copy Cartography in ArcGIS Pro Like almost every other GIS professional I’ve been producing hardcopy maps using the trusty workhorse of GIS, ArcMap for quite a while now; with the occasional foray on it’s slightly more hipster cousin QGIS. Over the last couple of years ESRI have been developing …
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