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From the Ashes of Shapefiles

A Presentation for the 2020 Virtual Ohio GIS Conference

This talk describes the slow and painful migration from a legacy GIS data structure of hundreds of shapefiles to a modern setup using a mix of Post...

GIS and Remote Work

An Exploration of a GIS Remote Work Toolkit

In the aftermath of the Coronavirus pandemic, remote work may well be come the new normal, as businesses and government agencies discover that prod...

Exporting AGOL Feature Services to GeoJSON

Using NodeJS and Batches to Transform an ArcGIS Online Feature Service to GeoJSON

Update 2023-09-19: I added support for decoding domain values and npx - so you can run the tool straight from the command line. Here’s a ...

Leaflet & GeoJson Tiles

A County Parcel App: No GIS Server? No Problem!

Update 2017-08-01 This app has seen two more iterations. These each utilize an mbtiles-server to host the vector tiles, but still use client-si...

Google Drive Fusion Tables

Update: Google has deprecated Google Fusion Tables....

Raster Catalogs

Here I explain how to create a raster catalog in order to have a mosaic of a set of images. This way you can always add or change the images instea...

Desktop to the Cloud: GIS Cloud and Rasters

One of the clients I work with utilizes unmanaged raster catalogs as part of their work flow. We manage over 20 raster catalogs with close to 4gb o...

Animating Urban Growth via the ArcMap Time Slider

One Hundred Years of Urban Growth in Ten Seconds

This video shows the growth of urban infrastructure from 1850 (blue) through to the present (red). I utilized the time/timeslider/export video feat...

Use Only Selected Features in Model Builder

This little trick came from GIS stack exchange. To run a model using only selected features, open your model and in the model builder window right ...