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We don’t blog to toot our own horn, but we readily acknowledge this one comes close as we thank Geospatial Media and Communications for naming Critigen Geospatial Solutions Company of the Year for 2012. We were honored to be recognized by Geospatial Media and Communications; their reputation as a quality global publication and the independence of... Read More »

Every person seems to have a different set of evolving IT needs.  With broadband access connecting to smartphones, laptops and tablets, in people’s homes, their expectations are equally high in the workplace.  Teenagers share wireless access in their homes with their friends because they don’t want their friends to be “disconnected.”  Elementary... Read More »

Imagine everyone had their own individual Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) system, one complete system for each tenant in your building.  Clearly, this would be a waste of floor space, energy and something that would be a challenge to manage.  Information Technology Service Management systems (ITSM’s) can be viewed exactly the same... Read More »

Location Analytics is the ability to gain business insight from the location (geographic) component of business data.  Multiple types of business insight are possible as well as multiple ways of obtaining the insight.  This article focuses on recent evolutions in location analytics that enable additional insights, newer ways of obtaining those... Read More »

When preparing for a bicycle road trip you examine how your bicycle has been operating.  Is everything working as it should be?  Have you been keeping track of recurring problems that now need to be addressed?  Are you prepared for any incidents that could occur once on the road?   Problem management is about identifying, documenting and... Read More »

OK, our apologies for the catchy headline, but in a blog titled ‘Putting GIS to Work,’ we had to find a way to tie in Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day.  The title is intended to be both ironic, as women are generally accepted to be underrepresented in GIS, and also be motivating since diversity is just as important – maybe more... Read More »

For obvious reasons we hardly think about the time not too long ago when there wasn’t a high-speed network service to connect our devices and what it was like to develop and deploy mobile GIS/GPS data collection applications. There weren’t iPhones, iPads, Droids, or tablets. Nope. We had text based displays with bulky (think backpacks and NiCad... Read More »

So you know you’re going to put solar panels on your roof. You have a mandate to develop renewables, you prefer renewable energy, you need emergency power if the grid is down. There are lots of good reasons for doing it, so you haven’t really considered a solar site assessments. Think about it anyway! Many government agencies and businesses get a... Read More »

In Using Esri Maps for Office to Map Hurricane Sandy Tree Damage in New York City I demonstrated how to create a tree damage map from NYC 311 call data (Figure 1).  In this post I’m going to show you how I publish it to ArcGIS Online so I can share it with my organization.  I’ll also share some tricks I learned along the way. Figure 1. 311 Tree... Read More »