How do you know where you are right now? At the moment, it’s more than likely you are at home, working out of a spare room or a kitchen table.…

Recently SSP has published articles bringing to light how the Utility Network allows utilities to model the different tiers of data within their GIS, specifically Station Data. Having worked at…

A recent opportunity to utilize some of the technology we implement every day in a real-life situation.

Every once-in-a-while some data privacy scandal shows up on the news where Apple or Google or Amazon has been found gathering data people didn’t think was being gathered. I’ve just…

I’ve come up with a big list of questions to ask when all else fails getting Wavepoint to work. Over the years I’ve implemented Wavepoint a good number of times,…

I’ve lived long enough to know people who were alive during World War I, which was really ended by a flu pandemic. My great grandmother was a teenager during that…

If you are an ArcGIS Pro user in the utility space, you are probably familiar with the new Utility Network. ESRI’s Utility Network for ArcGIS Pro is awesome and it’s…

Tabletop Roleplaying Games (TTRPGs) like Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) be used as team builders within the workplace, but they also can be used in analogies regarding the mapping process when…

It's hard to believe that the UN has now had a number of major production iterations, following along with ArcGIS Pro releases on 2.0 through 2.5 and many point releases.…

Symbology is often simply thought of as the graphic representations a map uses to indicate real-world objects.  Typically, this means symbolizing objects based on shared attributes.  However, an often-overlooked use…

Have you ever tried to initiate a large organizational change without the backing of management? I’ve done it and let me tell you: I sometimes felt like Sisyphus pushing that…

While writing this fiber blog, I had to think back almost 15 years to when I was an analyst at a utility and given the task of mapping out our…