Category Archives: Spatial IT/GIS
Calculating Geometry outside ArcGIS Pro
Let’s be clear: this isn’t a stab at the all-new, singing and dancing Esri software. This post is meant to help those who are using the software on a regular basis but finding issues with using the fields with multipatch data. Recently I’ve been working with calculating volumes of buildings that are multipatch data. For...
Data for Slums – A geospatial analysis of living conditions of the Pakistani poor helps to improve them.
The tendency for cities is to grow: spatially, by population, or both, and in Pakistan’s capital of Lahore, it’s been both. Urban growth leads to uncontrolled population and unplanned areas, usually along the edges of cities. Rapid urban population growth has outpaced the ability of city authorities to provide housing, environmental protections, and health infrastructure....
Savanna Nagorski
Assistant Planner/GIS Analyst, ESM Consulting Engineers Washington, USA Although Savanna Nagorski has only recently begun her work with a prominent consulting engineering firm in the Pacific Northwest, many people have recognized her potential and predict a bright future. Savannah distinguished herself in stints as the GIS coordinator for the Tacoma campus of the University of...
Siddharth Pandey
Assistant Production Manager and Senior Geospatial Analyst, Dewberry, Virginia, USA A mentor, a master’s student in GIS, a geospatial practitioner, a leader in professional associations, and an advocate of the geospatial industry, Siddharth “Sid” Pandey works hard, promotes the geospatial industry and its capabilities, and is a vital team player, lifting others up and always offering...
Natalie Martinez
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Washington DC, USA Natalie Martinez stands out among the multiple nominations for alumni (and students) of the excellent surveying program of the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez campus. The surveying and topography degree program covers property surveying and boundary law, topographic surveying and location of infrastructure, surveying to support engineering design and...
Alison DeGraff Ollivierre
Cartographer, National Geographic Maps Colorado, USA With interests in participatory mapping, outdoor recreation and travel cartography, small-island developing states, climate change, spatial planning, and conservation, Aly Ollivierre spreads her work as a cartographer widely and generously. She’s a cartographer at National Geographic Maps, a freelancer doing cartography/GIS work at Tombolo Maps & Design, and a...