Creating a 3D printed Trail Map for People who are Visually Impaired

I teach a lot of cartography courses, and one thing we talk about in them is how to make maps more accessible. For the most part, we are talking about making them colorblind-friendly (for example ColorBrewer). I felt that this is a gap that is in many cartography classes, so I thought about what new […]

ArcMap Redistricting Tool

I just saw that the NYS Redistricting Maps were rejected (https://www.whec.com/national/judge-rejects-new-yorks-redistricting-plan-orders-new-maps/6434302/?cat=10036). When I worked in local government I helped the board of elections in the redistricting process by providing training and getting the Census data into a GIS Project for them. With a lot of grassroots organizations out there trying to work with the process, […]

Creating an Orthomosaic and Digital Surface Model using an UAV and ArcGIS Pro

One of my previous posts was how to use Open Drone Map to create products from a UAV collection. One thing that I learned last year at the ESRIUC was how to use the Orthomapper tools in ArcGIS Pro. Recently I had the opportunity to fly my Parrot Anafi and do a data collection over […]

Geodatabase Design and Analysis with X-Ray for ArcCatalog

Designing a geodatabase can be quite time consuming if you are going through the individual tools in ArcGIS Desktop or ArcGIS Pro, but there is a pretty cool tool called X-Ray for ArcCatalog which makes it easy. X-Ray is a add on provided by the esri local government group (https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=9ea218ff575f4a5195e01a2cae03a0ae) and works with desktop versions […]

Starting Off Processing UAV Imagery with Web Open Drone Map

I have been getting started capturing UAV imagery with my Phantom 3 Pro and I wanted to get a processing software. Right now I do have the resources to get one of the commercial products such as Pix4D, Drone2Map, or Drone Deploy, so I went the opensource route. Web Open Drone Map (WebODM) is a […]

Using Landsat 8 Scenes to Look at Lake Ontario’s High Water Level Impacts – Presentation

Link to my GIS/SIG 2018 Conference Presentation

WebGIS Data Collection – When to use Collector, Survey123, or web apps to capture information – Presentation

Link to Presentation

Using Survey123 (Or Any GIS Data) to populated reports in Word

A step by step example of using Survey123 and Word to create reports.

A Simple Method to Create Flood Inudation Models

In my class this week, my students asked me to show them how I created some of the flood inudation models. The lab is a bit tricky to customize with tools like Arc Hydro or Hazus, but I was thinking, when I had an emergency situation and needed a flood zone I turned to QGIS […]

Getting a LiDAR Datasets to work with Hazus

To get the LiDAR in I had to create a new Elevation dataset. What I did was using a terrain feature dataset loaded the LiDAR points. Then using the USGS DEM, I converted each pixel to a point which then was also loaded into the feature dataset (this will mess up the point spacing, but […]