GIS resources to help you explore, analyze, and understand your risk. Wildland Fires are becoming more frequent with higher destruction rates relative to land and property. Many of the most destructive fires in terms of financial loss have occurred since 2017. Here...
HOW TO ENSURE DATA QUALITY High-quality data allows organizations to make better business decisions. One of the foundations of being a GIS Professional is data creation and management. We learn early in our education and careers that data management is one of the...
Joseph Elfelt of MappingSupport.com has posted a new PDF file containing URLs for local, state, and federal ArcGIS Servers with open data. Here is the updated list: https://mappingsupport.com/p/surf_gis/list-federal-state-county-city-GIS-servers.pdf The primary...
My new book, Data Visualization and Exploration with R, has been published in digital format and printed paperback versions. This book is a practical guide to using R, RStudio, and tidyverse for data visualization, exploration, and data science applications. $39.00...
Microsoft has announced the availability of approximately 125 million building footprint polygon geometries in all 50 US States in an open source GeoJSON format. Using a two step process centered around the use of artificial intelligence (AI), deep learning, and...
The 2017 wildfire season shattered records and cost the U.S. Forest Service an unprecedented $2 billion. From the Oregon wildfires to late season fires in Montana, and the highly unusual timing of the California fires in December, it was a busy year in the Western...