Mapping the world, one organic vertex at a time. What ISPs taketh away, the spatial community giveth back. The State Plane Coordinate System is comprised of 120 geographic zones across the US. The system, developed in the 1930s by the U. Coast and Geodetic Survey, is a commonly used mapping standard for government agencies and those who work with them. The awful tan color of the background was carefully chosen for providing less eye-strain. Looking at it now, is th.

Observations on Cartographic Tribalism by a Marauding Carto-Nerd. Instead of working on my backlog of half-finished drafts, Big Data issues keep on popping up. A while ago, I posted a longer piece on Big Citizen Data. Big data in the service of humanity.

A new approach to put on Geo IT lab Findings. 5 magnitude earthquake in Nepal Today. 5 magnitude earthquake has struck Nepal less than 50 miles from the capital of Katmandu, the U. Valley shrouded in dust from 7.

Find fields in a feature class that have only nulls with arcpy. So, basically any columns that were populated with any value for any feature since their creation time. Quite easy and quick to do with arcpy. Essential extra toolsets for ArcGIS Desktop professionals. Another place to search for tools is ArcGIS. And if you are .

Whatever I happen to be thinking about today. Usually something to do with maps or technology. July 14, 2015 in Friendship. So my friend Drew is writing another book. The last time he did so he asked me to produce some maps for him, a process I detailed previously. So I turned to one of my favorite mappers, Fredrick W. There are Beers maps for e.

Geospatial development and independent business stuff. Autocomplete multi-source Search with ArcGIS REST services. Search is expected in modern web applications. And what better use of a map application than to start typing what you want, be shown a list of relevant suggestions, pick one and be taken there with potentially some useful context info. In several posts in the great geospatial blog, MapBrief.