I mean it. What you do matters, it always has but more now than ever. If you’re following, and I’m sure you are, the heat is turning up in the electric industry and the demand for the data you manage is crucial to the overall success. The data you manage is used in most ofContinue reading “Hey Mappers – what you do matters!!”
Heading to the Esri Develop Summit
This week I am heading to the Esri Developer summit. No, I am not a developer the event name is a little misleading. I had the pleasure of attending this event with my team of developers several years ago and that is when I realized this event is a deep dive into technology for moreContinue reading “Heading to the Esri Develop Summit”
Prologue
The modern GIS has been around since the mid-90s, to be more specific this is when utility network management was introduced to the spatial world. Interestingly enough this innovation wasn’t the news, the news was the innovation of outage management systems. The reality is GIS was implemented in utilities to feed a digital connected modelContinue reading “Prologue”
Has GIS changed the way you do business
I thought a good place to start my journey was to talk about maps. Maps are the predecessor of today’s GIS and give us an opportunity to reflect on the then and now. In the early 90s most utility companies were still inking their facilities and specialty maps on cloth and velum sheets. Once updatedContinue reading “Has GIS changed the way you do business”
The start…
I’ve wanted to start a blog featuring utilities adoption of geospatial information systems (GIS) for many years and figured there is no better time like the present. GIS has evolved rapidly over the last 4-5 years and from my experience utilities haven’t kept pace. The reasons are all over the board as to why thisContinue reading “The start…”
Spatially Aware 