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Downsampling – Does it mean what you think it means?
Let’s talk about these words: Downsampling, downscaling, upscaling, upsampling, large scale, & small scale. “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride. When I work in climate resilience and spatial analysis, downscaling is the process of taking coarser resolution data and estimating…
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Why you might not want to use the Transfer Attributes Tool in ArcGIS Pro.
I found a use for the transfer attributes tool this week that I will end up using regularly and it made me think about the tool’s purpose and why we might want to avoid using it as much as possible. I think there are many potential uses for batch geospatial processing methods that transfer attributes.…
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Cartography as Art
This past week I was on vacation with my extended family. I took some time out of kayaking, open water swimming, hiking, and generally counting turtles to explore a few Cartography books, continue with my ESRI courses, and make an artistic map. For ESRI courses I took: Sharing Maps and Layers with ArcGIS Pro was…