• What Changed in My Work Over the Past Year

    What Changed in My Work Over the Past Year

    Over the past year, this space has been quieter than I intended but not for lack of work. In that time, the scope and complexity of my work shifted pretty significantly. I focused on delivering several larger efforts, including three major projects that required more integrated analysis, expanded use of programmatic workflows, and closer coordination…

  • Downsampling – Does it mean what you think it means?

    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…

  • Why you might not want to use the Transfer Attributes Tool in ArcGIS Pro.

    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.…

  • Cartography as Art

    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…