Hey, it’s been a while since my last post and I’ll take a second to tell you why….I got a new job as CTO of a little company called The Carto Group. I niavely thought that nothing would change and I could do all my normal day to day blogs, tweets and awesome screenshots….how wrong […]
Tag: ESRI
The Problem with 3D GIS
3D GIS is game changing, it can change the way you view your analysis, it can provide insights which you may have overlooked….but there is a little problem which I may had not shared in my deluge of blogs about how great 3D GIS is….. …Sometimes it can be hard work. What I mean by […]
Using 3D Web Mapping to Model Offshore Archaeology
Ever since I started working in the renewables industry on offshore wind farms over 8yrs ago and had to analyse shipwrecks, I thought about how much more interactive and informative shipwreck analysis would be in 3D. There are many companies out there at the moment who produce the most amazing visualisations, where is the ability […]
GIS Tips – Quickly Scroll Through ArcMap Icons
Little trick to save yourself hours of trawling through point icons when using ArcMap (all versions)
QGIS 2.14 v ArcGIS 10.4
Posted in xyht magazine 21st March 2016 This post almost didn’t happen, for over 7yrs I’ve been comparing GIS software in the hope that someone would be reading and take it upon themselves to fix a few of the issues which we all run into on a daily basis. With the new releases someone told […]
New Job, New Goals, same Dragons8mycat
In case you aren’t on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, YouTube, Instagram or Geonet (don’t laugh I hear there are users) I decided that I needed a new challenge and to get behind a winning team. There are many areas of the geospatial world that interest me, I am a huge fan hydrography and positional accuracy, […]
3D GIS is a thing and let's embrace it
“The world we live in is a three dimensional world, so why do we map it and analyse it in just two dimensions?” – Dragons8mycat 2013 In the last 5 years we, the GIS industry, have made some fantastic advances. So why is it that we are so slow with the adoption of using […]
