At a minimum, you should be able to look at a map and know if you are standing in a flood zone. It sounds simple. We have spent billions of tax dollars scanning the entire surface of the United States down to centimeter accuracy. We have thousands of stream gauges monitoring water levels every 15 […]

You’ve built the pipelines. Your data is in cloud-native formats. You have a lakehouse architecture that can govern petabytes of spatial data. Now what? Now you need to actually query that data and extract insights from it. And this is where the rubber meets the road for cloud-native geospatial systems. The query engine you choose […]

I get this question almost every day. “I feel stuck in legacy GIS, and I want to update my skills, but I don’t know where to start.” It does not matter if your goal is to keep up with the field, hit the next career milestone, or ship a project that feels out of reach. […]

Do you feel like your GIS career has stalled even though you are putting in the effort, learning new tools, and taking on more responsibility? You are not alone. Many early and mid-career GIS professionals reach a point where advancement feels slow, uncertain, or entirely out of reach. However, this is not a sign that […]

Most GIS professionals start their journey in desktop software. And while much of the spotlight goes to proprietary tools like ArcGIS, there’s another platform that’s open source, incredibly powerful, and central to modern GIS. That tool is QGIS. It’s where many people create their first map, run their first spatial join, and begin bridging the […]