Conflated Technologies: GIS, GPS and Survey
Let’s evaluate how each of these technologies captures and reads geographic data. Often times these technologies get confused in the endless source of geographic data available…
Articles by David Jones
ArcGIS Online and Moving to the Cloud
Many GIS professionals are getting used to the new ArcGIS Online offered by ESRI. ArcGIS Online is a cloud based solution for data pooling and…
Do I really need GISP Certification?
There are two trains of though on how a person who practices GIS as their career should validate their credentials.
Big Data Technologies in Oil and Gas
Big data encompasses the ever expanding structured, unstructured and semi-structured data that companies of all sizes collect and store. Most companies store their data in…
Cutting through the sheets of data in GIS
There is a new sheriff in town when it comes to alignment sheet generation, and it is called SheetCutter. This is an alignment sheet generator…
Big Data, technology’s crude oil
Companies acquire data every day in addition to what have been stored over the years. In the oil and gas industry, data come in many…
Pipeline Week
Pipeline Week is here again! This conference is in its second year features the Geospatial and Information Technology Association (GITA) and Pipeline Open Data Standards…
Pipeline Open Data Standards – An Explanation of the Core Module
Anyone who has ever seen the schematic diagram located on the Pipeline Open Data Standards (PODS) website (www.pods.org) is directed to a brightly colored, categorized…
The Pipeline Open Data Standard, Domains – Constraining Data Input
The Pipeline Open Data Standard (PODS) database is designed to be a reporting tool for pipeline projects by creating a populated database of relevant information…
XToolsPro vs ET GeoWizards
When it comes to general-purpose third party ArcGIS Desktop Extensions, two popular products stand out: ET GeoWizards and XTools Pro. ET GeoWizards is an ArcGIS…