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Registration for Spatial Hotdish Has Closed
Spatial Hotdish is a friendly, team-based map/geo hack-a-thon ‘competition’ combining people from the web development and “traditional GIS“ communities in the Twin Cities. Think… Iron Chef with a geospatial (and Minnesota) twist! Work on a team to create a browser-based spatial data visualization using data that you find and a few last-minute secret ingredients. We’re .. read more
Mar, 2012
Northstar Geographics and GIS Rangers have merged!
We are thrilled to announce the merger of Northstar Geographics and GIS Rangers into a single new company – Flat Rock Geographics, LLC. So why the change? Northstar Geographics and GIS Rangers have been tossing each other work for the last couple of years. As we worked more and more closely, it became apparent that .. read more
Jan, 2012
Mapping the Community Organizer’s Brain
A recent Star Tribute article highlighted the fantastic community GIS that St. Paul’s District 7 “Frogtown” neighborhood has created. Over the years Tait Danielson Castillo, executive director of the Frogtown Neighborhood Association has used many student interns to create simple maps for the neighborhood using ESRI desktop software. However, as is often the case there was no continuity .. read more
Jan, 2012
Mapping and Measuring Minnesota’s Water Quality
RMB Environmental Laboratories (RMB) in Detroit Lakes, MN, works with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) to provide free water quality reports on many lakes throughout the state. Along with a laboratory analysis of each lake’s amount of phosphorus and chlorophyll-a, other observations such as water clarity, water levels, rainfall amounts and recreational suitability are also documented. read more
Aug, 2011
Mapping the Annual Whooping Crane Migration
We are thrilled to begin our next project with the International Crane Foundation (ICF). Maybe you’ve read about or seen pictures of ultralight airplanes leading Whooping Cranes on their annual migration. This year we will be extending ICF’s mapFeeder application to support this migration from Florida to Wisconsin and back again! For the first time .. read more
Mar, 2010