PetersonGIS
"PetersonGIS is able to interpret our complex GIS needs, which are generally conceptual in nature, and turn them into tangible analyses and products."
--Jay L. Watson, PhD
Executive Director
Hood Canal Coordinating Council
MAKE IT SPATIAL
Showing the way with superb digital and print mapping solutions
Analysis
PetersonGIS got its start in 2001, creating salmonid refugia maps for several counties in Washington State. This led to work with NOAA, creating Chinook critical habitat maps, and with the Hood Canal Coordinating Council, working on forest harvest loss quantification of LiDAR imagery and other salmon-related habitat analyses.
Many clients and many projects later, PetersonGIS continues to be passionate about natural resources spatial analysis.
Cartography
PetersonGIS has always been interested in map data visualization techniques and avant-garde design, especially as these techniques further our customer's understanding of their data and further their message to their own customers. We've made hundreds of maps and written a few textbooks on cartography that are used in university classrooms around the world.
Map design tools are in a constant state of flux and continual improvement by many organizations and vendors. We keep our eye on the latest developments in the spatial field to make sure your needs are met to the fullest. Tools we're loving: Fresco, Tegola, Maputnik, Mapbox GL JS, OpenLayers, QGIS, ArcMap, Inkscape, D3.js, SLD, Imposm3, and Git for collaborative cartography.
Digital Mapping
We create custom designed, interactive basemaps for the entire world at all zoom levels. We work with you on your hosting needs for these basemaps, whether they will be stand-alone or embedded within an existing site.
Community Involvement
We love to be a part of the spatial community! See the instructional live-demo on how to make this map in our FOSS4GNA presentation and the accompanying written tutorial presented and tested at Boulder Maptime.
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