Category: Mapping

Mapping in General

Using Maps to save money in HOA Management

Using maps in HOA Management is key to communicating all the most important items of the property. How you deliver that information comes in many forms from screen shots from your favorite free map platform, Adobe design, to using a full GIS. Lots of options for different costs and level of detail. If you are…

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Skimap Roundup for 2023-24

The season isn’t over for me (and won’t be for a while) but the annual update is now finished. 631 Resorts (The only provider of complete North American coverage) 29,478 Named Runs 4,136 Lifts 332,073 Acres Full interactive dashboard here. 262 or 41% of North American ski resorts had some kind of map change this…

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Using Maps to make money in Commercial Real Estate

Using maps in Commercial Real Estate is key to communicating all the most important items of the deal. How you deliver that information comes in many forms from screen shots from your favorite free map platform, Adobe design, to using a full GIS. Lots of options for different costs and level of detail. If you…

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500 Ski Resorts and Counting

After scrubbing my entire resort database yet again this offseason and adding more detail and data to the existing database. I have now passed 500 ski resorts with a target of 560 for this upcoming season, including 100+ resorts in Canada. I am aiming to have the most accurate and complete library of ski resort…

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New Skimap Stores

Over the summer as we ramped up for the ski season we greatly expanded the ways you can get your favorite skimap on even more products. Here is a brief rundown with some samples and links to our new skimap stores. Our longest running option is Avenza maps. Where you can get off network versions…

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Mapping out the SkiUtah Interconnect

In working with SkiUtah (and being a member, which we love) we found they were having a hard time explaining to guests what The SkiUtah Interconnect Tour was. Where the tour went, what resorts it covered and what the terrain looked like were popular questions. So we decided to help Mapping out the SkiUtah Interconnect. What is The…

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Geo Locate Photos Automatically and place them on a Map

Lets say you are out taking pictures of locations with your phone. Possibly for an upcoming real estate tour.  Go into your phone settings and make sure that location tags (Geotagged) are enabled. This means that every time you snap a picture with your phone, location data will be captured and tagged to your photo…

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Mapping out HOA’s

At a HOA meeting a while back we were discussing the ways to use Maps and GIS in new ways with several associations and managers. The topic came up that the existing HOA Maps they had on hand were either original plat maps or screen grabs from google maps. Neither option satisfied their needs and…

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Navigation Challenges

We have spent a lot of time riding chairlifts lately and we have been noticing one glaring item from our short term friends on the chair. While everyone is trying to figure out where to go next they are having navigation challenges in where they are vs where they want to be. Now imagine the…

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Case Study – Optimizing Union Election Locations

We recently completed a new mapping analysis project in another new space, Unions. Huh? Yes Unions. Let us explain. Optimizing Union Election Locations We were contacted by Food Workers Union whose members *(numbering in the thousands) covered multiple states and hundreds of locations. The Union wanted to optimize poling locations for their upcoming elections. They…

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