Expertise
Your data tells a story. Visualize it with maps.
Using cartography and advanced GIS technology, Resource Data experts produce fit-for-purpose maps that communicate your data effectively. Whether it’s dynamic online maps and applications, maps for business presentations and reports, or maps integrated into third-party software, we translate your data into engaging visual formats.
Online Maps
Get responsive online maps for websites and mobile devices that provide real-time data visualization and empower users to interact with layers of spatial information easily. Our cartographers use platforms like Esri’s ArcGIS Pro to enhance geospatial data with custom filters, symbology, and labels for visually appealing maps. Users can zoom, toggle layers, and search features for a dynamic and user-friendly experience.
Digital Maps
Need a way to store spatial and location-based data that integrates into your software applications? We create geo-enabled digital maps in PDF, PNG, and TIFF formats. By stitching together aerial imagery into a cohesive fabric, our team uses data from remote sensing to produce high-quality digital maps. These maps provide precise spatial information in a user-friendly format, making them valuable for reports, permit applications, and presentations.
Print Maps
If you need high-quality maps for a variety of print media, including posters, brochures, and technical reports, rely on Resource Data. Using advanced GIS software and cartography, we produce visually appealing, clear, and detailed maps tailored to your specific needs—whether for public display or in-depth analysis. Our team delivers your maps in digital format and advises on optimal printer settings, so you get the best quality wherever you print them.
Atlases and Map Books
Get comprehensive atlases and map books that compile your detailed geographic information for in-depth analysis and reference. We create rich, accurate representations of diverse spatial phenomena that support academic research, policy development, and resource management. Our experts also produce repeatable map series focusing on specific data types that regenerate based on data updates, so you can access the most up-to-date version with a click of a button.
Our Clients
Hundreds of clients. Thousands of GIS projects.
I appreciate the level of professionalism and technical expertise that Resource Data provides. They work hard to understand our needs and circumstances. The team is really good at remembering all the details and bringing them back up to ensure nothing falls through the cracks.
~ Nils Andreassen, Executive Director, Alaska Municipal League
ASTAR
StoryMaps for responsible infrastructure development
The mission of the Arctic Strategic Transportation and Resources (ASTAR) project is to identify, evaluate, and advance responsible infrastructure development, enhancing the quality of life and economic opportunities in North Slope communities.
Resource Data helped collect project ideas and benefit criteria through community engagement meetings and surveys using Esri’s Survey123 app. The results were compiled in a series of ArcGIS StoryMaps. Each North Slope community has a custom web map, detailing information about the community and projects happening there.
Municipality of Anchorage
Garnering public support for redistricting with maps
Resource Data provided GIS, web design, and project management services to help the Municipality of Anchorage meet critical redistricting requirements based on the 2020 U.S. Census.
Our team produced mapping and analysis for the Reapportionment Committee and the Anchorage Assembly, processed and published publicly submitted maps and data, and implemented and managed an online, public commenting portal.
We used Esri tools to leverage the client’s existing system. Then, our team developed redistricting methods and workflows to provide a streamlined, defensible approach that supported public involvement and collaboration. Our process ensured transparency and encouraged public engagement, resulting in public support for the final boundaries.
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM)
25 years of GIS services
For 25 years, Resource Data has provided a variety of GIS services to BOEM, developing and maintaining 20+ applications, such as the
- Sea Ice Toolbar: Shows sea-ice conditions in an ArcGIS map. Users can integrate observations and analysis of ice layers with other physical, biological, and social data sets.
- Ocean Data Toolbar: Allows analysis of ocean conditions like temperature and currents.
- Office of Environment Map Viewer: A web app that allows users to view information and general locations of spatially enabled datasets.
- Oil Spill Risk Analysis (OSRA) Toolbar & Utilities: Displays and manages data to estimate potential oil spill risks associated with offshore activities.
Gulf Coast Restoration Organization
Data management to help restore the Gulf Coast
When a major oil spill occurred in the Gulf of Mexico, Resource Data built custom applications and led the GIS team that provided crucial spatial information in the spill-response efforts. After the crisis, the Gulf Coast Restoration Organization (GCRO) was established to manage and facilitate the use of this vast collection of data for environmental restoration, litigation, and scientific research.
Since the founding of GCRO, Resource Data GIS experts have provided a wide range of GIS data management, mapping, and support. We have performed data cleanup, including creating “golden” datasets to reflect extensively validated and normalized information, conducted data analysis, and built custom tools. This has included a GIS and file-inventory tool that allowed analysts to locate files by type (photos, documents, GIS), collect metadata, and consolidate data into consistent and complete datasets.
Our work is helping the client track potential environmental damage, demonstrate they completed cleanup requirements, and manage data for legal claims.
Federal Aviation Administration
A powerful web tool improves aviation safety and reduces costs
Pilots in Alaska often fly in remote locations and in severe weather patterns, facing higher risks of accidents and flight interruptions. Resource Data partnered with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to build a new version of its weather camera website, giving pilots access to real-time imagery and accurate weather information from live camera feeds. The new site, weathercams.faa.gov, makes a wealth of complex information quickly accessible and understandable to pilots before and during flights, improving flight decision making and aviation safety.
Real-World Solutions
Visualize location data.Meet new challenges.
These real-world mapping examples show the versatility of mapping and GIS across different sectors—worldwide. They showcase just a few ways maps provide the opportunity to review, rethink, and reimagine how we can build a sustainable future. Whether infrastructure, health and safety, economic planning, or engineering, maps have impact.
Urban Planning
GIS tools and maps help urban planners analyze and visualize data effectively. Base and topographic maps show land use, transportation networks, infrastructure, and natural features. GIS technology provides accurate, up-to-date data—property boundaries, tax-related, zoning, permitting, demographics of an area, green spaces, and more—to facilitate decision making around creating and managing urban spaces.
Environmental Monitoring
GIS tools, including digital maps, leverage integrated data sources and real-time updates to accurately represent and track changes in different environments. Data from remote-sensing sources like aerial photography and satellites provide high-resolution imagery to create detailed maps of features and changes. Digital maps allow you to see natural and human-caused changes to an area as they happen, which help you monitor, manage, and plan.
Infrastructure Management
Whether government or industry, agencies must maintain infrastructure assets and plan for the future. GIS maps are used to manage and optimize infrastructure like power grids, pipelines, bridges, roads, and highways. For example, utility companies can use GIS to map and monitor transmission lines, identify areas of energy loss, and plan for grid expansion. GIS also helps in selecting optimal locations for renewable energy installations like wind farms or solar panels, analyzing environmental factors such as sunlight, wind patterns, and proximity to existing infrastructure.
Logistics Optimization
Mapping is vital for optimizing logistics by enhancing route planning, fleet management, and supply chain coordination. They enable real-time traffic monitoring and infrastructure management, reducing fuel costs, improving delivery times, and ensuring efficient transportation systems. Digital maps with GPS and web-based GIS platforms provide centralized, interactive maps that integrate live data for better coordination across distribution networks. While printed maps support strategic route planning and contingency operations, especially in areas with limited internet access.