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The United States is home to more than 60,000 public boat ramps, giving anglers, boaters, and water recreation enthusiasts access to the country’s vast network of lakes, rivers, reservoirs, bays, and coastal waterways. Whether you call them boat ramps, boat launches, or slipways, this interactive map helps you find the nearest public launch point wherever your adventures take...

For most of its history, viewshed analysis was the kind of GIS technique that lived behind a paywall — or at least behind a steep learning curve. You needed ArcGIS or QGIS, a digital elevation model, and enough working knowledge of raster processing to set up the inputs correctly. The outputs were genuinely useful: a map showing exactly which parts of a landscape are visible ...

Ask any experienced deer hunter where to look first on a cold autumn morning, and the answer is usually some version of the same thing: find the sunny faces. It is received wisdom in the field, the kind of knowledge that gets handed down without much explanation. The explanation, it turns out, is almost entirely a GIS problem — and someone has now built a tool that makes it q...

There is a generation of New Zealand hunters who still carry paper topo maps into the back country. They are not wrong to do so — paper does not run out of battery, does not lose signal, and does not require a working touchscreen with cold wet fingers. But the information advantage those maps once represented has been comprehensively overtaken. What is replacing them is not j...

One of the persistent frustrations in applied GIS work is the gap between the platform where analysis happens and the environment where decisions get acted on. You build something useful on a desktop, and then you have to figure out how to get it into the field, or into the next application in the workflow, or into the hands of someone who does not use the same software you d...