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GIS Automation
Insights

Technical guides, migration roadmaps, and real automation stories from top-5 reinsurers, government agencies, and enterprise GIS teams.

8 articles

164 min total read

Geospatial Workflow Automation: The Complete Enterprise Guide

Featured

Strategy25 min

Geospatial Workflow Automation: The Complete Enterprise Guide

A bird's eye view of the automation landscape. Industry patterns, technology decisions (Python vs FME), ROI frameworks, and implementation roadmaps from enterprise-scale deployments.

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The Hidden Cost of Manual Geospatial Workflows

Strategy

18 min

The Hidden Cost of Manual Geospatial Workflows

Why manual workflows cost enterprises millions—not through labour, but through missed opportunities, compounding errors, and capacity ceilings. A C-suite analysis.

ESRI Migration Economics: The Numbers They Don't Show You

Strategy

30 min

ESRI Migration Economics: The Numbers They Don't Show You

A brutally honest Total Cost of Ownership analysis. Why Year 1 might cost MORE than staying put, how the Engineering Tax works, and when migration actually makes financial sense.

Technical

18 min

From ArcPy to GeoPandas: A Technical Migration Guide

When NOT to switch, memory management for massive datasets, and the hybrid architecture we use when GeoPandas isn't enough. Real benchmarks and complete code examples.

ArcPy to Rasterio: Complete Raster Processing Migration Guide

Technical

18 min

ArcPy to Rasterio: Complete Raster Processing Migration Guide

Migrate from ArcPy Spatial Analyst to Rasterio with NumPy, xarray, and Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFF. Real benchmarks showing 10-50x speedups and production-ready code.

Cloud-Native Geospatial Formats: A Pragmatic Guide

Technical

22 min

Cloud-Native Geospatial Formats: A Pragmatic Guide

COG, GeoParquet, and STAC explained. Real performance benchmarks showing 368x improvements, when NOT to use them, and complete migration strategy.

Training

18 min

Training Your GIS Team for Workflow Automation: The Honest Truth

The psychological reality of moving from desktop GIS to code. Why productivity drops before it spikes, how pair programming replaces classroom training, and when teams shouldn't attempt this transition.