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what we actually do, in plain terms, without the vendor pitch.
whereabouts offers geospatial consulting across six core areas. Most engagements pull from more than one. We scope everything transparently upfront, and we tell you when a simpler solution is the right one, even if it means less work for us.
Your spatial data is only as useful as the database it lives in. We design, build, and administer geospatial databases from scratch or take over the ones that have gotten away from you.
This includes data modeling, governance frameworks, migration from legacy systems, and the ongoing administration work that keeps everything running cleanly. We've worked across PostgreSQL, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and the full Esri stack, and we know how to build databases that grow with your organization instead of against it.
This is probably for you if: your data lives in spreadsheets, your database was set up by someone who's no longer there, or things are getting slow and inconsistent in ways you can't quite explain.
ArcGIS Enterprise is powerful. It's also notoriously complex to configure, maintain, and keep stable, especially for organizations without a dedicated GIS team.
We've deployed and administered Enterprise systems across healthcare, transportation, and government sectors, including high-availability multi-machine environments with integrations into EMS CAD, data lakes, and enterprise platforms. We take the technical weight off your plate so your team can focus on the work instead of the infrastructure.
This is probably for you if: your Enterprise environment was stood up and then handed off, you're not sure what half of your services are doing, or you're planning a new deployment and want to get it right the first time.
We build the geospatial applications your organization actually uses.
Whether that's a field data collection app for your crews, a public-facing web map, a desktop analysis environment, or a dashboard your leadership team can actually read. We design and build solutions that match the way your people work. We move across ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Pro, Experience Builder, Survey123, Field Maps, and low-code tools, and we'll tell you honestly when an out-of-the-box solution is the right call instead of a custom build.
This is probably for you if: your team is printing maps and filling out paper forms, you have data that the public should be able to see, or your current applications don't reflect how your work actually gets done.
A lot of organizations have GIS workflows that take longer than they should.
We've written Python scripts that turned three-day manual processes into overnight jobs, built automated ETL pipelines, and developed the kinds of tools that make your analysts' lives measurably better. If your team is doing something repetitive by hand that a well-written script or ideally engineered FME could handle, we'd like to know about it.
This is probably for you if: your team does the same geoprocessing steps over and over, your data ingestion process is manual and error-prone, or you've been meaning to automate something for a year and haven't gotten to it.
When platform tools aren't enough, we build. Custom development at whereabouts covers the full range of bespoke geospatial software work — on the Esri stack, outside it, or both.
The work includes custom web and mobile application development, ArcGIS Maps SDK and JavaScript API development, ArcGIS Pro SDK add-in and extension development, REST API and third-party integration work, automated ETL pipelines, and bespoke analytical tools built to specification. If it involves writing code to make geospatial data do something that out-of-the-box tools can't, this is where it lives.
This is probably for you if: you need something built that doesn't exist, you need Esri platform functionality extended beyond what configuration allows, or you need your geospatial systems to talk to systems that weren't designed to communicate with them.
Sometimes you don't need a database. You need someone to help you figure out what you actually need well before you spend money on the wrong thing.
We provide strategic consulting on GIS software selection, vendor evaluation, organizational data strategy, stakeholder engagement, and growth planning. We've helped organizations navigate everything from their first ArcGIS Online subscription to enterprise-scale procurement decisions involving multiple platforms and vendors. We don't work on commission. We work for you.
This is probably for you if: you're being asked to make a technology decision you're not confident in, you're evaluating vendors and want an independent perspective, or your GIS program is growing faster than your strategy for it.
Ready to talk?
Most of our best engagements start with a pretty simple conversation. Tell us what's going on and we'll tell you honestly whether and how we can help.