This is where Bright Rain shares the things we build, break, and rebuild — the small experiments that turn into better tools, sharper thinking, and useful solutions. From mapping projects and custom apps to field-tested workflows and lessons learned, this space is about doing the work, reflecting on it, and finding clarity in motion.
I put together a dead simple interface to convert GeoJSON to ArcJSON using the Esri GeoJSON Utils repo. I also threw in a feature to preview the result on a map, but it’s a bit spotty… Source available on GitHub It really is just a…
Continue reading...For many of my clients purchasing and managing ArcGIS Server has been out of the question based on limited IT and GIS resources. So for years I’ve been testing hosted services that would allow them to get maps out to their customers via the web.
Continue reading...On Tuesday, MapBox announced the release of its new Satellite layer, based partially on NAIP imagery in the US. So I said I’d like to test it for speed against the NAIP Web Map Service (WMS) hosted by USGS National Map, which I was currently…
Continue reading...In researching the Fulcrum API for potential use in a project, I pushed it a bit further and ended up building a tool to import Fulcrum data into ArcGIS. This happens — sometimes for the good and sometimes purely for the exercise of clicking. This…
Continue reading...After a recent spate of contacts by recruiters via LinkedIn and exchanges on Twitter (which included Bill Dollins referring to recruiters on LinkedIn as the new travel agents), I started thinking about my past experience with recruiters as a freelancer and how it might actually…
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