Practical writing on GIS and utility modernization.
No thought-leadership vagueness. Articles written from field experience, aimed at the people doing the work and the people commissioning it.
Why Mexican utilities are sitting on a records crisis — and what it's costing them
Infrastructure data problems rarely announce themselves. They accumulate quietly for years until an outage takes three times as long to fix, a regulator asks a question nobody can answer, or a capital project gets derailed by baseline data the engineer can no longer trust.
Read articleWhat UPDM actually means for a gas utility modernizing its GIS
The Utility and Pipeline Data Model gets cited in every modernization proposal. Most utilities accept it without understanding what it commits them to — and what it doesn't.
Read articleThe governance failure behind most failed GIS implementations
When a GIS program fails, the post-mortem almost always blames the technology or the vendor. It's almost never either. The real failure is usually visible in the org chart, not the configuration.
Read articleField Maps vs. paper: what the transition actually looks like for utility crews
Every mobile GIS rollout hits the same wall: experienced crews who've worked from paper for twenty years and see no reason to change. Here's what the transition actually requires.
Read articleHow to scope a GIS data audit: what to ask, what to expect
A GIS data audit is usually the right first step when a utility suspects its records are unreliable but can't quantify the problem. Here's how to scope one honestly.
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