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Surfing has always been a geographic pursuit. Coastline, bathymetry, swell direction, wind and weather determine where waves happen — and surfers organize a surprising amount of their lives around being in the right place when they do. Wave pools are beginning to change that equation. Amy and I recently put together Beyond the Ocean: Wave Pools Around the World, an ArcGIS StoryMap exploring where modern wave pools are being built, the different technologies used to create sur

By Kevin Mayo, Founder, FLIPSIDEGEO Process Summaries and Blog Posts One of the first things I noticed watching my wife work through the University of West Florida GIS Certificate program wasn't a complicated geoprocessing model or a clever Python script. It was the requirement to complete a process summary and to prepare a blog post for every assignment during the year long, immersive GIS program at UWF. Every week went pretty much the same way. Learn something new, grind t

Every GIS department has artifacts.... Old layers. Forgotten web maps. Legacy services nobody wants to delete because nobody is quite sure what depends on them. Sometimes the challenge isn't finding the data. It's understanding the decisions that created it.