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Geospatial and ArcGIS consulting

Most business problems are location problems wearing a different hat. Where to open. Which crew goes where. Where you aren't serving. Which rules apply to which site.

We answer those in ArcGIS Pro and hand you a map and a record your team can work from, along with the underlying data. Not a one off report that sits in a drawer.

01 / The problem

You already have the data. It's just not on a map.

Almost every company holds location data and treats it as an address field on an invoice. Customers, sites, assets, crews, competitors, jurisdictions, drive times. All of it sits in rows, where the pattern is invisible.

Put the same rows on a map and the questions start answering themselves. The territory that's three times the size of the others. The corridor with forty customers and no service. The depot that's in the wrong place by twenty minutes on every single run. The site that sits across a boundary and falls under a regulation no one checked.

The other half of the work is capture. Visit a site once, document it completely, and never guess about it again. Most operations visit a site three times, because the first two visits didn't record what the third one needed.

02 / What we do

Everything this covers.

Site documentation

  • Exact coordinates and measured setbacks
  • Access and egress, hazards, muster points and confined spaces
  • Everything a crew needs in order to arrive oriented
  • One record per location that travels with the job
  • Captured on the first visit, updated on every visit after
  • Matters most on remote sites, where a return trip costs a day

Where to be

  • Site selection for opening, closing or relocating
  • Catchment and drive time analysis
  • Demographic and demand data joined to your own sales records
  • Competitor locations mapped against yours
  • Coverage gaps: where you aren't serving and should be

Territory and routing

  • Sales territory and service area design balanced by workload, not by a line on a map
  • Route and dispatch planning by proximity and drive time
  • Depot and hub placement
  • Crew assignment weighted by travel cost instead of by habit

Assets and inventory

  • Every asset mapped as a point with its condition, status and history
  • Inspection status readable at a glance
  • What is due, what is overdue, and where
  • Photos and documents attached to the location they belong to

Jurisdictions and rules

  • Boundaries laid over your operations, so you know which rules apply where
  • Permits and regulation tied to the exact site
  • Expansion analysis run before you quote a new region

Data and formats

  • Automated extraction from public and open data services, with paging, retries and validation
  • Geospatial formats joined to your business records
  • Analysis delivered as maps and as data you keep, not as a screenshot in a PDF
ArcGIS Pro · Spatial analysis · Field data capture · Open data services
03 / How it works

The order we do it in.

01

Get it on a map

Your records geocoded and joined to whatever public data the question needs. The first map usually answers something before any analysis has run.

02

Ask the real question

Not where are our customers. Where are we losing money to distance, and what would change it.

03

Analyse

In ArcGIS Pro. Drive times, service areas, density, overlay, proximity, gaps. The answer comes with its method, so it can be defended and repeated next year.

04

Hand it over

A map your team works from and the underlying data, so the analysis is an asset instead of an invoice.

04 / Fit

Who this is for.

A good fit

  • Companies with vehicles, field crews or physical sites
  • Multi site or multi region businesses
  • Anyone planning to open, close or relocate
  • Operations regulated differently in different jurisdictions
  • Companies with assets in the ground to inspect and maintain
  • Businesses whose territories were drawn years ago and never revisited
  • Utility, telecom and locate contractors
  • Construction and multi site field operations
05 / Questions

What people ask about this.

What is geospatial consulting, and does my business need it?
Geospatial work means using location as data instead of as an address on an invoice. If you've vehicles, field crews, physical sites, service territories, assets in the ground, or customers spread across a region, most of your hardest questions are location questions. Where to open or close. Which crew goes where. Where you aren't serving and should be. Which regulations apply to which site. We answer those in ArcGIS Pro and hand you a map and a record your team can work from.
Do we need to buy ArcGIS licences?
No. We hold the software and do the analysis. You receive the maps, the reports and the underlying data in formats you can open and keep. If you later want the capability in house we'll help you set that up, but nothing about this engagement requires you to buy a licence first.
We only have addresses in a spreadsheet. Is that enough to start?
Usually yes. Addresses geocode into coordinates, and that's enough to answer most of the first round of questions about density, coverage and territory. Where the work needs precision on the ground, such as setbacks, hazards or asset condition, that comes from a site visit, and we'd rather do one visit than three visits badly.
06 / Related

The work next door.

These almost always come up together. An audit that finds a process problem usually finds a data problem underneath it.

Start here

Start with the audit.

Every business is different, so we scope the audit that way. We spend time inside your operation and watch the work actually happen. You get a written map of every valley, what it costs you a year, and what it would take to flatten it. That document is yours whether or not we build anything.

Emailadaignault@peaksnvalleysconsulting.com
Phone(250) 423-9511
FoundersKamila Domanska · Alex Daignault
Based inNelson, British Columbia
ServingCanada and the United States