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GIS consulting & deployment.

QGIS, PostGIS, GeoServer, ArcGIS Enterprise & Online. Geodatabase design, spatial analysis, cartography. The boring, well-deployed kind of GIS that still works in five years.

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What this practice does

GIS that survives a staff change.

Most GIS estates in Ireland are not in trouble because the technology is wrong. They're in trouble because no one wrote down what was deployed, why, or how to operate it after the original team left.

We deploy and document GIS environments — open-stack or ArcGIS — that your team can actually run. That means real geodatabase design, named data owners, documented refresh schedules, and cartography that reads at the scales it will be used at. Not a one-off project that decays.

Capabilities

Five capabilities, recurring across engagements.

Most clients pull two or three of these at a time. A few pull all five.

01

ArcGIS Enterprise & Online deployment

Stand up, migrate, or take over an estate. Portal for ArcGIS, Server, Data Store, hosted services, identity, backup. The unglamorous bits that determine whether it lasts.

  • Portal & Server
  • Data Store sizing
  • Identity (Entra / SAML)
  • Backup & DR
  • Patching playbook
  • Cost model
02

Geodatabase design

PostGIS or Esri file geodatabase, depending on stack. Schemas, domains, subtypes, attribute rules, versioning. The shape your data takes is what determines whether everything downstream works.

  • PostGIS schemas
  • Domains & subtypes
  • Attribute rules
  • Versioning
  • FME / ETL flows
  • Migration scripts
03

Spatial analysis & cartography

Network analysis, suitability modelling, viewshed, hydrology, density. Map design that reads at print, web and tablet — not just the screen the analyst made it on.

  • Suitability models
  • Network analysis
  • Hydrology / DEM
  • Print cartography
  • Web map styling
  • Symbology systems
04

Open-source GIS stack

QGIS, PostGIS, GeoServer, MapProxy, pg_tileserv. Our default where the answer is open by policy, or where the per-seat economics of Esri don't work for the size of the team.

  • QGIS rollouts
  • PostGIS tuning
  • GeoServer / OGC APIs
  • Vector tiles
  • MapLibre styling
  • Plugin development
05

Field apps on the Esri stack

Field Maps, Survey123, Workforce, Dashboards — configured, secured, and integrated with whatever your back office runs on. For clients already invested in the Esri stack.

  • Field Maps configs
  • Survey123 XLSForms
  • Workforce dispatch
  • Operations Dashboards
  • Velocity feeds
  • QA / sync monitoring
How we work

No surprises after sign-off.

Buyer questions

FAQs.

Do you do QGIS or ArcGIS?

Both, with a preference for open-source where it fits. QGIS, PostGIS and GeoServer are our default stack. ArcGIS where the client already has it and needs deeper use of what they own. We'll recommend whichever fits, not whichever pays us better.

Can you take over an existing ArcGIS Enterprise someone else set up?

Yes. Environments stood up by an integrator who has since disappeared, or that have drifted out of supported patterns. We audit the estate, write a stabilisation plan, and either operate it or hand it back to your team to operate.

Do you train our staff?

Yes. We prefer leaving clients capable of running their own GIS, so training and pairing are part of most engagements. Standalone training-only engagements are also fine.

Yours isn't here? Ask us directly.

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Have an existing estate?

We'll do a no-charge audit call before we propose anything.

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Tell us what's deployed and what's not working. We'll be direct about whether we're the right fit.