01 / INSPECT
Understand the input
Identify formats, coordinate systems, data quality issues and gaps before they create downstream problems.
Geospatial data for communities & infrastructure
Making geospatial data
easier to work with.
GeoPath Research and Consulting helps local governments, First Nations and the engineering teams that work with them turn drawings, field surveys and legacy files into reliable, GIS-ready information.
Explore our approachStart a conversationDATA INPUT
CAD & drawingsGNSS & field dataDrone & LiDARGIS filesTables & records
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INSPECT · TRANSFORM · VALIDATECoordinate systems, geometry, schema and quality checks
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USABLE OUTPUT
Clean datasetsDocumented QAGIS-ready layersWeb maps
Our approach
Getting spatial data ready to use.
Spatial information often arrives in incompatible formats, inconsistent coordinate systems and incomplete datasets. GeoPath focuses on the steps between receiving that information and putting it to work.
02 / PREPARE
Resolve and standardize
Develop repeatable workflows for transformation, cleaning, validation and data assembly.
03 / DELIVER
Make results usable
Produce GIS-ready datasets with clear documentation of processing decisions and remaining uncertainty.
Who we are
A small practice with deep experience.
GeoPath is a small BC-based geospatial practice led by a GIS specialist with more than 20 years of experience and doctoral training in geography. The work spans natural-resource, agricultural and engineering projects, with recent focus on infrastructure and asset data for community clients — including UAV and LiDAR survey work as a certified drone pilot.
One reliable source for community infrastructure data
A community engineering partner needed infrastructure, utility and right-of-way information brought together from drawings, field surveys and legacy files.
Started withScattered drawings, survey files and records in mixed formats and coordinate systems.
We didGeoreferenced, cleaned and validated the data into a single spatial database.
ResultA web map and asset platform that staff use day to day.
Flexible by design
Work alongside existing systems—or provide more.
Different organizations need different levels of geospatial support. Use a focused service where established GIS infrastructure already exists, or combine capabilities for a lightweight end-to-end solution.
Complement the systems you trust.
Prepare incoming development, contractor or field datasets for review and import into existing Esri or other GIS workflows—without requiring direct access to production systems.
Start with the essentials.
Appropriately scoped solutions for field data collection, processing, storage, mapping and export—designed around each community's ownership of and control over its own data.
Capabilities
What we do today, and where we're headed.
Core services are available now. A few longer-term directions build on the same foundation.
Available nowData preparation & automationIngestion, coordinate system workflows, geometry checks, schema standardization and repeatable processing.
Available nowField, drone & asset informationUAV and LiDAR survey, field collection, and organizing infrastructure data into maintainable web maps.
In developmentSpatial placementTurning contextual drawings and relative measurements into clearly qualified, approximate GIS features.
In developmentRemote monitoringLinking sensor observations with infrastructure locations and monitoring information.
Get in touch
Have a geospatial data problem worth solving?
Tell us what you're working with and what a useful outcome would look like. A short description is plenty to start.