Birdseye Studio GIS specializes in mapping applications that support land use planning decisions. My Ph.D. Dissertation focused on GIS in planning and natural resource management. In the course of my research I spent a year as a GIS specialist at the San Francisco Planning Department.   My GIS work has ranged from urban landuse analyses to urban interface wildlife habitats.  I have written and spoken extensively on the ways in which GIS brings things into a social context and lies somewhere between describing and defining the world. A key idea is that land use GIS is a process of translating multiple prespectives into tangible spatial data. But static maps are more effective when accompanied by other perspectives such as images and narratives that provide a sense of the world in motion and a sense of place.  The process of GIS should evoke these perspectives rather than tack them on as an afterthought.  MORE ...

GIS Clients include: San Francisco Department of Planning, Save the Bay, Bay Nature Magazine, and Urban Explorer.

Contact me with your questions.  References upon request.