Data Managment

Bluewater Geospatial appreciates the investment your organization has made to acquire and maintain geographically-linked data. To protect and extend this investment, we offer a suite of data-centric services. These include:

Content Creation
The staff at Bluewater Geospatial is highly skilled at automating the creation geographic datasets from a variety of sources. These include writing web-based "screen scraping" and data mining applications to harvest geographic information from web pages, ftp sites, aspatial data formats, among others.

Data Migration
With fluency in the many languages of the new "geo web", Bluewater Geospatial can help migrate your geographic data to the Web 2.0 world. Through the conversion of legacy data to XML and JSON-based encodings, your data can find new life on the web and be readily accessed by a new generation of users.

Database Design
Bluewater Geospatial specializes in the design and implementation of Open Source spatial databases such as PostgreSQL/PostGIS. Such databases allow for a robust and scalable solution without the hassle and expense of a traditional commercially-licensed product.

Metadata
Although very often overlooked as part of the data creation process, metadata is crucial to ensure the downstream utility of the dataset. At Bluewater Geospatial, we can provide support at all stages of the metadata life cycle, from automated metadata generation to customized metadata portal creation.