Farallon Round-up: CalGIS 2025

Last week, the Farallon team was thrilled to join with the broader GIS community and take part in CalGIS 2025 as bronze-level event sponsors. The conference was an awesome opportunity to see the exciting new innovations coming to our industry, share some of our own breakthroughs, and reconnect with old friends—while also welcoming new faces […]
Reference Data Manager for Concept Hierarchies: What, Why, and How

We’ve taken a pretty detailed tour of Arches capabilities to this point, especially with our recent foray into the building blocks of your Arches implementation. In our exploration, we’ve stressed the importance of building semantic metadata into your Arches implementation in order to build complete, accurate, and interoperable data. At the heart of this effort […]
Turning Data into Recovery: Understanding the Story of LA’s Fire Damage

Today we’re tabling some of our exciting project updates and instead celebrating the initiative and collaboration demonstrated by Peter Hansen, one of Farallon’s Geospatial Systems Consultants. In January, the greater Los Angeles community was rocked by a series of devastating fires which did incalculable damage to homes, neighborhoods, people, and memories. The impact of the […]
Data Models for YOUR Business

In previous posts, we’ve spoken about Arches’ flexibility and the various tools it offers to streamline your business processes, which is all well and good but we’ve yet to focus on the exact mechanisms that allow Arches to make such a promise. That’s what we will be exploring today—Arches’ data models and the customization of […]
Technical Spotlight: Searching by Related Resources in Arches

Farallon 2025 Update Farallon is kicking off the new year with an exciting update! We’re launching our official YouTube channel, offering a new way to engage with our content and dive deeper into our work. What better way to celebrate the start of the channel than with a technical showcase of some enhanced searchability features […]
Stewardship Evolved: Arches and esri for Seamless Data Integration

January 16th, 2025 Over the course of our last few blog posts, we’ve been looking at how Arches provides the tools needed for organizations to be better stewards of their most important assets. And we believe that one of Arches’ most import features is its ability to create, visualize, process, query, and publish geospatial data. […]
The Farallon Round-up: Farallon Geographics Wrapped 2024

November 26th, 2024 Attention geospatial developers, asset managers, resources stewards and music lovers alike! This is not a drill—we’ve got something special that we know you’ll appreciate. Why? Because at Farallon Geographics, we’re a team of people just like you, blending expertise in geospatial development, resource management, and a love for great music. The intersection […]
The Right Tools For The Job

November 21st, 2024 As stewards of commercial real estate, infrastructure, and marina facilities, the Port of San Francisco must do more than ensure the health of their resources against man-made degradation. Additionally, the Port’s waterfront resources are also threatened by environmental changes like storms and flooding, as well as longer term processes such as sedimentation […]
When Is a Cultural Heritage Inventory Not a Cultural Heritage Inventory?

November 13th, 2024 For a city on a peninsula, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the waterfront is a vibrant and integral part of the identity of San Francisco. The Port of San Francisco, or SF Port for short, has the distinctly challenging task of monitoring and maintaining the 7.5-mile stretch of waterfront home […]
Why Have a Cultural Heritage Inventory Part 2: Leverage Your Resources to Make Informed Decisions

November 7th, 2024 In our last post we looked at searching for and finding key resources in our inventory. Today, let’s look at how our inventory can help you make informed decisions about how to preserve and protect our heritage resources. In particular, Arches for HERs can help you navigate the precarious balancing act between […]