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 […]

The Farallon Round-up: Looking Back at the Fall 2024 Hack Trip

October 23rd, 2024 And what a trip it was! This season’s hack trip brought the team back to Palm Springs, California for some time in the sun. Falling just before the end of the hot season, the team faced the desert head on with the power of gasoline and adrenaline at our backs, in a […]

Effective Stewardship Starts Here

October 21st, 2024 Given the gravity of the events that we’ve brought up thus far, you might be thinking that our solution to making our clients better stewards is radical. Maybe something along the lines of the climate-controlling satellites from Geostorm (2017) or shooting silver iodide rockets into tornados like Daisy Edgar-Jones’ character, Kate, in […]

Resource Stewardship in a Changing World

October 14th, 2024 In the aftermath of Hurricane Helene and the full force of Hurricane Milton, we’ve had time to reflect on the devastation the storms brought and how quickly they’ve altered the way many people recognize our changing world.  The storms tore across the southeastern United States, flooding cities and towns, destroying structures and […]