RyanDalton

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	age	39
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I've been a career GIS user for 15+ years. I am particularly interested in extending Business Intelligence through spatial analysis. Examples include enhanced retail/real estate decision-making during site selection, trade area analysis, customer research, and marketing through demographic analysis.

I have been using Python more and more for process automation, developing new tools and database maniupulation.

Most of my career I've been in the ESRI camp, but am now starting to use more open-source tools (QGIS, PostGIS, GDAL/OGR, web-based GIS) so I can "choose the right tool" for the job.

	7,930 reputation	bio	website	linkedin.com/in/ryankdalton	visits	member for	2 years, 7 months
11665 badges		location	Whitefish, MT		seen	6 hours ago

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209 Answers

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19	Alternatives to using Arcpy
14	When to use Model Builder over Python Scripting and vice versa?
13	How to Start Web Mapping?
12	How do I add a hyphen to the Field Calculator to merge 2 columns?
12	How can I define projections for multiple shape files in ArcMap 10 at once?

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+10	Render a map showing lots of individual traces/routes simultaneously
+5	Bulk load multiple shapefiles into PostGIS
+10	How to create a trade flow map in Arcgis or any free software
+10	Where can I get neighborhood boundaries?

50 Questions

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30	Creating drive time polygons using open source tools
19	Curved point-to-point “route maps”
19	Spatial ETL comparisons
16	How to create a polyline-based “heatmap” from GPS tracks?
16	Bulk load multiple shapefiles into PostGIS

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143 arcgis × 61	65 qgis × 41
134 python × 43	49 arcmap × 19
87 arcgis-10.0 × 41	47 geoprocessing × 19
76 data × 28	47 modelbuilder × 15
76 arcpy × 19	38 poi × 13