RyanDalton

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bio	website	linkedin.com/in/ryankdalton
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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	17 hours ago

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2d	answered	Hypothetical Cost Saving Question: Proprietary v Open Source
May 17	answered	How to create a trade flow map in Arcgis or any free software
May 14	answered	Is there a way to connect to PostgreSQL in ArcCatalog without SDE?
May 3	answered	Why is it important to use feature layers in ModelBuilder?
May 1	answered	How to Add Shapefile with Symbology from Layer File to ArcMap MXD using ArcPy/Python?
Apr 26	answered	Geopy Error with Reverse Geocoding
Apr 17	asked	How to convert geometry to WKT using ArcPy?
Apr 17	answered	How to georeference PNG images using QGIS?
Apr 12	answered	Why is QGIS reading in my CSV numeric data as string data, and how do I change it?
Apr 11	answered	What is the best free web GIS browser?
Apr 7	answered	When to use Model Builder over Python Scripting and vice versa?
Mar 5	answered	How to find differences between shapefiles?
Mar 5	answered	How can I do edit-and-continue in ModelBuilder?
Mar 1	answered	Halo use background color
Feb 28	answered	How to use directional shading on boundaries for cartographic effect?
Feb 28	answered	How do you store brief cartographical tips, information, possible future designs that you find?
Feb 25	answered	Natural neighborhoods terminology
Feb 25	answered	Advice on choosing ideal software for consultancy
Feb 22	answered	Render a map showing lots of individual traces/routes simultaneously
Feb 19	answered	Automating batch load of multiple GPX files into PostGIS