A Geographical Information System (GIS) is a system of hardware and software used for storage, retrieval, mapping, and analysis of geographic data. Geography is a far-reaching discipline for businesses and governments with multibillion dollar implications. Determining sites, targeting market segments, planning distribution networks, responding to disasters and emergencies, or redrawing country and city boundaries—all of these issues involve questions of geography. CSH offers GIS and Mapping services prepared to assist you with your needs and challenges in addressing topics and business solutions such as these.

Data services—whether digitizing source maps or tracking down and converting existing data—is a major component of nearly all GIS projects, often comprising more than half the total work involved. CSH staff have hundreds of hours of experience digitizing from all kinds of media and transforming geographically oriented data from a multitude of source data into whatever you need. We probably already know where to find any off-the-shelf data that may be useful for your project. If not, we can probably track it down very quickly, since we do it all the time. In the early planning stages we can also provide valuable suggestions to make the data acquisition phase of your project as efficient as possible.

Fast and accurate digitizing to land use planning or cadastral standards

Experts at tracking down and incorporating off-the-shelf geographic data

Ability to transform almost anything geographic into clean GIS coverages

Spatial analysis involves taking two or more data layers and performing an operation on them to provide results for a specific purpose. That operation can be simple or complex, taking minutes or hours. The results may be in the form of statistics or a new data layer. No matter in what the field of work, spatial analysis derives meaning from data for better decision making. CSH has extensive working knowledge of the functionality and limitations of GIS software for performing spatial analysis. We understand data limitations as well and are capable and experienced in taking the data through complex calculations. This expertise, coupled with common sense, provide a solid foundation for accurate, unbiased analysis, giving you the results you need.