NACIS 2024

Symbol Fonts: an Automated Workflow
Kate Leroux & Tony Cannistra, onX Maps
As an outdoor-focused company, onX uses many icons to designate recreational points of interest on our maps. In this talk, we’ll first describe how we use Figma to organize icons across our apps and communicate our iconography with other internal teams. We’ll also share the automated workflow we developed that builds stylesheet glyphs and font files for web clients, and ensures a stable synchronization of glyph identifiers across our systems.

3D Mapping Kennecott Mines National Historic Landmark Utilizing LiDAR and Architectural Illustration 
Guthrie Alexander
A walkthrough of how terrestrial LiDAR and architectural illustration techniques were utilized to create a accurate 3D map of Kennecott Mines National Historic Landmark for use in the updated Unigrid brochure.

Making Complex Labels Work! Leveraging Label Expressions, Abbreviation Dictionaries, Priorities and Placement Properties in ArcGIS Pro 
Carl Swanson, Oregon Department of Forestry
Oregon Department of Forestry’s Protection District Maps are 1:100,000 products that cover each of ODF’s 12 districts across the state. Comprised of 53 maps that cover around 74,000 square miles, they are used by local ODF district staff and are sold to the public for recreational use. Formerly, these maps were made with annotation and map graphics for labels. Over the last few years our GIS Team has focused on moving our Protection District Maps from annotation and graphic labels to dynamic labeling using the attributes from our enterprise data. This presentation will describe our label strategy, with some practical examples of our label expressions and cartographic process.

Building Tiny Custom Web Maps
Stephanie May
Ever wondered how you can create custom web maps for your portfolio, passion project, or job WITHOUT setting up a tile server, web server, or cloud services account? Hoping to do it without too much coding or cost? Got some maps you made and just want to display with a little bit of interactivity? This talk will walk you quickly through what you need to do to create and show interactive web maps serverlessly with PMtiles, Protomaps JS, and MapLibre.

How to Mop the MAUP?
Maggie Mateu, atopia
The Modifiable Area Unit Problem (MAUP) occurs when quantities of a spatial phenomenon are aggregated into spatial partitions or areal units (such as countries, districts or a grid). The resulting summary values (totals, rates or densities) are influenced by both the shape and scale of the aggregation unit and often distort the real phenomenon’ spatial repartition. There are a few ways of overcoming this issue, by getting rid of spatial partitions and playing with cartographic design. I will be using QGIS to show you step-by-step some easy tips and tricks I’ve been using to mop the MAUP.

Automated Geoprocessing and GIS Analysis for Recreational Trail Maps
Jake Belan & Chuck Kitterman, Green Trails Maps
Utilizing open-source GIS data, our presentation will showcase a handful of geoprocessing scripts (using PyQGIS) and workflows to identify optimal areas for new map development, vector data processing, raster pre-processing, GPX data cleanup, metadata management, cartographic automation, and more! Join us to explore how these tools can enhance marketing strategies through spatial analysis and simplify map production using Python. These advancements can empower GIS users to make data-driven decisions and enhance GIS workflows.

Scrolly Map with Drone Footage? Alignment and Interactivity of Drone Footage in a Map-Based Scrollytelling Story
Shane Loeffler, CarbonPlan
Transitioning seamlessly from a standard scrollytelling map into drone footage presented several challenges - with alignment and interactivity. Here I’ll walk the audience through my thought process for acquiring and aligning drone footage with a scrolling map sequence, as well as an overview of several options for tying the playback of the footage to scroll events. My anchor for this presentation will be a story I worked on with ProPublica - ‘The Tragedy of North Birmingham.’