by David Herries | Jul 20, 2015 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping
A quick productivity tip for those users of GeoMaster within ArcMap. We notice as users extend their ArcMap Mapping Documents (MXD files) with additional layers they can get an overload of data in their Table of Contents (TOC), and while cleaning it up might...
by David Herries | Jul 20, 2015 | Cloud Services, Forest Inventory, GeoMaster, YTGEN
Interpine has recently worked with the Atlas team to create a new utility for GeoMaster users. This is for bulk loading of assessments and their attributes into GeoMaster via a CSV file. This new feature can be accessed by GeoMaster users from the Utilities menu and...
by David Herries | Mar 30, 2015 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping, Harvesting
We often get asked; “how can we get our forest maps onto our mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets” As expected there are many ways to do this, but in this article I thought it was worth covering one of the simplest. This being to simply stop...
by admin | Oct 8, 2014 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping
Managing forest information and operational events in GeoMaster is empowered by the link to ArcMap GIS. This means spatially all land be it productive, or non-productive can have detailed record keeping and more importantly a history. The core to this in GeoMaster is...
by admin | Oct 2, 2014 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping
Often you obtain new areas of land or forest these areas will need to be brought into your GeoMaster Forest Information system. If you haven’t been given the new areas in a shapefile the first task is to map these new areas. You can either do this by creating in...
by David Herries | Aug 29, 2014 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping
Let’s be honest GIS editing can be a complex task and there are many tools and methods dedicated to this in software like ArcMap GIS. That said a forester often just wants to update a stand boundary, split a stand or map out a few gaps from a recent survey. In...
by David Herries | Aug 27, 2014 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping, GPS
The Atlas team have recently released the latest version of their GeoMaster Mobile Android app. Interpine’s Forest Management Cloud Service has recently updated to GeoMaster V1.21.0 and ArcMap 10.2.2 which enables the use of GeoMaster Mobile. GeoMaster Mobile...
by David Herries | Aug 26, 2014 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping
At the core of GeoMaster is the patch layer. This layer is a 2 dimensional layer of polygons (called in GeoMaster, “patches”) covering the entire forest / land area. Hence the “patch” is the smallest unit of land recognised by GeoMaster....
by David Herries | Apr 22, 2014 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping
Often foresters / supervisors will need to create prescription documents for contractors or internal staff to complete a field event. A simple event report in GeoMaster is often not customisable enough to create a format suitable as schedules in contract appendices or...
by David Herries | Mar 26, 2014 | Cloud Services, Forest Inventory, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping
When considering a forest inventory, as foresters we often need to create a sample plot layout across of net stocked area. As part of our Forest Management Cloud Service, GeoMaster Assessment Planner simplifies the creation of sample plot designs for forest inventory...
