Our Mission

Geographic Magic provides consulting services to nonprofit organizations, small businesses and government agencies to help them determine whether they should invest in Geographic Information System (GIS) technology and if so, how we can help. We offer a wide array of services and can assist in everything from the purchase and installation of the most appropriate equipment to staff training to the development of high-quality maps and data analysis. Geographic Magic is based on the ideal of helping organizations designed to improve or protect the environment or the lives of people in need through the use of Geographic Information Systems. GIS is computer software that is used to combine maps and databases in order to gain a greater understanding of anything with a spatial component. For example, using GIS you can map out all public transportation systems, and how to get to particular places most efficiently using public transportation. GIS can then be used to discern how much each ride would cost. This would be a great budgeting tool as well as helping people to find the best way to get to the locations they need.

I am willing to help and advise on any to all aspects of a project. I will help an organization determine if GIS is the most appropriate tool for them to use. I will help them to draft their plans and proposal, to helping to write the proposal, to guiding people in work to do, to doing the mapping and printing myself. My goal is to help my clients in the most efficient and cost effective manner possible, work within the needs of my client, and assist my client, if desired, in developing some independence from consultants. I also am very pleased to help organizations to feel more empowered. Most government agencies have their own GIS people, and most developers and businesses hire large consulting firms. I feel that nonprofits and environmental groups deserve to have a GIS person who can understand and work with their needs and schedules. Geographic Magic has been created to fill that function.