Using StoryMaps to Celebrate Arlington County’s 1920 Centennial
Blue Raster celebrates the 100th anniversary of Arlington County with a vivid StoryMap highlighting the county’s numerous historical landmarks. Read More
Blue Raster celebrates the 100th anniversary of Arlington County with a vivid StoryMap highlighting the county’s numerous historical landmarks. Read More
Using these customized maps from the American Institutes for Research (AIR), teams can better contextualize their workforce development initiatives and refine their understanding of resources and socioeconomic distribution across their region. Read More
Blue Raster Project Manager Megan Gottfried studies to become expert at Deploying ArcGIS Urban Solutions for cities, counties, and more after full day of training. Read More
Blue Raster recently worked with the City of Lynnwood, Washington to support their Connect Lynnwood ArcGIS Hub launch. Read More
Blue Raster recently collaborated with New America on a story map highlighting city and community connectedness across the US. The story map looks at 25 different community focused networks working to help cities and counties solve a wide-range of challenges including climate change, criminal justice, and homelessness.
On October 18, Look Up to the sky and record an image, video/audio, or text message about what inspires you!. Read More
Community colleges deeply impact students’ lives and add value as an engine of economic mobility. They are particularly important for students often left on the sidelines of higher education — foster youth, veterans, incarcerated adults, and low-income or first-generation students. Driven by the need for new tools that demonstrate how community colleges can positively affect students’… Read More
Every summer in San Diego, the Esri User Conference (UC) is a hub of collaboration, new ideas, and cutting-edge technology available to GIS professionals across virtually every sector. The Blue Raster team was excited to participate in the largest conference to-date; over 18,000 attendees, and showcase our latest work, meet new friends and learn from… Read More
Volunteer organization is the backbone of local political parties, and these volunteers is are increasingly supported by accessible mapping. Recently, Blue Raster worked with the Arlington County Democratic Committee to update their door-to-door newsletter delivery route maps. These maps direct a group of nearly 500 volunteers from door to door, providing them with vital geographic and demographic information. Displaying 443 routes across 52 voter precincts, the success of the maps depends on being both descriptive and easily accessible. Read More
In January 2018, the White House proposed opening nearly all U.S. waters to offshore drilling. On the East Coast, governors are speaking out with concerns about the risks offshore drilling would pose to the coastal environment, economy, tourism, and quality of life. Out of 22 U.S. coastal states, 15 governors stated opposition to drilling. Additionally,… Read More