Central Ohio-Based GEOSPATIAL CONSULTING
Collect. Inspect. Decide.
Even with AI in the mix, people still do the three things that matter: gather the information, check that it holds up, and make the call. We make all three faster and more reliable.
- Making maps since 1997
- 29 organizations on our platform
- SBA-certified VOSB
Organizations we work with
How we work
Three moves behind every good decision.
Whether it’s a crew in a ditch, a box of scanned plans or a server nobody trusts anymore, the work comes down to the same three steps. We help at any one of them, or carry you through all three.
Collect
Get what you know out of the field, the filing cabinet and the inbox, and into one place you trust.
- Offline field forms on Mergin Maps and Open Enterprise
- Crew and public submissions that land straight in your system
- Scanned plans and paper records turned into usable data
Inspect
Know what you have, where it’s wrong and what it’s costing you.
- QA and cleanup before bad data reaches a decision
- AI screening that flags what needs a human look
- Esri Enterprise administration and health checks
Decide
Put the answer in front of the people who have to act on it.
- Dashboards your staff and leadership actually open
- Feasibility and organizational studies with a roadmap attached
- Conservation models like PERM that rank where to act
Products
Tools we built and run for you.
Pick the piece you need. Each one plugs into the others, and into the Esri or open-source systems you already have.
Managed program
Open Enterprise
A fully managed open-source GIS program. We run the servers, field collection, web maps and support, so your team can stay focused on the work instead of the system.
Authorized reseller · North America
Mergin Maps Hosting
Offline field forms that sync when crews get back to signal. We set up, secure and support the hosting so your data stays yours.
Open source
RESTerville
Our own open-source tool, free on GitHub. We deploy it and tailor it for clients where it fits.
Conservation model
PERM
The Parcel-based Ecological Restoration Model scores every parcel in Ohio’s Western Lake Erie Basin so conservation partners know where restoration does the most good.
Results
Work our clients can point to.
Numbers from projects that are live and in use today.
Utilities · City of Zanesville
Closing the gaps in a service line inventory
The city’s water service line records were nearly 60% unknown on the city side. We modeled likely materials from construction records, address matching and neighborhood clustering, and cut the unknowns to under 4%.
Local government · Michigan
Planning regional GIS for 427K residents
Two regional planning commissions needed to know whether shared GIS asset management could work, and what it would cost. We delivered a phased roadmap for each. WMSRDC selected GEOACE to lead its 2027 implementation.
Where we’ve worked
Rooted in Ohio. Working well beyond it.
Most of our clients are close to home. Our work also reaches from Colorado to the East Coast, and as far as Estonia. Select a pin to see the kind of organization, or filter by sector.
Who we serve
Built for the people who manage land, water and infrastructure.
Small teams with big territories. We size every system to the staff who will run it after we leave.
Asset and right-of-way records that hold up in the field and in the boardroom.
Restoration targeting and monitoring that shows where every dollar does the most good.
Permits, assets and public requests on one system your staff can run.
Service line inventories, asset records and field workflows that stay current.
Parcel and practice data for programs that work alongside landowners.
Who you'll work with
The principals do the work.
The people who scope your project are the people who build it. No hand-off to a junior team you never met.
Mike Bowen
CEO
- Esri Energy GIS Hero
- EnerGIS board
- Esri SAG Award Winner
Aaron Laver
CTO
- Esri Certified Enterprise Administration Professional
- Certified ecologist
- Air Force veteran
Get started
Where should we start?
Tell us what you're collecting, what you need to check and what you have to decide. We'll point you to the right product, service or open-source tool, even if that isn't us.
Authorized Mergin Maps reseller · North America