there(ish)

// Lean spatial infrastructure. Built in Western Australia.

We build lightweight spatial servers and tools that work alongside your ArcGIS platform, or run entirely without it. Serve the data you already have, find out what's wrong with it, and edit it safely, on modest hardware and without per-core licensing.

What we're building

Shoelace in development

// spatial REST server

Publishes SQL Server, PostGIS and uploaded files as services that ArcGIS Pro, Portal and Map Viewer treat as standard feature services.

  • ArcGIS-compatible REST: FeatureServer and GPServer
  • Upload shapefile, GeoJSON, FGDB, GeoPackage, KML, CSV or DXF and serve it straight away
  • Caching, compression and server-side clipping of heavy features
  • Datum-correct reprojection with pinned transformations (GDA2020, GDA94, AGD84)
  • Built-in users, roles and token security

Tool Belt in development

// data health checks

Answers the questions every GIS administrator gets asked: "why is this so slow?" and "why don't these polygons meet?"

  • Layer profiling with plain-English recommendations
  • Geometry checks, sliver detection down to 100 mm, gaps and overlaps
  • Two-layer rules: "must be within" and "must exactly fill"
  • Fixes delivered as a GeoPackage you can review first, then apply with arcpy or open-source tools
  • Every fix is checked against the live data first, so it never overwrites a newer edit

Editing in development

// safe editing for working datasets

Live editing of uploaded datasets from ArcGIS Pro, Map Viewer or a plain web browser. Your business databases are never touched.

  • Every change logged: who, what, when, before and after
  • Snapshots and one-click rollback
  • Owner, steward and editor roles per dataset
  • Works with no Esri software at all

Knot in development

// topology engine

The C# geoprocessing core behind the Tool Belt. Knot handles dissolves, overlays and coverage repair: the heavy geometric work, done accurately and fast.

  • Built for large, messy, real-world polygon data
  • Repairs that rebuild shared boundaries exactly, with no new slivers
  • Callable from Shoelace, C# or Python

How we think

Fit in, don't rip out Your ArcGIS platform keeps working. Our services slot into it as standard layers and tools.
Never surprise the data Nothing changes your data without a review step, a log entry and a way back.
Run lean Designed for modest servers and real-world data, including data nobody has tuned.

On the workbench

  • Field app next
    // Android field capture: offline work, local file formats, breadcrumb trails, and sync built on the edit log.
  • LiDAR and imagery planned
    // Make point clouds usable again: streamed at full density, with surfaces and imagery served on demand.
  • Data governance planned
    // Every layer with a named owner, a description and its stewards, built into how data gets published.
// Get in touch

We're having early conversations with organisations that run ArcGIS and wrestle with slow services, messy data or licensing costs. If that sounds familiar, I'd like to hear from you.

matt@there-ish.com