there(ish)

// Lean spatial infrastructure. Built in Western Australia.

We build lean spatial servers and tools that work with ArcGIS, or without it. Serve, check and safely edit the data you already have, on modest hardware, without per-core licensing.

Shoelace in development

Serve your spatial data to ArcGIS, and without it, at a fraction of the cost, with governance built in.

// designed for ArcGIS Pro, Map Viewer and Experience Builder; also runs without ArcGIS

Serve

Your SQL Server and PostGIS tables, and uploaded files, as ArcGIS-compatible feature services.

  • Read-only to your databases
  • Fast on huge, complex features
  • Australian datums done properly

Govern

Every layer has someone answerable for it.

  • An accountable Owner, Stewards and required metadata
  • External sharing that an Owner or Steward approves, with expiring downloads
  • Snapshots and a full edit history

Fix

Find what's wrong with a layer before your users do.

  • Slivers, gaps, overlaps and invalid geometry
  • Fixes come as a package you review first
  • Applied only to features that haven't changed since

// Your servers · no cloud · no lock-in · signed offline licence · 30-day trial

A layer's governance page: its Owner and Steward, tags, description and spatial accuracy class.
// A layer's Owner, Stewards and metadata. Demo data.
More about Shoelace →

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.

Also on the bench

Knot in development

// topology engine

The C# core behind Shoelace's Data Health tools, also callable from Python: fast, accurate dissolves, overlays and coverage repair for large, messy polygon data, rebuilding shared boundaries exactly with no new slivers.

Coming next

// Field Maps offline, an Android field app, and LiDAR and imagery. Details on the Shoelace page.

// 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