Less GIS struggle, more research progress — get your spatial work moving.
Your deadline is close, the software is unfamiliar, and your supervisor expects results rather than a learning curve.
What you get
Data preparation and map production, so you can focus on the analysis — with the method explained clearly enough to defend.
Spatial data is a means to an end in your research, not the subject of it. But it arrives in the wrong projection, in a format your software will not open — and a fortnight disappears into fixing that instead of into the actual question.
We do the data work: cleaning, converting, aligning, and producing the maps and figures. Every job comes with a written account of the method, because you will have to describe it in a viva and a black box is no use there.
Would rather have the skill? Say so, and we walk you through the workflow instead.
Typical requests
- Land cover classification and change detection over a study area
- Vegetation and water indices from satellite imagery time series
- Getting field survey points into a usable, mapped dataset
- Terrain analysis — slope, aspect, catchments, elevation profiles
- Publication-ready map figures at a journal's specification
Software
Tell us if your department requires a specific one and we will work in it, so you can still open and re-run everything after you hand it back.
Where our work stops
Data processing, figures and methodology support. Not assessed coursework.
Check what your institution permits, and tell your supervisor what you are commissioning. The rules vary between universities, and that check is yours to make.
The line, stated plainly
We do the data work. You do the research.
This matters more than anything else on this page, so it is not left to a terms document nobody reads.
What we do
- Preparing and cleaning spatial datasets so they are ready to analyse
- Reprojecting, clipping, joining and reformatting data between systems
- Producing publication-quality maps and figures to journal or thesis specification
- Satellite imagery processing — land cover, vegetation indices, change over time
- Writing up the method in plain steps, so you can describe and defend it
- Teaching you the workflow so you can repeat it on the next dataset yourself
What we will not do
- Completing an assessed assignment, or any part of one, on your behalf
- Writing your dissertation, your analysis chapter or your discussion
- Producing work you would submit as your own without disclosing our involvement
- Interpreting your results into findings and conclusions for you
If a request crosses this line we say no and explain why.
Your responsibility
Integrity rules differ between institutions. Check what yours permits and tell your supervisor before commissioning anything. We describe exactly what we did so you can disclose it accurately — but the check and the disclosure are yours to make.
First step
Tell us what you are working on and what you need out of it.
We reply within 24 hours and send a full written scope within two business days.
What to include
- Your research question, in a sentence or two
- The data you have, or think you need — links are fine
- What the output has to be: a figure, a dataset, a map at a set size
- Your deadline, honestly
- Any software your department requires you to use
If you cannot answer all of those yet, send what you can. Working out the method is part of the job.
Before you ask
What researchers ask before getting in touch
Is using this allowed?
That depends on your institution, and checking is your responsibility. What we do is technical data processing and figure production — the same kind a lab technician or a GIS unit provides. Many institutions permit that explicitly and require you to acknowledge it. Ask your supervisor first, and tell them what you are commissioning.
What is the actual line?
We handle the data and produce the figures. You do the research: the question, the analysis, the interpretation, the writing. If a request means producing something you would submit as your own intellectual work, we decline. Work that gets a student disciplined is worthless to everyone.
Will you explain the method or just send files?
Explain it, always. Every job comes with a written account of what was done and why — because you will be asked in a viva, and "someone did it for me" does not survive that room. Prefer to learn the workflow? Say so and we teach it instead.
I have a deadline in a few days.
Tell us that first. We reply within 24 hours and say honestly whether it is achievable — better now, while you can still arrange something else, than after we miss it.
I do not really know what I need.
Normal, and fine. Describe the research question, the data you have or think you need, and what the output has to look like. Working out the method is part of the job.
What software do you work in?
QGIS, ArcGIS Pro, Google Earth Engine, R and Python. If your department requires a particular one — because that is what you will have access to afterwards — say so and we will work in it.
Describe your project.
Send the project details and we will come back with a written approach.
Reply within 24 hours. Written scope within two business days.