GALLERY AND RESOURCES
MAPS
With more than 20 years of combined experience in geospatial technology, Big Water staff are passionate about the power of maps to enhance data visualization and reveal unexpected relationships within the data that may influence program management.
Big Water can provide you with static or interactive maps—to demonstrate impact, illustrate reach or demarcate resources and service areas. These maps could be printed or embedded into a website for promotional purposes or inserted into reports to augment analysis.
Map resources: Tribes can get a free GIS mapping license, educational training, and software through a partnership with BIA and ESRI. Another option is a free, open source mapping software called QGIS.
Click on the images below to see more.
In the past decade (2015 to 2025), rent has gone up in many areas. See where these changes happened with an interactive map based on data from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
Opportunity Zones were created by the U.S. Congress in 2017 to spur investment in low-income rural and urban communities. This map shows the intersection of Opportunity Zones and tribal lands.
This interactive map allows you to explore tribal data spatially. View types of recognized land, distance to urbanized areas, occupied housing units, and more.
This is an interactive map we created for Global Washington. It is a powerful example of how Global Washington’s members have an impact all over the world!
Participatory mapping is a powerful tool to gather direct inputs from community members and identify opportunities and challenges that directly impact the community.
This map uses a slider to illustrate how the main concentration of Seattle’s non-white population has been pushed away from the city center from 2000 to 2016.
We used several GIS software packages to create a cartographic representation of the regions surrounding the Elwha River for display at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture.
We conducted a site suitability analysis to determine the optimal location of a new library branch within the Sedro-Woolley Skagit library district.
Data visualization
Well-designed graphs or charts can help you communicate complex ideas and concepts effectively. The following graphics are some examples of our previous work presenting data in simple yet compelling ways.
