Geographic Information Systems

When you ask a child, “what do you want to be when you grow up?” the answer is usually a firefighter, a doctor, or an astronaut. These careers are exposed [...]

Bolton & Menk has partnered with RoadBotics™, a global leader in providing data-driven roadway assessments. By using artificial intelligence and machine learning, RoadBotics™ provides an objective evaluation to identify pavement distress areas. Learn how [...]

Bolton & Menk’s in-house professional surveyors and FAA Certified Remote Pilots are working side-by-side to collect accurate data using state-of-the-art integrated technologies — UAVs and LiDAR Sensors. By themselves, UAVs and LiDAR sensors are incredible technologies, but combined, they are even more effective and can collect [...]

Reality capture is the new buzzword in the civil engineering, surveying, and unmaned aerial vehicles (UAV) industries. It describes the rapidly expanding collection of tools and technology available to capture [...]

Our team uses UAV footage to add not only an aerial perspective to typical construction site photos, but to also show project progress to stakeholders and decision-makers. Drones are also used to [...]

Artificial intelligence has been a recent topic of debate across the country, and in most cases, sounds much scarier than it is. Our Geographic Information Systems (GIS) team heavily participates [...]

Flooding season is quickly approaching, and with it comes unsafe environments that are potentially dangerous for humans to enter. That’s where drones come in. With the ability to be quickly [...]

Clients often ask us if UAV technology is feasible for their communities on a limited budget–absolutely! Unmanned Aerial Vehicles can be used for more than just aerial photography. High resolution [...]

Bolton & Menk’s UAV Services makes high accuracy, high resolution aerial data more attainable to benefit our clients. Up-to-date aerial data helps us better understand how a project’s visions and [...]

Thanks to our friends at Esri our children's books are now available for pre-order, starting with Lindsey, the GIS Professional. Lindsey's story of mapping her favorite park using GIS methods will be officially available [...]

Today is Read Across America Day, so we thought it was only fitting to sit down with a few of our children’s book authors over a cup of coffee to learn [...]

Bolton & Menk has designed a customizable web-based public engagement platform allowing stakeholders and the public to provide comments and interact with one another in a visual, user-friendly mapping interface. [...]

On Monday, September 9, Bolton & Menk’s Children’s Book series was awarded the 2019 American Public Works Association’s Exceptional Performance in Non-Chapter Journalism award. The award recognizes exceptional performance in [...]

Public engagement has always been a crucial aspect for projects that require input and opinions from citizens and stakeholders. Over the last five years, technology availability and convenience has rapidly [...]

Airport planning has become a key component when working towards federal funding for an airport capital improvement project. While spending entitlement dollars on the planning paperwork is not the most [...]

When the City of New Prague wanted a more reliable and accessible system for locating electrical and water utilities, they looked for a long-term solution. They found their answer via [...]

The Minnesota Chapter, American Planning Association awarded Carver County, the City of Chaska, MnDOT, and Bolton & Menk with the Partnerships in Planning Award of Excellence for the Highway 41/County [...]