Off-Site Insight by First Base Solutions

Pull new insights from your GPS data to guide smart decision making with better base maps.

Clear the way for hiking, biking, and snowmobiling more efficiently with aerial imagery Follow our crew as they bravely travel great distances and battle the perils of the wilderness, blazing sun, and mosquitoes as big as your head to maintain trails...the old way.

Are you GAME day ready? Two important dates for outdoor recreation enthusiasts in Ontario are coming up at the end of the month.  First, bass season opens the last weekend in June for most areas.  Second, applications for the annual doe tag draw are due June 30. If your plans involve heading into the woods, especially an area you're not familiar with, First Base Solutions has maps and solutions to help you plan your expedition, stay safe, and keep it legal.

How mapping technology enhances culture, tourism, & recreation services. Unique and impressive landscapes, both natural and cultural are often the reason why popular tourism destinations developed in that place. The best assets of these sites are most clearly seen from above.

Monitor crop health and direct resources where they're really needed. Get the big picture and use aerial imagery to support decisions you make throughout the growing season. Here's three ways modern agriculture is benefiting from high resolution imagery and other mapping technologies.

How spatial data is being used in natural resources & environmental applications. Canada is big. Our watersheds and forest corridors cover vast areas, often spanning several administrative regions. For this reason, it can be difficult to effectively monitor and communicate the conditions of the environment as it changes, and also difficult to reach consensus on a plan of action and coordinate on policies between jurisdictions. Lack of coordination between regional governing bodies, short sighted planning and rapid land development have been the peril of the natural environment over the last 100 years or more. Habitat loss, erosion, soil and groundwater depletion and contamination have all taken a toll, and now ambitious plans to mitigate further damage are needed to aid recovery, not just for the intrinsic value of nature, but also for the sustainability of food production, water, air and climate.