WE HAVE
ENTERED

a new world of advanced and innovative spatial analytics

NOW IS THE TIME TO DEVELOP A
GIS STRATEGIC IMPLEMENTATION PLAN
FOR YOUR ORGANIZATION

OUR TEAM OF GIS STRATEGIC PLANNERS

Our team is working with many organizations, including towns, cities, counties, and Native American and Alaskan tribes to design smart GIS strategic plans that focus on geo-smart government, geo-empowered citizens, geo-spatial data infrastructure, and a geo-smart economy. Our future includes a very different relationship with geospatial technology. Our team understands that government organizations need a step by step roadmap that will systematically build an enterprise, sustainable, scalable, and enduring GIS solution.

OUR COMPANY

Geographic Technologies Group (GTG) is one of the world’s leading GIS strategic planning companies. Headquartered in North Carolina, with regional offices throughout North America, GTG has secured state, national, and international awards for geospatial planning and enterprise planned solutions. Founded in 1997, our company celebrates more than two decades of growth and success. Built on its tradition of deploying the very best GIS solutions for government, GTG now has over 700 clients nationwide. A corporate culture of quality, understanding government operations, and commitment to our clients allow GTG to continue to build an outstanding GIS portfolio.

Beyond Location Intelligence

Geographic Technologies Group (GTG) is committed to advancing the science of location intelligence and geospatial technology.  We want to inspire, we want to push the envelope, break through boundaries, solve problems, and introduce a new kind of decision support. We want to go beyond location intelligence. To plan, design, build, implement, transform, and maintain. We want to use spatial information to empower understanding, influence the decision-making process, offer new insights, reveal new data relationships, predict events, engage and educate the community, and solve problems of the future. The ultimate outcome is a smarter, more resilient, and sustainable government.

We create location intelligent organizations!

WORLD RENOWNED EXPERTS IN
GIS STRATEGIC IMPLEMENTATION PLANNING

The adoption of geospatial technology within government organizations has increased the demand for sophisticated planning tools and techniques to assist in the complex implementation process. Our team’s wealth of experience demonstrated in our advanced GIS strategic planning publications, key-note speeches, GIS strategic planning books, extensive presentations, and very happy clients throughout North America and the world allow our team to be pioneers in Strategic GIS planning and implementation. Two internationally recognized and leading authorities of GIS Strategic Planning are Mr. David Holdstock and Mr. Curt Hinton.

DAVID HOLDSTOCK, CEO

GIS Strategic Planning Expert

Mr. David Holdstock, BA, MS, a geographic information systems (GIS) Professional and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), co-established and incorporated Geographic Technologies Group, Inc. in 1997. Mr. Holdstock is a GIS practitioner and a leading expert in developing enterprise and sustainable GIS strategic implementation plans for towns, cities, and counties. Over the past 25 years, Mr. Holdstock has planned, designed, and coordinated the adoption and implementation of GIS technology for over 300 local government organizations. He has published many articles on GIS strategic implementation planning for local government. David has conducted hundreds of workshops, seminars, and discussions on GIS implementation. David has been keynote speaker in Wyoming, Colorado and Florida. David has published two books on GIS strategic planning including “Strategic GIS Planning and Management in Local Government”, 2017, and “Smart Geospatial Practices and Applications in Local Government: An Altogether Different Language” 2020.

CURTIS HINTON, PRESIDENT

GIS Strategic Planning Expert

Mr. Curtis Hinton (GISP) has a Master’s Degree in Geography from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Mr. Hinton’s previous employment included the North Carolina Department of Transportation, United States Geological Survey, and GIS Coordinator for the City of Wilson, NC. Mr. Hinton co-established and incorporated Geographic Technologies Group in 1997. Mr. Hinton is a GIS practitioner and a leading expert in developing enterprise and sustainable GIS strategic implementation plans for towns, cities, and counties. In tandem with Mr. Holdstock, Mr. Hinton has planned, designed, and coordinated the adoption and implementation of GIS technology for over 300 local government organizations. Over the past 25 years, Curtis has conducted hundreds of workshops, seminars, and discussions on GIS implementation world-wide. He has used his wealth of GIS knowledge to publish multiple white papers and articles on GIS strategic implementation planning for local government. Curtis has traveled extensively to include all 50 US states and over 55 countries. Mr. Hinton loves hiking, having recently summitted Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa and is embarking on hiking to the highest point in all 50 states.