Modernize Public Gardens
Transform your data, delight your visitors, and streamline garden operations with powerful GIS solutions.
Our History with Gardens & Arboreta
Since 2010, Blue Raster has helped public gardens, botanical gardens, arboreta, and cemeteries modernize their plant records and visitor experiences through custom GIS and mapping solutions. Our tools streamline internal workflows, support real-time data collection, and engage the public through intuitive web and mobile applications.
Proven Experience. Tailored Solutions.
We help public gardens and green spaces monitor system health, user activity, and performance.
With tailored dashboards, smart alerts, and real-time insights, our solutions help teams stay ahead of service disruptions, optimize resource use, and ensure a seamless experience for both staff and visitors. Whether you're managing interactive garden maps, event calendars, or public data layers, we make sure your GIS runs as beautifully as your garden grows.
Our Public Gardens GIS Services
- ArcGIS Setup, Support & Training
- GIS Data Creation & Conversion
- Plant Records Mapping
- Work Order Management
- Web and Mobile App Design & Development
- Drone Basemaps & Asset Inspection Support
- Analysis and Visualization
- BG-BASE to ArcGIS Real-Time Sync
Sync, Maintain, and Share in Real Time
Blue Raster bridges the gap between your plant records and geospatial tools. Our real-time BG-BASE sync ensures your data is always current, while our field GIS tools support everything from horticulture to monument maintenance. We also integrate drone-captured imagery to give your team the most up-to-date basemaps for planning and preservation.
We stay active with the American Public Gardens Association to ensure our solutions align with industry needs and evolve alongside them.
Designed for the Field
Our mobile-first applications are built with your staff and visitors in mind. Whether you're walking the grounds with a tablet or guiding thousands of guests with a smartphone app, we create powerful tools that are easy to use in any environment.
U.S. National Arboretum – Mobile Explorer
Our collaboration with the Arboretum enhanced their Botanical Explorer tool by developing a mobile app with location services, exhibit information, predefined tours, and searchable plant records available on both Apple and Google Play stores.
New York Botanical Garden – Plant Tracker
This responsive web app gives visitors and staff access to over 140,000 living and non-living records. Search, filter, and explore plants across 25 garden areas with curated tours, photos, and key amenities.
Green-Wood Cemetery App (iOS & Android)
We developed a custom mobile app for this 500-acre National Historic Landmark that brings landmark monuments, native species, and historical narratives to life. Visitors can explore the grounds, locate themselves on the map, and learn as they go.
