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GIS · Dashboards · AI tooling · Research & outreach · Since 2007

Field data,
made legible.

Maps, dashboards and AI tooling for the people fighting invasive weeds: weed districts, CWMAs, state programs and the growers who work the ground. Two sisters who cover the whole range, from the schema to the screen to the published report, and both still answer the phone.

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Every number on this page is live, from real client builds. Nothing is a mock-up.

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Where Utah's 179,000 weed reports come from

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This is the kind of view we build for every client: your own data, live, readable at a glance. Not a screenshot.

Utah weed reports on file…every record, every county, live from EDDMapS
Filed this season……
Noxious species tracked…across the statewide list
States with MIA dashboards10plus three regional programs

Wasatch Range, Ogden Valley · MIA Consulting

Built and in use

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Every card below shows a number pulled live from the real site, right now. Click through and use it.

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Sanpitch CWMA · Sanpete County, UT

A county weed map that reads EDDMapS live

Nine pages, 69 weed profiles, a live map with class and species filters, and three forms. Static, no CMS, nothing to patch.

…reports on the live weed map
Open sanpitchcwma.org →
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Northern Utah CWMA · six counties

Six counties, one map, snapshot fallback

79 pages generated from data files. The map paints a bundled snapshot instantly, then merges anything new from ArcGIS.

…reports across six counties
Open nucwma.com →
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Summit CWMA · Garlic Mustard Games

A volunteer competition with a live scoreboard

The Survey123 form the teams already use feeds a leaderboard, totals and a pull-station map, five minutes behind reality.

…lbs of garlic mustard pulled this season
Open the Games page →
Yellow-flowered weed infestation across a Utah hillsidelive
Utah Weed Supervisors Association

A statewide snapshot, county by county

All 29 counties shaded by report volume, with a per-county drill-down: this year, species, share of the state, top five weeds.

…statewide reports in the county snapshot
Open the snapshot →
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SIMP biocontrol monitoring · 2004–2026

Twenty-two years of data, read as a trend

Every release site classified improving, stable or worsening by change in weed cover, with AI writing the plain-language site narratives.

22years of site-level records, one dashboard
Open the SIMP dashboard →
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Western Weed Coordinating Committee

One dashboard for the whole western region

A multi-state invasive-species dashboard embedded on westernweed.org, built for the committee that coordinates weed programs across the western United States.

Westone region, every member state, one screen
Open the WWCC dashboard →

Figures refresh hourly from each project's own data service.

How we work

A season with MIA.

The same five capabilities every vendor lists, told the way a weed program actually lives them. One small team carries the whole list, so nothing is handed between vendors and lost in the gap.

Find it

Field crews and volunteers record what they see. We design the forms and the schema so a record is useful the day it's made, not after a cleanup.

Survey123 · EDDMapS · ArcGIS · PostGISThe data work →

Read it

AI that removes paperwork, not judgement: photograph a field form and get a structured record; ask in plain language and get the map. Every extraction ends at a confirmation screen.

Claude · vision intake · audit trailWhere it helps →

Map it

Public and internal web maps that query the authoritative layers directly and stay fast on one bar of service in a truck.

MapLibre · Leaflet · ArcGIS RESTHow we build them →

Call it

Dashboards that treat change over time as the primary fact. Improving, stable, worsening, at a glance, with the chart right there when you want to check.

Self-hosted · Chart.js · CSV exportDashboards you own →

Publish it

Field guides, fact sheets, technical reports, program assessments, journal articles and film: what a program is judged on, made for the people who will use them in the field.

USDA publications · peer-reviewed journals · videoThe publications →

Watch

Two video series, and counting.

Short, plain-spoken educational videos for the people who actually do the work. Press play; they run right here.

Series · University of Idaho

Weed Biological Control Series

From what classical biocontrol is, to obtaining agents and monitoring release sites: the whole program, one step per episode.

Open the playlist →
Series · University of Idaho

Weed Identification Series

An intro to basic plant identification, then a short film for dozens of invasive plant species.

Open the playlist →
Film · North Bingham Conservation District

Small Acreage Irrigation

An explanation of the irrigation process for small acreage properties. Original script, editing and animation.

Watch on YouTube →

Videos play from YouTube's privacy-enhanced player and only load when you press play.

Where we work

Ten states. A continent. The world.

Dashboards in ten states and three regional programs. Education and outreach material spanning North America. And the World Weed Biocontrol Catalog documenting weed biocontrol releases worldwide.

Dashboards

Shaded states have an MIA dashboard in service; pins mark a program's home base.

    DashboardsColorado · Wyoming · Oregon · Idaho · Utah · Montana · Nevada · Arizona · Florida · Minnesota
    SIIPA contractsFlorida · Arizona · Utah
    RegionalWestern Weed Coordinating Committee · biocontrol monitoring (SIMP) · EDDMapS
    LocalCWMAs, county weed programs, community groups

    Pins are approximate; they mark an office or program headquarters, never a field site.

    We host what we build

    The part clients dread most is the part we now do.

    Every site above runs on infrastructure we operate: certificates, mail, DNS, backups, security scans and the boring monthly updates. If you've ever lost a week to a hacked WordPress or a lapsed renewal, this is the line item that ends it.

    Ask about hosting
    Four client sites hosted on MIA's server: Sanpitch CWMA, Northern Utah CWMA, Montana ATM and American Rigging
    • PlatformPlesk on a dedicated VPS, PHP, Node and static, one panel
    • CertificatesLet's Encrypt, auto-renewed, every hostname
    • MailMailboxes or forwards, SPF, DKIM, DMARC done right
    • SecurityDaily malware scans, hardened headers, no WordPress unless you insist
    • DataYour ArcGIS and EDDMapS layers stay yours; we only read them
    • ExitStatic builds and plain repos, so you can leave any time

    About

    Two sisters, two specialties, one small company. Both of us answer the phone.

    MIA Consulting is Becca and Rachel Winston. MIA stands for Making Information Accessible, and it has been on the door since 2007. Becca builds the data systems, websites and dashboards; Rachel writes the papers, field guides and films.

    About us →
    Becca WinstonThe schema, the map and the screen.GIS, data systems, websites, dashboards, AI tooling and the servers they run on.
    Rachel WinstonGetting it right, and getting it across.Research, field guides, fact sheets, journal articles, program assessments and film.

    Published and in use

    The work, in print.

    A few of the field guides, references and papers. The full list, with roles and links, is on the publications page.

    The publications page →

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    Tell us what the field is telling you.

    A map, a dashboard, a data model, an intake tool, a field guide, a film. Or all of it.

    Start a project →becca.winston@getmia.net