Micah Williamson has played a pivotal role in the development and evolvement of Cloudpoint Geospatial over the the past eight years. Now, Micah begins a new chapter in life after accepting a position at a consulting firm. The Cloudpoint team wants to extend our sincere thanks to Micah for lending his talents, time, and expertise during this time but most importantly, his friendship which we hope to continue for many years to come. Usually we don’t create a special post when s

Erin is our Director of Data Services and is also a PE (Professional Engineer). If we were to describe her, we would say she always has an enthusiastic attitude no matter the difficulty of the task at hand. She is always eager to contribute and share with others. Leading Cloudpoint’s NG911 and Cemetery teams keeps Erin busy by developing GIS tools and processes to serve our clients and managing and working on projects. She handles our project specific contracts. Here in Centr

While most of 2020 has been anything but recognizable in virtually (see what I did there) every facet of society, Cloudpoint has strived to bring the same level of education and interaction that our clients and supporters have been used to from us. When “lockdown” hit us, we quickly pivoted to providing FREE  webinars on a wide range of topics: ArcGIS Indoors Working with data for NG9-1-1 Migrating from ArcMap to ArcGIS Pro Parcel Fabric These are just a few of the many topic

With the State of Illinois’ impending transition to a Next Generation 9-1-1 system (NG911), many 911 agencies are currently working to update their GIS data. Agencies are required to have GIS data for their emergency service boundaries, road centerlines, and address points. In an NG911 system, data from all agencies will be maintained by the agency but stored and shared at the state level, meaning every agency’s data must be in the same format. This is no small task and some

The Forrester Wave is a guide for buyers considering their options in the technology marketplace. To offer an equitable process for all participants, Forrester follows a 30-criterion, publicly available  methodology. Identifying the nine most significant location intelligence platforms, they placed Esri at the top, ahead of Google, Microsoft, and Hexagon to name a few. Esri as we know is the global market leader in GIS, and Cloudpoint Geospatial is proud to be a trusted Esri

Cloudpoint is pleased to partner with surveying and engineering firms to bring GIS to these firms’ small municipal clients. Recently Brown & Roberts Inc. and Benton & Associates contracted Cloudpoint to provide GIS services to the City of Harrisburg , IL and the Village of New Berlin , IL. Harrisburg’s GIS data is stored in a local geodatabase that is updated occasionally. After a recent watermain project, Cloudpoint utilized an AutoCAD file and Record Drawings provided by th

Becoming an Esri Business Partner was a key to fueling company growth and opening doors to new opportunities. “Our company’s partnership with Esri has boosted our name recognition and allowed for expertise to be noticed on a national verses regional scale.” says founder and CEO, Jonathan Hodel. Now this partnership blossoms once again as Cloudpoint announces they have received their ArcGIS Indoors specialty designation. This process involves completing an application to Esri

Introduction: We are yet again able to add on another employee to our team and we are excited to announce that it is Hunter Ray! He does not come to Cloudpoint as a stranger but actually a familiar face from past conferences. His title is GIS Analyst and he will start off by aiding Micah and the Enterprise team along with some application development work. We are fortunate to find someone with Hunter’s education and experience. Education: He has a Bachelors Degree in Zoology

Cloudpoint has gone through various internal changes so far this year; from adapting to remote work, to investing in AWS services to optimize our use of ArcGIS Indoors and Enterprise, to expanding our virtual training efforts with free webinars. After much consideration by the team, we are ready to publicly announce our new name as Cloudpoint Geospatial. This new name better describes the services that we provide and more accurately encompasses our overall purpose. Included i

Jodi, Tyler, and Matt have been a part of the team for 5 years! Though they all have differing roles, they each surpass their work titles to serve both staff and clients. It’s evident that these three will drop what their doing to help you. Jodi, Tyler, and Matt, you have been crucial in providing quality services to clients and keeping Cloudpoint well and thriving. In separate interviews with all 3 employees, they all said there favorite thing about working at Cloudpoint was

The Cloudpoint team is taking advantage of this time of remote connectivity to connect with you in a whole new way.  Our professional GIS experts will be hosting a series of exciting GIS webinars to help users take advantage of the latest GIS resources. Although we can’t meet in person right now, here is a list of our upcoming virtual events that you won’t want to miss out on.  Be sure to join our team for some high-impact learning opportunities to see how your organization c

Since we are all working at home these days. It makes sense to think that some GIS workers will be trying to connect to their enterprise GIS. If you do not have a VPN or the connection is spotty, you may want to try and connecting to the data through ArcGIS Portal. Micah created two short videos to help with this task. You will need to know your ArcGIS Portal home URL, a username and licensed copy of ArcGIS Pro. This next video shows you how to connect ArcGIS Pro to open and

It’s rather interesting, some of the comments we get about the name of our company when people are first introduced to us. They say “Cloudpoint, hmm, is that some kind of cloud-based service, do you work with point clouds, etc.?” As company founder Jonathan Hodel notes, “when we started up in 2011, my wife, Megan and I were discussing several options for names and wanted something that spoke to the technology we are using. As a geospatial company, I knew point clouds  were a

Despite the recent COVID-19 setbacks, the Cloudpiont team was represented at the recent Esri Partner Conference in sunny Palm Springs, CA on March 7-9. Jon Hodel and Micah Williamson were able to attend the conference to stay abreast with the latest technology and solutions offered by Esri through all facets of the ArcGIS platform. It was a bit of an unusual conference given the circumstances surrounding the coronavirus concerns as we were surprised by things like the last-mi

The Cloudpoint team has the pleasure of once again working with the City of Bloomington and their public works staff to upgrade the City’s GIS infrastructure. This project will consist of providing an Enterprise GIS upgrade within the public works department that will later be leveraged for all City departments. The new upgrade will include onsite professional services to: Setup and implement ArcGIS Enterprise within the Client's network environment including installation and

Its clear to see that after attending the 2020 Esri Midwest User Conference in Chicago, Esri knows how to put on a good show. Cloudpoint was pleased to be a part of this year’s program by being one of just seven sponsors . As expected, the event attracted GIS users, analysts, IT professionals, department managers, local and state officials from across the Midwest. The technical sessions were loaded with new content from Esri including talks about Enterprise Implementation Bes

Next Monday marks two weeks since Bill has joined the Cloudpoint team as our Business Development Specialist. The main focus of this position is building relationships with existing and potential customers to help them make data-driven decisions based on spatial location. To do this job effectively, you must be confident, independent, and adventurous. We have been able to see all of these qualities in Bill in the past two weeks and are glad to welcome him to our winning team.

Esri is bringing the “Intelligent Nervous System” to Chicago as they hold their 2nd annual  Esri Midwest User Conference . This premiere GIS conference will supplement the already strong GIS-centric Midwest area where many of their customers are embracing cutting edge GIS technology. Cloudpoint has never been more excited to announce an official sponsorship of an event such as this. After attending last year’s conference in St. Louis, our team was very impressed with the effo

Our team is thankful for yet another successful year as we continue to grow together as a team and build friendships among ourselves and those we serve. Below are our most memorable highlights of this past year.       January: Cloudpoint kicked off the year by attending the 2019 NENA conference in Orlanda. Erin Strickler, the NG911 team lead was able to gather more information on standards and expand on the team’s GIS data audit and cleanup capabilities with her additional ex

So you don’t know Matt Supert at the Village of Western Springs? Well you came to the right place to learn more. Matt serves as the Director of Municipal Services, carrying several different responsibilities involving public works and infrastructure management, capital planning, GIS management, and oversight of their low pressure R-O water treatment plant. He has been working with the Village since 2007 and serving as Director since 2011. He has found tremendous help from the