What is Indoors? The easiest description of Indoor GIS is that it is used in the same way as regular GIS, just incorporating Indoor...

The completed Next Generation 9-1-1 (NG9-1-1) network will be national, state implemented, and operated by local entities. These multiple...

Introduction Understanding the differences of ArcGIS unique identifiers and how to create, manage and consume data with unique...

Are you ready to ring in 2022 with the Parcel Fabric? Here are a few highlights of what is new in Version 5 of the ArcGIS Pro Parcel...

By now, most everyone in the tech world has heard about the Apache Log4j library vulnerability. While we are experts about all things...

In 2010, ESRI started the Community Maps Program with the goal of enhancing and updating their foundational basemap layers with current...

Why Indoor Mapping and Route Networks are Useful When compared to traditional campus and facility management through CAD layers and multiple spreadsheets, ArcGIS Indoors offers a much more streamlined approach. Managing indoor assets through ArcGIS Indoors allows for improved facility maintenance, building operations, and indoor analysis across an entire campus thanks to ESRI’s ArcGIS Indoors Information Model (AIIM). The AIIM strongly emphasizes related records and enforces

Funding Updates So much goes into transitioning a 911 system to NG911, from changing state policies to buying appropriate equipment to...

NG9-1-1 systems allow emergency number services to quickly receive and load geolocated data via mobile and digital devices such as...

Introduction Migrating data is a task that always seems harder than it should be – until now! Esri developed a python package add-in for ArcGIS Pro which helps streamline the process of migrating data from a source schema to a target schema. The Data Loading Tools (DLT) provides a new Excel-based process for data loading, by harnessing Excel workbooks to map fields and transform attributes values from source to target. By harnessing the set of Excel workbooks that are generat

When mobile data collection takes place, there are multiple ways of consuming that data once it’s been collected. Through the use of Dashboards, Web Apps and Maps, and desktop applications like ArcGIS Pro, data can be viewed, queried, edited, etc. However, there could be certain data collection workflows in which real-time notifications would be useful to alert other workers, or members of that organization. For example, if I were adding features in the field to a “City Code

With the American Disabilities Act, local governments are required to provide accessible sidewalks for persons with disabilities. As many of you know, this can be a heavy lift to upkeep and maintain your systems to meet these requirements. One of the most valuable tools for local agencies and municipalities to evaluate their systems is aerial LiDAR data. Most states now have some type of aerial LiDAR coverage, especially for their urban areas. When combined with the power of

Calculation rules can be used to provide real-time validation. By coupling ArcGIS Pro with some creative Arcade expressions, the editing...

One of the main benefits of utilizing Esri’s Survey123 application within your organization, is that it is a very powerful data collection tool. Survey123 can be utilized to collect data on just about anything and everything, and the purpose of the survey form will vary greatly depending upon what kind of data is to be collected. Regardless of what the end purpose of the survey form is, the best way to ensure data integrity and to streamline the data entry process is to have

There is a major transition of facility managers and campus organizations across the globe who are shifting to GIS as their preferred choice of campus and facility mapping. Time and time again we are hearing about them getting tired of dealing with enormous CAD files with hundreds of layers as they try to manage facilities and campus construction activities. In this article we intend to point out some clear benefits of using Points of Interest (POI’s) within your campus GIS d

Even as most record keeping systems have become digital, there are still some collections of data that are being maintained on paper. We’ve seen plenty of cemeteries with all or some of their records on paper. Paying a third party to convert these to digital can be very costly. Luckily, with readily available software programs, you and your staff can complete the most time consuming tasks on your own time. First let’s talk about why. If you’re successfully keeping your record

Take a trip with me back in time to 1999. Where were you in those pre-Y2K days? I was a student at Illinois State University, a Geography  major with a stack of Zip disks  containing digital maps and files, stored alongside my manual cartographic drafting tools (I located the old drafting tools in my basement, but have not found the old Zip disks…yet). Back in the old days, Zip disks stored ten times more ( 100 MB! ) than a floppy disk. With a bunch of those floppy disks also

The time to upgrade all your layers within your ArcGIS Online or ArcGIS Enterprise organization has come! ESRI will be enforcing the HTTPS protocol starting on December 8, 2020. This update to ESRI’s security posture means that all resources (layers and all other items) consumed by web maps and other applications in your organization will be unavailable if not registered to a secure URL starting with ‘HTTPS’. This important change in ESRI’s security practices will affect most

We work with a lot of municipal local government clients and have learned over the years that selecting the right GIS asset management solution these days is a critical, time-consuming task. Decision makers can’t afford to make the wrong decision when investing hundreds of thousands of dollars over a period of just a few years. So we thought it would be a good idea to review some basic questions to ask yourself when evaluating which option is best for your organization. As an

Esri provides a vast number of resources and applications that enable their users to collect, update, and analyze their asset management data. In this blog post, we’ll take a look at how we can use those Esri apps and resources available to us on ArcGIS Online to manage our PCI (Pavement Condition Index) ratings on our road centerlines layer. The use of the Collector App will allow users to view the road centerline features in the field and which roads need inspected. The Sur