ADA compliance is a big issue these days, with many agencies struggling to find resources to address their compliance issues. First and foremost, it is necessary to complete a site assessment of the existing conditions to determine areas that are out of compliance. Once an assessment has been completed, the agency can determine the best course of action to correct non-compliant areas. Rather than hide from the ‘bad areas’ and hope that nothing happens, it is best to take a pr

What is stopping you from accurately locating all of your assets in the field and using that information to make informed, data driven decisions - Cost? Time? Outdated equipment or software? Cloudpoint has been assisting clients with asset data collection for more than a decade, all while watching the technology continually improve and becoming more affordable at the same time. Gone are the days that a smaller organization would not be able to consider reaping the benefits o

When setting out to use GIS for Campus or Facility management, it is important to understand what type of data tracking challenges are...

The following videos will walk you through creating and saving trace configurations, publishing them in a web map, and consuming them in ArcGIS Experience Builder with the new beta Utility Network Trace widget. We will also look at how you can incorporate additional widgets, namely the Text and Table widgets, to display and export trace results. Adding and Sharing Trace Configurations Creating an Experience Builder Project for Utility Network Tracing

Space is expensive. Due to this simple truth, it is important to ensure the accurate digitizing of features and space inside your...

Trimble is a global leader in positioning technology and Esri is a best-in-class geospatial software provider. When these two powerhouses converge, great things happen. So you may be asking, ‘How do I get the best of both worlds from these vendors? Now with Trimble Catalyst, getting high accuracy GNSS positioning integrated with the mobile ArcGIS platform has never been easier. Trimble has released a low-cost, next generation, centimeter grade GNSS unit, called the DA2, that

April is Emergency Communications Month. Cloudpoint recognizes the often unacknowledged critical public service our nation's emergency dispatch and response personnel perform each day. So we extend our thanks to all the emergency service professionals who assist those in times of greatest need for your commitment. Cloudpoint’s NG9-1-1 team proudly assists public safety stakeholders in implementing Next Generation 9-1-1 by preparing GIS data for NG9-1-1 from the current 9-1-1

Excerpt Enterprise geodatabase versioning is an integral part of Enterprise GIS workflows and allows for flexible and manageable workflows for multiuser editing scenarios. Branch versioning is a new type of geodatabase versioning available to Esri users. This new type of versioning has been reconfigured to alleviate some of the pain-points when using traditional versioning and relies on a services-based platform for version use and management. The branch versioning configurat

Illinois passed the Lead Service Line Replacement and Notification Act in May of 2021, and it went into effect January 1, 2022. The ultimate goal is the replacement of all lead service lines in the state of Illinois. Furthermore, this legislation does not only address replacing lines in public properties or right-of-ways, but replacing lines up to and even into private residences as needed. Sounds like a monumental task? You’re right, but then again, you’ve got Cloudpoint to

Have you become reliant on Attribute Rules in your desktop workflows? Are you frustrated that you can’t extend those to your ArcGIS...

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 scales and the numerous agencies involved make the complexity of building such a network obvious. Thankfully, there is an ever growing body of literature devoted to explaining the topic. Articles, whitesheets, and best practice documents are easy to find. Each piece provides some technical and contextual guidance pertaining to standards and

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 Fabric. Keep in mind that a Version 5 Parcel Fabric requires a minimum of ArcGIS Pro 2.9, and if applicable, a minimum of ArcGIS Enterprise 10.9.1. Evaluation Layers A new way to visualize and evaluate your data is with Parcel Evaluation Layers. This set of layers is located in the Evaluation gallery of the Quality tab in ArcGIS Pro. After an e

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 phones, medical devices, car computers, and building alarms. We have been deeply involved in this work helping several counties and PSAPs to review and transition their 9-1-1 data into the NENA Standard for NG9-1-1 GIS Data Model. We also assist our clients in coordinating data alignment with surrounding emergency jurisdictions in effort to establ

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