Daniel and I made it back earlier this week from presenting and exhibiting at the Missouri Public Safety Communications Conference...

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...

It all started on a chilly Wednesday morning. Cloudpoint packed up the van and headed towards Elkhart Lake, WI and the WLIA 2022 Annual...

Cloudpoint enjoyed attending the Wisconsin Association of School Business Officials (WASBO) Facilities Management Conference in Wisconsin...

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

We kicked off 2022 right with a great webinar put out by Jon about GIS and how it works for indoor mapping. Get a first look at the...

Our team at Cloudpoint Geospatial has been busy planning a record year for our company in attending, exhibiting, lecturing at, and even...

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...

Another year has drawn to a close, and while it may not have run its course like we thought it would, our team is thankful once again for...

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

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act was signed into law on November 15, 2021. This much needed funding has been earmarked for the...

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...

2021 (like the previous year) brought plenty of projects, growth, and headaches for Cloudpoint. Notably was the ever-increasing scope and...

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