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WASBO: Connecting with a Crucial Bunch
Cloudpoint enjoyed attending the Wisconsin Association of School Business Officials (WASBO) Facilities Management Conference in Wisconsin...


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


All About Indoor Mapping: Our First Webinar of 2022
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...
Not Getting Out Lately??? Don't Worry, We'll Come to You!
Our team at Cloudpoint Geospatial has been busy planning a record year for our company in attending, exhibiting, lecturing at, and even...


NG9-1-1: Common CAD Questions
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
Is Your Data Unique? A Refresher on Unique Identifiers
Introduction Understanding the differences of ArcGIS unique identifiers and how to create, manage and consume data with unique...


Cloudpoint's 2021 Year-In-Review
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...


5 on 5: What's New at Parcel Fabric Version 5 at ArcGIS Pro 2.9
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
Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill: Show Me the (GIS) Money!
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act was signed into law on November 15, 2021. This much needed funding has been earmarked for the...


Apache Log4J Vulnerability: Here's What We Know
By now, most everyone in the tech world has heard about the Apache Log4j library vulnerability. While we are experts about all things...


Esri Community Map Program - Providing Feedback on Basemaps
In 2010, ESRI started the Community Maps Program with the goal of enhancing and updating their foundational basemap layers with current...


Willkommen! Sahara Schreiber Joins Cloudpoint as Marketing Coordinator
2021 (like the previous year) brought plenty of projects, growth, and headaches for Cloudpoint. Notably was the ever-increasing scope and...


Creating, Testing, and Publishing Route Networks for ArcGIS Indoors
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


Help for the Helpers: NG9-1-1 GIS Grants (Updated for FY 2022)
Funding Updates So much goes into transitioning a 911 system to NG911, from changing state policies to buying appropriate equipment to...


ALI/MSAG/GIS Dataset: Synchronization Review: Bring Your Data Into Alignment
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


Simplify Data Migration Using the Data Loading Tools
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


ILGISA 2021 Recap: Connection Reestablished
Cloudpoint was thrilled to not only sponsor this great conference and organization once again, but we were also ecstatic to see everyone...


Create Email Notification From Feature Creation In Field Maps
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


PWX 2021: In St. Louis Recap: Scooters, Bar-be-que, and GIS
Every year (2020 notwithstanding) the American Public Works Association puts on their Public Works Expo (PWX). This year from Aug. 29th...


Cloudpoint Providing Campus-Wide ADA Compliance Survey
When a college campus in Texas discovered that its campus infrastructure did not meet the current ADA accessibility requirements based on...
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