New Employee Alert!!! Join us in welcoming Daniel Bishop. He joins us from Kankakee County, IL where he was a client of ours for several...

Last week was another engaging, insightful, and educational Esri User Conference . This year again needed to be held virtually, but the...

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

Our data collection team has been working diligently on a GPS B-box collection project for the Village of Minooka, IL . They recently...

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

Cloudpoint is thrilled to announce our latest client: North Park Public Water District (NPPWD). While Cloudpoint has worked with...

Meet the newest addition to the team! Virginia is our first fully remote employee! Residing in Michigan, she is our Enterprise Solutions...

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

Paul Bernard works in the Planning and Zoning Department of Wood County, WI as the Land Record Coordinator and GIS Specialist. He focuses...

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

Recently, a number of our municipal clients have queried help on implementing a community-driven program that allows citizens to submit crimes to the local police department by harnessing the resident’s video surveillance equipment and leveraging GIS to notify and coordinate with the public to help solve and even deter crimes in the community. Utilizing a Survey123 Form, members of the community have the chance to submit information regarding their video surveillance equipmen

With the use of ArcGIS Operations Dashboard paired with tracking devices on snowplows and linked to a Survey123 Problem Reporter, public works departments can manage a real-time dashboard with countless capabilities. As you can see in  this example Dashboard  by Esri, some of the key features include a street status pie chart, an average truck speed speedometer, complaints in list view as well as a bar graph, a history of trucks paths, and an interactive map which also includ

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

We have always prided ourselves on working hard to provide the tools and services that enable organizations to make informed, data-driven decision on spatial location. However, we’re also proud of our continual approach to furthering education in the GIS world. Obviously our end-goal is to increase our name recognition, but we really do love talking, educating, (entertaining?), musing, pontificating, and rambling about GIS, and how it can change the world. I’ll say it, even t

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

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 are thankful to announce that we have been able to hire a new GIS Analyst. With the rise in workload for our NG911 clients this fall, Sam is jumping right in to assist them with GIS Data Services. Sam’s educational background includes: Undergraduate in Biology with a Co-Major in Environmental Science Graduate in Environmental Sciences with a concentration in Environmental Planning and Conservation Certificate in Geographic Information Science                               

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