Its clear to see that after attending the 2020 Esri Midwest User Conference in Chicago, Esri knows how to put on a good show. Cloudpoint was pleased to be a part of this year’s program by being one of just seven sponsors . As expected, the event attracted GIS users, analysts, IT professionals, department managers, local and state officials from across the Midwest. The technical sessions were loaded with new content from Esri including talks about Enterprise Implementation Bes

Next Monday marks two weeks since Bill has joined the Cloudpoint team as our Business Development Specialist. The main focus of this position is building relationships with existing and potential customers to help them make data-driven decisions based on spatial location. To do this job effectively, you must be confident, independent, and adventurous. We have been able to see all of these qualities in Bill in the past two weeks and are glad to welcome him to our winning team.

Are you a rule follower or a rule breaker? We’ve got both in our office (I won’t mention any names…) but we all agree that Attribute Rules in ArcGIS Pro  are the types of rules we can get behind. There are three rule types you can use to help keep your data in check: Calculation , Constraint , and Validation . Today I’m going to give some examples of creating and applying Calculation rules. If you’re an ArcMap user, this will look a lot like using Attribute Assistant, but bet

The information in this blog post is out of date, with ArcGIS Collector being deprecated at the end of 2021. For updated workflows, check out our blog post Simplifying Inspection Workflows: The Power of Field Maps and Survey123 Integration Of the many applications that Esri has developed, Collector  and Survey123  are two of the most common and widely deployed. They are both designed for field mobility, allowing users to collect, edit, and enter data from out in the field. Co

Esri is bringing the “Intelligent Nervous System” to Chicago as they hold their 2nd annual  Esri Midwest User Conference . This premiere GIS conference will supplement the already strong GIS-centric Midwest area where many of their customers are embracing cutting edge GIS technology. Cloudpoint has never been more excited to announce an official sponsorship of an event such as this. After attending last year’s conference in St. Louis, our team was very impressed with the effo

Our team is thankful for yet another successful year as we continue to grow together as a team and build friendships among ourselves and those we serve. Below are our most memorable highlights of this past year.       January: Cloudpoint kicked off the year by attending the 2019 NENA conference in Orlanda. Erin Strickler, the NG911 team lead was able to gather more information on standards and expand on the team’s GIS data audit and cleanup capabilities with her additional ex

So you don’t know Matt Supert at the Village of Western Springs? Well you came to the right place to learn more. Matt serves as the Director of Municipal Services, carrying several different responsibilities involving public works and infrastructure management, capital planning, GIS management, and oversight of their low pressure R-O water treatment plant. He has been working with the Village since 2007 and serving as Director since 2011. He has found tremendous help from the

Last Friday we had the opportunity to once again gather with local government professionals throughout the Central Illinois area for the ArcGIS Solutions Showcase. Attendees traveled from as far as Galesburg , Watseka, Ottawa, and Decatur to learn about the latest solutions from Esri and pickup on some training tips for ArcGIS Online, Indoors, Hub, Dashboards, and Pro. Below are a few photos of the event. Videos of the showcase are coming soon on our Youtube Channel ! This wa

Cloudpoint has been working with a new client, Norcomm 9-1-1 Consolidated Dispatch Center of Franklin Park, IL. Norcomm's call center serves over 250,000 people each day by providing dispatch services for police, fire and emergency medical in several communities in the Chicagoland area. It is crucial that they keep a close eye on their GIS data accuracy for responding to calls in the most timely manner. To help them stay on top of this demanding task, the center has contracte

Are you an occasional Esri software user that is needing to ramp up your game?  Maybe its been a couple of years since you dabbled with the GIS software and you have a project that needs a little geospatial touch.  One of the questions you may find yourself asking is "What is the difference between ArcMap and ArcGIS Pro"?  ArcGIS Pro is the new ArcMap:  As Dave Ramsey likes to say "The paid-off home mortgage is taking the place of the BMW as the status symbol of choice", in t

Which comes first, the chicken or the egg? Do you expand your office space and then hire, or wait until you are too crowded and then seek more space? With being located in a small, rural town in central Illinois, office space can be hard to find. So we decided to expand our facilities prior to increasing the size of our team. On September 9, 2019 we moved into what used to be Hagie Equipment, and prior to that was the Amish furniture store in the main portion of a building or

Congratulations to Cloudpoint's, Matt Junker, for becoming the team's latest certified GIS Professional (GISP).  Matt recently sat for the GISP examination through the GIS Certification Institute ( GISCI ) back in June.   Obtaining a GISP certificate involves an extensive application process which now includes the exam requirement.   A certified GISP is someone who has proven to be dedicated to the GIS profession and has a clear grasp on geospatial concepts and how to apply t

The Cloudpoint is excited to have the opportunity to take the City of Pekin’s GIS to the next level. The city has used Cloudpoint’s professional GIS services off and on for the past five years but after losing their full-time GIS coordinator last fall, they realized the critical importance of maintaining their GIS system and decided to take their relationship with Cloudpoint from one of courting, to a more serious partnership. With that, Cloudpoint and the City of Pekin have

It’s been almost 4 years since we moved into the old dentist office in Roanoke, IL and at the time we knew that space would be limited if we continued to grow. We are thankful and blessed to have experienced consistent growth and realize the time has come to secure some additional space. Remodeling work is well underway at the new location which will be on the west side of Roanoke. The new building will allow additional space for our staff and offer some flexibility for our c

It’s been a very busy spring (and summer) at Cloudpoint Geographics. We are neck deep in cemetery mapping, parcel fabric conversions, ArcGIS Enterprise installs, managed services contracts and indoor mapping. So much is happening we are slacking on keeping up with keeping you up to date. We would like to introduce you to our summer interns: Titus Williamson Titus started with us in early May and jumped in without hesitation. He has helped with a culvert inventory (forgot to m

Cloudpoint Geographics’ Land Records team will be providing parcel fabric migration services to the City of Rockwall, TX. The City has approximately 18,000 parcels and would like to take advantage of Esri’s most advanced parcel mapping functionality. With the new fabric they can take advantage of Plan Directory, Least Squares Adjustments, Control Points, Historic Parcels layer and more. For more information on how you can benefit from Esri’s parcel fabric please contact Cloud

It was 5 years ago this month, in 2014, that Cloudpoint introduced its first and only asset management application, SignOps , for traffic sign inventories. SignOps was introduced as an innovative, web-based sign inventory management system that will make your team more efficient and your inventory tracking a snap. Since then, public works and transportation crews have been enjoying the SignOps mobile app, which allows users to easily collect GPS location, photos, and even sca

What is ArcGIS Indoors? ArcGIS Indoors is a map-based software application that enables property owners to manage all of their facilities across an entire campus in one, centralized, location. With Esri’s latest release of ArcGIS Indoors, their flagship mapping platform now offers a new solution to deliver improved strategic planning, facility operations, and workplace productivity not to mention a host of other benefits. Property managers and facility operations personnel lo

Cloudpoint is proud to be an active part of Esri’s Business Partner network. As part of this network, our leadership team regularly attends Esri’s Partner Conference to keep up with the latest technology from Esri and to help our clients stay current with the best practices in the industry. Here you will find Jon’s highlights of his recent visit to the Esri Partner Conference in beautiful Palm Springs, CA. This was my first trip to the partner conference after hearing Micah c

Cloudpoint Geographics will be exhibiting at the WLIA Annual Conference  Feb 20-22, 2019 at Red Lion Hotel Paper Valley in Appleton, WI. Look for Cloudpoint’s Micah Williamson and Matt Junker at the upcoming conference. Stop by with any questions regarding our services including: Managed GIS Services Kickstart service packages NG9-1-1 GIS data cleanup Esri’s parcel fabric Wisconsin Land Information Association has been an excellent organization to be a part of. Every conferen