Historic St Charles Missouri has a very modern tool for you to explore. We were delighted to help the staff of St Charles to create a hosted StoryMap that lets the general public discover all the city has to offer. Using ArcGIS Online templates and hosted on Amazon S3, we built the mapstchuck.com website in relatively short order and were able to customize it to meet staff requests. The responsive website has 7 tabs across the top showing 7 categories of points of interest f

Here's an update as to what's going on at Cloudpoint Geographics.  Office Remodel:   I've had some people say they heard we were moving a while back but nothing since then.  We are deep into the remodel project and can see light at the end of the tunnel.  Here are some quick snapshots of the work being done. Employee Spotlight: Our new office manager, Jodi Hoffman , has been doing an awesome job.  Outside of work, Jodi keeps track of three fine young boys (four if you count h

As of June 29th, Matthew Junker is the latest addition to start working with the greatest GIS consultant This side of the Mississippi!(possibly the other side too) Psst! the 'J' is pronounced like a 'Y' but he's used to that by now.  Matt is originally from Varna, Illinois but currently lives in Chillicothe with his wife and two young sons. In some bizarre-unplanned-coincidence he also has a BS from Illinois State (that makes 3 Dr. Sublett survivors). However less-so coincid

We are excited for the opportunity to work with the City of Mendota, IL (The World's Greatest Little City as noted on their hompage ) on implementing a city-wide utility GIS.  The City has contracted Cloudpoint to collect all utility assets with high-accuracy GPS and create maps of each distribution system.  The project includes water distribution, storm water network, and sanitary system.  This information will serve as the foundation of the City's future CMOM (Capacity, Man

Cloudpoint staff has been busy on the roads of Henderson county, Illinois. We have been contracted for the purpose of implementing a rural addressing program to improve emergency response to rural areas and enhance postal & parcel deliveries. A rural addressing program will also help serve residents by improving the use of vehicle navigation systems. Namely finding addresses digitally in Henderson Co. has been tough, this will make it easier. We are closely working with the U

If you have an ArcGIS Organizational account, you already have license to use Esri Maps for Office . It works really well and enhances your presentation from the boring screenshots of maps we have all grown numb to.  BUT!  What if you don't have Microsoft Office? (there are a few of us) Or you use a MacBook or ChromeBook or UbuntuBook(?). Never fear, You can still embed your maps into a presentation using the Newly improved Bunkr App .  Bunkr has been around for a few yea

Las Cruces, New Mexico : Cloudpoint is excited to begin a parcel fabric migration for the city of Las Cruces. The Parcel Fabric is a part of the Esri Local Government Information Model and quickly becoming the industry standard for parcel maintenance. Using the parcel editing tools that come with Esri ArcGIS desktop (No costly 3rd party extensions) Cloudpoint will remotely perform the migration quickly and efficiently. Las Cruces GIS staff will have a product that includes pa

As many of you know, the parcel fabric concept has been around for quite some time but many have been slow or hesitant to adapt to it.  In this entry, we would like to take a brief look at some of the advantages of using the fabric and try to answer some questions such as "Why should I migrate to the parcel fabric?" or "What real benefit will I receive from an ArcGIS solution for maintaining parcels?".  If you haven't already done so, chances are you will soon be taking a ser

For all of the ArcGIS Online users out there, this is a tutorial on how to download your features with attachments from your published online service.  We completed a recent sign inventory or over 8,000 signs including photos of each with esri's Collector app and our ArcGIS Online subscription.  The client needed all of the attachments delivered locally to use with their other proprietary GIS software so we needed a way to pull them down with the features. 1. The Source: St

It's no secret that Cloudpoint is an Esri Shop. Being in the Business Partner Network, receiving the AGOL Specialist  status ... we drink the kool-aid. So What? Get over it.  Still, as skeptical consumers and technologists, there is still a part of us that wants to test. Make sure we're progressing rather than regressing. We want to make sure we know and understand the different options for our customers and what has been released. One of the worst things is to spend 100s of

Just wanted to keep everyone abreast on the latest information when it comes to ArcGIS Desktop and ArcGIS Online applications.   The ArcGIS Marketplace provides a way to access maps & apps from Esri, distributors, and partners.  The Marketplace contains both free and paid apps that are designed to help your organization access and share your GIS data seamlessly with either in-house staff or the public.  Similar to Apple's app store or Android apps found on Google Play, the Ar