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Kyle Wikstrom, GIS Solutions Specialist The ArcGIS solutions for property sales, such as Residential Comp Finder and Site Selector, are excellent apps for helping citizens and businesses identify locations to reside or set up shop. Access to this information helps to promote economic growth and development. With all of this great information, one may ask,…

Kyle Wikstrom, GIS Solutions Specialist We love ArcGIS at Pro-West because it can be used with something else we love to do: ice fish. Here is a really simple way that ArcGIS can make it easier for you to get outdoors and spend more time reeling in the big one! The Fishing License Locator is a simple,…

With little over a month to go until Esri’s FedGIS 2017, Pro-West is ready! Following the success of the 2016 conference for our business, we are looking forward to exhibiting for the second time. Taking place February 13-14 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in downtown Washington, DC, this year’s theme is “Innovation that…

Kyle Wikstrom, GIS Solutions Specialist Offline maps let users view, collect, and update features in a disconnected environment using Collector for ArcGIS on a mobile device. Once internet connection is re-established, synchronize your map and send your data updates back to your centralized GIS database. To take a map offline in a disconnected environment, all…

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Tri-County Public Schools in Karlstad, MN joined Pro-West to celebrate GIS Day on November 16th, with students learning and having fun with location technology and mapping. With the help of Pro-West GIS Solution Specialist Kyle Wikstrom, a 2007 graduate of Tri-County, the students learned the importance of maps in solving critical real-world issues. A hands-on…

The Racine County team received an Esri SAG Award for the project. Read the story of Racine County, Wisconsin’s GIS transformation, in the November edition of Esri’s ArcWatch. In 2015, Racine’s Register of Deeds and Land Information offices joined forces to embark on a GIS transformation that would advance their land records capabilities further than they…

This post comes at the end of a dramatic and historic week in the life of our country, to say the least. The culmination of the presidential candidates’ campaigning culminated in a result that destroyed years of predictive political modeling, stunning the country and keeping us riveted to the blue and red patchwork that spread…

With Assessors required by law to physically view properties that are subject to taxation at least once every five years, counties place critical importance on having an effective quintile plan in place. While no specific format is required, the right plan defines expectations and is instrumental in keeping these in-person inspections on target, mapping out each stage of…

Kyle Wikstrom, GIS Solutions Specialist PARK LOCATOR Create a Park Locator app using Web AppBuilder and the Filter widget. Any public parks layer can help you get going with this app. What should your parks layer include? Anything that anyone will want to know about your public parks! This can be the parks’ names and addresses, operational hours, or…

Kyle Wikstrom, GIS Solutions Specialist The 26th annual MN GIS/LIS Consortium annual conference is just around the corner, and I’m excited to be offering a workshop on a topic that is important to me: Open Data. In this pre-conference workshop, we will explore the topic of open data and how it can help the citizens…