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Today at the Esri UC was a day full of technical workshops and industry sessions. I was busy checking out sessions on ArcGIS Online, AppStudio, Collector for Windows 10, ArcGIS Pro Tasks, and the Dakotas User Group meeting. ArcGIS Online’s new security, privacy, and compliance capabilities make it easier to administer an Organization. Custom Roles can be…

Yesterday was the kickoff to the Esri UC, and the Plenary Session showcased what is nothing less than brilliance and excellence in GIS and how it is being leveraged not just around the world, but in our very own communities. Here are a few highlights of today’s Plenary Session. The Living Atlas of the World contains authoritative…

Kyle Wikstrom, GIS Solutions Specialist The Esri UC kicks off tomorrow! This is a chance for everyone attending to learn about the great ways GIS is impacting our communities and how WE are a part of it. I’m very pleased to be returning to the UC again this year and learning what’s in store for…

Kyle Wikstrom, GIS Solutions Specialist The latest release of ArcGIS for Local Government has us pretty excited at Pro-West, and here’s why. Define and manage water, sewer, stormwater, and transportation asset projects Assis in scoping, reviewing, and organizing Capital Improvement Plans. Managing the Public Land Survey System Publish PLSS layers in the CadNSDI data format…

Kyle Wikstrom, GIS Solutions Specialist A new version of Collector for ArcGIS was recently released in the iTunes AppStore and Google Play, and we want YOU to know just what makes this new release relevant to us and how data collection just got a little bit easier. Let’s pretend one of our clients in a…

Pro-West will be sharing its knowledge on one of the hottest topics in land information at WLIA’s Regional Meeting in Eagle River, WI, taking place June 1-4 at the Eagle River Inn. Presenting on June 4 at 1:30pm, Lisa Schaefer – whose expertise has transformed land records capabilities for counties and cities across the Midwest and…

Pro-West, an Esri Gold Partner, has been recognized as an ArcGIS Online Specialty Partner, paying testament to the high standard of skills and services Pro-West brings to its customers using this technology. To attain the ArcGIS Online Specialty designation, Pro-West was required to demonstrate its deep technical skills, adherence to best practices, and success in…

Kyle Wikstrom, GIS Solutions Specialist I was in a meeting recently with several department heads and supervisors. Each person said: “I have this data…” followed by a description of what the data was and how it was stuck on a computer, buried in an email, hidden on a flash drive, lost in the sea of…

Kendis Scharenbroich, Vice-President …It’s a question we hear a lot at Pro-West. And the answer is: we are “modernizing” local government GIS. That is what we are doing. Every. Day. GIS Coordinators across the country are faced with a huge challenge. The GIS industry is changing, Esri’s platform is changing at a rapid pace and…

Lucas Scharenbroich, Technology Manager Sometimes it takes a while to digest the tsunami of information from the annual Esri Developer Summit in Palm Springs, CA, and 2015’s Dev Summit was no exception. Pro-West & Associates sent two of its developers – myself (@ljscharen), and Adam Skoog (@adam_skoog) – to the week-long conference to see, hear and do.…