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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,…

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…

Fall is officially here and, at Pro-West, that means just one thing: the MN GIS/LIS Annual Conference will soon be here! It’s taking place a little later this year – October 26-28 – giving us an extra couple of weeks to polish our presentations and get in plenty of practice with the popcorn machine. Every year we strive to…

The one COTS tool you need to create simple, focused apps fast. Demand from consumers is high for mobile-first apps. We have come to expect to find all the information we need at our fingertips, wherever we are and whatever device we’re using. Demand has never been higher from organizations under pressure to meet this…

The Esri UC 2016 brought together 16,000 GIS professionals from around the world to introduce new and enhanced products and capabilities, exchange ideas, recognize achievements amongst the mapping community, and celebrate the difference GIS is making on a global scale. As always, we enjoyed connecting with many of our clients at the UC and hope…