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Unleashing 2.0: Updates to ArcGIS for Local Government and Tax Parcel Viewer
The latest update to Esri’s ArcGIS for Local Government in January included new solutions and enhancements to existing solutions. We also learned that more ArcGIS solutions will be moving to a hosted environment, meaning users will not have to download and host the application files on internal servers. Such solutions include Public Notification, Park Locator,…
Read More Pro-West’s Guide to Conference Season 2017
In the GIS industry, there are two distinct “conference seasons” each year: February-March and September-October. We’re about 2 weeks out from the February 2017 “opener”, so we would like to share where and when you can find Pro-West in the next couple of months. Esri FedGIS The aforementioned “season opener”. Taking place February 13-14 in…
Read More WLIA: 1 Month to Go
The WLIA Annual Conference is just a month away, so it’s time to get organized! Taking place February 22-24 in Wisconsin Dells, this is a landmark year for the conference – its 30th – and Pro-West is proud to help WLIA celebrate. The has been released, offering a rich blend of valuable and practical topics…
Read More Building On Land Sales with Property Lister
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,…
Read More Ice Fishing: Where Does ArcGIS Come In?
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,…
Read More Countdown to Esri FedGIS 2017
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…
Read More Go Offline in Collector – and Take Your Tax Parcel Data With You
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…
Read More Tri-County School and Pro-West Celebrate GIS Day!
[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…
Read More Racine County GIS Transforms to Efficiently Serve Land Records and Open Data – Esri ArcWatch
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…
Read More Election Day to GIS Day – from one historic day to another!
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…
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