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Kyle Wikstrom, GIS Solutions Specialist Over 16,000 GIS professionals from around the world will gather in San Diego for the Esri UC next week. Those attending will network with peers from the global GIS community, learn new methods and techniques in hundreds of sessions and technical trainings, and engage with trusted experts and solution providers.…

Pro-West has added another geo app to its Elections 2016 collection: Election Reporter! Many election administrators and local governments still need a more effective and efficient way of recording elections tabular results information. Take advantage of out-of-the-box ArcGIS Online apps to streamline this process! Election Reporter is a configuration of ArcGIS Online and the Crowdsource Polling configurable…

Kyle Wikstrom, GIS Solutions Specialist Using out-of-the-box (OOTB) apps and tools, any organization can provide a suite of web apps to help citizens, real estate professionals, and business owners search and locate available space and property. Popular solutions include Esri’s Residential Comp Finder and Site Selector applications in the ArcGIS for Local Government collection of templates. These apps combine…

Kyle Wikstrom, GIS Solutions Specialist Welcome to my summary and key takeaways from the Chapter 3 of The ArcGIS Book! Read about this blog series in my previous post. See my breakdown of Chapter 1 here, and Chapter 2 here. Stories and maps used to commonly be side-by-side items but, with Esri Story Maps, stories can be presented through geography. The…

GIS professionals from across northwest and north central Minnesota converged May 5th on the Beltrami County Administration Building in Bemidji for the NW-NC Minnesota GIS User Group. Agencies represented included local governments, private industries, utilities, the forestry service, emergency response, academic, and state offices, with the shared purpose of promoting GIS in the area. Attendees discussed…

Kyle Wikstrom, GIS Solutions Specialist On May Pro-West will join other GIS leaders from across the state at the 2016 MN GIS/LIS Consortium Spring Workshops at the University of Minnesota – Minneapolis. As is always our aim, we will be bringing attendees the latest and best in GIS expertise, this time focusing on getting up to…

Kyle Wikstrom, GIS Solutions Specialist Welcome to my summary and key takeaways from the Chapter 2 of The ArcGIS Book! Read about this blog series in my previous post. See my breakdown of Chapter 1 here. Maps are how GIS users convey their work. Maps are analytical and artistic. They offer map readers the ability to understand and see our…

Kyle Wikstrom, GIS Solutions Specialist The World of Things Welcome to my summary and key takeaways from the Chapter 1 of The ArcGIS Book! Read about this blog series in my previous post. Web GIS is a medium through which enables users to contribute information through useful, interactive GIS maps. All of the data that has been gathered,…

Kyle Wikstrom, GIS Solutions Specialist I have lived in Minnesota for over two decades, and during this time I have seen many cookbooks. Most of these come from rural communities, and if a recipe is especially popular – or if it is thought that the dish originated from the Vikings (the ancient, marauding Vikings, not the…

The primaries are almost over and before you know it we’ll be going to the polls. Local government GIS leader, Pro-West, is working with elections officials to prepare for November. We want to make this election the easiest one yet for your government! This free webinar will demonstrate easy-to-use apps that get your elections information…