Local Government

Join Pro-West and Esri Date: October 14, 2020 Time: 9:00am PST Today, local governments are tasked with meeting citizens’ expectations for authoritative property information that is easy to find, quick to understand, and available on any device. Discover the GIS initiatives – such as the Equitable Property Value Initiative for ArcGIS Hub – that have been built…

Free On-Demand PRIA Webinar: Modernizing Land Records Management with Parcel Fabric For Recorders and Registers of Deeds, following best practices for managing property information is fundamental to their role. The Property Records Industry Association (PRIA) is opening access to this webinar from July 2020 to everyone – regardless of membership status – to offer insight into the business of the parcel…

Pro-West to Sponsor NCAA Conference 2020 Pro-West is pleased to sponsor the Northern California Assessors’ Association (NCAA) annual conference, happening virtually for the first time from August 4-6, 2020. We are looking forward to connecting with the Assessor community in the NorCal region to share experiences of using GIS to modernize, streamline and improve fairness throughout…

WHAT’S ON THE AGENDA FOR DAY 3? Day 3 kicks off with the expo hall opening at 7:30am PDT. Visit Pro-West’s virtual booth. Make sure you’re logged into the conference platform and click on “Access Esri UC”.  Sessions! MANY technical session options are on today’s agenda. See this post for our recommendations. Full agenda is here. Learn about GIS for asset management.…

PRE-REGISTRATION NOW AVAILABLE! Join Pro-West & Associates at our virtual booth for 20-minute live learning sessions on the hottest topics for the GIS community, direct from the experts. A demo will be held on a different topic during every segment of expo hours throughout the conference. REGISTER HERE HOW DO I JOIN PRO-WEST LEARNLIVE? All Learn Live…

WHAT’S PRO-WEST DOING AT UC 2020? Pro-West will have a virtual exhibit booth at the conference, where attendees can visit us online. Once at our exhibit booth, connect with the Pro-West team via the “Interact Live” button. Our virtual booth will be staff continuously during conference expo hours. We hope you will stop by for an informal chat or…

As many of us mark two months of “working through COVID” we can reflect on the journey so far – what’s worked, lessons learned, and how we can best navigate our way forward. GIS emerged early as a mission-critical tool, vital to supporting the first pandemic we’ve been able to analyze in real-time using modern location technology.…

Cody Wolfe, GIS Technician Welcome to the first of three posts in which we will cover the fundamentals of reading legal descriptions – a task that is vital to tax parcel information and other land records-related work. To understand legal descriptions, it’s necessary to first understand the Public Land Surveying System (PLSS). The PLSS was…

COVID-19 GIS tools are providing critical in helping monitor and mitigate the virus in communities across the globe. Governments are using location technology to bring together and share vital data with citizens on the status of local COVID-19 cases, where to find testing facilities, locations that are closed, and much more as we unite to…