Local Government

Pro-West is preparing to head for Las Vegas September 24-27 for the 2017 Internal Association of Assessing Officers’ (IAAO) Annual Conference. Taking place at Bally’s Hotel and Casino right at the heart of the Strip, the conference program promises a rich learning experience, covering topics at the forefront of Assessors’ agendas country-wide. Pro-West will be…

Conference delegates at this year’s URISA GIS-Pro in Jacksonville, FL October 26-28 will have the opportunity to discover Jefferson County, WA’s story of GIS transformation. Taking the County from stagnant to standard-setting, find out the driving forces, milestones, lessons learned along the way, and successes achieved by the Jefferson team in their journey towards a…

As the State of Minnesota prepares to implement a Next Generation 911 (NG911) system that incorporates modern communications technology, counties are receiving support from Pro-West to ensure they are ready on time. Counties’ E911 data must exist in a format that meets standards set by the National Emergency Number Association (NENA), requiring counties to have…

Pro-West’s Jennifer Ward, Local Government GIS Consultant, and Kyle Wikstrom, GIS Solutions Specialist, will be teaching at this year’s Minnesota Association of Assessing Officers (MAAO) Summer Seminars. Taking place May 24-25 at St Cloud State University, St Cloud, MN, the two-day MAAO Summer Seminars program features 14 classes focusing on topics of critical importance to…

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,…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…