Local Government

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…

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…

Kyle Wikstrom, GIS Solutions Specialist The 26th annual MN GIS/LIS Consortium annual conference is just around the corner, and I’m excited to be offering a workshop on a topic that is important to me: Open Data. In this pre-conference workshop, we will explore the topic of open data and how it can help the citizens…