Pro-West News & Articles

ESRI’S LIVING ATLAS Pro-West & Associates will join the California Assessors’ Association (CAA) Annual Conference, taking place virtually October 26-29, as a sponsor. We look forward to connecting with you all! We hope you will join us on Monday, October 26 at 3:15pm PST to learn more about GIS solutions for Assessors. Accuracy, Efficiency, Engagement: GIS for…

Pro-West will wrap up this week’s WLIA Fall Meeting (register here – it’s FREE!) with a session on ArcGIS Hub for local government during the meeting’s Friday Wrap. Pro-West is also proud to support the virtual meeting through sponsorship. Empowering Local Government & Communities with ArcGIS Hub – Friday, October 16, 10:45-11:15am ArcGIS Hub is empowering government organizations with a new ability…

Pro-West is proud to be a sponsor of the URISA GIS-Pro 2020 Conference – a special virtual edition for an extraordinary year. GIS-Pro 2020 provides an important opportunity for GIS professionals across the nation to connect and keep learning and innovating even as we deal with the unique and challenging circumstances that 2020 brought. Pro-West will joined…

Pro-West will sponsor and present at the upcoming virtual Oklahoma South Central Arc User Group (OKSCAUG) conference taking place September 22, 2020. The Pro-West team is thankful to see conferences continue to be held virtually, allowing our community to stay connected, albeit in a digital format rather than face-to-face. While it’s not quite the same experience, there…

Forrester Names Esri a Leader in Location Intelligence Esri, the world’s leading GIS platform provider, has been named a leader in The Forrester WaveTM: Location Intelligence Platforms, Q2 2020 which evaluates the products and services of vendors in a given market using a standardized and transparent methodology. According to the report, “location intelligence changes the…

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.…

Cody Wolfe, GIS Technician Welcome to the second posts in this series on reading legal descriptions. In the last post, I shared the fundamentals of understanding the Public Land Surveying System (PLSS), which is vital in getting to where your parcel is going to be described. The next step – understanding legal description terminology and the…