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Alex Lange, Solutions Engineer Solutions Spotlight: Refresher with ArcGIS Field Maps – Data Collection & What’s New? By Alex Lange, Solutions Engineer, Pro-West & Associates Keeping up with the ‘latest and greatest’ can be hard. So here is what you may have missed in ArcGIS Fields Maps! ArcGIS Field Maps Overview Field Maps is a…

Webinar: Using GIS to Manage Lead Service Line Inventory (EPA Lead & Copper Rule Revisions) – April 4, 2023 This webinar took place April 4. 2023. Click here or scroll down to view the recording. Join GIS experts Pro-West & Associates to understand how GIS technology can support efficient, on-time compliance with the Environmental Protection…

Alex Lange, Solutions Engineer Geospatial Data Begins in the Field By Alex Lange, Solutions Engineer, Pro-West & Associates As 2023 ends the last of the annual 3 major updates to ArcGIS Online and other ESRI web and software products. Not to be outdone, this includes all mobile applications currently available: Field Maps, Survey123, QuickCapture, Workforce…

The Next Generation of Open Data in ArcGIS Online Alex Lange, Solution Engineer Beginnings: Open Data Sites Open data is a key concept for GIS users: access to data is the only way to build analysis, applications and any project that relates to spatial locations. Back in 2014, Esri created what was known as ArcGIS…

Alex Lange, Solution Architect, Pro-West & Associates Configure, Customize or Upload: What Are My Options? It’s not every day that, when considering a GIS project, you need to consult a dictionary, but maybe it should be! While many factors go into deciding how to complete a project – cost, time, staff resources or technology –…

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…

DID YOU KNOW THAT A CIRCLE IS THE MOST EFFECTIVE AND EFFICIENT WAY TO PRESENT POINT DATA? But what happens when there are so many events on a map that your points become a blob? Point clustering is a way to make it easier to extract meaningful information from your data. Point clustering is supported…

Are you currently using Esri’s parcel fabric and, if so, have you incorporated any Add-Ins? Geospatial Data Specialist Lisa Schaefer, a leader in parcel fabric implementation and education, introduces key aspects of Add-Ins… WHERE TO FIND PARCEL FABRIC ADD-INS Add-Ins can be found at GitHub in the Parcel Fabric Add-Ins Repository. WHAT ADD-INS ARE AVAILABLE? Add-Ins include…

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 one COTS tool you need to create simple, focused apps fast. Demand from consumers is high for mobile-first apps. We have come to expect to find all the information we need at our fingertips, wherever we are and whatever device we’re using. Demand has never been higher from organizations under pressure to meet this…