Technical Content

Lucas Scharenbroich, Technology Manager It’s time to get serious about supporting secure HTTP on your GIS infrastructure. HTTPS is a secure protocol used for communicating over the internet. It takes the familiar HTTP protocol used by web browsers and other devices, and wraps it up in a secure, encrypted package. This has two significant benefits.…

Kyle Wikstrom, GIS Solutions Specialist Using out-of-the-box (OOTB) apps and tools, any organization can provide a suite of web apps to help citizens, real estate professionals, and business owners search and locate available space and property. Popular solutions include Esri’s Residential Comp Finder and Site Selector applications in the ArcGIS for Local Government collection of templates. These apps combine…

Kyle Wikstrom, GIS Solutions Specialist Welcome to my summary and key takeaways from the Chapter 3 of The ArcGIS Book! Read about this blog series in my previous post. See my breakdown of Chapter 1 here, and Chapter 2 here. Stories and maps used to commonly be side-by-side items but, with Esri Story Maps, stories can be presented through geography. The…

Kyle Wikstrom, GIS Solutions Specialist Welcome to my summary and key takeaways from the Chapter 2 of The ArcGIS Book! Read about this blog series in my previous post. See my breakdown of Chapter 1 here. Maps are how GIS users convey their work. Maps are analytical and artistic. They offer map readers the ability to understand and see our…

Kyle Wikstrom, GIS Solutions Specialist The World of Things Welcome to my summary and key takeaways from the Chapter 1 of The ArcGIS Book! Read about this blog series in my previous post. Web GIS is a medium through which enables users to contribute information through useful, interactive GIS maps. All of the data that has been gathered,…

Kyle Wikstrom, GIS Solutions Specialist I have lived in Minnesota for over two decades, and during this time I have seen many cookbooks. Most of these come from rural communities, and if a recipe is especially popular – or if it is thought that the dish originated from the Vikings (the ancient, marauding Vikings, not the…

Lucas Scharenbroich, Technology Manager At Pro-West, our Vice-President & COO Kendis Scharenbroich is preparing to share her experience, expertise and advice during the technical session Aligning Location Technology with Business Goals on Thursday, September 17th. There’s no better authority than Kendis on this topic – just ask our clients. She speaks with many, many organizations on a…