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Pro-West is pleased to be exhibiting at the 2019 NE Ohio GIS Symposium, taking place in Cleveland May 8-9. Following the Ohio URISA Education Series taking place May 8th, Pro-West will be at the Huntington Convention Center in downtown Cleveland May 9th. In addition to exhibiting we look forward to connecting with fellow GIS professionals and…

Kyle Wikstrom, GIS Solutions Specialist The first day of the 2016 Esri User Conference began, as it does, with the plenary sessions, and I was at the front of the line to get into the presentation hall (one of my top tips!). Exemplary work done by GIS professionals from around the world was featured, including Racine …

Pro-West’s President and CEO, Annette Theroux, was this week appointed to the Minnesota Statewide Geospatial Advisory Council, the body that advises the Minnesota Geospatial Information Office, MnGEO, an office within Mn.IT Services, as it fulfils its important geospatial technology coordination role. During Annette’s term, which will run until June 2017, the Council’s primary focus will be providing…

Lucas Scharenbroich, Technology Manager On the very last day of 2014, we posted on a few trends we thought we would see in GIS in 2015. We thought it would be interesting to take a look back and see where we were as an industry a year ago, how the next 12 months were shaping up,…

Taking place February 10-12 in Elkhart Lake, the WLIA Annual Conference is approaching much faster than many of us anticipated, with the holidays playing their usual mind games. It’s hard to believe there are just 6 weeks to go! With that in mind, we wanted to let you know what you can expect from Pro-West…

Kyle Wikstrom, GIS Solutions Specialist The latest release of ArcGIS for Local Government has us pretty excited at Pro-West, and here’s why. Define and manage water, sewer, stormwater, and transportation asset projects Assis in scoping, reviewing, and organizing Capital Improvement Plans. Managing the Public Land Survey System Publish PLSS layers in the CadNSDI data format…

Kyle Wikstrom, GIS Solutions Specialist I was in a meeting recently with several department heads and supervisors. Each person said: “I have this data…” followed by a description of what the data was and how it was stuck on a computer, buried in an email, hidden on a flash drive, lost in the sea of…

Kendis Scharenbroich, Vice-President …It’s a question we hear a lot at Pro-West. And the answer is: we are “modernizing” local government GIS. That is what we are doing. Every. Day. GIS Coordinators across the country are faced with a huge challenge. The GIS industry is changing, Esri’s platform is changing at a rapid pace and…

Lucas Scharenbroich, Technology Manager Sometimes it takes a while to digest the tsunami of information from the annual Esri Developer Summit in Palm Springs, CA, and 2015’s Dev Summit was no exception. Pro-West & Associates sent two of its developers – myself (@ljscharen), and Adam Skoog (@adam_skoog) – to the week-long conference to see, hear and do.…

MNGIS/LIS has announced the opening of its Spring Workshop series for sign-up. Taking place May 20th at the University of Minnesota’s Minneapolis complex with some sessions being broadcast to allow remote attendance, the day promises a diverse range of classes over the course of 12 hours. Pro-West joins the bill with two workshops: Introduction to…