In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, ensuring the safety and security of school environments is paramount. One innovative approach gaining traction is the integration of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for emergency response. By utilizing platforms like ArcGIS Indoors, schools can significantly enhance their preparedness and response strategies. Here’s a closer look at how GIS technology can transform emergency management in educational settings.
Enhancing Indoor GIS Mapping with Points of Interest
When communicating and making user-friendly maps and applications, Points of Interest (POIs) are essential pieces of information. Traditionally, POIs referred to locations that were ‘destinations’, such as landmarks or monuments that people would navigate to, usually over long distances such as by vehicle. Modern POIs with Indoor GIS facilitate navigation and wayfinding inside of buildings, but also provide connectivity, serving as a gateway between your map and your information portal.
Migrating CAD Floor Plans to GIS with ArcGIS Pro
We are seeing a growing interest within the industry in the process of converting floor plans from CAD or BIM format into GIS format, specifically in Esri’s ArcGIS platform. In this post, our primary focus will be on utilizing ArcGIS Pro tools and features to make the conversion, taking a comprehensive look at the steps involved, with an emphasis on Esri’s ArcGIS Indoors solution. So, let's dive right in!
Enhancing Campus Utilities: A Look at 3 Key GIS Trends
In today’s rapidly changing world, effective utility management is essential to ensure a reliable supply of services such as water, electricity, and telecommunications. Campuses such as universities, hospitals, and local governments are often overwhelmed with the amount of utilities that lie in small areas or narrow corridors. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) has emerged as a powerful tool that enables utility companies and organizations to optimize their operations, improve decision-making, and enhance overall efficiency. This blog will explore the various ways that GIS, and specifically the ArcGIS platform, is transforming the way that utilities are managed across campus, from enhancing asset tracking to streamlining field operations and improving disaster response.
Making Your Campus Facility Floor Plans 'Floor Aware' with ArcGIS Indoors
We love to introduce GIS users to the concept of "floor awareness" for converting digital floor plans to GIS within the ArcGIS platform. In this blog post, we'll delve into the key takeaways from my webinar presentation and provide a detailed understanding of what it means to be floor-aware in the context of ArcGIS Indoors. We'll also explore how to create floor-aware maps using ArcGIS Pro.
Beginning a Campus GIS Program from the Ground Up
Many facility managers know that they need a GIS for their campus but may not know where to begin. This post will look at some recommended steps for implementing a successful campus GIS using the ArcGIS platform when you have little or nothing to start with. If you’re starting from scratch to build your campus GIS, you may have some data to begin with. Or you might just looking to provide management with some budget numbers. If either of these are true, you’ve come to the right place.
Building and Maintaining a Fiber Optic Network Using GIS and ArcGIS Online
There are thousands of Internet Service Providers (ISP’s) scattered across the U.S. A quick Google search will provide you with a broad range of estimates ranging from 1,200 to 3,000. As many of these ISP’s are located in rural areas, the demand for broadband services has only increased with more people working from home. So how do these small internet service providers handle customer engagement, maintain high-quality services, share information with other staff, all while still keeping good quality as-built maps of their underground cables?
5 Steps to Build a Facilities Space Planning Dashboard using ArcGIS
Space planning and management is an important part of any college campus or school district. It helps facility managers ensure that they are optimizing the utilization of their space.
Often, facility spaces become underutilized as we move towards a remote hybrid environment. This can create an optimization problem as these unused areas still require costs such as heating and cooling, IT equipment, and general facility maintenance. Many space planning and maintenance personnel are wrestling with how to best address this issue and still provide optimized space usage across campus.
Using GIS & LiDAR to conduct an ADA Site Assessment
ADA compliance is a big issue these days, with many agencies struggling to find resources to address their compliance issues. First and foremost, it is necessary to complete a site assessment of the existing conditions to determine areas that are out of compliance. Once an assessment has been completed, the agency can determine the best course of action to correct non-compliant areas.
Better Together: Collecting GIS data with Trimble Catalyst GNSS and ArcGIS Online
Trimble is a global leader in positioning technology and Esri is a best-in-class geospatial software provider. When these two powerhouses converge, great things happen. So you may be asking, ‘How do I get the best of both worlds from these vendors? Now with Trimble Catalyst, getting high accuracy GNSS positioning integrated with the mobile ArcGIS platform has never been easier…
Get the Lead Out: Lead Service Line Replacement and Notification Act
Illinois passed the Lead Service Line Replacement and Notification Act in May of 2021, and it went into effect January 1, 2022. The ultimate goal is the replacement of all water service lines in the state of Illinois. Furthermore, this legislation does not only address replacing lines in public properties or right-of-ways, but replacing lines up to and even into private residences as needed. Sounds like a monumental task? You’re right, but then again, you’ve got Cloudpoint to call upon.
Detecting sidewalk slope and retaining walls with aerial LiDAR
Enhancing GIS Campus Facility Maps with Points of Interest
4 Questions to Ask When Selecting a GIS-based Asset Management Solution
We work with a lot of municipal local government clients and have learned over the years that selecting the right GIS asset management solution these days is a critical, time-consuming task. Decision makers can’t afford to make the wrong decision when investing hundreds of thousands of dollars over a period of just a few years. So we thought it would be a good idea to review some basic questions to ask yourself when evaluating which option…
What GIS tools & resources are available to battle Coronavirus?
With the coronavirus spreading rapidly, its high-time the GIS community invoke its power of location analytics to help fight off the destructive spread. Tools are readily available to locate, track, and even predict when and where the virus will spread. Esri has numerous resources available such as pre-configured web apps, operations dashboards, and solutions deployment tools. One of the major provisions that have made is incorporation of the Coronavirus initiative into ArcGIS Hub basic so everyone with an ArcGIS Online account has access to the tools and there is no need to purchase the Hub Premium edition
Top 5 differences between ArcMap and ArcGIS Pro
Are you an occasional Esri software user that is needing to ramp up your game? Maybe its been a couple of years since you dabbled with the GIS software and you have a project that needs a little geospatial touch. One of the questions you may find yourself asking is "What is the difference between ArcMap and ArcGIS Pro"?
From 10,000 feet to 1 inch: Bringing GIS indoors
ArcGIS Indoors is a map-based software application that enables property owners to manage all of their facilities across an entire campus in one, centralized, location. With Esri’s latest release of ArcGIS Indoors, their flagship mapping platform now offers a new solution to deliver improved strategic planning, facility operations, and workplace productivity not to mention a host of other benefits. Property managers and facility operations personnel looking for an interactive map-based solution to manage their campus and building data can take advantage of this technology to track and maintain information such as status, condition, inspection history, and asset information for all of their facilities.
Need Work Order management with Your GIS? Introducing Esri's Workforce for ArcGIS
Workforce for ArcGIS is one of Esri's native GIS applications that allows you to take advantage of a streamlined work order management system that is built directly on top of your GIS platform. This tutorial provides a basic overview of the application both from the desktop browser as well as a mobile perspective. For more information on how your organization can integrate work order management with GIS
