3+ week, 1+ day ago   (530+ words) By Micah Knox, Resource Specialist, Yucaipa Valley Water District As a district dedicated to providing high-quality drinking water, one of our biggest hurdles comes in the form of preventable water loss. Not only that, but being able to quantify water…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (718+ words) When Clint Brown joined Esri in August 1983, GIS was barely an industry. The software ran on high-end minicomputer systems that cost close to a million dollars to install. Only a small number of organizations could afford to experiment with the…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (701+ words) Freeport-McMoRan built its environmental records system to track decades of residential cleanup work across multiple legacy sites, turning a document warehouse into a planning tool that supports field operations, legal documentation, and long-range program decisions. Mining is often measured in…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (499+ words) The goal of image analysis is to transform imagery into meaningful information. When paired with GIS workflows, users can get more value from each pixel by extracting features from imagery. In a typical GIS workflow, these extracted features may exist…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (567+ words) Meet OIT8, our implementation of order-independent transparency using only RGBA8 textures: We use the 8 bit storage as a fixed-point representation, and apply the same blending operations as with the 16 bit floating point textures. This algorithm relies on WebGL2 core functionality only, and therefore…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (859+ words) “It can be so scary to make that change, but there are opportunities in every path that you take,” says Fleming. “I really don’t think that art and science are all that much different. In both cases, there is the…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (297+ words) In June 2025 a tool for drawing basic curved lines was added to Map Viewer. This allowed you to draw a quick, single segment, curved line and style it as you wanted. With this release, support has been added for a…...

1+ mon, 22+ hour ago   (483+ words) By Martin Copping and Albert Schelin ArcGIS Web Editor is a data editing application in ArcGIS Online that streamlines data maintenance workflows. Web Editor provides a straightforward approach to editing for GIS and non-GIS users. The wide array of editing…...

1+ mon, 22+ hour ago   (431+ words) Many of you will already be familiar with the big button, rapid data capture experience offered by ArcGIS QuickCapture mobile. It provides a fast, simple way to capture observations in the field and has been widely adopted in situations where…...

1+ mon, 20+ hour ago   (149+ words) Montgomery Parks, an organization that is part of the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, prides itself on preserving and protecting land while also encouraging active living. Montgomery Parks owns 416 parks across Maryland’s Montgomery County, an area encompassing almost 38,000 acres....