Unlocking Safety: Indoor Mapping Essentials for School Districts

Unlocking Safety: Indoor Mapping Essentials for School Districts

School districts and Statewide 9-1-1 administrators across the country are recognizing the need to increase the accuracy of floor plan data for their school buildings to provide vital information to ensure effective emergency planning and response.

Many states are providing funding to help school districts transition away from static hard copy maps and floorplans towards dynamic, interactive GIS maps.

To this end, Cloudpoint Geospatial is conducting surveys of K-12 school properties to create up-to-date floor plans in GIS format which can be integrated into 9-1-1 Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) systems.

The Future is Now: Utilizing Smart Forms Within Experience Builder

The Future is Now: Utilizing Smart Forms Within Experience Builder

Esri’s Web AppBuilder application is on its way out, so now is the time to find a way to recreate apps and workflows using their Experience Builder application. One popular widget in Web AppBuilder is the Smart Editor Widget. The Smart Editor allows for advanced editing configurations like creating auto calculations between different layers and dynamically configuring attributes to be hidden, required, or disabled. The solution to transition this widget to Experience Builder lies with the smart forms.

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Mastering Facility Asset Management with ArcGIS Indoors

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Mastering Facility Asset Management with ArcGIS Indoors

Enterprise Asset Management systems (or EAM) help organizations manage their physical assets throughout their lifecycle. ArcGIS Indoors enables those assets to be located, queried, tracked, and navigated to in a centralized map database. Integrating these two technologies provides a single pane of glass through which to visualize and manage an organization's building assets.

Slack it to Me: Setting Up ArcGIS Monitor Webhooks for Instant Alerts

Slack it to Me: Setting Up ArcGIS Monitor Webhooks for Instant Alerts

In GIS environments, staying informed about system performance and critical incidents is essential. ArcGIS Monitor is a tool designed to track GIS infrastructure, providing detailed insights into server health, system performance, and service status. Equally important is ensuring the timely delivery of notifications when issues arise. ArcGIS Monitor supports notifications through various methods, including email and webhooks. By leveraging webhooks and integrating ArcGIS Monitor with platforms like Slack using Power Automate, real-time updates can be delivered directly to team communication channels. This blog explores how to set up notifications in ArcGIS Monitor and connect them to Slack via webhooks, ensuring that critical updates reach your team without delay.

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Enhance Campus Navigation with Indoor Route Networks

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Enhance Campus Navigation with Indoor Route Networks

Looking to provide your users with a seamless campus navigation experience? Indoor route networks provide on-the-fly route calculation and turn-by-turn directions between specific interior spaces on your campus. Floor transitions, such as stairways, escalators, elevators, ramps, and wheelchair-accessible routes are taken into account.  Building entrances, rooms, interior assets, and landmarks can be used as navigation destinations, providing a means to locate and navigate to any space or feature on your campus.

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Enhancing Water Data Management with ArcGIS Dashboards

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Enhancing Water Data Management with ArcGIS Dashboards

Esri’s ArcGIS Dashboard applications offer powerful tools for monitoring utility data, and every Organization using ArcGIS Online or ArcGIS Enterprise has access to them. With the array of customizations allowed within Dashboards, it’s difficult to know if designers are leveraging their full potential. One easy enhancement that can make dashboards more effective and interactive is to incorporate data selector widgets. These widgets provide interactive, flexible views of your data within a dashboard. These selectors enable dynamic customization, helping users gain valuable insights and make better-informed management decisions.

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Measuring Sign Retroreflectivity for Nighttime Inspections

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Measuring Sign Retroreflectivity for Nighttime Inspections

In 2023, the University of Wisconsin at Madison determined they needed to update the inventory of their roadway signs on campus. Student safety, especially at night, is of paramount importance. Cloudpoint Geospatial was subcontracted to perform an update to their roadsign inventory of which the scope included capturing the geographic location of all their signs on both roadways and parking lots. Cloudpoint offers a complete sign inventory system using SignOps, a mobile-friendly application for tracking and managing sign assets, so it was a perfect fit.

Batch Geoprocessing Tools in ArcGIS Pro: No Code Required

Batch Geoprocessing Tools in ArcGIS Pro: No Code Required

Have you ever needed to run a geoprocessing tool over and over in ArcGIS Pro and thought, “There has to be a better way!” Or, “If only I knew how to code!”  For those of us with minimal or non-existent coding skills, fear not! Many of Esri’s geoprocessing tools like clip, buffer, and export features can be batched effortlessly without writing a single line of code. 

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Making Events Safer with Public Safety ArcGIS Solutions

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Making Events Safer with Public Safety ArcGIS Solutions

Special events are vital to community engagement, driving economic growth, and fostering connections. However, managing these events—whether it's a large outdoor festival or a local parade—requires meticulous planning, coordination, and robust systems to ensure everything runs smoothly. This is where Cloudpoint Geospatial's expertise in Esri's Special Event Operations solution comes into play, providing organizations, public safety teams, and event planners with the tools they need to effectively manage events and ensure safety.

Reviewing New Updates to ArcGIS Enterprise 11.3

Reviewing New Updates to ArcGIS Enterprise 11.3

ArcGIS Enterprise 11.3 marks the second long-term release in Esri’s 11 series of ArcGIS Enterprise. In this post, we will explore some of the notable changes in this release, including system and upgrade requirements, new capabilities and features, and why you may still want to consider ArcGIS Enterprise 11.3 despite ArcGIS Enterprise 11.4 now being available.

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Configuring and Using Public Notification Instant Apps

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Configuring and Using Public Notification Instant Apps

The Public Notification Instant App allows users to select features and export them in a CSV or PDF file. This app can quickly export addresses or contact information used to notify residents or property owners of upcoming projects or policy changes. Whether you need to contact all the property owners in a subdivision, or all the residents within a certain distance of a water main, this app has you covered. In this blog, we will demonstrate how to build a Public Notification Instant App and highlight some of the functions and settings.

GraniteNet: The Bedrock for Utility Data Integration

GraniteNet: The Bedrock for Utility Data Integration

I recently presented a webinar titled “Lifting the Lid on an ArcGIS and GraniteNet Integration”, which explored the connection between the water utility asset inspection platform and ArcGIS Enterprise. Due to time constraints, I omitted a section about the GraniteNet Viewer software. In the interest of providing a complete overview of GraniteNet, here is what you missed out on!

Using Topology in ArcGIS Pro for Accurate Boundary Management

Using Topology in ArcGIS Pro for Accurate Boundary Management

When working with spatial data in ArcGIS, maintaining the accuracy and consistency of the data is crucial. One effective way to achieve this is through the use of topology. Topology in ArcGIS manages spatial relationships between features and ensures data integrity by identifying and correcting errors such as misplaced boundaries or disconnected features.

Migrating Utility CAD Data into GIS: A Step-by-Step Guide

Migrating Utility CAD Data into GIS: A Step-by-Step Guide

Organizations often rely heavily on CAD files to display and manage their utility network systems. This reliance typically stems from a lack of staff or resources to maintain the data in a Geographic Information System (GIS). However, by migrating CAD data into a GIS environment, water utilities, local governments, and campuses can leverage powerful geospatial tools like ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online to update and maintain their networks more efficiently.

A Look at Esri's Capital Project Planning Solution in Action

A Look at Esri's Capital Project Planning Solution in Action

Esri’s Capital Project Planning Solution will kick start your city’s Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) by deploying maps, apps, and layers in just minutes. In this blog, we will provide an overview of the solution and demonstrate how it can be used to plan efficient infrastructure improvements. Additionally, we will show how it enables collaboration between city departments and the public.

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A Location-based Career Move

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A Location-based Career Move

In the rapidly changing world of GIS technology, it is important to pause occasionally and look at how far it has come–where we have been–in order to better appreciate where we are. In my previous series post about my career path, I mentioned that my first job out of college was with Markhurd Aerial Surveys doing manual cartography for a large defense mapping project.

Transforming Field Work: The Power of Esri's Field Maps Designer

Transforming Field Work: The Power of Esri's Field Maps Designer

Data collection in the field can be stressful when dealing with the unpredictable environments and weather conditions field crews may encounter. With traditional clipboards and paper, any number of mistakes can be made – and transferring this data into a digital system is not only duplicative, it can also be a challenge. ArcGIS Field Maps provides users with the ability to streamline data collection and ensure quality data is being collected in the field. Field Maps Designer can make your Web Map mobile-ready to enable quick data input and easy location-based map navigation. The best part is that all data collected automatically becomes available in ArcGIS Online or ArcGIS Enterprise.

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How To Avoid Expired Tokens for ArcGIS Connectors in Power Automate

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How To Avoid Expired Tokens for ArcGIS Connectors in Power Automate

Power Automate is one of my favorite options for automating GIS workflows. Getting started using Power Automate with ArcGIS is a breeze by using the pre-made templates for basic workflows using the ArcGIS connector or the Survey123 connector to interact with feature layers, geocoding, and survey forms.

An ArcGIS Enterprise Users guide to the Impact of Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge 127 Updates

An ArcGIS Enterprise Users guide to the Impact of Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge 127 Updates

The Chromium 127 update coming in July 2024, affecting Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge, will remove mutation events. This will disrupt ArcGIS Enterprise portals in versions 11.2 and earlier. Users must either install patches that will be released by Esri to avoid issues such as blank navigation bars or upgrade to ArcGIS Enterprise 11.3.

Improving Emergency Response Effectiveness with ArcGIS Indoors

Improving Emergency Response Effectiveness with ArcGIS Indoors

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.