Campus Mapping

Enhancing Campus Utilities: A Look at 3 Key GIS Trends

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

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

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.

5 Steps to Build a Facilities Space Planning Dashboard using ArcGIS

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.

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From 10,000 feet to 1 inch: Bringing GIS indoors

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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.