May this style be a light to you in dark places when all other light goes out.Here is a shortcut through the Mines of Moria to an ArcGIS Pro project with all this data and styles all set up and ready to go.Happy Fantasy Mapping! John Nelson

An ArcGIS Dashboard used by internal stakeholders to view their GIS service requests.

An ArcGIS Dashboard used by GIS staff to view and manage their assigned GIS activities.

The MPCA's What's in My Neighborhood contains a wide variety of environmental information about your community. This includes potentially contaminated sites, permits, licenses, registrations, inspections, and closed enforcement activities.

Potentially contaminated sites: Since the early 1980s when major federal and state cleanup programs were created, the MPCA has been aggressively searching for and helping to clean up contaminated properties, from very small to large. This website contains a searchable inventory of those properties, as well as sites that have already been cleaned up and those currently being investigated or cleaned up.

Environmental permits and registrations: This Web application also contains a searchable inventory of businesses that have applied for and received different types of environmental permits and registrations from the MPCA.

Methods for creating site locations have different levels of precision. The most accurate locations use coordinates from GPS (global positioning system). Coordinates are also derived using the site's street address, zip code or public land survey information. Some MPCA sites are not mapped. These are generally activities that are mobile, like ships with ballast water permits.

I’d love to begin by saying that I have not “arrived” as I believe I am still on a journey of self-discovery. I have heard people say that they find my journey quite interesting and I hope my story inspires someone out there.I had my first encounter with Geographic Information System (GIS) in the third year of my undergraduate study in Geography at the University of Ibadan, Oyo State Nigeria. I was opportune to be introduced to the essentials of GIS by one of the prominent Environmental and Urban Geographers in person of Dr O.J Taiwo. Even though the whole syllabus and teaching sounded abstract to me due to the little exposure to a practical hands-on approach to GIS software, I developed a keen interest in the theoretical learning and I ended up scoring 70% in my final course exam.

GapMaps GIS Data by Azira uses location data on mobile phones sourced by Azira which is collected from smartphone apps when the users have given their permission to track their location. It can shed light on consumer visitation patterns (“where from” and “where to”), frequency of visits, profiles of consumers and much more.

Businesses can utilise GIS data to answer key questions including: - What is the demographic profile of customers visiting my locations? - What is my primary catchment? And where within that catchment do most of my customers travel from to reach my locations? - What points of interest drive customers to my locations (ie. work, shopping, recreation, hotel or education facilities that are in the area) ? - How far do customers travel to visit my locations? - Where are the potential gaps in my store network for new developments?
- What is the sales impact on an existing store if a new store is opened nearby? - Is my marketing strategy targeted to the right audience? - Where are my competitor's customers coming from?

Mobile Location data provides a range of benefits that make it a valuable GIS Data source for location intelligence services including: - Real-time - Low-cost at high scale - Accurate - Flexible - Non-proprietary - Empirical

Azira have created robust screening methods to evaluate the quality of Mobile location data collected from multiple sources to ensure that their data lake contains only the highest-quality mobile location data.

This includes partnering with trusted location SDK providers that get proper end user consent to track their location when they download an application, can detect device movement/visits and use GPS to determine location co-ordinates.

Data received from partners is put through Azira's data quality algorithm discarding data points that receive a low quality score.

Use cases in Europe will be considered on a case to case basis.

To help with the your management of students and content in your schools ArcGIS Online account you can activate Admin Tools for ArcGIS on your account. This video steps you through how to activate Admin Tools for ArcGIS Online on your account.Recorded March 2018.

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It is about updating to GIS information database, Decision Support Tool (DST) in collaboration with IWMI. With the support of the Fish for Livelihoods field team and IPs (MFF, BRAC Myanmar, PACT Myanmar, and KMSS) staff, collection of Global Positioning System GPS location data for year-1 (2019-20) 1,167 SSA farmer ponds, and year-2 (2020-21) 1,485 SSA farmer ponds were completed with different GPS mobile applications: My GPS Coordinates, GPS Status & Toolbox, GPS Essentials, Smart GPS Coordinates Locator and GPS Coordinates. The Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model that integrates climate change analysis with water availability will provide an important tool informing decisions on scaling pond adoption. It can also contribute to a Decision Support Tool to better target pond scaling. GIS Data also contribute to identify the location point of the F4L SSA farmers ponds on the Myanmar Map by fiscal year from 1 to 5.

There are many useful strategies for preparing GIS data for Next Generation 9-1-1. One step of preparation is making sure that all of the required fields exist (and sometimes populated) before loading into the system. While some localities add needed fields to their local data, others use an extract, transform, and load process to transform their local data into a Next Generation 9-1-1 GIS data model, and still others may do a combination of both.There are several strategies and considerations when loading data into a Next Generation 9-1-1 GIS data model. The best place to start is using a GIS data model schema template, or an empty file with the needed data layout to which you can append your data. Here are some resources to help you out. 1) The National Emergency Number Association (NENA) has a GIS template available on the Next Generation 9-1-1 GIS Data Model Page.2) The NENA GIS Data Model template uses a WGS84 coordinate system and pre-builds many domains. The slides from the Virginia NG9-1-1 User Group meeting in May 2021 explain these elements and offer some tips and suggestions for working with them. There are also some tips on using field calculator. Click the "open" button at the top right of this screen or here to view this information.3) VGIN adapted the NENA GIS Data Model into versions for Virginia State Plane North and Virginia State Plane South, as Virginia recommends uploading in your local coordinates and having the upload tools consistently transform your data to the WGS84 (4326) parameters required by the Next Generation 9-1-1 system. These customized versions only include the Site Structure Address Point and Street Centerlines feature classes. Address Point domains are set for address number, state, and country. Street Centerline domains are set for address ranges, parity, one way, state, and country. 4) A sample extract, transform, and load (ETL) for NG9-1-1 Upload script is available here.Additional resources and recommendations on GIS related topics are available on the VGIN 9-1-1 & GIS page.

How your GIS department can respond to COVID-19 (ArcGIS Blog).Your organization likely has most of the tools and data necessary for an effective COVID-19 response. Learn how to bring it all together._Communities around the world are taking strides in mitigating the threat that COVID-19 (coronavirus) poses. Geography and location analysis have a crucial role in better understanding this evolving pandemic.When you need help quickly, Esri can provide data, software, configurable applications, and technical support for your emergency GIS operations. Use GIS to rapidly access and visualize mission-critical information. Get the information you need quickly, in a way that’s easy to understand, to make better decisions during a crisis.Esri’s Disaster Response Program (DRP) assists with disasters worldwide as part of our corporate citizenship. We support response and relief efforts with GIS technology and expertise.More information...

CDFW BIOS GIS Dataset, Contact: Laura Ryley, Description: This dataset offers a link to the California segment of the Surf Your Watershed service offered by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Surf Your Watershed is a service to help locate, use, and share watershed environmental information. A driving force behind Surf Your Watershed is to get environmental information into the hands of active citizens and groups to help those people connect and share information, ideas, and assistance.

This mapping tool provides a representation of the general watershed boundaries for stream systems declared fully appropriated by the State Water Board. The boundaries were created by Division of Water Rights staff by delineating FASS critical reaches and consolidating HUC 12 sub-watersheds to form FASS Watershed boundaries. As such, the boundaries are in most cases conservative with respect to the associated stream system. However, users should check neighboring FASS Watersheds to ensure the stream system of interest is not restricted by other FASS listings. For more information regarding the Declaration of Fully Appropriated Stream Systems, visit the Division of Water Rights’ Fully Appropriated Streams webpage. How to Use the Interactive Mapping Tool: If it is your first time viewing the map, you will need to click the “OK” box on the splash screen and agree to the disclaimer before continuing. Navigate to your point of interest by either using the search bar or by zooming in on the map. You may enter a stream name, street address, or watershed ID in the search bar. Click on the map to identify the location of interest and one or more pop-up boxes may appear with information about the fully appropriated stream systems within the general watershed boundaries of the identified location. The information provided in the pop-up box may include: (a) stream name, (b) tributary, (c) season declared fully appropriated, (d) Board Decisions/Water Right Orders, and/or (e) court references/adjudications. You may toggle the FAS Streams reference layer on and off to find representative critical reaches associated with the FASS Watershed layer. Please note that this layer is for general reference purposes only and ultimately the critical reach listed in Appendix A of Water Rights Order 98-08 and Appendix A together with any associated footnotes controls. Note: A separate FAS Watershed boundary layer was created for the Bay-Delta Watershed. The Bay-Delta Watershed layer should be toggled on to check if the area of interest is fully appropriated under State Water Board Decision 1594.

This document sets out step by step instructions to help teachers activate their schools ArcGIS Online Subscription.

This National Geographic Style Map (World Edition) web map provides a reference map for the world that includes administrative boundaries, cities, protected areas, highways, roads, railways, water features, buildings, and landmarks, overlaid on shaded relief and a colorized physical ecosystems base for added context to conservation and biodiversity topics. Alignment of boundaries is a presentation of the feature provided by our data vendors and does not imply endorsement by Esri, National Geographic or any governing authority.This basemap, included in the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World, uses the National Geographic Style vector tile layer and the National Geographic Style Base and World Hillshade raster tile layers.The vector tile layer in this web map is built using the same data sources used for other Esri Vector Basemaps. For details on data sources contributed by the GIS community, view the map of Community Maps Basemap Contributors. Esri Vector Basemaps are updated monthly.Use this MapThis map is designed to be used as a basemap for overlaying other layers of information or as a stand-alone reference map. You can add layers to this web map and save as your own map. If you like, you can add this web map to a custom basemap gallery for others in your organization to use in creating web maps. If you would like to add this map as a layer in other maps you are creating, you may use the tile layers referenced in this map.

The GIS component of Virginia's NG9-1-1 deployments is moving in waves, with new groups of localities starting the onboarding process every three months. Well into our third wave, new resources and recommendations on GIS related topics are now available on the VGIN 9-1-1 & GIS page. This is available as a large combined document, Next Generation 9-1-1 GIS Recommendations. However since some information is more useful for localities earlier in their project and other information more useful later, we are also posting each section as its own document. The parts include:1) Boundaries in Next Generation 9-1-12) Preparing Your Data and Provisioning into EGDMS3) Outsourced GIS Data Maintenance and NG9-1-14) Emergency Service Boundary Layers5) Attribution6) What's NextSome of the parts are technical that reflect choices and options to make with boundary lines, or specific recommendations on how to create globally unique IDs or format display name fields. In these areas, we hope to share recommendations from Intrado and point users to specific portions of the NENA GIS Data Model Standard for examples. The current version is 1.1, published February 2021.

Everybody just loves a pen and ink stipple effect. It’s charming, it’s warm, it’s handsome, it’s tactile. It says, say, want to sit on the couch and I’ll read to you from your well-worn copy of Where the Sidewalk Ends?I’ve tried out the stipple effect in maps (here and here) that I’ve hand-drawn (yes, and so should you!) as well as dipped my toe into creating a digital effect (here and here), and found that it gives a richness of clarity and depth. Then a few days ago I saw this wonderful hand stippled map drawn by Molly Elkins, on Twitter. The simple beauty of her map motivated me to go back to the inkwell and get an honest to goodness pen and ink style together for ArcGIS Pro.Here are some examples...Here's what's in the style...

Deprecation notice: This tool is deprecated because this functionality is now available with out-of-the-box tools in ArcGIS Pro. The tool author will no longer be making further enhancements or fixing major bugs.Use Add GTFS to a Network Dataset to incorporate transit data into a network dataset so you can perform schedule-aware analyses using the Network Analyst tools in ArcMap.After creating your network dataset, you can use the ArcGIS Network Analyst tools, like Service Area and OD Cost Matrix, to perform transit/pedestrian accessibility analyses, make decisions about where to locate new facilities, find populations underserved by transit or particular types of facilities, or visualize the areas reachable from your business at different times of day. You can also publish services in ArcGIS Server that use your network dataset.The Add GTFS to a Network Dataset tool suite consists of a toolbox to pre-process the GTFS data to prepare it for use in the network dataset and a custom GTFS transit evaluator you must install that helps the network dataset read the GTFS schedules. A user's guide is included to help you set up your network dataset and run analyses.Instructions:Download the tool. It will be a zip file.Unzip the file and put it in a permanent location on your machine where you won't lose it. Do not save the unzipped tool folder on a network drive, the Desktop, or any other special reserved Windows folders (like C:\Program Files) because this could cause problems later.The unzipped file contains an installer, AddGTFStoaNetworkDataset_Installer.exe. Double-click this to run it. The installation should proceed quickly, and it should say "Completed" when finished.Read the User's Guide for instructions on creating and using your network dataset.System requirements:ArcMap 10.1 or higher with a Desktop Standard (ArcEditor) license. (You can still use it if you have a Desktop Basic license, but you will have to find an alternate method for one of the pre-processing tools.) ArcMap 10.6 or higher is recommended because you will be able to construct your network dataset much more easily using a template rather than having to do it manually step by step. This tool does not work in ArcGIS Pro. See the User's Guide for more information.Network Analyst extensionThe necessary permissions to install something on your computer.Data requirements:Street data for the area covered by your transit system, preferably data including pedestrian attributes. If you need help preparing high-quality street data for your network, please review this tutorial.A valid GTFS dataset. If your GTFS dataset has blank values for arrival_time and departure_time in stop_times.txt, you will not be able to run this tool. You can download and use the Interpolate Blank Stop Times tool to estimate blank arrival_time and departure_time values for your dataset if you still want to use it.Help forum

The interactive map creation tools market is experiencing robust growth, driven by increasing demand for visually engaging data representation across diverse sectors. The market's value is estimated at $2 billion in 2025, exhibiting a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 15% from 2025 to 2033. This growth is fueled by several factors, including the rising adoption of location-based services, the proliferation of readily available geographic data, and the growing need for effective data visualization in business intelligence and marketing. The individual user segment currently holds a significant share, but corporate adoption is rapidly expanding, propelled by the need for sophisticated map-based analytics and internal communication. Furthermore, the paid use segment is anticipated to grow more quickly than the free use segment, reflecting the willingness of businesses and organizations to invest in advanced features and functionalities. This trend is further amplified by the increasing integration of interactive maps into various platforms, such as business intelligence dashboards and website content. Geographic expansion is also a significant growth driver. North America and Europe currently dominate the market, but the Asia-Pacific region is showing significant promise due to rapid technological advancements and increasing internet penetration. Competitive pressures remain high, with established players such as Google, Mapbox, and ArcGIS StoryMaps vying for market share alongside innovative startups offering specialized solutions. The market's restraints are primarily focused on the complexities of data integration and the technical expertise required for effective map creation. However, ongoing developments in user-friendly interfaces and readily available data integration tools are mitigating these challenges. The future of the interactive map creation tools market promises even greater innovation, fueled by developments in augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and 3D visualization technologies. We expect to see the emergence of more sophisticated tools catering to niche requirements, further driving market segmentation and specialization. Continued investment in research and development will also play a crucial role in pushing the boundaries of what's possible with interactive map creation. The market presents opportunities for companies to develop tools which combine data analytics and interactive map design.

Have you ever wanted to create your own maps, or integrate and visualize spatial datasets to examine changes in trends between locations and over time? Follow along with these training tutorials on QGIS, an open source geographic information system (GIS) and learn key concepts, procedures and skills for performing common GIS tasks – such as creating maps, as well as joining, overlaying and visualizing spatial datasets. These tutorials are geared towards new GIS users. We’ll start with foundational concepts, and build towards more advanced topics throughout – demonstrating how with a few relatively easy steps you can get quite a lot out of GIS. You can then extend these skills to datasets of thematic relevance to you in addressing tasks faced in your day-to-day work.