The 2019 Esri User Conference celebrated user achievements and new GIS advancements.
Letter from the Editor
Pervasive GIS Is What’s Next
Making location intelligence more universally available—a promise made just six short years ago at the Esri User Conference—is being realized through the widespread adoption of Web GIS. The Web GIS pattern leverages web services that make exponentially growing data streams readily accessible for visualization and analysis.
By empowering non-GIS staff, Web GIS enables both GIS professionals and non-GIS knowledge workers in organizations to get more meaningful work done. It relieves GIS professionals from previous roles as data gatekeepers and on-call mapmakers so they can engage in analytical activities that provide greater value to their organizations.
The power of data integration and computational geography can be available to every-one in the organization. Through converting massive amounts of data into actionable information, web maps are becoming a kind of language that supports problem solving.
Using apps, this work can be shared and taken everywhere: referenced and updated in the field, presented in the boardroom, and disseminated on the web. The Web GIS pattern brings together web maps, web apps, hubs, location analytics, and other technologies that improve understanding, collaboration, and communication.
Since their introduction six years ago, Esri Story Maps apps have become a communication medium that is used to tell the stories of individuals, organizations, communities, events, and processes. The more than 600,000 story maps that have been published have been viewed millions of times.
The Special Section in this issue highlights how story maps are used to promote the unique characteristics of communities, present city council agenda items in context, and share the significance and beauty of collections maintained by the Library of Congress.
With Web GIS, location intelligence is easier to apply and more accessible so society can truly benefit from The Science of Where.
Monica Pratt
Editor
The intersection of artificial intelligence and GIS is creating massive opportunities that are available in ArcGIS.
GIS was used to preserve the voting rights of Native American living on North Dakota reservations.
Optimizing Elections⏤GIS Improves Preparation and Execution for County
Orange County Registrar of Voters uses GIS to prepare for and run elections.
Something Old That’s New
The 2019 Esri User Conference celebrated Esri's 50-year anniversary, its original principles, and its cutting edge innovations.
An Easier Way to Keep Up with Geospatial News
Esri Globe is a quick and painless way to keep up with the trends that affect your organization’s GIS.
ArcGIS StoryMaps: Revolutionize the Way You Tell Stories
To help you tell your story simply, powerfully, and with style, Esri has developed ArcGIS StoryMaps
Become the 2019 StoryMapper of the Year
Enter the 2019 StoryMapper of the Year Contest sponsored by Esri.
Hot Topic at Science Symposium
Scientists by Olga Wilhelmi and Jennifer Boehnert gave the keynote address at the Science Symposium.
Arcade-a-Cadabra: This expression language can magically transform your maps
ArcGIS Arcade is an expression language that transforms data on the fly to create meaningful labels, symbology, and pop-ups.
Turn Raw Data into a Feature Layer
Learn how to transform tabular data into a feature layer.
The Best Time to Plant a Tree
Look more closely at your GIS to discover how you can use it to enable your digital transformation.
Create a Custom Web Editing Experience with the ArcGIS API for JavaScript
Use the Editor widget in the 4.x release of the ArcGIS API for JavaScript.
ArcGIS API for Python Core Concepts: Python, APIs, and REST
An introduction the ArcGIS API for Python so you can use it to automate processes.
Do More with ArcGIS Runtime SDKs 100.5
ArcGIS Runtime SDKs at 100.5 enable better performance and utility.
What It Takes to Be a GIS Leader
Understanding the difference between a GIS manager and a GIS leader.
Modeling the Flow of Dangerous Goods by Rail
Transport Canada uses GIS to better manage the millions of shipments of dangerous materials.
Improving Efficiencies in the Pipeline Industry with Location Intelligence
Crestwood uses the ArcGIS platform to manage crude oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids.
The Race to Make a High-Resolution Map of the World’s Oceans
The GEBCO-Nippon Foundation Alumni team (GEBCO-NF Alumni) won the Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE.
Enabling Science and Census
GIS for Science: Applying Mapping and Spatial Analytics and GIS and the 2020 Census: Modernizing Official Statistics
Briefly Noted
Esri supports the work of Jane Goodall and E.O. Wilson; CropScape data available; Esri and MobilEye partner.
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