Habitat Info launched a charitable citizen science project to collect data on the conservation status of African raptors.
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
GIS technology can help Feeding America food banks across the United States.
The world has run up against the hard truth that the world is a very interconnected place. Table of contents for this issue.
Conserving a Network of Climate-Resilient Lands
The Resilient and Connected Network, an ambitious GIS mapping tool developed by The Nature Conservancy helps conservationists save biodiversity.
Online Schooling Prompts Municipalities to Map Digital Inequities
The effects of unequal access to broadband internet have been exacerbated by effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on some populations.
Taking a Data-Driven Approach to Affordable Housing
Any conversation that planners and administrators have today about community resilience has to include a sustainable housing policy.
Regional Data Platform Strengthens Collaboration and Cooperation
The Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) launched an ambitious cross-jurisdictional mapping initiative.
ArcGIS Pro 2.7 Enhances Data Capture, Use, Analysis, and Management
ArcGIS Pro 2.7 supports device location, mobile geodatabases, layer and feature blending, and other enhancements.
Ready-to-Use Geospatial Deep Learning Models
Esri makes ready-to-use geospatial artificial intelligence models available in the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World.
A Happy Collaboration between ArcGIS Pro and R
An urban growth prediction model empowers city planners and other to make informed urban policy decisions.
Seeing the Random Forest in Decision Trees
To understand Random Forest models, an explanation of a Decision Tree classifier is a good starting point.
Bridging the World of 3D GIS and Game Engines
ArcGIS Maps SDK for Unity and ArcGIS Maps SDK for Unreal Engine enable direct access to ArcGIS data and operations within a game engine.
A Foundation for Problem Solving
An early introduction to GIS made all the difference in Nate Ebel's future.
Simplify Integrating Frameworks and Build Tools
If you use the ArcGIS API for JavaScript with a 3rd party frameworks or create custom builds of the API, this process just got easier.
Features and Capabilities in the New ArcGIS API for Python
The 1.8.3 release of the ArcGIS API for Python adds a slew of new features and capabilities.
Explore Your Data First
Tutorials often depict the mapmaking process as a guided and regimented step-by-step process, but this isn’t what the process is like at all.
Mapping with Purpose
You have data, but that’s not enough to make a map. You also need a purpose.
Ready-to-Use US Census Data Layers
American Community Survey (ACS) demographic data layers are available from the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World for ready analysis.
Protect Your Editable Feature Data from the Public
Effectively managing feature layer capabilities is an easy way to ensure that your public applications securely show up-to-date information.
A Better Way to Quickly Deploy ArcGIS Solutions
Esri added a new way to quickly deploy ArcGIS Solutions to your organization—the ArcGIS Solutions app.
Virtual GIS Day Events Are a Hit
GIS Day celebrations in 2020 were online and extra special.
Interactive Map Depicts Global Submarine Cable Networks
Ninety-eight percent of the internet runs on cables that stretch across the world’s seabeds.
Management Improved by Understanding
Understanding is what organizations need and GIS can improve it.
GIS Bookshelf
Spatial Measurements and Statistics, Second Edition and Understanding Crime: Analyzing the Geography of Crime
Briefly Noted
Esri acquired Zibumi; Inc. magazine’s honors Esri with gold medal; Africa GeoPortal support geospatial use.
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