{"id":768026,"date":"2025-09-01T13:39:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T20:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/?post_type=arcuser&#038;p=768026"},"modified":"2025-09-01T13:39:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T20:39:31","slug":"what-it-means-for-gis-to-integrate-everything-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"arcuser","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/arcuser\/what-it-means-for-gis-to-integrate-everything-everywhere","title":{"rendered":"What It Means for GIS to Integrate Everything, Everywhere"},"author":5752,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","castos_file_data":"","podmotor_file_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[348072],"tags":[492022,201042,241,362132,491452],"arcuser_issues":[493152],"class_list":["post-768026","arcuser","type-arcuser","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letter","tag-arcuser-spring-2025","tag-data-management","tag-gis","tag-integration","tag-letter","arcuser_issues-summer-2025"],"acf":{"short_description":"GIS makes the world easier to understand, more collaborative, and more integrated.","pdf":{"host_remotely":false,"file":"","file_url":""},"flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"\u201cIntegrate\u201d is a powerful word in the world of GIS. It\u2019s typically used in reference to data, as in pulling spatial data from various sources, in various formats, for use in a comprehensive dataset. And in ArcGIS Pro, the Integrate tool analyzes the coordinate locations of feature vertices and helps ensure that vertices are connected.\r\n\r\nAt this year\u2019s Esri User Conference (Esri UC), the theme was GIS\u2014Integrating Everything, Everywhere. Like the Integrate tool, this theme was all about cohesion and connection. Plenty of the presentations at the Plenary Session and during the rest of the week were about data management. But the conference itself is predicated on the idea that people are more organized and effective when we come together and collaborate, when we can network and share ideas that make our communities better. That\u2019s exactly what attendees were there to do.\r\n\r\nMany of the articles in the summer 2025 issue of <em>ArcUser<\/em> follow this thread. Understanding how to migrate your data from ArcGIS Online into an enterprise geodatabase, learning tips to make your dashboards more effective and aesthetically pleasing, better understanding the ins and outs of 3D object layers\u2014these are all ways to make your data work better for you.\r\n\r\nStories featured in this issue also highlight the ways GIS professionals are making their work more collaborative, data driven, and integrated. The Massachusetts Housing Partnership, a public nonprofit, is using housing data to help tamp down out-of-control housing prices and zoning laws across the state. In Oman, network management is a critical element for Oman Broadband\u2019s mission to deliver high-speed, affordable internet to the whole country. Communities in Indiana that are required to replace lead service lines are pooling their GIS resources to make their drinking water safer. The US National Park Service is developing new ways to integrate fossil data from regional parks into its national databases. And in the Spanish region of Galicia, spatial data is an essential part of wildfire mitigation as these disastrous events become more frequent near developed areas.\r\n\r\nThe common denominator is collaboration. When organizations work together to solve problems, when their data is organized, easily communicable, and freely shared, issues that at first glance might seem insurmountable become more manageable. 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