{"id":702152,"date":"2024-09-25T21:30:57","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T04:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/?post_type=arcwatch&#038;p=702152"},"modified":"2024-09-25T21:30:57","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T04:30:57","slug":"uniting-the-world-one-map-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"arcwatch","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/arcwatch\/uniting-the-world-one-map-at-a-time","title":{"rendered":"Uniting the World, One Map at a Time"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":8132,"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":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10932],"tags":[489372,157432,201022,474162],"arcwatch_issues":[490402],"class_list":["post-702152","arcwatch","type-arcwatch","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esri-user-conference","tag-2024-esri-user-conference","tag-arcgis","tag-esri-uc","tag-plenary-session","arcwatch_issues-september-2024"],"acf":{"short_description":"Presenters at the 2024 Esri User Conference inspired the Plenary audience by demonstrating how they are using GIS to unite their communities.","pdf":{"host_remotely":false,"file":"","file_url":""},"flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"The 2024 Esri User Conference (Esri UC) was a gathering of some of the most capable geospatial minds from around the world. The conference was organized with a distinct purpose: to provide space for these GIS professionals to share and exchange ideas about how to make the world a more united and sustainable place to live.\r\n\r\nHeld in San Diego, California, July 15\u201319, the conference was attended by over 21,500 registrants, with more than 14,500 tuning in online. It also included hundreds of presentations and showcases that spoke to the theme of the conference: Uniting Our World.\r\n\r\n\u201cGeography organizes everything we know,\u201d said Jack Dangermond to kick off the Plenary Session. \u201cThis magical word <em>where<\/em> is an extraordinary word because it connects all of humanity to all the science. The where is a powerful thing. It\u2019s your bridge to everyone else on the planet.\u201d"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":702242,"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"Esri UC gave life to that idea, connecting attendees over the five-day event with networking opportunities, training seminars, and technical demonstrations. Presentations throughout the week spoke to the technologies and initiatives that allow GIS users around the world to improve their work and their communities. And on the Plenary stage, Dangermond recognized many of these people and organizations by awarding Special Achievement in GIS (SAG) Awards, the Making a Difference Award, Enterprise GIS Award, and the President\u2019s Award.\r\n\r\nThe Plenary Session also featured many GIS analysts and engineers who showcased the transformative work they have been doing in their communities. These presentations were followed by keynote speakers such as National Geographic Explorer Jeff Kerby, as well as Minnesota Governor Tim Walz\u2014now the Democratic nominee for vice president of the United States\u2014who described what it meant to be a \u201cservant leader\u201d who uses data and GIS to drive success.\r\n\r\nEvery Plenary presenter emphasized how their organizations are using GIS to not only serve their communities but also unite their worlds."},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":702192,"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<h2>More Than Just Mapping<\/h2>\r\nLocated in southeast Florida, Miami-Dade County is nearly as large as the state of Delaware. It is also home to more than 2.7 million residents.\r\n\r\nCounty staff developed GIS parcel layers starting in 1990, introduced the county\u2019s first web-based GIS app for residents in 1997, and created a GIS-based wastewater data management system in 1998.\r\n\r\nMany of Miami-Dade County\u2019s GIS successes are related to making long-term investments in Esri\u2019s low-code and no-code products, which has enabled staff to produce nearly 500 business-centric apps for 25 county departments and residents. For example, county staff used ArcGIS Urban to plan locations for 216 new housing units, and created a web page with ArcGIS Hub and its AI assistant to enable residents to find cooling centers during heat waves.\r\n\r\nGIS also plays a key role in the county\u2019s No Wrong Door initiative, which helps ensure that every person\u2019s first point of contact with the county is met with the seamless, comprehensive, and compassionate delivery of government services."},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":702202,"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"Jose R. Rodriguez, the division director for the county\u2019s IT department, described a new GIS app that supports county departments, municipalities, and state agencies in their work on infrastructure projects for road management.\r\n\r\n\u201cThis application aims to reduce disruption and save money by identifying collaboration opportunities,\u201d Rodriguez said, noting how the county employed ArcGIS Indoors, Urban, and Esri\u2019s new Road Closures solution. \u201cWith our efforts, we\u2019re going to be helping drivers ride to a destination more efficiently.\u201d\r\n\r\nIn addition, staff can assign appropriate county employees to hurricane evacuation shelters based on the employees\u2019 areas of expertise.\r\n\r\n\u201cWe\u2019re seamlessly opening virtual doors, physical doors, to our employees and to our community, and that\u2019s because of the partnership that we have with Esri,\u201d said Jose L. Lopez, the assistant director for the county\u2019s IT department.\r\n<h2>Ahead of the Flow<\/h2>\r\nCentral San, a wastewater treatment agency in Contra Costa County, California, provides wastewater collection, treatment, and disposal services; recycled water production and distribution; and household hazardous waste collection to nearly half a million residents and more than 15,000 businesses.\r\n\r\nAlthough Central San\u2019s GIS team is small, it has been able to streamline its everyday work and significantly improve the impact of its community\u2019s environmental stewardship. Central San has accomplished this largely through its use of ArcGIS Utility Network for wastewater asset management.\r\n\r\nKhae Bohan, asset management program administrator for Central San, and GIS analyst Carl Von Stetten laid out their use of Utility Network, demonstrating how it is employed to model complex assets, such as maintenance holes, and enable staff to operate more efficiently both in the office and in the field."},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":702252,"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"\u201c[Utility Network] has become the foundation for our enterprise network management system,\u201d said Von Stetten, who emphasized that the software allows for more precise communication with crews in the field. For instance, these workers can respond to customer requests by using an app created with ArcGIS Instant Apps that performs a network trace with Utility Network data.\r\n\r\nInside treatment plants, Central San connects its GIS workflows with engineering designs and building information modeling (BIM) data, providing a 3D view of assets in areas that are not physically accessible.\r\n\r\n\u201cHaving a 3D model allows staff to visualize and interact with each system as a whole in a way not possible with 2D drawings alone,\u201d said Bohan. \u201cThis will improve communication and collaboration between consultants, engineering staff, and our operations staff.\u201d\r\n<h2>Managing the Seabed with ArcGIS<\/h2>\r\nIn the United Kingdom, national landowner The Crown Estate is using GIS to help ensure shared and long-term prosperity for England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Created in 1760, The Crown Estate helps manage land across the countryside, communities, coastal areas, and the ocean floor.\r\n\r\nPresenters described how The Crown Estate considers shipping, fishing, environmental protection, costs, and more in making decisions about where to locate offshore wind farms capable of powering millions of homes.\r\n\r\n\u201cWe have a responsibility to unlock value for the land and nature through the sustainable management of a diverse portfolio of assets, both on land and across the entire seabed,\u201d said technical and spatial planning director Michelle Moore."},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":702212,"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"GIS helps The Crown Estate identify, optimize, and balance how marine resources are managed while considering how to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions goals, how to boost nature recovery, and how to maintain a thriving marine-based economy. The Crown Estate does this by using the company\u2019s Resource Information and Optimization (RIO) resource management tool, which provides scenario-based geodesigns augmented by community input that is collected using interactive crowdsourcing apps built with Hub.\r\n\r\n\u201cWe need to engage and work with others to consider the whole of the sea and all of its users,\u201d Moore said. \u201cIt\u2019s an act of balance, integrating competing and complementary interests.\u201d\r\n\r\nTo accomplish this, the RIO shows existing infrastructure, such as oil and gas platforms; legislative data, such as protected marine areas; health and safety considerations; and technical exclusions, including areas that are too shallow for development. This helps The Crown Estate determine where to locate offshore wind farms. Different scenarios focus on issues such as space, costs, and environmental impact.\r\n\r\n\u201cIt allows us to understand the consequences of those scenarios, both positive and negative,\u201d said marine delivery routemap director Jamie Moore.\r\n<h2>Empowering Kuwait by Capturing Reality<\/h2>\r\nEstablished in 1982, the Public Authority for Civil Information (PACI) in Kuwait has spent years building a geospatial repository for the country\u2019s government and its people. It is a one-stop shop for authoritative data, apps, and services that supports a population of over 4 million people.\r\n\r\n\u201cThe data is stored in . . . various formats, like papers, scanned documents, CAD drawings, and custom apps,\u201d said Maher Abdel Karim, GIS consultant and program manager for PACI. \u201cWe linked them all together and created a comprehensive basemap for the country.\u201d\r\n\r\nKarim and his colleagues presented on PACI\u2019s efforts to centralize Kuwait\u2019s location data. In 2013, PACI introduced Kuwait Finder, a mobile app that allows its over 2.5 million users to search for addresses and businesses across the country using an identifier known as a PACI number. This number contains additional information about each location."},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":702222,"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"As part of its efforts to act as a geospatial authority in Kuwait, PACI has also used GeoAI to map and verify speedbump locations across the country. Further, they created a detailed 3D digital twin of many of the country\u2019s urban and agricultural areas. To construct this model, PACI collected more than 650,000 drone images and generated an orthomosaic using ArcGIS Reality for ArcGIS Pro.\r\n\r\n\u201cBy leveraging all these outputs, we used ArcGIS Pro and the ArcGIS Reality extension to generate a fused photorealistic 3D model,\u201d said PACI\u2019s reality capture data production team leader Dr. Bedoor Mohammad, as she demonstrated how to navigate the detailed model onscreen. \u201cIsn\u2019t it beautiful?\u201d\r\n<h2>Innovative Security and Climate Solutions<\/h2>\r\nWith almost 9,000 properties in more than 141 countries, Marriott International is the world\u2019s largest travel and hospitality company, according to Marriott global vice president of engineering and facilities Robert Bahl. But the company\u2019s focus extends beyond hospitality, said Bahl, who described Marriott\u2019s innovative, GIS-powered solutions for managing corporate security and mitigating risk.\r\n\r\nBy leveraging the Atlas template in ArcGIS Instant Apps as well as ArcGIS Dashboards, Marriott global intelligence employees have immediate access to real-time tactical information on a variety of hazards related to civil unrest, terrorism, and climate change. At the same time, Marriott seeks to reduce its carbon footprint and improve sustainability.\r\n\r\nEach Marriott property is assessed and monitored for natural and human-related risks, which helps Marriott implement mitigation measures to ensure the safety of its guests and employees.\r\n\r\n\u201cOur story begins with the Global Safety and Security Risk Atlas,\u201d said Marriott senior manager of global intelligence Richard Barta, who noted that this app was built with Instant Apps. \u201cOur team can quickly compare relative strategic risk scores from threats like terrorism, civil unrest, and crime under our threat condition program. We can easily illustrate our security risk analyses, countermeasures, and program compliance into a clean, single-pane window.\u201d"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":702232,"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"Preloaded layers from ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World also enable the app to help with operations during potential and actual risk events.\r\n\r\nMarriott director of operations support and training Agila Kumar described how the company\u2019s engineering and facilities team uses Dashboards to evaluate present and future risks due to extreme weather and climate change impacts, such as heat waves and coastal flooding.\r\n\r\nIn addition, Kumar said, dashboards show carbon footprints for each Marriott property, helping Marriott with its goal of reducing its carbon footprint by 50 percent by 2030 and achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.\r\n<h2>A City in Nature<\/h2>\r\nFinally, representatives from the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) and National Parks Board of Singapore (NParks) took to the stage to highlight how the two organizations work together to make Singapore greener and more sustainable.\r\n\r\nDue in part to its equatorial climate, Singapore is uniquely vulnerable to climate change. Enter Singapore\u2019s Green Plan, an initiative designed to support the United Nations\u2019 Sustainable Development Goals by converting Singapore into a \u201ccity in nature.\u201d\r\n\r\n\u201cTo achieve this vision, we are preserving our natural capital and creating greenery at different scales within the city,\u201d said NParks director Ow Siew Ngim. \u201cWe have already set aside more than 20 percent of Singapore\u2019s land to preserve our tropical rainforest and mangroves.\u201d\r\n\r\nAs part of this goal, URA has developed a 3D system of record with ePlanner, an app integrated with ArcGIS Enterprise that serves over 1,600 users across more than 40 government agencies. With ePlanner, users can access building data and more than 200 data layers, including those of mainland Singapore\u2019s walking and cycling networks and plans for the city."},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":702182,"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"\u201cSingapore takes a long-term approach to urban planning,\u201d said URA systems analyst Tan Chun Xiao, highlighting study areas that planners are currently working on.\r\n\r\nBut Singapore has a tremendous amount of greenery to manage, and with its ArcGIS Enterprise environment, NParks has bolstered these efforts to create a city in nature by developing a GIS ecosystem to handle everything from tree inspections to landscape operations.\r\n\r\n\u201cWe have more trees than humans,\u201d noted Ngim, showcasing the realistic 3D models of many of the 6 million managed trees in the city. This is one of multiple measures the city has taken to prioritize its natural spaces and features.\r\n\r\nNParks\u2019s public tree map, for instance, allows residents to learn more about the city\u2019s foliage and streamlines tree planting and maintenance.\r\n\r\nEfforts like this ensure that Singapore\u2019s greenery remains a vital part of a healthy and sustainable community. They also conjure up Dangermond\u2019s remarks from earlier in the Plenary Session\u2014that overcoming existential challenges such as climate change will require significant collaboration.\r\n\r\n\u201cIt\u2019s going to require uniting around this powerful science that we have\u2014geography,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd we need to do this urgently.\u201d\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/links.esri.com\/plenary24\">Watch all the Plenary Session presentations, including the keynote speeches<\/a>."}],"references":null},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Uniting the World, One Map at a Time<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Presenters at the 2024 Esri User Conference inspired the Plenary audience by demonstrating how they are using GIS to unite their communities.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, 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