Jim Herries is a geographer with Esri in Redlands, California. He serves as a principal product engineer on the team responsible for ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World. Jim is particularly engaged in thematic mapping and map visualizations, reflecting a drive to help GIS users bring their data to life on the map and stimulate insights. He constantly looks for ways to create clear, focused map information products that incorporate meaningful spatial analysis and evocative visualizations.
App enhancements and updated demographics help to increase your awareness during fire season.
The incident, population, and environment enriched layers from Wildfire Aware are now available as a live feed layer for your maps and apps.
The Esri team responsible for the Wildfire Aware app shares key design and implementation decisions.
You can show individual thematic maps to your audience and expect them to assemble the information in their mind. You can also make an index map.
Esri recently released the latest Justice40 Tracts from the Council on Environmental Quality into ArcGIS Living Atlas.
Access the most current American Community Survey (ACS) five-year estimates from U.S. Census Bureau via ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World.
The American Community Survey (ACS) layers in ArcGIS Living Atlas will be updated in March 2022 with the newest 2016-2020 data from the Census.
New ArcGIS StoryMaps collection on smart mapping
This blog digs into a simple approach to thematic mapping numeric data with their related error in a way that calls out significant error rates.
