ArcWatch: GIS News, Views, and Insights

July 2018


City Council Agendas Morph into Maps

By Carla Wheeler
ArcWatch Editor

This is the story of how the manager of the small city of Oak Hill, West Virginia, came up with a big idea: use an Esri Story Maps app to convert the city council agenda from a drab document to a lively account of municipal business. Read the article.


A city council agenda for Oak Hill, West Virginia, is displayed in a story map format.

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Visualize Malaria Rates in Africa
Malaria rates in Africa have been shrinking. Esri product engineer Kathy Cappelli walks you through how to use ArcGIS Pro, along with the ArcGIS Image Analyst extension or ArcGIS Spatial Analyst extension, to quickly analyze and visualize raster data on malaria rates in sub-Saharan Africa. In this tip, you will work with data from the nonprofit Malaria Atlas Project. Read the tip.

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