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Mapping Drought Trends in the U.S. (Esri)

Dan Pisut If you haven’t heard of the drought in the western U.S., you must be living blissfully under a nice cool, moss covered rock....

Midland County, MI GIS and Esri’s Community Maps Program Respond to Flood Event (Esri)

In May of 2020 Midland County, Michigan received significant rainfall that led to two dam failures resulting in the drainage of Sanford and Wixom...

Turn your world inside-out with antipodes (Esri)

John Nelson In geography, an antipode is the exact other side of the world from any given location. When I was a kid, we always used to...

Publish and overwrite web layers in ModelBuilder (Esri)

Jonah Lay As we continue the fight against COVID-19 and enter the wildfire and hurricane season, web applications like dashboards help people make informed, time-sensitive,...

Styling OpenStreetMap data with Arcade in ArcGIS Pro (Esri)

John Nelson This blog post is about styling and labelling data from the OpenStreetMap database in ArcGIS Pro, to produce impressive maps. The key is to understand...

Locators: Adventure in South America (Esri)

Wes Jones The recently released Locators: Adventure in South America by Kyle Bauer, Colleen Conner, and myself, Wesley Jones, follows a group of kids as they solve...

‘Counting Birds in the Falkland Islands’, and other Remote Sensing Fundamentals (Esri)

The task to discern different species of seabirds gets complicated when they nest in the same place. Steve Snow The Falkland Islands contain some of the...

Visualizing How DC Waterways Have Evolved (Center for Data Innovation)

Morgan Stevens The Department of Energy and Environment in Washington, D.C. has created a series of visualizations depicting waterways in the city. The visualizations use...

Increasing the Minimum Wage Will Help the United States Compete with China on AI (Center for Data Innovation)

Image Credit: Miso Robotics Daniel Castro There are growing calls to raise the minimum wage in the United States. While most arguments favor an increase to help workers,...

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