Our friend Charlie Fitzpatrick, the K-12 Education Manager for Esri (the company that produces ArcGIS), reminded us that this year’s ArcGIS Online Competition for US High School and Middle School Students is underway. Students in grades 4-12 who wish to participate must submit entries via their own login in a school/district ArcGIS Online Organization. The […]
NBC News built a cool little app that allows you to superimpose the areas burnt by each of the major wildfires on top of your own city, so that you can get a true sense of just how large these fires really are. Check it out at https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/map-compare-west-coast-wildfires-2020-n1240011 . You may notice in my sample […]
Have you wondered what careers might make use of your skills in GIS? Esri (the company behind ArcGIS) has partnered with VirtualJobShadow.com to produce a broad series of videos that detail careers ranging from a conservationist to a fire fighter. Check them out here.
If you logged into ArcGIS Online in the past few days, you may have been greeted by a nasty note about exceeding the “number of licenses assigned” in the middle of your screen: Thanks to some legwork by Jerry Prince at EAST and Charlie Fitzpatrick at Esri, I can share the cure for this malady. […]
Ever wanted to get a glimpse of what your town or school looked like some years ago? If you search for something like “historic imagery” in ArcGIS Online, you won’t find many useful results. Sure, they were taking aerial photos as far back as World War I – 100 years ago! – but all these […]
You’ve probably seen maps and dashboards, like the one from the Arkansas Department of Health, showing current information about the COVID-19 outbreak in Arkansas and the U.S., but you may not be aware how easy it is to access and work with these data. ArcGIS Online gives you all kinds of options for making maps, […]
Welcome to the EAST GeoTalk blog! This serves as a forum for the EAST Geospatial Support Team to share news, tips, and tutorials in the world of geospatial technologies. The primary authors are Brian Culpepper and Malcolm Williamson, both from the Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies at the University of Arkansas. We will try to […]