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, […]
ArcGIS Online managers can bulk export their Organizations Named Users into a comma separated file (.csv) using the new Reporting Tool ( ESRI officially released it June 30, 2020) The issue is the exported (text) format of their Last login Date attribute field within the exported user table. Importing the .csv into another Google Sheet […]
You can use our Public Survey123 application to contribute Public or Free WiFi access locations within Arkansas. These Free Wifi locations are shared with Arkansas Public School students and citizens that may not have internet access at home. Your assistance may help Arkansas students or their families locate free internet access nearby! Over 148 Wifi […]
We recently discovered this great Animal Tracking tutorial from Potter County, Pennsylvania and thought it may inspire others to leverage ArcGIS Storymaps for conservation within k-12 education. EAST programs are encouraged to empower their community leaders and citizens using their technical capabilities. ArcGIS Storymaps are a very powerful communication tool, and we’re here to help […]
The ArcGIS Online US Geological Survey (USGS) topographic map collection now contains over 177,000 historical quadrangle maps dating from 1882 to 2006. The USGS Historical Topographic Map Explorer application brings these maps to life through an interface that guides users through the steps for exploring the map collection: Find a location of interest. View these historical topographical maps. Compare […]
The 2020 EAST conference was unfortunately cancelled due to Covid-19 this year but many presentations and competitions were held online/virtual. We’re happy to share this years winner of the Mapping Competition that was sponsored by the Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies (CAST) at the University of Arkansas. We firmly believe in and support our local […]
Arcade is a new expression language that ESRI has created for use within the ArcGIS platform. It’s a portable, lightweight, and secure expression language written specifically for the ArcGIS platform. Like other expression languages, it can perform mathematical calculations, manipulate text, and evaluate logical statements. It also supports multi-statement expressions, variables, and flow control statements. […]
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 […]