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2022 ArcGIS Online Competition

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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 […]

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Today is Earth Day 2021!

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One way to celebrate Earth Day (today) is to review this REAL-TIME ArcGIS dashboard of important Environmental Health indicators of our planet! It leverages LIVE data feeds from the ArcGIS Living Atlas! April 22, 2021 – Earth Day Esri has gathered near real-time information within the ArcGIS Living Atlas from many data-contributing partners such as: […]

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The Best Web Browsers for ArcGIS Online

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ArcGIS Online Updates: The ArcGIS online platform is scheduled for an update on April 14, 2021 but this list of Internet web browsers are the currently recommended web browsers for ArcGIS Online applications. For the best performance within the ArcGIS Online website, use the latest version of a browser listed below. The ArcGIS platform leverages the local […]

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Oh no, I broke ArcGIS Online!

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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. […]

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A Blast from the Past

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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 […]

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2020 EAST Conference – Mapping Competition Winner announced

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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 […]

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Latitude, Longitude labels with an Arcade expression (ArcGIS Online tips)

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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. […]