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Experimenting with Artificial Intelligence and GIS

31st January 2024

Last year, I shared a vision of generative AI in GIS at the Esri UK Annual Conference 2023 I showed how large language models like ChatGPT can extract and categorise spatial information from plain text, how AI assistants might transform … <...

Creating Web Apps with Design in Mind

16th January 2024

Beautiful cartography, effective labels, elegant styles – a lot of time and effort goes into creating maps. But we shouldn’t stop at the maps we create. A well thought through app design isn’t just about making something ‘pretty’, it’s about...

Utility Network web editing tools at your fingertips (literally)

7th December 2023

Why edit a utility network? You can switch on your lights, fill the kettle, and turn on the heating thanks to complex networks distributing electricity, water, and gas to our homes and businesses. Without a good understanding of a utility …...

What is GIS? Five key concepts to improve your understanding

16th November 2023

When you’re running late for work and trying to find shortcuts along your route, you’re using GIS. When organisations have digitised plans of their estate, also GIS. Biologists tracking animal migrations… You can guess where I’m going with this. S...

Creating a spooky map with the Living Atlas

26th October 2023

Halloween is just around the corner, and what better way to celebrate than with a spooky map? Inspired by the Inferno map by John Nelson, we wanted to produce a scary map that centred on Halloween-related place names. In this … Read more

Automating workflows in ArcGIS with our mobile apps

19th October 2023

Wouldn’t it be great if you could be alerted when a mobile worker adds, edits or deletes data whilst out in the field? Or how about if a report is automatically created for you to review after your data is … Read more

Getting to grips with ArcGIS Connectors for Power Automate

18th October 2023

ArcGIS Survey123 users have had the ability to enhance their workflows through automation for some time now, using connectors available in Power Automate and Make (formally Integromat). If you wanted to configure automated post-capture workflows f...

Web-editing in ArcGIS: learn to easily manage feature layer edits

27th September 2023

Create polygons for building outlines. Update attributes for utility networks. Delete outdated bird spotting points from your wildlife watcher’s map (or feel free to insert your own oddly specific example to further progress this introduction). Wh...

Getting to know My Esri: insights from Technical Support

21st September 2023

Being organised makes things easier, regardless of what it is we’re talking about (though I’m hoping you know where I’m going with this considering the title). With administrative tasks, having everything in one place limits the time you spend sea...

Customising your ArcGIS experience with URL parameters

13th September 2023

Did you know that many of the web and mobile applications in ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Enterprise support the use of URL parameters to call your apps with additional instructions that define how you want them to appear to end … Read more

Getting started with URL parameters in Survey123

13th September 2023

Like many aspects of ArcGIS Online, web forms built using Survey123 can be accessed and modified in unique ways using URL parameters. In this blog, I’ll dive into how we can use them to help make submitting surveys a more … Read more

Cover more ground with the new Maps+ beta services

5th September 2023

The new Maps+ Beta services are now live and available to existing Maps+ subscribers from within the ArcGIS Marketplace (sign in required). In anticipation of this, I took the opportunity to get to know the new arrivals to the Maps+ family. &hell...

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