Short video on how to contribute to the Living Atlas of the World

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06-02-2015 09:56 AM
JimHerries
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Curious how to nominate a layer, map, app or web scene to the Living Atlas of the World? Go see: Living Atlas of the World: Contributor App | ArcGIS Video

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About the Author
I am a geographer, making maps to clarify interactions among people and things they care about. I work as a lead on the team responsible for ArcGIS Living Atlas. Every day, I put the GIS community's data to work, defining and creating useful maps for GIS users and the people they serve. We deliver these maps as data, services, layers, web maps, apps, dashboards and story maps in ArcGIS Online and Living Atlas. As GIS practitioners, we use the software every day. I came to Redlands in 1994 to join Esri as an intern, and liked the opportunities I saw here. I returned in 1995 as a consultant/project manager in Esri Professional Services, working mostly with commercial GIS users in retail, marketing and health. For ten years, I learned about the software, hardware, data, people and processes required for successful GIS projects. Later, I served as product manager for Business Analyst Online and its web services, and program manager in the business products team. With the arrival of ArcGIS 9.3, I joined the ArcGIS Content team to focus my time on making high quality maps as information products for the web, using the core tools. ArcGIS Online was in beta at that time, but the potential for web GIS was evident and I have focused that ever since. My undergraduate degree in journalism reflects a lifelong interest in how data and information are distilled into clear stories that are communicated to the intended audiences. I earned a Master's degree in Geography under the guidance of Dr. Duane Marble at The Ohio State University, where we co-authored papers on how to apply GIS and demographics to better understand university admissions processes.