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Indoor GIS cesta San Bernardino Community College District: Budování základu
San Bernardino Community College District (SBCCD) každoročně obsluhuje více než 30 000 studentů na San Bernardino Valley College, Crafton Hills College, KVCR, televizní/rádiové stanici a centru pro ekonomický rozvoj a firemní školení. Distrikt spravuje více než 100 budov a přibližně 1,5 milionu čtverečních stop vnitřního…
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Sustaining ArcGIS Indoors: Why Data Stewardship Matters More Than Deployment
Deploying ArcGIS Indoors is a major milestone. Bringing together CAD drawings, floor plans, building information, and space data, all in disparate formats, from across an organization requires significant planning, collaboration, and technical expertise. When the deployed system finally goes live, it feels like you've…
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University of Denver Transforms Space Management with ArcGIS Indoors
When the University of Denver (DU) first reached out, the situation sounded familiar. They had a commercial space management platform that had served them for years, but it was no longer scalable. Facilities data, space records, and GIS lived in separate places. Reporting meant chasing down exports and manually cleaning…
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Leveraging ArcGIS Indoors for Resource Management: Bringing Indoor Mapping to the Delaware County Intermediate Unit
Educational environments are becoming increasingly complex. Multiple buildings, multiple floors, increasing amenities, and shared services to manage. Combined with a constantly changing population of students, educators and visitors, these factors create daily operational challenges. There are also fiscal considerations…
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How the University of Notre Dame Transformed Campus Operations with ArcGIS Indoors
The University of Notre Dame manages more than 11.5 million square feet of building space across 200+ buildings on 10 global campuses spanning 5 countries. In October 2024, the University Facilities Information Department (UFI) initiated a migration of its indoor mapping, space planning, and asset mapping operations from…
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AI Wake Up Call: GIS is Catalyst For Re-Thinking Facilities Information Management
The moment when it became clear that GIS, specifically Indoor GIS, would forever change the landscape of facilities information management. And wouldn’t you know it, it was AI that made it “crystal” clear. For background, reference this previous blog – Three Legs of the Stool: Embracing ArcGIS as Anchor Technology for…
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Palm Beach County Schools Strengthen Safety with Indoor Maps Across 200+ Campuses
Ensuring safety across a large school district requires more than traditional emergency plans. For the Palm Beach County School District, the tenth-largest school district in the United States, protecting students and staff means preparing for emergencies across hundreds of campuses and thousands of buildings. To…
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Transforming Campus Facilities Operations at CSULB Through ArcGIS Online
California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) occupies a sprawling 322-acre urban campus that has grown continuously since its founding in 1949. Today it educates more than 40,000 students per semester and lists 110 permanent buildings just a few miles south of downtown Los Angeles. In recent years, CSULB has embraced…
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Wake County Public School System Implements ArcGIS Indoors District-Wide - A Success Story
Background: Who is WCPSS? Wake County Public School System (WCPSS) is the 14th largest school district in the United States, serving a rapidly growing student population of 160,000 across 220+ sites and 27+ million square feet of educational and administrative facilities. The district employs over 10,000 staff and…
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Locating Campus Steam Lines with Drone2Map and Thermal Imagery
Managing underground utilities on a campus can be challenging, especially when as-built records are outdated, incomplete, or flat out do not exist. At Brigham Young University-Idaho, steam lines are critical for heating buildings during our cold winter months and without as-builts they are often hard to locate precisely…
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Creating a Smarter Tree Inventory Using Contingent Values
In February 2026, I had the opportunity to attend the Esri FedGIS conference in Washington, D.C. as a student assistant. For the first time, student assistants were invited to present a student Tech Talk on projects they were working on using GIS technology. I was one of those speakers where I shared a project I developed…
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Helping Baltimore County Public Schools Build a Sustainable Indoor GIS Program
The Skinny: * Goal - Give BCPS an Indoor GIS system serving facilities, security, and emergency response. * Partnership - Esri provided the ArcGIS Indoors product, geoConvergence provided CAD conversion, field validation, system integration, and implementation. * The Challenge - 176 buildings with CAD files from different…
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Public Safety Indoor Mapping and Location Tracking Stakeholder Roundtable Lessons Learned
On February 9th 2026, Map I.T. had the opportunity to attend and present at the Public Safety Indoor Mapping and Location Tracking Stakeholder Roundtable in Washington, D.C., hosted by DC Fire & EMS. Huge kudos to Esri and Brooks Shannon for bringing together such a strong and diverse group of professionals working at the…
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Conferences in 2026 that Support GIS in Smart Campus Operations
As university facilities professionals, you’re tasked with keeping campuses safe, efficient, and sustainable while balancing limited resources and evolving expectations. Incorporating GIS and location intelligence into managing facilities is revolutionizing how we manage our campus environment from asset tracking and…
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From Paper to Platform: How Baylor University Unified 9 Million Square Feet with ArcGIS Indoors
The Challenge: Scattered Floor Plans and Hidden Data Baylor University is a private Christian university in Waco, Texas, with a large and diverse campus that supports academic, research, residential, and athletic facilities across millions of square feet. Managing this scale of space requires accurate, accessible, and…
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Driving Smart Campus Operations with GIS: How the Campus FM Technology Association Elevates Esri-Powered Facilities Management across Higher Education
Higher education is undergoing a significant operational shift. Facilities organizations are being asked to do more - optimize space, modernize maintenance workflows, enhance safety, meet sustainability targets, and improve the campus experience - while navigating constrained budgets and sprawling, complex portfolios. The…
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Routing and Indoor Positioning Improve Pedestrian Wayfinding at Austin Community College
Are You Lost? Routing and Indoor Positioning Improve Pedestrian Wayfinding at Austin Community College At Austin Community College (ACC), our mission centers on supporting the well-being, growth, learning, and success of our students. Every team across the district contributes to that mission—including our Facilities…
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Walk for Light: An Annual Community Event to Improve Campus Safety Using GIS Technologies
Hi All! My name is Ava Healy and I am a graduate student studying geography and GIS at UMass Amherst. I want to highlight an impactful event my university hosts each year that utilizes GIS solutions for campus safety called “Walk for Light.”. In part with Andrew-James Finn, we come together to share the details of this…
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Building a Smarter Campus: Brown University’s Journey to a Campus-Wide GIS
In 2024, Brown University partnered with Paratum Solutions to launch a comprehensive Geographic Information Systems (GIS) initiative that is quickly becoming one of the most dynamic and transformative campus GIS efforts in higher education. This collaboration, built on a foundation of strategy, speed, and responsiveness,…
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The Henry Ford Museum Builds a Smarter Campus with ArcGIS
Smart Campus Mapping at The Henry Ford Museum Join us for a behind-the-scenes look at how The Henry Ford Museum is using Esri technology and ArcGIS Indoors to become a smart campus. Watch the webinar recording to see how geospatial tools like lidar, 3D BIM, and drone mapping are transforming everything from facility…
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Anne Arundel County Public Schools Gets a Head-Start on School Mapping with ArcGIS Indoors
In early 2024, Anne Arundel County Public Schools (AACPS) had a few different goals—but they all pointed to the same challenge: how to make building floorplans authoritative for facility operations, and easier to access and share. School Building Entrance On one side, new state legislation--HB472--was pushing Maryland…
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Indoor GIS 101: Essential Esri Academy Courses for Smarter Campus Operations
From the blogs written in this space, it is obvious that GIS plays a key role in facilities management and optimizing campus operations. GIS is vast though, and there are so many different components and parts to it that can enhance and improve your work and overall experience whether it is students, staff, and faculty.…
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The University of Texas Teams Up with Austin Community College to Upgrade Campus Map using GIS Interns
By Sue Stewart, Assistant Director for Campus Geospatial Assets at the University of Texas at Austin and Sean Moran, GIS Professor and ACC Inc Manager at Austin Community College You only get one chance to make a good first impression - and a university’s online map can make or break how GIS is valued on campus. An easy to…
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ArcGIS Solutions to Improve Campus Safety at Colleges and Universities
Welcome to the fourth installment of the blog series on ArcGIS Solutions for Smart Campus Operations. The three two blog posts published in the series were: * ArcGIS Solutions: University Grounds and Maintenance * ArcGIS Solutions for University Campuses and Facilities * ArcGIS Solutions for Managing Utilities In this…
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Three Legs of the Stool: Embracing ArcGIS as Anchor Technology for Facility Operations
I’ve enjoyed reading the Esri Campus Operations Community Blog since its inception. I find over the past couple years the submissions and content are quite valuable to both owner/operators on the front lines as well as Esri and the Esri partner community. Having been around the GIS for campus facilities water cooler for…
