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Safety First Seconds matter. When you enter a building, will you know the quickest way to evacuate and get to safety? Will you know where the nearest safe zone is once you leave the building? With safety in mind, I began to look at ArcGIS Indoors with even greater potential. How could facilities managers or safety planners…
Artificial intelligence is quickly becoming part of our everyday GIS workflows. It allows us to work faster, uncover insights more easily, and automate tasks that used to require hours of manual effort. One of the newest additions to the ArcGIS Python API makes this easier than ever. The new arcgis.ai module provides…
What if your GIS data didn't stop at the screen? Now in ArcGIS Pro, you can export a Local Scene straight to .STL or .glTF file formats and send it to a 3D printer — turning DEMs, bathymetry, and cityscapes into objects you can hold, rotate, and pass around a conference table. Suddenly a ridgeline isn't a color ramp; it's…
Most popups are just a list of field names and values. Everything is technically there, but almost none of it is easy to read at a glance, and none of it tells you what is actually happening in a neighborhood. For my Boston GeoEquity project, I wanted my census block groups to do more than list their attributes. I wanted…
Every July, San Diego fills up with tens of thousands of people who care, deeply, about maps and GIS. The Esri User Conference is the industry's biggest reunion and its biggest showroom at once — a week of packed sessions, hallway catch-ups, and demo floors buzzing with what's newly possible in GIS. If you've ever been to…
In this blog post I want to show you how you can steal some of John Nelson's watercolor styles and use them on an interactive web globe. I used this style to depict happy moments collected for a research about happiness. You can check out the application here: What makes us happy? For the countries I used Dylan Moriarty's…
I was recently investigating how to show a winter landscape in a 3D interactive web scene. I had a lot of inspiration from John Nelson's blog post and video on this topic, James Niehue's beautiful paintings of winter landscapes and, of course, nature itself: My goal with this project was to create a basemap that sends…
Lidar provides a fascinating glimpse into the landscape of the Jack and Laura Dangermond Preserve. Using a ground elevation service and a point cloud created from lidar, and natural color imagery, we created an interactive routing application that allows users to virtually drive through the Preserve. This article will tell…
Diversity Tools is a bit of an experimental python toolbox that currently contains only a single tool, Focal Diversity. The tool can calculate two diversity indexes for rectangular focal areas based on a single band raster input. The Shannon Diversity Index, often referred to as Shannon-Weaver or Shannon-Wiener Index and…
A new version of the Distributive Flow Lines (DFL) tool is now available. (Dec 15 , 2022) updating compatibility to ArcGIS Pro 3.0. A couple of enhancements were made and some code cleanup. The tool now uses the new Distance Accumulation tool. If you want to use the tool in ArcMap, the previous version of the DFL and the…
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