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During the 2026 Esri User Conference we heard from several people they would like zero-copy external data integration. That means live data delivered on demand into ArcGIS without being written to an ETL copy, and ideally also without any intermediate server. This is a step beyond data virtualization, where a cache might…
The DuckDB UI Are you using the DuckDB user interface? It might just be the easy data exploration tool you've been looking for. As far back as version 3.5, duckdb has been included with the standard Python distribution for ArcGIS Pro. DuckDB is a powerful analytics database engine that reads from a wide variety of sources…
In a previous blog I explored the performance of no-code change data capture versus view source swap in a speed test when the goal is maintaining a hosted feature layer - and declared it a tie! Now I have a new entrant from the coded solutions world - using an ArcGIS Online hosted notebook to calculate and apply the delta…
At writing I'm tasked with delivering a demo theatre session at the 2026 Esri User Conference titled Cloud-Native Georelational Data Distribution. If you're coming to UC 2026 you can add it to your schedule. If you can't make it then the book of the play is what follows below, however to encourage UC attendance there is a…
At writing it's conference week for the Esri Developer & Technology Summit 2026 and I'm just back from presenting my technical session Exploring Tools and Patterns for Data Migration. I like to go demo-heavy at event presentations, it lets me generate content I can share. Here's a snapshot of some of the live action - ETL…
Spoiler (Highlight to read)Warning: The tool in the blog download has a known issue, in ArcGIS Pro 3.6 when run in the foreground thread the output is not properly returned - the lookup table for alternative place categories is missing - so use the geoprocessing thread, which is the default behavior.Warning: The tool in…
Building on earlier work using an ArcGIS Pro notebook to ETL Overture Maps Foundation data into ArcGIS, this post takes a look at Overture Map Foundation's Addresses theme, as both a map-ready layer and subaddress-capable geocoding locator. At writing the data is in alpha release, but you can take a look with the ArcGIS…
In this post I'm revisiting the ingest of Overture Maps Foundation data via ArcGIS Pro notebook, for a few reasons: * To show a subscription pattern for the latest data in an area of interest * To show the value of unnesting complex columns in parquet files * To show geocoding locator creation in addition to geodatabase…
With the release of ArcGIS Pro 3.5, the stars align a little more when it comes to the use of GeoParquet. You can now work with local GeoParquet files for your mapping and analysis needs, but it is also much easier to ingest big GeoParquet data from an S3-API-compliant object store! This post is about how simple it is to…
It is always satisfying to share powerful new ways to solve problems, especially so when the solution has been "hiding in plain sight" for a while. This time I'm showing how the combination of ArcGIS Enterprise branch versioning and cloud native data sharing delivers not only fast data access, to people without portal…
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