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Portal Metadata for Local Gov
Seeking metadata standard examples from local governments! We are developing our metadata standard for our authoritative layers in Enterprise Portal and AGO. What does your agency require for metadata on your layers? What do you like about the standard and what challenges do you experience? Thanks!
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GIS for Asset Management
Hi everyone, Our organization is a mid-sized municipality currently running Cityworks for asset management. The system has been breaking down for us, and leadership is exploring whether we can replace it entirely with Esri-native solutions/apps given that we already have ArcGIS Enterprise. I am happy to find out if anyone…
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How do you enable your GIS Users?
Calling all local gov GIS Managers with many GIS users! How do you enable your end users to utilize your GIS assets without having your hands in everything all the time? I am a team of 1 that oversees our organization's GIS program, and I sit within our IT department. I have end users from almost every department with…
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My Boss Wants Resources To Learn More About GIS
My boss who does not have any GIS experience is looking for resources to learn more about the capability's of GIS. She doesn't want to know how to use software and do processing but more what can be done. All the GIS basics course I could find are not what she is looking for. Is there an executive GIS overview class so she…
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Maps with Trespass Notices for PD
I have an interesting question to propose to the group...Building maps to be included in Trespass Notices for police to issue. Has anyone done any mapping for trespass notices before? We were asked if our GIS could be used to create a map to be included in the legal notices, but I am really hesitant. We do not have a…
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Fire Run Book Street Index. Changing Font size in PDF export
I've been using the Fire Service Maps solution for 3 years. So far, it does a great job. Last year, the firemen asked if we could make the font larger on the street index. Currently, it's a font size 6. That is crazy small. Can I make this larger. Last year, I manually edited the PDF, but I'd like a more permanent…
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Best Practice for managing accounts
Hi everyone, could you please share how you manage current ArcGIS server, online, and enterprise users in your organization? We are currently migrating our portal, sde, and server. So, I thought what better time to implement a good user Types. I might be overthinking it but reading through different documentation I…
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Best practices help for managing Zoning and other overlay layers that are tied to parcels.
I am working on cleaning up the zoning layer and was looking for input at how others are managing this data. It is usually its own layer however keeping it aligned with the parcels is always a challenge. Has anyone made this a table that is joined by APN or added it as type in a parcel fabric? What do you feel is the best…
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Visualizing and Managing Parking Turnover Counts
I’m looking for advice on how others are managing and visualizing parking turnover counts, particularly for parking lots and curbside parking. We collect parking data over the course of several days and at multiple times throughout the day. * Are you time-enabling this type of data for analysis? * What does your database…
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Utility Network Managed Services Contracts
As a County Government, what sorts of things should we ask for in a service level agreement with a contractor who will help with the transition from a Geometric Network to a Utility Network and with managing it in the future? Anyone else been in a similar position? We want to make sure we're asking the right questions and…
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Where are ESRI's NASSCO MACP and PACP import tools located in Pro 3.3?
Does anyone know where are ESRI's NASSCO MACP and PACP import tools are located in Pro 3.3? Is there a non-ESRI free option that people are using to import these MACP/PACP databases?
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Public Policy Maps
Hi, Are there plans to update the ESRI Maps for Public Policy data? Some of the maps contain updated data but from 2018. Thank you. Jim
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How to selling GIS data
How to selling GIS data ?
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Ontario Lidar — Open Data
What free or cheap Lidar data is available for Ontario (Greater Toronto Area)? So far, I've found these Ontario GeoHub resources: * Ontario Digital Terrain Model (Lidar-Derived) * Ontario Digital Surface Model (Lidar-Derived) Hint: I'm new to imagery in Pro. But I did notice that clicking the DRA button in the Appearance…
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As-Built/Record Drawing management
Hi all- It has been 9 months since I started my role as the sole GIS staff for a small city. Prior to this role, I was a GIS analyst in environmental consulting. Many of the skills I learned there apply to my current role, but there are several new challenges I'm navigating as the sole GIS contact for the city. One of…
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Small City Woes
I'm only five weeks into a new job with a small city. We use ArcGIS for city owned utilities, streets, parcels, addresses, parks, zoning and stuff like that. We probably only use about 5% of the ArcGIS capabilities. No one really knows what my role as GIS Coordinator is so I've been going around to different departments…
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Updating Fortune 500 Maps with new subdivision(s) data as County GIS Technician.
I am a county GIS technician and we've recently had new subdivisions, updated roads, addresses, and parcel data in our jurisdiction. I am wondering if anyone has experience or advice on how to ensure that these updates are reflected across various Fortune 500 company maps such as Google Maps, Apple Maps, Bing, and others?…
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Document Management System for Community Development
Hi GIS people! I work for a small municipality in Colorado and was wondering if anyone could give suggestions for a document management system that integrates GIS? We have a very clunky application process in place for our planning, permitting, design review, inspection, etc. requests which has left us with outdated and…
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Sign Management Solution
I work for a State DOT. I am currently trying to symbolize our roadway sign inventory. We deployed the Sign Management Solution ( @ScottOppmann ) in AGO. The issue I am running into is that between the MUTCD manual and our specific state signs we have more than 1,000 sign symbols. Currently I am getting an error that not…
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Create Street Index Report, No report exported.
I am running the Create Street Index Report within ArcGIS Pro 3.1.2. When it runs, it takes 3 seconds and says success. However, the location I export the pdf to nothing is there. Any ideas on what is going on? (Fire Service Maps Solution, Version1.3) Introduction to Fire Service Maps—ArcGIS Solutions | Documentation
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Favourite Mapping Functionalities
Greetings! I would like to know which are the most favored mapping functionalities for maps used for public administration purposes. Would really appreciate your feedback to my query. Regards.
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Road traffic counts for all roads in a municipality (for deterioration modelling)
Background: I work for a municipality in Canada that has: * ~800km of roads (mixture of urban and rural) * The roads are split at street intersections, meaning we have 3,000+ GIS road lines. Our traffic department does limited traffic count studies each year. They generally only do traffic counts for roads where there is…
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Improving Esri Enterprise Agreement Flexibility for Local Governments: A Proposal for More Customizable User Types
Hello everyone, I am the Manager of IT & GIS for a small municipality with a population under 10K. Currently, we have around 70 employees and are looking to implement ArcGIS Enterprise using enterprise solutions such as ArcGIS Field Maps and Survey 123. As a small local government, we face budget constraints when it comes…
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Crowdsource | Problem Reporter: Change Color of Text in Table?
Does anybody know if it's possible to change the color of text in the table?
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Road condition assessment questions
The municipality I work for is in the process of revamping our road condition assessment program, practices, and data. We currently inspect roads in-house using a legacy rating system (structural adequacy, surface condition, & drainage), but we're considering moving to a more modern rating system like PCI, IRI, etc. We're…
