Community Blog

This micro-sized guide demonstrates how Esri Community members can prevent unwanted Direct Messages from other users while still permitting those that are wanted.

After careful consideration, Esri Community's next generation upgrade, named Aurora, will be postponed until 2025. Learn more about the Aurora upgrade and its postponement in our update.

Meet Ken Buja, a Senior Application Developer for the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science at NOAA. Through ArcGIS, Ken Buja develops applications that convert vast datasets into models that better enable scientists and coastal communities to safeguard environmental resources and public health. Ken also covers how this important work has been aided by the Esri Community and why he’s long enjoyed participating in the platform’s MVP superuser program.

Communication from the Esri Community team regarding a known issue affecting some users' avatars and legacy images in posts. This post has been updated to reflect its status as Resolved.

The 25th Anniversary of GIS Day is set to take place on November 20th, 2024! Learn more about this milestone event and find fun, rewarding ideas about how you can participate.

This micro-sized guide demonstrates how Esri Community members can access the source code window for the posts they author, enabling direct control over posts' HTML.

See Esri Community's quarterly update detailing what members have helped accomplish while finding solutions, sharing ideas, and collaborating to solve problems through the use of GIS.

Meet Tari Martin, Director of National and Federal at the National Alliance for Public Safety GIS Foundation, (NAPSG). In this article, learn how Tari and her colleagues inject GIS into the operations of public safety organizations across the entire U.S., boosting their ability to protect lives and livelihoods through data-driven decision making. Tari shares how Esri Community is a multi-faceted tool serving that work by providing channels for authoritative disaster data, valuable information on ArcGIS products, and networking for GIS public safety professionals during “blue skies.”

This micro-sized guide demonstrates how Esri Community members can adjust their account's notification settings to control the format and frequency of updates they receive about activity they're subscribed to and the channels those notifications are received in.

We're making three Esri Community updates this month that improve users' experience, including changes to the Worldwide category, introduction of a new Esri Alum role, and improving our rank ladder. Learn more in this update.