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Meet Mele Koneya, a GIS Analyst for the City of Scottsdale, Arizona. Get a glimpse into how Mele and others on the City of Scottsdale GIS team have has been using GIS to support the city’s operations for decades, including though the management of geospatial data that empowers public safety units like the Scottsdale Fire Department to maintain an exceptional standard for response no matter the conditions. In this article, Mele also discusses why he often turns to Esri Community for support and knowledge-sharing that provides him with valuable guidance and has, at times, helped him resolve some sticky challenges during major city events.

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.

This article demonstrates how to use direct messaging in Esri Community to correspond one on one with other members.  

Find out how you can participate in the 2024 Esri Community Contest.

Meet Amanda Huber, a GIS Administrator for Minnesota's Three Rivers Park District. In this article, discover how Amanda and a compact team of colleagues support geospatial needs across a range of departments that manage 27,000 acres of parks and trails. She discusses her strategic use of Esri Community to problem-solve and learn, including using it as a research resource when considering new Esri products to add to Three Rivers Park District’s broad tech stack. As a newly minted member of the Esri Community's MVP program, Amanda also describes what makes Esri Community a safe space for GIS professionals of all levels to ask their questions and why she’s inspired to contribute back as an MVP.

This micro-sized guide demonstrates how to use filters in Esri Community to narrow search results to show just those questions that have been marked as having an answer, also known as an Accepted Solution.

The Esri Community MVP program has grown to include 14 new members! Meet them in this introduction article where many have shared a bit about themselves ...

When an organization updates their staff's ArcGIS Online usernames or you switch jobs, there's no need to start over with a new Esri Community account. This micro-sized guide demonstrates how to keep your preferred Esri Community account and its post history through a change.

Learn an approach to creating ideas based on the book Find Your Red Thread by Tamsen Webster.

Esri Community members accomplished incredible things in 2023! We've curated a selection of powerful member stories, top achievements, and much more in an ArcGIS StoryMap that that summarizes a year in which our online GIS community thrived ...