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GIS Life: Your Biggest Breakthrough

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04-21-2026 12:47 PM
BriannaEttley
Esri Community Manager

We've all experienced that breakthrough moment when something we've been working at finally clicks. That might look like mastering a tricky analysis, figuring out some complex code, or discovering a tool that changes everything. "Aha!" moments like these can mark turning points in our GIS journey and open up new possibilities for our work.

 

What has been one of your biggest learning breakthrough in GIS? Tell us about a time you learned how to achieve something with big implications, or when you finally figured out that technique or concept you'd been struggling with.

 

We want to hear it all! Give others the gift of learning from your hard-earned experience by sharing about it in the comments below.

Brianna Ettley
Community Manager, Engagement & Content
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WilliamTarpai
Frequent Contributor

EZRA,   Can you draft a map for us to begin our collaborations of Bomet County, pin pointing where the schools that have already received books and computer equipment (thanks for Books for Africa and Safina) are located?   We need to be making lists in each school identifying teachers and students from each school interested in this project, and creating opportunities to introduce both teachers and students to why we are advocating for introducing learning mapping and spatial analysis skill sets.   Let's make this an agenda item for our next SAFINA Zoom call....    

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EzraCheruiyot
Occasional Contributor

Yeah sure i can do that @WilliamTarpai right away ill head to make a map

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WilliamTarpai
Frequent Contributor

Both EZRA and I enjoy being part of this ESRI community - WHY?  for the most part, we believe in the work we are doing and know it must be speeded up.  Can our work be sped up by a collaboration with ESRI in general and ESRI East Africa speicifcally?  We think so, and can keep up this conversation and want to support teachers in schools that are best able to bring more student voices to the table, and removes the barriers we are facing, and continues to build infrastrructure needed in rural development.....

EzraCheruiyot
Occasional Contributor

Yeah sure i have for the past week reach out to Esri east africa and am still awaiting for there feedback

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