Latest Contributions by LisaBerry

The newest 2019-2023 American Community Survey (ACS) estimates are now live within ArcGIS Living Atlas! The collection of over 100 ready-to-use layers covers thousands of ACS values and their associated margins of error. Your new and existing maps will automatically reflect these newest values from Census. For more information about the newest data and layers, visit and share via social media this “how to use” story map, this announcement blog or the ACS Hub FAQ. Also visit the ACS Learn Path to learn more about using these layers.      Visit the ArcGIS Living Atlas home page to learn about what's new and how to use content. See the ArcGIS Living Atlas blog for more blog articles that help you get the most out of Living Atlas. ... View more

The 2019-2023 American Community Survey (ACS) five-year estimates will be available within ArcGIS Living Atlas in the coming weeks. These ready-to-use layers empower people to instantly begin to explore, map, and analyze the data. The multi-scale layers have data for state, county, and tract levels. Having free access to these layers in ArcGIS Living Atlas significantly reduces the time GIS users spend on downloading and processing data.  The ArcGIS Living Atlas Policy Mapping team provides the GIS community with a collection of free layers that contain a wealth of data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS). On December 12th, 2024, Census will release its updated five-year estimates (2019-2023). Within days, the Policy Mapping team will update the set of ACS layers already available in Living Atlas with the newest data. Any maps and apps that already use these layers will automatically update to reflect the most recent Census ACS data. Visit the ArcGIS Living Atlas home page to learn about what's new and how to use content. See the ArcGIS Living Atlas blog for more blog articles that help you get the most out of Living Atlas. ... View more

The University of Botswana’s sprawling campus has always been a challenge to navigate. Buildings are not arranged according to any order, therefore students, guests and even faculty members of the university often struggle to find the locations of lecture halls and classrooms, labs, and essential services. The struggle to navigate the campus would have continued if it were not for Dr. Pelane-Modutlwe Lillian and a small group of students who decided to build a useful campus basemap that would serve everyone. Dr. Pelane-Modutlwe Lillian recruited a group of third-year students from the Department of Environmental Science in the Faculty of Science. This project was completed through the Living and Learning Communities Academic Mentorship Program. Learn how this community used the Community Maps Editor to help improve the Esri Basemap collection by improving their own campus basemap. Read the blog or the full story. Visit the ArcGIS Living Atlas home page to learn about what's new and how to use content. See the ArcGIS Living Atlas blog for more blog articles that help you get the most out of Living Atlas. ... View more

We would like to introduce the new Environment Basemap which is now available across the ArcGIS platform. Most traditional basemaps are human focused, displaying roads, municipal boundaries, and other human-centric/human created features. The Environment Map is Esri’s first ever Environment focused basemap, designed to let the environmental data speak for itself, and more easily expose environmental trends and patterns.  For more information, visit this blog by Emily Meriam. Visit the ArcGIS Living Atlas home page to learn about what's new and how to use content. See the ArcGIS Living Atlas blog for more blog articles that help you get the most out of Living Atlas. ... View more

Climate change can cause long-term risk to crops, which we can identify using the 2050 World Terrestrial Ecosystems projections from ArcGIS Living Atlas. Check out this case study surrounding olives, and apply the same workflow for your area or crop of interest.  To access the blog tutorial by Esri's @DenizKaragulle, click here. To learn more about ArcGIS Living Atlas or ask common questions, visit this resource. ... View more

The recently enhanced Drought Aware App in ArcGIS Living Atlas has been released. This upgraded version now integrates information from additional data layers such as population, housing, river flow, reservoirs, crops, and agricultural labor, providing comprehensive insights about the impact of droughts in the United States. Explore the full story here.  Visit the ArcGIS Living Atlas home page to learn about what's new and how to use content. See the ArcGIS Living Atlas blog for more blog articles that help you get the most out of Living Atlas. (Released October 2024) ... View more

In collaboration with the United Nations World Data Forum 2024 and its partners, Esri has launched the WDF2024 ArcGIS StoryMaps Competition!  Push boundaries, showcase your creativity, and challenge your GIS technical skills to new heights. This cmpetition offers an incredible platform to gain exposure for your work, share your talent, and, most importantly, create stories that inspire action!  When judged by experts from prestigious institutions, the experience becomes even more valuable. They can even serve as a stepping stone for potential career paths.  Register & learn more: https://lnkd.in/grXustbz - Register participation by 15th October - Submit your entry by 29th October ... View more

Map the health of your community. Check out the 7 new ready-to-use Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) PLACES health indicator maps within ArcGIS Living Atlas. These new maps cover topics like food insecurity and mental health, and are available for Tracts, Places (aka cities), Counties, and ZCTAs (ZIP Code tabulation areas). These are part of a wider collection of over 40 CDC PLACES maps that can be added directly into your GIS workflows and apps. Check out the blog by @DianaLavery1 + CDC: https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-living-atlas/health/cdc-places-2024/ ... View more

A popular use-case of GIS is defining boundaries. These boundaries go by many names: service areas, sales territories, attendance areas, caseloads, wards, legislative districts. This blog post will walk through a simple workflow designing areas in the state of Virginia to serve the veteran population. To follow along with the blog tutorial, start with a new project and a blank map in ArcGIS Pro. This short tutorial will guide you through a quick workflow for designing your own custom service areas using ready-to-use content from ArcGIS Living Atlas.  To access the blog tutorial by Esri's @DianaLavery1, visit this link.  To learn more about ArcGIS Living Atlas or ask common questions, visit this resource. ... View more

A great map starts with great data. But finding the data you need for your specific project isn’t always an easy accomplishment. The traditional workflow has always been to go find a data source, download the raw data, process it into the format you need, fumble through the nuances of metadata, and then you’d finally start your real GIS work. Luckily, ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World is a resource included within ArcGIS to help address this need for easily accessible, quality spatial content. But Living Atlas is far more than just data. It spans the possibilities of web GIS by offering spatial content in useful ways across ArcGIS. Since its debut in 2014, the ArcGIS Living Atlas team has received some common questions about how to access and understand Living Atlas. What is Living Atlas? How can I use it? Can I nominate my own data and maps?  This article and the associated ArcGIS Blog item aims to help address these core questions (and more!) so that you can get started with Living Atlas immediately. The questions are broken into three groupings: General Questions, Using Living Atlas, and Nominating Your Spatial Content to Living Atlas. Use the list of links below to navigate to the question you need. General Living Atlas Questions What is ArcGIS Living Atlas? Why use Living Atlas? Are there any resources to help me get started with Living Atlas? How is Living Atlas different from the items in ArcGIS Online? Can I trust the content I find in Living Atlas? Using Living Atlas Where can I access Living Atlas? How can I find what I need within Living Atlas? What can I do with Living Atlas content? What are the different badges I see on items? Can I access Living Atlas through my ArcGIS Enterprise Portal? Why do I see different content within the various Regions? Nominating Your Spatial Content to Living Atlas Why nominate to Living Atlas? What can be nominated to Living Atlas? What is needed to nominate content to Living Atlas? How do I nominate my content? When nominating, what does the scoring mean? How does my item get curated once it is nominated? Will Esri edit my items in any way? How can I mark my items as authorititative? What happens after my item is accepted? How do I maintain my Living Atlas items? I have more questions, or I want to learn more. Where should I go? ... View more