Latest Contributions by BernSzukalski

Another installment in the map-in-a-minute series is this latest addition which shows how to create a flood map in a minute (or less) using ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Living Atlas.   This post joins the map-in-a-minute series which you can find on the ArcGIS Blog. ... View more

A great post from @AndrewSkinner about using the new blending tools in Map Viewer Beta. Another good reason to start working with Map Viewer Beta if you haven't found enough reasons already. Have a look at other Map Viewer Beta blog articles to learn more, or see the Map Viewer Beta help documentation. ... View more

On August 4, 2020, a massive explosion gutted buildings and crumbled neighborhoods surrounding the port of Beirut, Lebanon, after a warehouse containing 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate ignited. The immediate area, filled with apartments and restaurants, was devastated and the blast was felt more than 100 miles away. As of this post approximately 135 people were killed by the blast, with thousands injured, homeless and hundreds of thousands otherwise impacted in this major tragedy. Maxar, primary provider of global imagery for the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World, has published imagery taken on August 5, the day after the blast. This Living Atlas app (made using the Public Information configurable app) shows the before and after imagery. This imagery helps Esri support disaster response. For more information, visit the Disaster Response Program home. ... View more

Unlike other Esri products, ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World is truly many moving parts continuously updating independently on their own schedule. Living Atlas News is an attempt to capture what's been going on. Check it out here: ArcGIS Living Atlas News (July 2020). ... View more

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently announced that Bigfork (Montana) High School students Colten Wroble and Ryan Cantrell are recipients of the 2020 President’s Environmental Youth Award. The students were recognized on Earth Day for developing a website, www.eBatsMT.com, as members of the Bigfork High School Cave Club, which helps cavers collect information on bat populations. They are among 35 students in grades K-12 who were recognized by the President’s Council on Environmental Quality and the EPA for producing an outstanding environmental project. The project leverages ArcGIS Online capabilities and has been supported by the Esri education and conservation grant programs. Bigfork High School students and educator/caver Hans Bodenhamer were featured presenters at the 2010 Esri User Conference. (Photo: Bigfork High School Cave Club: Slideshow - Bigfork High School Cave Club) For more information, see the following: Big Fork High School Cave Club Big Fork Eagle press release ... View more

I have been curating learning resources for COVID-19 response for the Esri Disaster Response Program (DRP). The resources are usually sent to me by DRP team members using Tasks in Microsoft Teams. I'm using Category Gallery, one of the group-based configurable apps and one of my favorites. It's been a very good app to use to provide filterable access to group-based content. Here's the app.. Here's the app: I've defined the categories within the group itself, rather than use organization-wide categories. This has given me the flexibility that I need to adapt the categories to reflect the growing collection of resources, and how they are to be presented. The app has been configured to automatically display the category filter. Using this filter you can choose the category to view the latest additions, highlighted additions, and if you click on Products you can view sub-categories to select the product you are interested in. For example, there were a number of recent ArcGIS Pro learning resource additions. Choose Products, then choose ArcGIS Pro to view them.   I've really liked the flexibility of this app. During the course of adding learning resources I've edited and changed the categories several times. This flexibility has allowed me the ability to use categories in different ways over time, and to keep thing moving forward as needs dictated. Category Gallery has proven to be valuable way to present information in a timely and flexible way, that can be adapted and modified on-the-fly.  I've authored a blog tutorial that will help you get started with Category Gallery. It's definitely an effective and versatile way to present content, and one of my current favorite configurable apps to use. ... View more

ArcGIS Enterprise includes a locally installed collection of Living Atlas items which you can search and use when authoring web maps and apps. However, some of the recently added COVID-19 content that has been added to ArcGIS Living Atlas of The World will not be discoverable in the currently installed items. The reason is that these have come online recently, and therefore were not part of the Enterprise Living Atlas collection as last updated. However, all Living Atlas content is discoverable via searching ArcGIS Online when authoring maps using the Enterprise Map Viewer. The key to finding this content is to discover them using an ArcGIS Online layer search. For example, a search performed against Enterprise Living Atlas using "covid-19" yields no matches.  Since these are very recent layers and are not part of the ArcGIS Enterprise installation. However, these new Living Atlas layers can be discovered immediately by searching ArcGIS Online when making a map, since all Living Atlas layers are discoverable via ArcGIS Online. Follow these steps: Step 1 – Open Map Viewer. Step 2 – Click Add, then Search for Layers. Step 3 – Choose ArcGIS Online. Step 4 – Enter the search string. Living Atlas content is identified by the blue globe symbol. Click the title to view the item details.   Step 5 – Click  to add the layer to your map, or if you have opened the item pages click Add to Map at the bottom. Tip: You can use the ArcGIS Living Atlas website to browse for coronavirus (and other) content, then copy and paste the exact title into your ArcGIS Online search above. Open the Browse tab and enter your search criteria. For example, this search finds all Living Atlas layers for the United States that match the keywords "coronavirus," "covid-19, or "mobility." ... View more

I recently received an email from a user asking if ArcGIS Online web maps were embeddable in Squarespace. While I do not have a full Squarespace account, I did get a trial to check things out. While I'll add a caveat that I didn't explore everything thoroughly, or exercise this with a full account, I can say that with a trial account everything seems to work just fine. Here's an embedded map from the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World.   The way I grabbed the embed code was from the web map Share workflow. Share > Embed In Website.   I tried a couple of the available Squarespace blocks; Embed and Code. Both seemed to work easily, without any issues. Again, I can't say this is the definitive bottom line on embedding web maps in Squarespace, and did find something posted here on GeoNet that seemed to suggest there may have been an issue a long while ago. But I'm reasonably confident that everything should just work. I'll also admit that I have not tried embedding web apps using an iframe, but don't see any reason why results would be different. If you've had experiences with web maps or apps in Squarespace, I'd welcome your comments, learning of any issues you've experienced, and seeing what you've done. ... View more

Dashboards, especially now, are a very effective way to monitor what is going on, and deliver an interactive situational awareness app. There are many truly great examples of COVID-19 dashboards, but if you're still puzzled over creating your first dashboard, this recently published blog tutorial will show you how to get started. See Create your first dashboard using ArcGIS Dashboards. See ArcGIS Dashboards for more information. ... View more

The March 2020 release of ArcGIS Online last week introduced a new profile experience. Now is the time to review your profile, and make any adjustments in light of the new update.   Earlier today I updated this best practices blog article on profiles, with some tips and thoughts about the new implementation. Be somebody (and show your best profile) I'm encouraging everyone to take a quick look at your profile, and make any necessary adjustments. You will find that some things are easier than ever before. Most profiles will not need any changes, a few will. Those are primarily profiles that previously used a graphic with text. With the new (and trendy) circular avatars, some of those will be cropped. So adjust as necessary. Note that there are a couple of minor glitches in the way that titles wrap, which will be fixed in an patch release coming any day... ... View more