Latest Contributions by BernSzukalski

Wayback imagery is a digital archive of the World Imagery basemap with more than 80 different versions of imagery captured over the last 5 years. The World Imagery Wayback app lets you browse for changes in your area of interest and lets you make a map with versions of interest. Swipe mode is a newly added capability that makes it easy to compare selected imagery, and pushes it even higher up my favorite Living Atlas app list. One of the things I really like is that you can click share (or copy the URL) when in swipe mode and get a link that captures the chosen imagery and the location. This makes it really easy to look at change over time and share that with others. Here's a couple of examples: View change over time in Las Vegas, Nevada View change over time at Beijing Daxing International Airport Here's my colleague @RobertWaterman blog article announcing the new capability and encouraging you to Do the Wayback swipe. Another great feature is that you can select the imagery you want and make a map directly from the app. I've used this to solve problems that a couple of users wrote me about. One was in rural Canada and an imagery updated introduced some clouds in their area. Another was in the northeast U.S. and an imagery updated had snow on the ground, something they did not want.  Using Wayback it was easy to go back to a previous vintage to get the desired imagery. The workflow is covered in Use World Imagery Wayback to create a custom basemap. ... View more

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