“Quick and Easy” Census Data in GIS – Part 2

In Part 1 we covered the basics of getting the census data and doing a simple join. Now in Part 2, we will work on making this data both more usable and accessible using the database design tools in ArcGIS Pro and also Publishing this data to ArcGIS Online for use in your own web […]

“Quick and Easy” Census Data in GIS – Part 1

Census data is a great resource for any GIS project, but it can be very overwhelming, and using it can be tricky at times. The data are in many forms on the Census.gov website but I have found that using the TIGER/Line with Selected Demographic and Economic Data is by far the easiest method of […]

Using ArcGIS Online to Map Attendance

With school starting back up, I wanted to share a workflow that can help administrators look at the chronic attendance issues. One thing that I have seen is when talking with different school administrators, at the individual school level, they do not know of GIS and that Esri provides many tools to them for free. […]

How to Convert an E00

It is that time of year when students are emailing in a panic saying that they found some GIS data but it is an E00 file and how do they get that into ArcGIS Pro. Based on ESRI’s page on the Tools that are not available in ArcGIS Pro, there is no E00 import option […]

Creating a 3D printed Trail Map for People who are Visually Impaired

I teach a lot of cartography courses, and one thing we talk about in them is how to make maps more accessible. For the most part, we are talking about making them colorblind-friendly (for example ColorBrewer). I felt that this is a gap that is in many cartography classes, so I thought about what new […]

ArcMap Redistricting Tool

I just saw that the NYS Redistricting Maps were rejected (https://www.whec.com/national/judge-rejects-new-yorks-redistricting-plan-orders-new-maps/6434302/?cat=10036). When I worked in local government I helped the board of elections in the redistricting process by providing training and getting the Census data into a GIS Project for them. With a lot of grassroots organizations out there trying to work with the process, […]

Creating an Orthomosaic and Digital Surface Model using an UAV and ArcGIS Pro

One of my previous posts was how to use Open Drone Map to create products from a UAV collection. One thing that I learned last year at the ESRIUC was how to use the Orthomapper tools in ArcGIS Pro. Recently I had the opportunity to fly my Parrot Anafi and do a data collection over […]

Geodatabase Design and Analysis with X-Ray for ArcCatalog

Designing a geodatabase can be quite time consuming if you are going through the individual tools in ArcGIS Desktop or ArcGIS Pro, but there is a pretty cool tool called X-Ray for ArcCatalog which makes it easy. X-Ray is a add on provided by the esri local government group (https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=9ea218ff575f4a5195e01a2cae03a0ae) and works with desktop versions […]

Starting Off Processing UAV Imagery with Web Open Drone Map

I have been getting started capturing UAV imagery with my Phantom 3 Pro and I wanted to get a processing software. Right now I do have the resources to get one of the commercial products such as Pix4D, Drone2Map, or Drone Deploy, so I went the opensource route. Web Open Drone Map (WebODM) is a […]

Using Landsat 8 Scenes to Look at Lake Ontario’s High Water Level Impacts – Presentation

Link to my GIS/SIG 2018 Conference Presentation