Styles are one of the most underused productivity and design tools in ArcGIS Pro. They package symbols, colors, color schemes, text styles, and layout elements so you can apply consistent, high-quality cartography across projects without reinventing the wheel every...
If you're a GIS analyst or technician, you've probably had this thought more than once: I should really learn Python. You know your way around ArcGIS Pro. You can build a geodatabase, run a suitability analysis, fix a topology error, and make a map that a city council...
On July 1, 2026, the New York Times published an interactive map called "How a Nation of Immigrants Traces Its Roots." It went viral almost immediately. People spent hours zooming into their own neighborhoods, finding Greek families in Tarpon Springs, Marshallese...
ArcGIS Pro 3.7 added a new Embeddings Based Analysis toolset to the GeoAI toolbox. It's a small toolset, only four tools, but it brings a technique that has been reshaping AI in other fields into everyday GIS work. This article covers what embeddings are in plain...
On the afternoon of August 1, three fires broke out around Spokane, Washington. By Sunday morning the Washington State Emergency Operations Center estimated about 700 structures had been destroyed and more than 65,000 people were under evacuation orders. Spokane's...
We found a bug in one of our production datasets yesterday. By the afternoon we had diagnosed it, fixed it, checked the fix against imagery in two metros, updated the client PDFs, and committed the change. A corrected reprocessing run across 198 metro areas was...
What eight years of satellite-measured land change says about the Treasure Valley Ask a national headline writer about Boise and you'll get the 2020–2021 story: pandemic boomtown, California license plates, bidding wars. Ask the land itself and you get something more...
Few symbology tools get more use in day-to-day GIS work than the graduated colors renderer. Whether you're mapping median household income by census tract, crime rates by precinct, or population change by county, graduated colors are the workhorse behind the classic...
Ask three GIS professionals how they automate work in ArcGIS Pro and you'll often get three different answers, each delivered with the conviction that theirs is the "real" way to do it. The Python crowd treats everything else as training wheels. The ModelBuilder users...
If you find yourself rebuilding the same project structure over and over in ArcGIS Pro — adding the same basemaps, wiring up the same database connections, recreating the same layout, importing the same toolboxes — there is a better way. Custom project templates let...