Esri has officially released ArcGIS Pro 3.7, the latest minor release in the 3.x series, arriving in May 2026 right on the biannual schedule. This release doesn't introduce breaking changes — your existing projects, scripts, and workflows remain fully compatible — but...
Articles & Tutorials
The Determinism Gap: Why AI Doesn’t Replace GIS Automation
A planner sits down with ChatGPT and asks for help finding suitable parcels for a new fire station. They paste in a description of the criteria — inside the city limits, outside the floodplain, at least two acres, within half a mile of a major road. The model returns...
ArcPy Cursors That Scale: Patterns for Real-World Geodatabases
In the last article we built a script that inventories everything inside a geodatabase: feature classes, tables, fields, domains, subtypes, and relationship classes. Knowing what's in there is the first step. The second is being able to read and write all that data...
Know Your Geodatabase: A Reusable ArcPy Inspection Script
You've been here before. A vendor delivers a file geodatabase as part of a contracted project and you need to verify what they built before signing off. Your predecessor leaves the agency and you inherit an enterprise geodatabase connection and a folder of...
Survey of AI Tools Across the ArcGIS Platform
Esri has been steadily weaving artificial intelligence into the fabric of the ArcGIS platform. What started over a decade ago with machine learning tools for clustering and classification has evolved into a comprehensive ecosystem spanning deep learning, natural...
The ArcGIS Pro Template Workflow That Will Save You Hours
Learn more about ArcGIS Pro in one of our upcoming ArcGIS Pro Bootcamps at various locations around the country as well as live-online. If you find yourself starting every new ArcGIS Pro project the same way — adding the same folder connections, configuring the same...
Pairwise Buffer vs. Classic Buffer in ArcGIS Pro: What’s the Difference and When Does It Matter?
If you've browsed the Geoprocessing toolbox in ArcGIS Pro, you've probably noticed a set of tools with "Pairwise" in the name — Pairwise Buffer, Pairwise Clip, Pairwise Intersect, and others. Many users assume these are simply duplicates of the classic tools and never...
Mastering the Graduated Color Renderer in ArcGIS Pro: A Guide to Classification Methods
Learn more about this ArcGIS Pro topic and others in our Mastering ArcGIS Pro 3: Maps, Layers, Projects, and Layouts class and our Mastering ArcGIS Pro 3: Editing, Analysis, and Automation class. If you've spent any time making thematic maps in ArcGIS Pro, you've...
Spatial Intelligence Is Coming to LLMs — Is Government GIS Ready?
How Google's MapTrace research reveals a broader revolution in spatial intelligence, and why local and state government GIS programs need to start preparing now. Look at a map of your city — the parcels, the streets, the zoning boundaries layered over floodplains and...
The Right Way to Manage ArcGIS Pro Projects, Maps, and Layouts (And Why Most People Get It Wrong)
If you want to go deeper on ArcGIS Pro project management, data organization, and building efficient workflows, check out our ArcGIS Pro training courses — including upcoming ArcGIS Pro Bootcamps in cities across the country and live-online. Most new to intermediate...










