Analyzing Map Performance in ArcGIS Pro 3.7
Every GIS professional knows the feeling. You open a map you authored last week, click around to verify a few edits, and the whole thing crawls. Layers paint in fits and starts, the scale bar lags, and you’re left guessing which of your two dozen layers is the...
What’s New in ArcGIS Pro 3.7: A Practical Guide to the May 2026 Release
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...
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...