Should You Learn to Write Python Code for Automating ArcGIS Pro Tasks?
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...
What GIS Pros Can Learn from the New York Times Ancestry Map
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,...
Embeddings in ArcGIS Pro 3.7: What the New GeoAI Tools Actually Do
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...
Mapping the 2026 Wildfire Season in ArcGIS Pro with Living Atlas Data
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....