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Guide Includes the Latest ArcGIS Pro Tools and Workflows with Proven Instructional Strategies
This fourth edition of the top-selling book for learning ArcGIS Pro gives those who have zero experience with GIS a guide to become skilled technicians. Readers will able to find, prepare, and analyze data; make maps; run an operations dashboard; and more, using ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS StoryMaps, ArcGIS Dashboards, and ArcGIS Collector.
Steps have been simplified and figures have been updated to match the ArcGIS Pro 2.8 interface. All workflows and exercises in the book, including those in the geocoding chapter, have been updated to reflect the latest version of the software. Educators will benefit from the provided instructor resources.
Authors Wilpen Gorr and Kristen Kurland have many years of experience teaching GIS in a classroom setting at Carnegie Mellon University. Their other titles include GIS Tutorial for Crime Analysis and GIS Tutorial for Health.
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first published week of: 09/13/2021
Bringing everything from utilities information to site conditions out of a GIS map into a BIM usually requires cumbersome rework. That's now changing.
Geographic Information Systems and Building Information Modeling have developed side-by-side over a period of more than three decades, with civil engineers, architects and contractors using both types of data to better inform airport, transit, road and even general building projects.
Despite these parallels, the twain have never met over those years of development. GIS captures and creates opportunity for analysis of spatial and geographic information, while BIM, with its related parameters focused on a building’s tolerances and construction phasing, captures the interactions of a building and its infrastructure.
Autodesk and Esri—the company that invented Geomapping in the 1960s and has been the dominant player in GIS technology from its Redlands, Calif., campus—announced a new partnership in 2017 on workflows linking GIS and BIM. At its user conference in June this year, ESRI showed off a new product: ArcGIS GeoBIM. As the dominant GIS vendor, it’s a significant move for Esri to say it has built a web portal for connecting ArcGIS to Autodesk Construction Cloud.
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first published week of: 09/13/2021
Easy access to geographic information a plus for project planning.
Although most people start exploring Google Earth by searching for a famous landmark or their home address, many surveyors realize the extensive online database is a valuable tool for visualizing the layout and terrain of any area of interest. With global coverage combining satellite, aerial, 3D, and Street View images, Google Earth provides access to a wealth of knowledge without leaving the office.
Zoom Around the World
Google Earth is based on technology originally created for gaming and furtherdeveloped as Keyhole EarthViewer by KeyHole, Inc. Since its purchase by Google in 2004, the Google Earth program continues to evolve and offer a range of high and low-resolution imagery, digital elevation models, 3D building models and other tools.
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first published week of: 09/13/2021
The online gaming boom could not have happened without the essential element of geolocation technology
Geolocation companies pop the champagne.
As the three-year anniversary of the repeal of the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) dawns, they savor an unprecedented era. Geolocation outfits are the gateway to the Golden Goose of many gaming enterprises.
Their penchant to monitor, detect and thwart fraud are irreplaceable, especially considering online gaming’s looming multibillion-dollar stature. While fraud protection is a permanent function of geolocation companies, that realm will grow. Spinoff areas like data collection and responsible gaming contain both marketing components and a societal benefit.
In some ways, the geolocation celebration is in full swing. In others, it just began.
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first published week of: 09/13/2021
Uncovering Site Selection Strategies using Point of Interest Data
In the U.S. it can cost more than $1 million to open a McDonald’s, Taco Bell, Burger King, or Wendy’s restaurant. With such high levels associated with funding startup costs alongside ongoing fees for royalties, advertising, and other services it’s clear that ensuring the right location is paramount.
The ‘secret sauce’ of site selection in such a competitive market relies on being able to analyze the right data, but with so many sources available it can be difficult to determine the relevant recipe. Alongside this is the ability to understand and interpret the site selection strategies of nearby locations in order to pre-empt their expansion plans and gain a competitive advantage. Data that can be leveraged in such analysis includes financial, human mobility, behavioral, demographic, and the widely used Points Of Interest (POI).
Does proximity to other POIs influence where a new store is located?
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first published week of: 09/13/2021
Most people may think of geographic information systems (GIS) simply as Google maps or the navigation system for their car, but GIS tools do a lot more than help people get from A to B. Businesses are adding a spatial dimension to data to help make critical decisions in this tough economy.
We recently interviewed Yellowfin CEO Glen Rabie to find out more about this topic and why Yellowfin Business Intelligence with spatial data is so much more than just Google Maps.
Q. How does GIS integrated with BI differ from the traditional GIS approach?
A. A typical spatial specialists approach to GIS data is that it is about land use – and the optimization of that – where to put that next store. Well on the one hand that is true and there is a place for stand-alone GIS apps to do just that, but the power of GIS is far greater. Land use changes – where you put a store or a branch today may not be that ideal in 5 years time – however what action can you take based upon your now relatively fixed network. How do you market to the changing landscape of customers and attract them to your store, how do you optimize the distribution channel that you have, how do you accurately compare one stores performance with another based on customer catchment segment analysis not necessarily proximity (still a spatial question believe it or not). This is the greater reality of GIS data and the massive potential it has for improving business performance.
Q. What are some of the newer and more innovative ways in which businesses are using GIS data beyond traditional niches?
Original source: The ServerSide, written by James Mandrid
first published week of: 08/09/2021