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These smart Google Maps settings are guaranteed to make your life easier
Chances are, you use Google Maps on the regular. But are you fully taking advantage of the Google Maps settings that’ll make your life infinitely easier? The tool offers so much more than just driving directions, a snapshot of where you’ve been via Google’s My Activity and a view of your house using Google Street View. It can help you find a restaurant when you’re away from home with a grumbling stomach, pinpoint wheelchair-accessible locations, avoid heavy traffic and much more.
To help you make the most of the platform, we’re rounding up some Google Maps settings and Google tricks you probably don’t know about—but will wish you’d been using all along. Add these to your vast Google knowledge, along with tips on how to turn off Google Assistant and things to never google.
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first published week of: 07/24/2023
Every day, professionals in the public sector work hard to ensure that communities around the world are safe, sustainable, and efficient
They work day-in and day-out to maintain the roads we drive on, deliver clean drinking water, make sure that the structures in which we work and live are safe, and manage the thousands of other public assets found within our cities.
The hard work that is put into maintaining public infrastructure often goes unnoticed and unappreciated. This is why, each Innovate Conference, we strive to recognize a handful of exemplary organizations that are driving innovation in their communities.
The Cityworks Innovate Award gives us a chance to recognize organizations that go above and beyond in their use of Cityworks, Esri, and other technologies. Congratulations to this year’s winners!
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first published week of: 01/30/2023
At Esri’s 18th annual Developer Summit held in Palm Springs, California, the message was clear. With the latest ArcGIS capabilities, developers can save time and mouse clicks while creating location-based apps, web maps, and solutions for myriad uses—including bringing our real and virtual worlds even closer.
Demonstrating the Art of the Possible
With massive amounts of data arriving faster than ever, it’s essential to be able to manage it and use it in ways that will make the information meaningful.
Dynamic Entities API, debuting in April, will bring real-time feeds to native apps. In one example, Esri showed a feed of all live commercial flights on a map of Southern California with constantly updating information about altitude, arrival times, and speed. Each plane bore a flight number and color based on destination. Not limited to the latest observations, the API also made it possible to see past observations such as how speed and altitude changed over time. Zoomed in further, a single virtual representation of a real plane could be seen landing on a 3D runway at the same time.
During a demonstration of ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript capabilities for custom 3D editing, Esri used a ski resort to show how a proposed ski lift and slope could simply be drawn on a 3D representation of the mountain known as a digital twin. The ski resort planner could then see right away if a proposed cable wasn’t far enough off the ground, requiring an additional tower, or how many trees would be displaced depending on each slight adjustment. That proposed design could then be shared through Scene Viewer and included in an ArcGIS StoryMaps story or even a 360-degree VR experience, viewable in any browser, mobile or desktop device, and a virtual reality headset.
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first published week of: 03/20/2023
presentations made it clear that geography is central to strategies for shaping the world. Several organizations demonstrated how they are using GIS to shape the future:
“What kind of world do you want to see?” That was the question Esri Founder and President Jack Dangermond posed at the 43rd annual Esri User Conference at the San Diego Convention Center on Monday. The event attracted nearly 18,000 in-person attendees and more than 20,000 people watching online.
In helping to solve some of our most complex challenges, Dangermond told the crowd of mostly geographic information system (GIS) professionals that their work is essential to creating a more sustainable, equitable, and prosperous world.
Dangermond paraphrased US President John F. Kennedy who had talked about a changing world in his 1961 inaugural address, noting that humans were at a crossroads and held, “the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life.”
“Now, it’s about sustainability”” Dangermond said. “Sustainability starts with geography.”
GIS — Creating the World You Want to See
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first published week of: 07/24/2023
Do you think you know everything about the good ol' U.S. of A.? These fascinating U.S. geography facts are guaranteed to blow your mind.
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first published week of: 02/27/2023
Many aspects of HUD's work include a locational component. Location data is central to HUD's mission to create strong, sustainable, inclusive communities and quality affordable homes for all.
Many aspects of HUD's work include a locational component. Location data is central to HUD's mission to create strong, sustainable, inclusive communities and quality affordable homes for all.
As analysts in HUD's Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R), we both work with spatial data and analysis tools, but our institutional knowledge is relatively recent. To explore the history of HUD's use of spatial data and tools — often called Geographic Information Systems/Sciences (GIS) — we interviewed five people who offered firsthand accounts of HUD's implementation of GIS technology. We supplemented these interviews with information from HUD publications dating back to 1972 as well as one written account from a longtime HUD employee summarizing their GIS experience.
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first published week of: 06/19/2023