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ArcWatch Articles Archive

ArcWatch provides up-to-date information on GIS news, tech tips, product updates, and insights. For GIS professionals, students, educators, and people new to mapping.

  • Indoor Mapping Swiss University Enhances Accessibility with Indoor GIS Technology Students and staff use smartphones to access digital campus maps with real-time indoor positioning for navigation and barrier-free routing.

Swiss University Enhances Accessibility with Indoor GIS Technology

Students and staff use smartphones to access digital campus maps with real-time indoor positioning for navigation and barrier-free routing.

Create a Chart

Help a retail worker make recommendations for underperforming stores by gathering and analyzing sales data, then visualizing the results.

  • Artificial Intelligence │ AI How Geospatial AI Is Transforming Common GIS Workflows New AI-driven capabilities in ArcGIS let you extract information at scale, understand patterns, and automate processes to boost efficiency.

Artificial Intelligence │ AI

How Geospatial AI Is Transforming Common GIS Workflows

New AI-driven capabilities in ArcGIS let you extract information at scale, understand patterns, and automate processes to boost efficiency.

  • Infrastructure Keeping Data Alive: From Paper Records to a Living Digital Twin A digital transformation is changing how municipalities across Sweden manage data and handle issues such as aging infrastructure.

Infrastructure

Keeping Data Alive: From Paper Records to a Living Digital Twin

A digital transformation is changing how municipalities across Sweden manage data and handle issues such as aging infrastructure.

  • Esri Events Save the Date: Esri Infrastructure Management & GIS Conference This October, gain practical insights and discover new approaches to common challenges at the largest GIS event dedicated to infrastructure.

Esri Events

Save the Date: Esri Infrastructure Management & GIS Conference

This October, gain practical insights and discover new approaches to common challenges at the largest GIS event dedicated to infrastructure.

  • ArcGIS StoryMaps Get Ready for the 2026 ArcGIS StoryMaps Competition Join storytellers from around the world. Showcase your work to demonstrate how GIS can drive meaningful action in your community and beyond.

ArcGIS StoryMaps

Get Ready for the 2026 ArcGIS StoryMaps Competition

Join storytellers from around the world. Showcase your work to demonstrate how GIS can drive meaningful action in your community and beyond.

  • Esri Press Color Me Mappy: A Cartographic Coloring Book Fuel your creativity with this book. It transforms maps of iconic real-world destinations into immersive coloring experiences.

Esri Press

Color Me Mappy: A Cartographic Coloring Book

Fuel your creativity with this book. It transforms maps of iconic real-world destinations into immersive coloring experiences.

  • Esri Esri Announces Initiative to Support Small Businesses and Municipalities Organizations can browse success stories, a directory of trusted partners, and helpful resources to unlock their full potential with ArcGIS.

Esri

Esri Announces Initiative to Support Small Businesses and Municipalities

Organizations can browse success stories, a directory of trusted partners, and helpful resources to unlock their full potential with ArcGIS.

  • AEC How to Integrate Drawings from AutoCAD in ArcGIS Urban Streamline the connection between CAD and GIS workflows. Follow an example to bring your 2D drawings into 3D using ArcGIS for AutoCAD.

AEC

How to Integrate Drawings from AutoCAD in ArcGIS Urban

Streamline the connection between CAD and GIS workflows. Follow an example to bring your 2D drawings into 3D using ArcGIS for AutoCAD.

  • ArcGIS Online Visualizing Time in Map Viewer Learn how to create time-based visualizations that reveal patterns and show change over time.

ArcGIS Online

Visualizing Time in Map Viewer

Learn how to create time-based visualizations that reveal patterns and show change over time.

  • ArcGIS Knowledge Real-World Stories That Show What’s Possible with Knowledge Graphs From planning bridge repairs to tracing parcel ownership, discover applications of ArcGIS Knowledge and the hidden insights it can unlock.

ArcGIS Knowledge

Real-World Stories That Show What’s Possible with Knowledge Graphs

From planning bridge repairs to tracing parcel ownership, discover applications of ArcGIS Knowledge and the hidden insights it can unlock.

  • Disaster Response Tracking Displaced People in Real Time: Lebanon’s Crisis Coordination System Real-time data collection and live dashboards show where shelter, medical teams, and supplies are needed first.

Disaster Response

Tracking Displaced People in Real Time: Lebanon’s Crisis Coordination System

Real-time data collection and live dashboards show where shelter, medical teams, and supplies are needed first.

  • ArcGIS Parcel Fabric Yolo County Streamlines Parcel Mapping with a Modern GIS Foundation Parcel data is maintained in a single system in ArcGIS Enterprise, providing an authoritative source of truth and simplifying workflows.

ArcGIS Parcel Fabric

Yolo County Streamlines Parcel Mapping with a Modern GIS Foundation

Parcel data is maintained in a single system in ArcGIS Enterprise, providing an authoritative source of truth and simplifying workflows.

  • Infrastructure As Midwest Storms Grow Extreme, Milwaukee’s Water Reclamation Agency Has a Plan Asset monitoring, advanced spatial modeling, and system maintenance help staff assess floods’ impacts and guide recovery efforts.

Infrastructure

As Midwest Storms Grow Extreme, Milwaukee’s Water Reclamation Agency Has a Plan

Asset monitoring, advanced spatial modeling, and system maintenance help staff assess floods’ impacts and guide recovery efforts.

  • Esri Training Build Immersive Experiences with ArcGIS and Game Engines Learn how to use authoritative GIS data, 3D graphics, and ArcGIS Maps SDKs to create highly realistic simulations and digital twins.

Esri Training

Build Immersive Experiences with ArcGIS and Game Engines

Learn how to use authoritative GIS data, 3D graphics, and ArcGIS Maps SDKs to create highly realistic simulations and digital twins.

  • Esri Training What’s New in ArcGIS Pro 3.6 and 3.7 Discover new capabilities introduced in the latest releases and practice with enhanced tools to map and manage GIS data.

Esri Training

What’s New in ArcGIS Pro 3.6 and 3.7

Discover new capabilities introduced in the latest releases and practice with enhanced tools to map and manage GIS data.

  • Esri Training Massive Open Online Course—The Power of Where: Communicating with Maps Practice key cartographic techniques to depict 2D and 3D data on a map and communicate insights with charts and dashboards.

Esri Training

Massive Open Online Course—The Power of Where: Communicating with Maps

Practice key cartographic techniques to depict 2D and 3D data on a map and communicate insights with charts and dashboards.

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