Stories are powerful; they can advocate for change, influence opinion, and create awareness. ArcGIS StoryMaps are web-based applications that allow you to tell your story by integrating maps, data, pictures, videos, and other media in one place. StoryMaps are my favorite ArcGIS product due to their versatility and ability to augment storytelling through the addition […]
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Dashboards Provide Real-Time Situational Awareness About Raging Wildfires
Getting accurate, timely, and useful information and data about current emergencies like the raging wildfires in the West can be a challenge. After all, there’s many agencies including local, state, and federal governments, volunteer orgs, and other responding agencies that are all providing websites, blogs, webmaps, tweets, and other information to the public. Making sense […]
Story Map – GEO Jobe Activities at the 2018 International Esri User Conference (ESRIUC)
We’re ready to head to San Diego once again for the Annual International Esri User Conference (ESRIUC) and have shared details of where you can find us, what we will be sharing, contact information, location map, and more. Enjoy our ESRIUC plans via this Story Map / Map Series – we look forward to seeing you at […]
What’s new with Story Maps and How to Switch Your Story Map Tour to the Side Panel Layout
Story Maps for ArcGIS Online Get an Update – Some cool news for users and fans of Esri Story Maps as Esri has announced a pretty hefty update in their April announcement of the update to story map technology for ArcGIS Online. Recall, Esri Story Maps let you combine authoritative maps with narrative text, images, and […]
March Madness Maps – Mapping the NCAA Players
MarchMadness officially kicked off this week, hopefully your bracket is still alive! You may have gone through the teams and selected your favorites but do you know the players? This awesome map from Esri will help you to get to know them a bit better.
5 Things on Friday #59 – Developer Training, Open Data tips, Mapping Historic Route 66
Time for 5 more, very cool, mappy things via this weekly [almost] segment. Enjoy some tips on how to create a beautiful physical map, an open data portal, some fine online dev training, a historic drive through America, and a look at the whatever base map. Do you have a tip for us for a future edition? […]
GEO Jobe at the 2018 Esri EPC & DevSummit Story Map
The 2018 Esri Partner Conference (EPC) takes place March 3-5, 2018 in Palm Springs, CA and DevSummit takes place the same week immediately following EPC. The GEO Jobe team will be there once again and we hope to see you there! We thought it would be fun and handy to share our planned activities and […]
Super Story Map of Super Bowl Stadiums
Every February we gather around the TV or in the bar, put back some burgers, wings, nachos and chili, and enjoy what is hopefully a good foot ball game for the title. But you may wonder, which cities have hosted the big game? This fine Story Map shares details of the game and venues that […]
Follow the 2017 U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree on the Story Map
There’s no better way to tell a story than with maps, Story Maps that is. As we enter the holiday season (WOW, where did that come from so fast!) you can use an interesting story map to follow the travels of the annual US Capitol Christmas Tree. This interesting story begins in the Kootenai National […]
ArcGIS Online Tips: Make Awesome Story Maps from Your Smartphone in a Snap!
Every now and then you run into a program or app, well, that just plain works! It’s always a treat, particularly when the app is born out of a test project or R&D effort. I’ve encountered a few of these over the years, like Sports Tracker, an early sports tracking app from the Nokia Research […]