Key Topics Outline: Documenting your code Software Development gives us the ability to create and design software systems for personal or business use. As a developer, it’s very easy to expect other developers to adapt to your code and understand exactly what your intentions are for a specific code block. However, we don’t usually allow […]
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Creating Custom ArcGIS Map Widgets as React Components
Map Widgets The ArcGIS Maps SDK provides many useful widgets to extend an ArcGIS map for the user. However, sometimes the requirements of a GIS application are so specific that custom functionality must be created to meet those needs and another Map widget is often the perfect place to place these new features. Especially if […]
Stop Sabotaging by Not Standardizing your Data
As GIS professionals, we deal with a lot of data, much of which must be entered by hand – sometimes by multiple people over long periods of time. While we often like to focus on new and exciting ways to use this data, such as new technologies or sophisticated forms of analysis, we don’t always […]
Effortlessly Deploy ArcGIS Enterprise on Ubuntu: A Complete Walkthrough
Ubuntu is an open-source Linux distribution based on Debian. The name Ubuntu is an ancient African word meaning ‘humanity to others’ reminding us that ‘I am what I am because of who we all are’. Ubuntu comes in a variety of flavors and specialized derivatives. It has special editions for servers, OpenStack clouds, and connected […]
Building Accessible Routing Networks with ADA Compliance
When GIS professionals think of maps, our minds wander anywhere from locating water meters for the town to the workflow required to analyze the carbon sequestration potential of rainforests. When non-GIS users think of maps, their first thought is most likely getting directions from one place to another. When you pull out your phone to […]
Top Tips for Managing Complex Projects
We all know that managing projects – whether big or small – can be an undertaking in itself. But what if your project entails coordinating with multiple teams and stakeholders or has an aggressive timeline with numerous moving parts, all while on a strict budget? These factors don’t necessarily make the project difficult, but rather […]
How to Clone One ArcGIS Organization to Another
Moving content from one ArcGIS Organization to another can be a large undertaking. Fortunately, GEO Jobe has experience helping navigate this process. This guide outlines the recommended best practices for cloning, based on the experience of several support technicians, the application developers who design GEO Jobe’s products, and our Enterprise team. Please read through this […]
Get to Know Your Toolbox – ArcGIS Pro’s Minimum Bounding Geometry Tool
As part of our tool series, this article will discuss a fundamental tool you may have never heard of, called the Minimum Bounding Geometry. I recently helped a client with a simple request. They wanted to have a polygon drawn around groups of points by an attribute value but didn’t want to construct the polygons […]
Overcoming challenges when migrating from ArcGIS Online to ArcGIS Enterprise
As a follow up to my Reasons to Migrate from AGOL to ArcGIS Enterprise article. Today I am going to build off that and discuss some things I’ve come across migrating from ArcGIS Online to ArcGIS Enterprise. Depending on how tight of a ship you ran in ArcGIS Online and the amount of content accumulated […]
Getting Started With Backup My Org – Part 2
Backup My Org has become one of our most popular and requested solutions for anyone interested in custom backups, custom restoration, and the migration of ArcGIS items, groups, and users. Previously, we covered setting up Identities in the application and performing backups of content. This part will review the recovery and cloning operation. Restoring Content […]