GIS for the Next Generation

We see the explosion of GIS with the advancements in technology. Do you know how often you use GIS?

What’s Your Agency’s Mobile Strategy?

Leveraging mobile technology can do everything from making your agency’s workforce more efficient to promoting citizen engagement. Check out these tools that can help your agency refine its mobile strategy and implement more efficient and effective processes.

How Big Data is Keeping Your Communities Safe

Keeping constituents and the communities they live in safe is a top priority for law makers. Fortunately, open data is making this a little easier. Learn how govies are forming partnerships at the state, local, and federal levels to optimize open data and keep communities safe.

How GIS Works to Combat Fraud

GIS technology can be used to help address fraud, waste and abuse in several different ways. Organizations benefit from closely examining location-based factors to identify hot spots, regional variations and clusters, such as co-locations of services. Then, real-time data analysis shows spatial trends that inform predictions about future needs and issues — or, in this… Read more »

Put Your Big Data to Good Use Instantly

Learn how Esri is helping to optimize the information in huge datasets to visualize the data and make it much more useful to you and your agency.

Understanding How to Capture the World in Context

Today, most government agencies have to deal with new data sources that are coming to them almost daily – social media, open data, sensor data, military intelligence or data from a sister agency. And the biggest challenge? Currently, the constant stream of data the government is receiving doesn’t fit in current geospatial tools.

How Your Organization Can Make the Most of Their Data

The rise of open data has seen many agencies hopping on the bandwagon and working towards open data policies. However, there is still frequently confusion over how an agency can best utilize their data to meet both internal and public needs.

Mapping Out Your City’s Health

Learn how GIS technology is working with healthcare to transform communities.

Top 3 Tips for Explaining What GIS Is

Your GIS elevator pitch.

Doing More with Data in Government

Data analytics is changing the way governments make decisions. But while the benefits of data analytics have often been touted, it can still be difficult to know how to incorporate data into your agency operations and what to look for in analytics tools.