NWGIS UC 2024

The purpose of this collaboration session is to provide helpful guidance for anyone interested in developing tools and processes using Python with ArcGIS Pro. A brief overview of the ArcGIS Pro Python development options will be provided, followed by an explanation of a set of tools and scripts created to support the development of endangered species protection areas. This explanation will serve as a foundation for interactive discussion and demonstrations concerning a wide variety of topics, including high-level coding considerations, in-depth techniques, and things to watch out for in ArcGIS Pro. All session attendees will be welcome to contribute to the discussion and provide, for example, tips and tricks and perspectives based on their own ArcGIS Pro and Python development experience, the goal being to provide a forum for a beneficial exchange of ideas and inspiration. Coding is especially rewarding in many respects, but it can be tricky at times. It becomes less of a challenge, however, if we help each other as much as possible.

At the 2022 joint GIS-Pro and Northwest GIS conference, Jack Dangermond, the President of Esri concluded his keynote presentation by saying that "the central problem of our time is our lack of understanding and failure to collaborate, which is challenging our sustainability and threatening our future." This begs the question: What are we going to do about it? Given that the word "conference" means, among other things, "a meeting of two or more persons for discussing matters of common concern," does a typical conference presentation format support effective collaboration? One could argue that it doesn’t, at least not to a great enough extent. In this session, and in a complementary session focused on the lone GIS professional, we’ll try something different. Together, the participants will arrange the room to be conducive to collaboration; they’ll initiate discussion on topics that they feel are worth knowing about, taking something of an “anything goes” approach; and they’ll encourage helpful interaction. All participants will be expected to contribute to the proceedings at some point during the session, offering their own perspectives on a topic of someone else’s choosing or requesting a focus on something of interest. It may be chaos. Ideally, it will be very helpful. It’s worth trying alternative approaches like this, though. And if we make a mess of it this time, we’ll learn from what happened and keep trying on other occasions as we evolve to be better collaborators.

Want to learn more about Arcade? Your Pac-Man skills not cutting it? Come and check out our Arcade session. It'll help make your dashboard, maps, and pop-ups come alive!

Attribute rules have only been available for the past few years, and at Roseburg Forest Products, we have implemented literally dozens, if not over a hundred, to improve the quality of our data and make GIS editors more efficient and productive. Learn some tips and tricks from our experience implementing various attribute rules.

Over the last couple of years the ORMAP Tools committee has developed a toolset for use by county cartographers to support tax map maintenance within the ArcPro/Fabric environment. The toolset uses ESRI ArcPro attribute rules, tasks, toolbox scripts, and Addins. Dean will review this toolset and his experience implementing the toolset at three Oregon Counties. Pro’s and Con’s of ESRIS “low code” solutions will be discussed as well as contrasting tool implementation in a file geodatabase versus an enterprise environment.

At the 2008 Esri Developer Summit, the content was based on the assumption that most GIS professionals, especially developers, work in teams. From a rudimentary survey, however, it seemed that around half of the attendees worked on their own or were the only GIS expert in their organization. This was surprising to Esri, who, to their credit, adjusted their emphasis accordingly for future events. A few months later, a session focusing on the life of the lone GIS professional at the Washington GIS Conference attracted over a third of the attendees (around 70 people) who recognized that their experience working on their own or in small groups was a worthy basis for interaction at this and subsequent events. Eleven years on from the last session dedicated specifically to the world of the lone GIS professional, what, if anything, has changed? Is there still value in focusing on their situation in contrast to, for example, that of GIS professionals working in medium or large groups? The goal of this session is to address these and whatever other questions are of interest to lone GIS professionals. The approach will be the same as that for the complementary Things Worth Knowing session, which will involve adjusting the environment as required to facilitate healthy collaboration. As for that session, all participants will be expected to contribute to the proceedings at some point during the session.

Power BI is a great tool for visualizing and summarizing large datasets. It's mapping capabilities are limited, as it's not designed to be a robust GIS platform. But, I've learned a few tricks for making visually appealing maps in Power BI, and in this talk I'll share what I've learned, including data formats that transfer easily from GIS into Power BI, which map visuals work better in what circumstances, and some easy ways to do basic spatial filtering.

What's your cloud posture? Happily on-prem and there to stay, thank you very much? Cloud-curious? Straddling on-prem and cloud resources - nervously? comfortably? Full on cloudy, let's do it?

In this presentation, Bryce will share some tips, tricks, and options for deploying, optimizing, and managing your ArcGIS Enterprise in the cloud. Topics will include:
leveraging OS servers for performance and economy
using ArcGIS Monitor to track system resources and behavior across environments
setting up data-adjacent workspaces for ArcGIS Pro
options and patterns for syncing with on-premises systems

A significant number of GIS professionals would benefit from better understanding of the GIS tasks their users perform. This session presents several easy to implement suggestions and tips to improve service delivery to GIS end users.

HNTB supports the Washington State Department of Transportation to design crossings for Fish Passage Improvement projects and create associated reports for specific passages. These specific reports for each passage, Preliminary and Final Hydraulic Designs (PHDs and FHDs), need field data collection and require consistent figures for project vicinity, watersheds and barriers, landcover, surficial geology, soil types and reference reach bankfull widths.

This presentation will focus on methods the HTNB GIS team used to assist data collection, access existing data, and create the required figures to support Fish Passage projects. A SharePoint cloud folder structure, ArcGIS Online (AGOL), ESRI Field Maps, ArcGIS Pro and REST service public data sources were all utilized to support this methodology.