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A record-breaking storm in August 2025 pushed well-designed green and gray infrastructure beyond its limits. Key Takeaways Decades of investment in monitoring, modeling, and system maintenance enabled Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD) to have the situational awareness needed to assess flooding impacts and guide recovery efforts. Continuous data collection ensures operational readiness and supports regulatory reporting during extreme weather events.

Collecting data in the field often means capturing information that changes from one asset, incident, or observation to the next. In many workflows, several conditions can apply at the same time. If you were to design a data collection form for ArcGIS Field Maps with a separate field for every possible condition, the form could get very long, and a long form is slow to work through in the field.

When a map starts feeling slow, many organizations instinctively reach for the infrastructure checklist. Does the: Server need more memory? Database needs more CPU? Whole system needs a redesign? This approach is tempting because it seems straightforward. However, starting at the infrastructure level is often the most expensive route. And it might not even be the most effective if the rest of the system hasn’t been tuned first – sometimes the system is not struggling because it lacks capacity.

Multiple choice form elements enable mobile workers to capture more than one response in a single field. This is useful when more than one condition may apply to an asset, inspection, or observation. When displayed in a pop-up, those selected values appear as a comma-separated list. This format isn’t the most user-friendly way to present information in the field. As the number of responses grows, the list can become hard to read at a glance.

This blog article was originally published on September 17, 2020, and has been updated. The last previous update was January 4, 2023. In the news: Severe thunderstorms and heavy rain are expected across portions of the mid-Mississippi Valley into the Ohio Valley and portions of Arizona. Just a week ago, heavy rains hit Indiana, causing rivers to crest and setting water level records as roads and bridges were severely damaged or washed out entirely by the flood waters.

Summer is over, kids are back in school, another UC has come and gone. As you catch up on what’s new in ArcGIS Online, one update worth putting on your radar is beta support for annotation and dimension layers. Introduced this summer, initial support for these new layer types lets you bring carefully authored annotation and measurement information from your enterprise data into web maps. In this article, we’ll explore how you can get started, what you can do with them today, and what’s coming next.

PostgreSQL is a popular choice for organizations building flexible, open-source GIS infrastructures. When used with ArcGIS, it provides a modern database platform, support for multiple spatial types, and deployment options for both self-managed and cloud database services. This article explains how PostgreSQL and ArcGIS work together, what to prepare before you begin, how spatial types fit into the picture, and when to use the Enable Enterprise Geodatabase and Create Enterprise Geodatabase tools.

At a glance One unified extension: ArcGIS Linear Referencing Planned with the ArcGIS Online November 2026 update and the ArcGIS Pro 3.8 and ArcGIS Enterprise 12.2 releases No change to the map-based linear referencing tools available with Creator and above user types ArcGIS Data Reviewer and ArcGIS Workflow Manager licenses for ArcGIS Pro will no longer be included with new ArcGIS Linear Referencing licenses Organizations use linear referencing to manage assets and characteristics along...

For nearly three decades, Esri Academy has helped GIS professionals, students, and organizations build skills, earn certifications, and unlock the full value of ArcGIS. Today, we are excited to introduce a redesigned Esri Academy experience that makes it easier to discover, access, and manage learning resources. The new experience features a refreshed visual design, streamlined navigation, and a more intuitive learning journey aligned with the broader Esri.com ecosystem.

One of the Smithsonian’s exhibits marking the nation’s 250th birthday uses geography to show visitors how holdings from every state and territory are connected across deep time and shared land. Key Takeaways The exhibit team organized 600+ objects into stories about nature and people, instead of by state, to reveal connections across state lines. The exhibit team built five animated map layers that trace how biomes, migrations, and geology move across the country.