lindsyhalesbentley.blogspot.com

 The first class I attended was "ArcGIS StoryMaps: What's New and What's Coming." The presenter started by talking about how to create your own themes. They also showed that new this year: there will be over 1000 fonts (increasing from 80) image editing - for example, making your photos black and white within the StoryMap mapping enhancements highlight maps - super cool! map tour arrows The next class was "UC Central Live: StoryMaps. StoryMaps are story telling through the use of maps. There are over 1.7 million StoryMaps. One-third of these have been authored by students/educators. Which came first, the story or the map? What story are you trying to tell? Who is the primary audience? Who is the secondary audience? Multimedia package. Provide where and why. StoryMaps engage the entire brain - text, pictures, maps, audio, and video. They ended by urging us to tell our stories. The next class was "ArcGIS Online: Tips and Tricks for Viral Maps. The only excitin

This years theme is " GIS Creating a Sustainable Future ." I am totally bummed this year is yet again virtual, but covid... Jack kicked things off with the Plenary, and hasn't aged a day.  There was a demo in Pro showing aerial imagery blending to reduce shadows, that was super sweet. There is an overlay mode to combine overlapping layers. There is now the ability to change how selections are symbolized, including making them hatched. They have added a command search bar at the top. There is a "change detection wizard" tool that looks super cool. And they finally have an eye dropper tool for colors! They also demo'd data engineering, which looks pretty sweet and helpful. Lots of charts and data digging in this one.  Blending will be available in web map/map viewer. I love that you don't lose topo or color by using this tool. A few new things that are coming: "instant apps" dashboards now support arcade enterprise on kubernetes  cloud based graf