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 And you thought I was done...An awesome extra bonus feature of having the UC virtual this year, is that the classes were left online a little longer so we could go back and keep watching and learning more. I love this.   The first extra class I attended was "ArcGIS Enterprise Designing Enterprise Sites." I was really happy to come back across this in the agenda. All speakers focused on "Experience Builder," and no one even mentioned Sites.  I'm glad to learn this is not going away any time soon.  The difference is Experience Builder is for ArcGIS Online, and Enterprise Sites is for Portal. When it comes to planning and design thinking, focus on problem solving.  Site consideration: pick a theme for the homepage. There are 2 places to use images - ROW, image card, and gallery card. Some considerations for mobile - navigation, don't bury the lead, keep it lightweight, have a mobile first viewpoint, and less than 5 embedded content per page. Hidden rows conte...

 Day 3 started with a fun class - ArcGIS Solutions for Defense. Can I just say this session blew my mind?! It was so cool to see the software being used in a different way than I had ever used it before. However, there were some tools highlighted that I can see useful in other projects.  Coordinate conversion (hello CAD) Distance and direction Visibility analysis Military symbology editor is available in Pro only. There is also a defense toolbox you can download that contains a range fan tool, incident analysis tool, and a beach landing tool. They demo'd each of these, and it was so cool. The visibility analysis using DEM and observation points. They also showed a generate grid from point tool, which was so slick and easy. I can see a use for this with creating missing person grids on the spot. They also showed web app builder defense capabilities. These tools do not work in a disconnected environment. The US Army is not using Pro. So, the things to look up and download are Ar...

Tuesday started with a class on 3D in webmaps. It was very cool, but I didn't learn anything new. Next was my most favorite class - Map Wizardry with ArcGIS! This was my favorite class last year, and I quickly became a fan of the teachers.  They are cartographic geniuses and serious wizards.  I love their creativity in creating maps that just blow your mind. I made sure to tell my colleagues about this class.  They showed off some seriously amazing work. I need to download some of the style files: firefly symbology firefly basemap stipling symbology in Pro watercolor style spilhaus mapping imhof John Nelson pro styles to download gallery -  Some styles don't always translate to online maps.  One option is to bake it into raster tiles. Their motto is to "go beyond the defaults." They showed a way cool map of Mars, that I seriously geeked out about. Their Cartography book is meant to be a modern manual. Next was Plenary #2. In the afternoon I watched "Solving Webm...

What a year! Because of Covid/the Corona Virus/The Rona, the UC this year unfortunately was virtual.  I was super sad about this.  The UC is a fantastic reminder that I have a seriously cool job.  Being able to attend the UC in person, you are overwhelmed with people from around the world that also do GIS, which is a stark contrast to doing GIS in Utah and being one of very few. That being said, ESRI did a FANTASTIC job with the UC! Being virtual, I had ZERO issues with connecting to classes, listening to speakers, I never lost a connection or was kicked out or had lagging issues, and that is a huge feat! So, great job! Because it was virtual, there were only a handful of class offerings each  hour, and all from ESRI staff.  They also split the plenary sessions into one hour segments each day, instead of all day Monday.  I think that was a great idea. So Monday started with the Plenary.  There were over 80,000 people attending virtually! From aroun...

I started with a class about operations dashboard.  They showed an interesting example of how it was used for superbowl security, and also by UPS and FedEx.  There are 4 different ways to create a new dashboard. Dashboards can use maps bookmarks.  You can create pie charts, but also manipulate the inner radius to create a donut.  You can create hover labels.  You can stack elements, create tabs, add pulse/pan actions (movements) connect charts to maps, can add filters to affect maps/charts, you can create your own url parameters, use dashboards in storymaps, and it now works on smartphones. Dashboards were purposely built for presentations.  They are working on adding arcade, 3D capabilities, and layout improvements.             I went to a class on ArcGIS Monitor, but it was super boring and ridiculously expensive. And also their projector was SERIOUSLY wigging out, so I could not watch.  It's 10...

On my way to my first class, I saw a cartography genius on the escalator, and had a total fan girl moment. My first class was GIS for Active Shooter Response.  The class was PACKED.  It ended up being nothing that I had hoped, and only a grad student's project on FBI stats.  I could not leave to go to a different class.  So here are some random facts - there have been 277 mass shootings between 2000-2018.  California has had the most.  The least occurrences in less populated states.  No correlation for seasons, ccw/armed households.  7 states do mental health background checks.  Did not compare to gun-free zones. This class time was shared with a GIS person from a city in California that showed her project that took her two years.  Basic aerial with building outlines.  For schools.  Oh. Man. I decided I need to present next year. I apprehensively followed up that class with a class on GIS for Informed Decisio...

Day 2, diving right in. I started with an Arcade class.  Arcade is not a programming language.  It is not a replacement for python.  It is an expression language that can be used across all ESRI products.  It is not case sensitive.    TextFormatting.Newline - AGO does not support.  Boo....seriously, make things work everywhere before releasing!    The presenter recommended a book available on Amazon called "Writing Arcade Expressions" by Dave Allen.    My coworker and I met with some ESRI staff in the vendor area to discuss some problems we've been running into, and to get some help.  We discussed using a base64 encoded string for pictures in pop-ups (they didn't know how to do this), related tables in pop ups (no real way to do this with truly live data), vector tile packages to get our data out to custom apps, and how in the world are we getting duplicate global ids in globalid fields??  I also aske...