Esri User Conference – Science Symposium

  As part of the Esri User Conference, Dawn Wright, Esri Chief Scientist, organised a Science Symposium that gave an opportunity for those with interest in scientific use of Esri GIS to come together, discuss and meet. Dawn Wright opened and mentioned that the science symposium is aimed to bring people people from different areas: …

Esri User Conference 2016 – plenary day

The main Esri User conference starts with a plenary day, where all the participants (16,000 of them) join together for a set of presentation from 8:30 to 3:30 (with some breaks, of course). Below you'll find some notes that I took during the day: The theme of the keynote was GIS – Enabling a Smarter …

Esri Education Conference 2016 – day 1

I've been working with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) since 1988. During the first 2 years, I wasn't even aware that what we were doing was GIS - it was a mapping/inventory system that run on second generation PC (80286 processors) and was used to map facilities. Once I've discovered that this was a GIS, the …

Esri Education User Conference talk: Citizen Science & Geographical Technologies: creativity, learning, and engagement

The slides below are from my keynote talk at the Esri Education User Conference 2016. The conference focused on creativity and its relevant to education and the utilisation of GIS (especially Esri software) at different levels of education. My talk explored the area of citizen science and extreme citizen science and the way geographical technologies …

Extreme Citizen Science in Esri ArcNews

The winter edition of Esri ArcNews (which according to Mike Gould of Esri, is printed in as many copies as Forbes) includes an article on the activities of the Extreme Citizen Science group in supporting indigenous groups in mapping. The article highlights the Geographical Information Systems (GIS) aspects of the work, and mentioning many members of …

Esri survey123 tool – rapid prototyping geographical citizen science tool

There are several applications that allow creating forms rapidly - such as Open Data Kit (ODK) or EpiCollect. Now, there is another offering from Esri, in the form of Survey123 app - which is explained in the video below. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww7oh3p4_Vo Survey123 is integrated into ArcGIS Online, so you need an ArcGIS account to use it …