Episode 8: Instant Gratification
We promise to instantly inform you of the latest on ArcGIS Instant Apps and Data Engineering in ArcGIS Pro.
What's Making Us Mappy [1:55]
Our hosts share one cool thing that is catching their eye in the world of ArcGIS.
Maggie and Mark share the same mappy this podcast – by acknowledging the best day of the holiday season – GIS DAY!
This year’s GIS Day falls on November 15th, 2023, and the theme is Celebrating the GIS Professional.
Esri Canada plans to kick off the festivities early with our big virtual seminar – GIS Day in Canada on the day before, November 14th, 2023.
Maggie and Mark preview what they will be doing at the event. Check out the full agenda of keynote presentations, user lightning talks, informative tech talks, and fun café discussions in between.
Don’t miss out and register today! Or return to the event page to get links to the recordings after the event wraps up.
Inside the Arc [5:27]
Feature interview that takes our audience inside an Esri product or capability.
Web maps are everywhere. But what is the easiest way to transform your web maps into engaging and focused apps? ArcGIS Instant Apps are the quickest way to share your maps and data – and you can build one in just a few minutes. To talk about the latest and greatest in ArcGIS Instant Apps, we are joined by our special guest Sarah McDonald, a Product Engineer with the Instant Apps team at Esri Inc.
Guest: Sarah McDonald, ArcGIS Instant Apps Product Engineer at Esri Inc. (LinkedIn)
- Blog: What's New in Instant Apps (October 2023)
- Blog: ArcGIS Instant Apps: Create multilingual apps with the new language switcher
- App: ArcGIS Instant Apps Gallery
- GeoSnaps: Select an ArcGIS Instant Apps Template
- GeoSnaps: Transform Your Photos Into an ArcGIS Instant App
- GeoSnaps: Create an ArcGIS Instant App with Insets
- Webinar: ArcGIS Instant Apps Assemble!
GeoGeeks [20:57]
Rotation of Esri Canada panelists share what's new in ArcGIS technology.
Alison O’Brien, our resident ArcGIS Pro GeoGeek, returns to talk about an underrated and underappreciated functionality of ArcGIS Pro – Data Engineering. It allows our users to explore, visualize, clean, and prepare your data and should be a common first step for your spatial analysis and mapping workflows. Alison breaks down the basics on how to get started with the Data Engineering view.
Guest: Alison O'Brien, ArcGIS Support Consultant at Esri Canada (LinkedIn)
- Video: Introduction to Data Engineering in ArcGIS Pro
- Learn ArcGIS: Data Engineering in ArcGIS Pro
- Blog: How to get started with Data Engineering
- Tech Talk: Data Engineering: Drive to Analyze
M versus M [30:05]
Our hosts quiz each other about all things ArcGIS and GIS.
Is this the quiz that will finally break Mark’s embarrassing losing streak? Find out as Mark tests Maggie’s knowledge of answer types in the web designer for ArcGIS Survey123.
- Documentation: ArcGIS Survey123 - Overview
- Documentation: Web designer essentials
- Visit our website
- See our full interviews and GeoSnaps on the Esri Canada YouTube channel
- Stay up-to-speed on products and developments affecting you in our blog, Getting Technical
Have a podcast idea? E-mail us at spatialreport@esri.ca
Hosts
- Maggie Samson, Technical Solutions Specialist at Esri Canada (LinkedIn)
- Mark Ho, Technical Solutions Specialist at Esri Canada (LinkedIn)