I just installed Waldo in ArcGIS Pro using a local language model through Ollama, but it seems pretty useless. It can't do basic tasks like creating a buffer or symbolizing a layer. The only thing I could get it to do was add a scale bar, but it took about 10 times longer than doing it myself. Did I install it wrong?
Anyone else try Waldo? Am I missing something?
Hi GIS/ArcGIS community! 👋
I’m looking for a good practical course or YouTube playlist on ArcGIS Utility Network (UN) data migration, preferably covering the complete end-to-end data migration process.
I’m not looking for only basic Utility Network concepts. I want to learn how an actual end-to-end migration project is carried out, from the initial source data analysis to the final migrated and validated Utility Network.
If you’ve actually worked on Utility Network data migration, I’d especially appreciate your recommendations. Even if you know a specific YouTube video, course, GitHub repo, or training material that helped you, please drop it below or DM.
🙏 Any recommendations from people who have done real UN migrations would be hugely appreciated.
Hi! My name is Antoni, I'm from Poland. In October I will start final year of my bachelor's studies in spatial managment ( & willing to complete Master's Degree after). I was thinking lately about creating a portfolio of my work in arcgis, but I don't know where or how to start.
I want to create it and sharpen my skills in this program so I can find a job easier after studies. Does anyone have any tips on how to get started?
Any feedback will be much appreciated! Everyone have a great day!
Under Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) rules, property-carrying commercial truck drivers have a maximum driving limit of 11 hours within a single 14-hour on-duty window, required only after taking 10 consecutive hours off duty.
As I understand it, ArcGIS Online and maybe just ArcGIS Pro altogether will only go up to five hours, and it's just weird that it won't let you go up to eleven hours. It's just bizarre, and I'm wondering if there are any workarounds. Why doesn't ESRI just charge us more credits for this capability? It's kind of dumb.
I’m getting this error,
“An error has occurred while executing Python code”
geodata.ucdavis.edu- The page is also not opening, If I want to download the shapefile or Geopackages manually.
Please help me, I’m facing this issue from today, even I uninstalled and re-installed QGIS latest version.
Thank you.
So I've become the head of a new GIS department at my work! Yay! Except for the fact that Esri is confusing as all hell and I've never set up an account or anything similar, it's always been done before I joined a company.
We have a single creator license and all of our maps are 'public'. There has been a discussion on having the maps behind a login. I would rather not provide the Creator/admin login to agents for the webmap viewing, so we purchased a Viewer License.
My question is, we have 70+ employees, some of which are contract employees so not fully on payroll year round.
Would it be better to go the enterprise route? I've worked for companies that use SSO for this type of thing tied to email accounts, how does this set up work?
Is this something Esri technical support would be able to help out with?
I made an AI assistant add-in that runs inside ArcGIS Pro. I teach GIS at the university level and do consulting work in ArcGIS Pro. Like everyone, I've watched students and colleagues keep ChatGPT open in a second window while working in Pro. The AI describes what buttons to click, you have to do the work, and half the answers are wrong because the AI can't see the project.
So I built Waldo, an add-in that puts the assistant inside Pro, connected to your live session. It can see your maps, layers, and schemas. It can advise, but it can also do the work: runs geoprocessing tools, sets symbology and labels, builds and exports layouts. The video is an unscripted session from my own work: mapping uninsured rates by county with graduated colors, then overlaying state Medicaid-expansion status once a pattern jumped out, and finishing with a print-ready layout of the lower 48. About ten minutes of real time, cut down here.
Design choices:
I use it in my own consulting work (it recently turned a multi-hour needs-assessment mapping job into an afternoon), and it's built around my 30 years of cartographic habits and best practices. It defaults to sane symbology, legends, and layouts instead of whatever an LLM improvises.
7-day free trial, $5 one-time after that, no accounts needed: waldogis.com
Genuinely interested in community reaction. Happy to answer anything about how it works and what it can and can't do.
i’m currently experiencing an issue where the map i’m working in is in a given coordinate system, as are all of the shapefiles i’m using, but the layers of my base map aren’t (and refuse to be projected into the target coordinate system), so the shapefiles aren’t showing up where they should be.
i think the “project” data management tool could help, but my professor wants us to use “define projection” instead, so if anyone has any tips for how i might make this work, it would be immensely appreciated!
I’m interested in hearing how different organizations divide responsibilities between an enterprise GIS team and departmental GIS users.
A few questions:
What type of organization are you? (Government, utility, transportation, private sector, etc.)
Do you have a centralized Enterprise GIS team?
Do departments outside Enterprise GIS build their own GIS applications (Experience Builder, Dashboards, Story Maps, Survey123, web apps, etc.)?
If so, what ArcGIS roles or permissions do those users have?
Do they publish directly to production, or is there an Enterprise GIS review/publishing process?
Who owns enterprise data architecture and governance?
Who is responsible for supporting applications after they’re deployed?
Have you found your model works well, or have you made changes over time?
We’re evaluating our own governance model and I’m interested in hearing what has worked (or not worked) for organizations of different sizes. Real-world experiences are much more valuable than theoretical best practices.
Thanks in advance!
New to ArcGIS, but not GIS if that makes sense? I am creating layouts for parcels and I really like the clip to index feature when doing a spatial series. It looks so clean and makes it so that only one parcel is showing:
Where I am having the most trouble is I have about 30 of these to create, all for different parcels. I have found that I need to select the new parcel in the contents page and then if I go back to the map page only the parcel I have selected is shown on the map. Quite annoying.
I tried with 'Bookmarks' to see if that made things easier, but I could not find a way to clip to index with a bookmark.
Is there an easier way to do what I am doing to create these exhibits or is this a limitation of the software?
My work sits where GIS, fiber/OSP design, field data, and construction meet, and I’ve been building FiberAtlas around that workflow. The controlled Beta 0.1 is now open for access requests. FiberAtlas.app
I’d genuinely value the community’s perspective: what should an OSP-focused GIS workspace get right?
