Esri User conference 2020 Highlights from the 40th Esri User Conference, the world's largest virtual GIS event

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Esri User Conference
2020
Highlights from the 40th Esri UC, the
world’s largest virtual GIS event

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Background
Founded in 1969, Esri software is deployed in more
than 350,000 organizations including 90 of the
Fortune 100 companies, all 50 state governments,
more than half of all counties (large and small), and
87 of the Forbes Top 100 Colleges in the US, as well
as all 15 Executive Departments of the US
Government and dozens of independent agencies.
From 11 attendees in 1980 to over 80,000 in 2020!
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UC 2020 Highlights
− This is the 40th Annual Esri UC
− First UC to be held completely virtual
− 86,482 registered attendees
− 180 countries (57% U.S. attendees –
43% international)
− 118 live sessions
− 114 on demand workshops
− 250 on demand sessions
− 2,200 Esri Staff
− 200 User Videos
− 39 SIG’s
− 153 Exhibitors
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This Year’s Theme
“Interconnecting Our World”—Meaning
interconnecting people, activities, science & creating
understanding
Our world is a connected system, but it is in trouble.
The challenge for us is to address, even though this will
take the rest of our lives
Geography and GIS will be essential in creating a
geospatially literate world moving forward
-Jack Dangermond-

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Highlights of the Esri UC
2020 – Day One

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Esri UC 2020
Awards
Announced
• “Young Scholars” 27 Winners from around the world
• “Esri Development Center Student of the Year Award” – Sasa Arsic, Claremont Graduate University
• “Tribal Story Map Awards” - Samish Indian Nation, Our Future Climate in Samish Traditional
Territory
• “GeoNET MVP Awards” - 1st Place—Robert Scheitlin, GISP, GIS Manager for Calhoun County,
Alabama
• 2nd Place—Dan Patterson, Retired Geomatics Instructor
• 3rd Place—Joshua Bixby, Geospatial Systems Engineer, US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest
Service
• “Science Symposium” - Professor Katharine Hayhoe, Texas Tech University

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• “President’s Award” - The Regional Municipality of York, Ontario, Canada “Making a Difference Award” – Johns Hopkins (Covid 19 Resources) –
billions of map transactions last month—this woke up the world to GIS.
• “Enterprise GIS” – The Louisiana Department of Transportation
• “Enterprise GIS” to Enel Green Power – doing pioneering work in renewables, one of the largest renewable energy companies in the world.
• “Special Achievement in GIS Awards” – 101 Organizations inside the US and 72 outside the US
• “The Map Gallery Awards” – Categories included 3D Map, ArcGIS Analytic Methods and Results, Communicating Science Spatially, Educational Map,
Map Series or Atlas, Most Innovative Map, Reference Map, Spatial Analysis ArcGIS StoryMap, Student Map ( 3 Subcategories), Thematic Map,
People's Choice, Best Cartography, ICA and IMIA Recognition of Excellence in Cartography, and Cartography Special Interest Group Excellence
awards
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Products Highlights
• Map Viewer updates
− Color blind, friendly symbolizing options,
and options for dark backgrounds
− Map viewer introduces dot density for
symbology
− You can use Map Viewer with existing
maps
− Clustering now available
− It uses the latest JavaScript API allows for
client-side rendering
− Cartographic blending provides a
Photoshop like capability for blending
styles and data
− Layer Grouping and Labeling Options
− Filter labels with any attribute 8

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Product Highlights
• ArcGIS Pro
− Map graphics (drawing) now added
− Chart symbols added
• AI and ML
− Spatiotempora
• StoryMaps
− Collections added
− Optimized for mobile
− New storyteller role
• Dashboards
− Improved Arcade (Esri script
language) support
− Data sources performance
• Spatial Analytics
− 200+ new tools
− Time series forecasting
− New suitability modelling
− Built in scheduling
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Product Highlights
• Imagery and Remote Sensing
− Visual Analytics
− Multi dimension tools
− Drone integration
− Deep Learning Tools
− Exploitation & visualization
• Drone Mapping
− Flight planning
− Cloud SaaS
− SiteScan (in the cloud) fleet
management

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Product Highlights
• Real-time Visualization and Analytics
− Cloud native
− High velocity
− Cloud based
• Field Operations
− PKI sign in
− Location tracking
− Offline capability
− Field Maps app, integrating apps (like
Collector and 123) into one (this summer)

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• ArcGIS Online
− Analytics for IoT
− Notebooks
− Extensions for image hosting (coming soon)
• App Builders
− Experience builder optimized
− Geocards buildings blocks for organizing geographic knowledge
− Cross native and now available to non-developers
• Data Management
− Geodatabase improvements
Product Highlights

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Product Highlights
• ArcGIS for Developers
− Usage metrics
− Data hosting options (not just Esri
sites)
− New simplified REST API
− Game engine plugins
− Support for OpenLayers, leaflet, and
other open source services
• ArcGIS Indoors
− Space planning
− Room Booking
− ArcGIS Online integration

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Product Highlights
• 3D GIS
− Voxels – 3D Cubes “n-
dimensional GIS”
− New visual effects
− Plugins for game engines
− Machine Learning in 3D GIS
− Mesh Processing

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ArcGIS with SAP HANA
• ArcGIS is the world's leading GIS and mapping platform,
providing location intelligence to organizations around the
world.
• SAP HANA is a powerful database whose in-memory
columnar capabilities allow it to filter and process data
extremely quickly.
• Together, ArcGIS and SAP HANA bring your data to life.
• ArcGIS makes it easy to visualize your SAP HANA data on
maps, so you can unlock new insights about your business
• ArcGIS also lets you securely share interactive maps and
apps, helping you better understand your world and work
more effectively. All this is possible without needing to move
your data outside SAP HANA
• Two SAP + Esri Innovation Hackathons took place in 2018
and 2019

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SAP + Esri
• Enable comprehensive location analytics
and data visualization for the enterprise.
• The future of modernizing technology
platforms is the integration of data,
enabling access to information for those
who need it to make better decisions. By
modernizing information systems that
provide these capabilities, you can
o Reduce duplication and increase
coordination between departments.
o Increase information sharing and
collaboration among the enterprise and
customers.
o Provide access to disparate data in a
geospatial context for better understanding
and coordinated decision-making.

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Highlights of the Esri UC
2020 – Day Two
Plenty of ArcGIS

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Esri staff presenting the latest in ArcGIS Technology – Day 2
• Facilities & Indoors SIG
• ArcGIS Indoors:
o Overview and Roadmap
o Developing Indoor Mapping Apps
o Contact Tracing Indoors
o Indoor Positioning
o Office Moves and Space Planning
o How to Create an Indoor Routable Network
o Work Order and Asset System Integration
o What’s New in ArcGIS Indoors
o Indoor Asset Tracking
o Bringing the Workforce Back to the Workplace
o Office Hoteling and Workspace Reservation
o Building a 2D and 3D Indoor GIS
o Virtual Showcase

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ArcGIS Workforce
• Workforce has same look and feel as collector and survey123. As
a mobile app, Workforce allows you to launch other ArcGIS Field
apps like navigator, survey 123 & collector. So you can allocate
field work and receive real time response on progress using the
auto or manual sync
• ArcGIS Workforce:
− Mobile app for worker, web app for dispatcher and project owner there is
ArcGIS Platform
− Mobile app allows use of mobile app to complete to do list
− Web app allows the creation and management of work for mobile
working
− GIS allows automation of processes, train dispatchers and mobile workers

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ArcGIS Indoors
• Load floor plans, create indoor maps and then publish to indoors for web
or mobile. Latest release has space planning and management capability
for ‘what If’ scenario planning. Web indoor viewer to provide indoor
navigation and search nearest for receptions and businesses.
• ArcGIS Indoors Road Ahead:
− Can be run through Enterprise or AGOL
− ArcGIS Pro has extension which can load and put in CAD data
− Space planner is new extension
− Viewer/Kiosk
− Runs on mobile and works with indoor positioning systems
− Uses 2D & 3D floor plans and network analyst networks
− Runs on iOS or Android

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ArcGIS Indoors
• Mobile:
− Mobile experience is brandable
− Supports conference room booking through office 365 Integration
− Real time person locating
− Search and find nearest
− Office Hoteling – means staff can book hot desks
− Supports Bluetooth (through sensors), Wi-Fi and GPS
− Esri offers own indoor positioning system
− Directions can provide spoken navigation
− Using Indoors you can optimize social distancing for seating and floor
plans (e.g. for Covid 19)

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ArcGIS Indoors
• Licensing Indoors enables a license for all in organization and
gives 2 ArcGIS Pro licenses. Includes data reviewer, 3D analyst,
network analyst and spatial analyst to name a few.
• RoadMap:
−Space use analytics – real time occupancy
−Real time asset tracking, locate moving assets, geofencing
−Enhanced workspace reservation
−Centerline network generation, faster more scalable routable
network generation)
−Platform floor awareness. Indoor positioning SDK, mobile floor
picker and collector support

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ArcGIS Analytics for IoT
• Designed from the ground up to be a cloud hosted SaaS
• New optimized features (analysis tools (Summarize, find locations,
enrich data, analyze patterns, manage data and more)
• Annual subscription on top of AGOL
• End to end system for analysis in real time, near real-time or over
time
• Runs on Kubernetes and has GeoEvents and GeoAnalytics embedded
• AIOT can scale better than geo-event server and is designed to be
easier to use
• Next release in August, Azure Cosmos DB feeds are going to be
enabled Highly suspect that other formats will come soon!

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ArcGIS Explorer
• Offline web maps – you can use predefined offline areas. You set the area as
offline areas in AGOL and they can be used offline out in the field
• You can also create offline areas in Explorer!
• Set schedule updates to keep offline areas up to date
• They only push out CHANGES so more efficient and less data
• Set refresh intervals, up to every 6 seconds and provides near real-time updates
• Viewing tracks with Tracker, so you can see your tracks in ArcGIS Explorer….see
that they’ve completed the circle!
• Improved app linking
• Sideload base maps
• Load mobile map packages through SD cards
• PKI authentication
• Streamlined portal sign in
• Get directions

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Survey 123
• Survey123 Designer:
− 2 new question types in designer, map and ranking question
− Map replaces the ‘Place Geopoint’
− Ranking questions allows preferences based on choices
− Improved custom links for URLS
− Web access accessibility keyboard navigation is included
• Survey123 field:
− (iOS Android Windows and Mac)
− Survey update notifications
− Better maps
− Multiple attachments and camera-only photos
− Enhanced workflows through folders

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Survey 123
• Survey123 Connect:
− New XLSForm syntax – hidden appearance – hides a Geopoint question so that you don’t have to show them
− Esri visible column, dynamically hides a question while preserving its value
− New XLSForm syntax – mode and status – mode describes if a record is in edit mode or not and status says
whether it is draft submitted, sent, inbox or collect
• Survey123 Reports:
− Price change, from 2.5 credits per report to 0.5 credits
− Expanded report template syntax with summary sections (to produce summary report) and statistics
• Workflow automation:
− You can now integrate Survey123 with apps and services other people in the organisation use like Office 365,
Google Cloud, LinkedIn, MailChimp and more
− What’s new is the inclusion of all fields in payload on edit events and inclusion of repeat data in webhook
payload
− New Survey123 web app JavaScript API
− As a developer you can interact, work and test web apps or embed forms in your own web apps
− Note that Esri Field Maps was announced during UC Day 1, that will eventually encompass many of the
functions of Collector and Survey123

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Esri Demographics
• Part of the June 2020 ArcGIS Online update
• Esri released the 2020/2025 demographic forecasts, which include
adjustments for the COVID-19 pandemic
• Esri Updated Demographics are point estimates representing July 1st
of the current and forecast years. The release includes new
demographic data as well as an Esri-released report on the US labor
force by age, and location quotients by industry and occupation; Esri
Tapestry Segmentation data; and Consumer Spending, Market
Potential, Business Summary, and Traffic Counts data

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ArcGIS Notebooks
Esri’s spatially optimized Jupyter experience, is
now available across the ArcGIS platform, in
ArcGIS Enterprise, ArcGIS Online, and ArcGIS Pro.
Users can leverage the built-in ArcGIS Python
libraries (ArcGIS API for Python and ArcPy) to
automate repetitive administrative tasks in their
Web GIS, such as content and user management.
Users can also combine the ArcGIS Python
libraries with hundreds of open-source Python
packages for data engineering, analytical, and
spatial data science workflows. Model training
and inferencing can be done effectively by using
built-in tools with machine learning and deep
learning frameworks. ArcGIS Notebooks also helps
reduce time spent managing dependencies across
data science ecosystems and enables cross-team
collaboration and transparency. Results can be
conveyed effectively by combining Python code
with interactive visuals and descriptions for
meaningful storytelling.
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Highlights of the Esri UC
2020 – Day Three Plenary

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Sustainable
Development
Goals
• Esri formed a consortium with the United Nations with a mind
to creating and sharing new digital experiences
• The collaboration is formed of the United Nations, The
International Geodesign Collaboration, Carl Steiner (friend of
Jacks), Microsoft, and National Geographic Society (Dr Vicki
Phillips, Executive Vice President and Chief Education Officer,
National Geographic Society)
• The core of all this is the Living atlas and the “Indicators of the
planet” which has a dashboard of dashboards with GeoCards
around indicators.
• Indicators of the Planet draws upon authoritative sources for
the latest updates on 18 topics, with more being developed.
These are Experience builder templates which encompass a
wealth of information within them. Besides the information it
also brings together the stakeholders and providers of the data
& they in turn can create GeoCards to inform others
“Filling the gap between what we do and citizenry – enabling everyday users”
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New products, tools, and
capabilities announced
this year
ArcGIS Indoors has a:
• new deployment option
• new Space Planner app template
• number of key enhancements for ArcGIS Indoors mobile and
ArcGIS Indoors in ArcGIS Pro.
• Facility mapping is a significant requirement for many organizations
responding to the challenges posed by COVID-19.
• The new ArcGIS Online deployment option will help users get up
and running faster, and improvements to ArcGIS Indoors in ArcGIS
Pro will simplify data curation.
• Space Planner allows organizations to define where teams work
and then allocate space either to specific staff or for hoteling.
• Workspace reservation and office hoteling functionalities have
been added to ArcGIS Indoors mobile apps (available for Android
and iOS) and are integrated with Microsoft 365.
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New products, tools, and
capabilities announced this year
• Esri Demographics—Also part of the June
2020 ArcGIS Online update, Esri released the
2020/2025 demographic forecasts, which
include adjustments for the COVID-19
pandemic.
• Esri Updated Demographics are point
estimates representing July 1 of the current
and forecast years. The release includes new
demographic data as well as an Esri-released
report on the US labor force by age, and
location quotients by industry and
occupation; Esri Tapestry Segmentation
data; and Consumer Spending, Market
Potential, Business Summary, and Traffic
Counts data.
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New products, tools, and
capabilities announced this year
• ArcGIS Notebooks, Esri’s spatially optimized Jupyter
experience, is now available across the ArcGIS platform, in
ArcGIS Enterprise, ArcGIS Online, and ArcGIS Pro.
• Users can leverage the built-in ArcGIS Python libraries
(ArcGIS API for Python and ArcPy) to automate repetitive
administrative tasks in their Web GIS, such as content and
user management.
• Users can also combine the ArcGIS Python libraries with
hundreds of open-source Python packages for data
engineering, analytical, and spatial data science workflows.
• Model training and inferencing can be done effectively by
using built-in tools with machine learning and deep learning
frameworks.
• ArcGIS Notebooks also helps reduce time spent managing
dependencies across data science ecosystems and enables
cross-team collaboration and transparency. Results can be
conveyed effectively by combining Python code with
interactive visuals and descriptions for meaningful
storytelling.
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New products, tools,
and capabilities
announced this year
• Esri Redistricting—This web-based application enables
governments, advocates, and the public to create and
collaborate on revised legislative and congressional plans
following the 2020 Census.
• The 2020 update of Esri Redistricting includes
improvements such as the ability to create plans based on
imported shapefiles and to display detailed demographics
information across multiple plans at the district level.
• Improved integration with ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS
Enterprise enables greater collaboration and transparency
between government and the public.
• Users also now have the ability to search for a place or
county name; change the appearance of thematic maps by
adding one or two demographic labels; and include the
current map extent, themes, and layers as part of the
plans.
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New products,
tools, and
capabilities
announced
this year
• ArcGIS Field Maps—The ArcGIS Field Maps app,
now in beta, combines common data collection and
other field-related workflows in one easy-to-use
app.
• It can be used to configure and deploy maps
optimized for mobile workforce needs and create
and share views of worker locations. Bringing these
capabilities together will save time for fieldworkers,
who will only need to download, deploy, and sign in
to one app.
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Electoral Districts
Voting Locations
Resources
Results
Election Solutions for State
and Local Governments
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What’s coming this
Summer
A quick summary of the new ArcGIS
Solutions released this summer
• New ArcGIS Solutions and the ArcGIS
Solutions app
• Special Event Solutions
• National Guard and Military Solutions
• Additional Solution Offerings
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Back to Work
Solutions
C o r o n a v i r u s ( C O V I D - 1 9 )
Coronavirus Site Safety can be used
by businesses, educational
institutions, and government
agencies to create coronavirus
(COVID-19) health safety plans for
their facilities, sites, and campuses;
and monitor the health safety plans
as locations reopen.

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Health
Screening
C o r o n a v i r u s ( C O V I D - 1 9 )
Coronavirus Health Screening can be
used by businesses, utilities, and
government agencies to conduct
coronavirus (COVID-19) health
screenings before employees and
visitors enter a facility, or location.

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Utility Data
Management
Solutions
U t i l i t y N e t w o r k s
Gas and Pipeline Enterprise Data
Management can be used by gas
utilities to maintain vertically
integrated gas systems and hazardous
liquid pipelines in a Utility Network.
It includes the Utility and Pipeline
Data Model (UPDM) and common gas
and pipeline data management
workflows

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Sewer
Data
Management
U t i l i t y N e t w o r k s
Sewer Data Management can be used
by sewer utilities to map a sewer
system, produce sewer maps, view
reports, and continuously improve
sewer system data with map notes.

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Special
Event
Permitting
S p e c i a l E v e n t s S o l u t i o n s
Special Event Permitting and
Operations can be used by local
government event coordinators to
manage special event permits,
protect event attendees, and
promote special events occurring in
the community.

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Special
Event
Operations
S p e c i a l E v e n t s S o l u t i o n s
If you are a public safety agency that
may not be interested in permitting
capabilities, Special Event Operations
can be used by public safety event
planners to develop safety plans and
monitor public safety operations
during a special event.

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National Guard
and Military
Solutions
O p e r a t i o n s D a s h b o a r d
Operations Management can be used
by the states National Guard and
other service branches to respond to
an event and manage resulting
missions.

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Readiness
Dashboard
O p e r a t i o n s D a s h b o a r d
Readiness Management can also be
used by the states National Guard and
other service branches to capture
individual and unit force readiness
and share authoritative information
with decision makers.

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3D
Basemaps
A d d i t i o n a l S o l u t i o n O f f e r i n g s
3D Basemaps can be used to to
author high-quality 3D base-maps
and visualize above-ground and
under-ground utilities.

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Racial Equity
Community
Outreach
C o m m u n i t y O u t r e a c h
Racial Equity Community Outreach
can be used by government agencies
to communicate key racial equity
initiatives or programs, visualize
workforce diversity metrics, gauge
public sentiment, and share
authoritative information about racial
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Recreation
Outreach
C o m m u n i t y O u t r e a c h
Recreation Outreach can be used by
fish and wildlife agencies and parks
and recreation departments to
understand key license trends,
promote recreation opportunities,
and share outdoor amenities with the
public.

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Updated Solutions
• ArcGIS
oArcGIS Pro Intelligence 2.6
oCitizen Problem Reporter
oCoronavirus Business
Reopening
oElection Outreach
oMulti Source Data Feeds
oParcel Drafter
oPerformance Management
oRoad Network Data
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Changes and
Improvements
• ArcGIS Solutions Lifecycle Changes
o 3D Tools for Sewer moved to the Retired Lifecycle Phase.
Capabilities replaced with 3D Basemaps.
o Events Calendar moved to the Mature Lifecycle Phase.
Capabilities replaced with Special Events Permitting and
Operations.
o Events Coordination moved to the Mature Lifecycle Phase.
Capabilities replaced with Special Events Permitting and
Operations.
o Events Map Gallery moved to the Mature Lifecycle Phase.
Capabilities replaced with Special Events Permitting and
Operations.
o Events Permit moved to the Mature Lifecycle Phase. Capabilities
replaced with Special Events Permitting and Operations.
o Events Permit Review moved to the Mature Lifecycle Phase.
Capabilities replaced with Special Events Permitting and
Operations.
o Events Site Map moved to the Mature Lifecycle Phase.
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Changes and
Improvements
o Gas Utility Network Configuration moved to the Retired
Lifecycle Phase
o Leak Logger Analysis moved to the Mature Lifecycle Phase
o Local Government 3D Basemaps moved to the Mature
Lifecycle Phase
o Capabilities replaced with 3D Basemaps
o Nighttime Flow Analysis moved to the Mature Lifecycle
Phase
o Sanitary Sewer Network moved to the Mature Lifecycle
Phase
o Water Conservation Dashboard moved to the Mature
Lifecycle Phase
o Water Service Request moved to the Mature Lifecycle Phase
• ArcGIS Solutions General Improvements
o Support for ArcGIS Pro 2.6 and ArcGIS 10.8.1
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