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Sep 12, 2026
Billy FlemingGUEST
Um, was and remains one of the best-selling books kind of of all time in environmental planning, um, and has given us many things, good and bad.
Billy FlemingGUEST
Um, the good among them is probably what we understand today as ArcGIS or- You know, geospatial information systems more broadly.
Billy FlemingGUEST
Um, but quickly, I think, you know, because of the way that I prefer to work and my interests beyond just kind of, um, you know, a hagiography for, for Ian's work, um, it became a, a major hub for design and climate research.
Billy FlemingGUEST
Um, and, you know, that's in no small part because one of my colleagues on campus at the time was Daniel and Donna Cohen, another kind of co-founder of CCI, um, who was in sociology here or there at the time.
Jack DangermondGUEST
And then into ESRI.
Jack DangermondGUEST
It is a software company today that builds a product known as ArcGIS that is used by, I think it's 680,000 organizations, one of which is the city of Los Angeles or city of New York or city of Beijing or Paris, all the states basically here in the US, also virtually every federal agency.
Jack DangermondGUEST
And then in the private sector, people like Starbucks or Nike or Walmart or Walgreens, they all basically run their organizations based on geography, the science of our world.
Jack DangermondGUEST
And in many ways, GIS is a technology which digitizes geography or puts it into a digital frame.
Peggy Pike ThompsonGUEST
And then...
Peggy Pike ThompsonGUEST
I think that the first time I really had to use a computer, it was like a form of ArcGIS, but they were using it for
Peggy Pike ThompsonGUEST
interior design, like pipes and
Peggy Pike ThompsonGUEST
screws and all kinds of crazy things like that, but for buildings.
Matt ForrestHOST
So you know, once somebody that, you know, was in that department figured out how to make, you know, do do maps and GIS, or like, how do you do that stuff? And like, Right.
Matt ForrestHOST
Go down to the lab, go open up computers, this program called ArcGIS, click on it and start playing around.
Matt ForrestHOST
So I can kind of see how both have a very strong place.
Matt ForrestHOST
So one last question on this topic and maybe a bit of a challenge, but I want to hear your perspective on it.
Chris TuckerGUEST
One more.
Chris TuckerGUEST
You know, I think just, just say if, say you're a environmentalist or you're somebody that's trying to conserve nature, trying to manage forests, uh, trying to, uh, take care of wildernesses.
Chris TuckerGUEST
Increasingly, I think, you know, there's, it's not a shocker that ESRI, the Jack Dangerman and Laura who made ArcGIS, right? ESRI, Environmental Systems Research Institute, right? We don't think.
Chris TuckerGUEST
think about that name, but in the origins of GIS, they were thinking about environmental systems because they knew that these tools would help us better understand our natural world and how humans interact with our natural world.
Dan HugoHOST
So yeah, hopefully the Smarter Smart City Challenge will shine a little bit of light on what data is available.
Dan HugoHOST
And I'm not really focusing on this today, but the Open Data Platform If you search for Open Data Las Vegas or City of Las Vegas, you will find an ArcGIS website.
Dan HugoHOST
They're basically the most popular website.
Dan HugoHOST
repository of municipal open data so city of las vegas has a an open data platform it actually has more than one there's the open government stuff the open checkbook open budget so that stuff is stored in one place there's the geocommons which is more geographical data That's stored in the same website, ArcGIS, but like a different subdomain and a different focus on what kind of data is there.
Dan HugoHOST
And then there's RTC, our Regional Transportation Commission, has their open data published on ArcGIS as well.
Dan HugoHOST
Our Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department publishes their data on, yet again, a different ArcGIS subdomain, but it's all hosted on ArcGIS.
Dan HugoHOST
GIS, Geographical Information Systems.
Dan HugoHOST
They're sort of a big player in hosting and enabling access to open data for municipalities and other related agencies.
Jake LowGUEST
Corporations are using it in their products, governments are using it for all sorts of planning and disaster response sorts of purposes, humanitarian profit organizations, media, academia, sciences, OpenStreetMap also percolates downstream into lots of these plots that you might have used.
Jake LowGUEST
So OpenStreetMap data gets reused, remixed, and published in Esri, VaseMap products that you see in GISR Pro, Mapbox, Facevax, Dover Direct's project, ArcGIS Living Atlas, and also, of course, in lots and lots of instrument applications that you might have used.
Jake LowGUEST
All the trails are going to be acid-piked, or if you've ever called Eager or Glitch or an Amazon package, you've probably seen an OQR-based map, but you've certainly benefited from OQR-based data.
Jake LowGUEST
One of the biggest questions we get about crowdsourced open data is, why should I try this? How do you know that the data is legit, that people are putting that data into the map that we're talking about? And the answer is kind of, it's proven.
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Jake LowGUEST
This is a data export tool that we're hoping will help our public sector partners consume OpenStreetMap data in their workflows.
Jake LowGUEST
OpenStreetMap's data file format is not the most compatible with traditional GIS workflows.
Jake LowGUEST
So we took the data and we split it out into thematic layers, and we republished it as GRK so that you can plug that into .be or QGIS or ArcGIS or any number of other GIS tool batches, query out just the data that you need at SQL syntax, and work with any of your GIS workflows out.
Jake LowGUEST
Looking further ahead, we're thinking all the time about sustainable funding streams for this.
Quincy MorganGUEST
It's in GeoParquet format, and we only have two layers to start, buildings and highways, and we are doing a weekly update cadence.
Quincy MorganGUEST
So this allows you to quickly query a lot of OpenStreetMap data using tools like DuckDB, QGIS, you can use LawnBoard, Jupyter Notebook, shout out to Dev Seed, Pandas, even ArcGIS Analytics, to quickly do certain queries in the data.
Quincy MorganGUEST
So it just plugs OpenStreetMap data directly into all these tools.
Quincy MorganGUEST
There's a few other solutions out there, and we love them all.
Daniel DufourGUEST
Open source leads to faster delivery.
Daniel DufourGUEST
Has anyone ever had, in this room, had to deal with ArcGIS licensing issues? All right, I'm not seeing any hands.
Daniel DufourGUEST
But open source leads to faster delivery.
Daniel DufourGUEST
But the big takeaway here is proprietary and open source can work together.
Christopher SeegerGUEST
There's going to be FOSS software that we use as professionals, and that's great.
Christopher SeegerGUEST
But I want you to take the lens and say, OK, but now how can I go into the room and get somebody to use this software? And they're going to ask me questions of like, how do I unzip a file? Okay? That's probably the number one question I get from people that are not, we'll say not tech savvy, that attend our workshops, be it in ArcGIS Pro.
Christopher SeegerGUEST
You can imagine how that day went with us.
Christopher SeegerGUEST
And we get them there.
Brian TimoneyGUEST
And if you read the details of this hack, This was not a drive-by script kitty prank per se.
Brian TimoneyGUEST
This was a deeply strategic, deeply thought-out attack on the ArcGIS server ecosystem.
Brian TimoneyGUEST
I'm getting maybe, maybe not from the front row, so I defer to your security insights, but The idea of our little web maps in an obscure, dusty corner of the internet.
Brian TimoneyGUEST
If the data matters, it's going to be targeted.
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