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Esri’s Community Maps Program and Road Closures solution help you share road closure data for residents, commuters, and travelers. Organizations can map closures in their community caused by construction activity, special events, or emergency incidents, and share them with the Community Maps Program. https://ow.ly/1sQw30sLEJ1

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At #EsriUC2025 we heard lots of buzz around using contingent values to speed up data collection in #ArcGIS #FieldMaps. To leverage the tool, you will first need to set up your values in #ArcGISPro. Learn how in this #ArcGISProShorts video: https://ow.ly/lMj150WE7oO

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🚀 Ready to elevate your web development game with the best Tailwind component libraries? Dive in as we explore top contenders in the field! 🌟 📌 Discover how each library stands out in the world of Tailwind CSS, offering unique components and features to power up your projects. 1️⃣ DaisyUI: A utility-first library for Tailwind with customizable components. Key Features: - 60+ responsive components - 500+ styling utilities - Semantic class names - 20+ light/dark themes - Lightweight (~15.4 kB min+gzip), framework-agnostic - Supports llm.txt and Context7 Check it out: https://daisyui.com/ 2️⃣ FlyonUI: FlyonUI features a modular design with 80+ accessible components like accordions and dropdowns. It offers semantic classes (e.g., btn-primary), headless JS plugins, and works with React, Vue, and Svelte. Supports 15+ themes, RTL, and is mobile-first. The Copy to Prompt tool aids integration with AI editors. Check it out: https://flyonui.com/ 3️⃣ Flowbite: This library provides a suite of responsive UI components for engaging user experiences. Features: - 65+ UI components - Compatible with Vanilla JS - Supports React, Vue, Svelte, Angular, Laravel - Dark mode & customizable - Accessible - llm.txt data support Check it out: https://flyonui.com/ 4️⃣ Preline: Preline excels in clean, minimal designs perfect for elegant projects. Key Features: - 77+ Tailwind CSS components, 190+ templates - Compatible with React, Next.js, Svelte, Remix, etc. - Accessible, dark mode ready - Figma design system Check it out: https://preline.co/ 5️⃣ Headless UI: Headless UI offers unstyled, accessible components ready for Tailwind styling. Key Features: - 15+ logic-based components - Maximum design flexibility - WAI-ARIA accessibility - Tailwind CSS integration Check it out: https://headlessui.com/ 6️⃣ HyperUI: This library excels with a rich collection of UI components designed for beauty and function. Key Features: - 47+ responsive components - Categories: Marketing, eCommerce, App UI - Supports dark mode and Alpine.js - Multi-screen previews Check it out: https://www.hyperui.dev/ 7️⃣ Meraki UI: Meraki UI combines traditional and modern styles, ideal for versatile applications. Features: - 20+ responsive HTML components - RTL and dark mode support - Uses Flexbox, CSS Grid, and Alpine.js Check it out: https://merakiui.com/ 8️⃣ Tailgrids: Tailgrids provides 28+ ready-to-use components in HTML, React, and Vue. Features - Include dark mode, responsive design, interactive - Alpine.js components, and - Figma files for easy handoff Check it out: https://tailgrids.com/ For a detailed comparison and more insights, check out the full article 👉 : https://lnkd.in/d4ZqJ2um #TailwindCSS #WebDevelopment #UIComponents

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I love Rails. I've built my wealth on it. That's exactly why I think we need to have an honest conversation about its biggest blind spot. Eileen M. U. gave a brilliant talk at Rails World last year: "The Myth of the Modular Monolith." After 6 years of modularizing Shopify's monolith, she concluded: "You can't solve human and cultural problems by changing your architecture." She's right kinda of about the culture part. But stopped one step short. Rails doesn't just allow tight coupling. It incentivizes it. ActiveRecord makes every model globally accessible from anywhere. Any controller, any model, any job can reach into any table through any association chain. There's no boundary enforcement. No import restriction. No compilation step that says "this module shouldn't know about that one." When your framework makes coupling the path of least resistance, blaming developers for coupled code is like blaming water for flowing downhill. Shopify tried to fix this with Packwerk. It just give you a map not a real solution. Rails Engines? Been there, done that. They are miniature apps that provide functionality to their host applications. They don't enforce real isolation and they weren't designed for progressive extraction. But this isn't a Rails problem. It's a missing tool problem. Look at what Nx did for the Node/TypeScript ecosystem: → Module boundaries enforced at the import level, not via YAML to-do lists → Dependency graph visualization built in → Affected-only CI: only test what actually changed → Clear public API per module, everything else is private by default → A real path from monorepo module to extracted service Nx didn't replace Node. It gave Node developers the guardrails to build modular systems naturally. The right thing became the easy thing. By default. Rails deserves the same. Imagine a Rails-native tool that: • Enforces module boundaries through autoload paths, not opt-in linting • Gives each module a public API (explicit exports) while keeping internals private • Generates a live dependency graph from actual code usage, not manual YAML declarations • Runs affected-only CI based on that graph Not a replacement for Rails. A companion that makes Rails' conventions work at scale. Eileen is right: culture matters. Education matters. Leadership incentives matter. But culture alone didn't give us CI/CD. Tools did. Culture alone didn't give us code formatting standards. Linters did. Culture alone won't give us modular Rails applications. Rails gave us developer happiness for building products. Now we need the same philosophy applied to building organizations of code. The myth isn't the modular monolith. The myth is that we have the right tools for one. Who's building this? 🎥 Eileen Uchitelle — "The Myth of the Modular Monolith" (Rails World 2024) https://lnkd.in/dabvzHQm

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ArcGIS Maps SDK for Unreal Engine v2.0 is here! This is one of our most impactful releases yet, delivering several highly requested features—starting with support for 3D Tiles, a major ask from our developer community. As a widely adopted open geospatial standard for delivering large-scale 3D meshes, 3D Tiles can now be integrated directly into your ArcGIS Maps in Unreal Engine, whether you’re working with online services or offline tilesets. We've introduced support for vertical coordinate system transformations, allowing 3D Tiles layers to align precisely with your ArcGIS content. Selecting the correct spatial reference is essential for accurate visualization, and with the updated Map Mode UI in the Unreal Editor, you can now easily set your map’s spatial reference—no coding needed. This update also broadens support for 3D Buildings layers from the ArcGIS Living Atlas. You can now access both the Open 3D Buildings layer (built on Overture Maps Foundation data) and Esri’s detailed 3D Buildings layer (featuring partner-contributed enhancements) in both Global and Local Map Modes—no longer limited to just Global. We've added elevation exaggeration, a powerful visualization feature that lets you highlight subtle terrain variations or minimize sharp elevation shifts. This enhancement brings greater clarity to terrain and gives you more control over how your spatial data is represented. Multiple ArcGIS Maps can now be used within a single scene. Whether you're building dual-map layouts—like a main map with an inset overview—or designing immersive XR experiences with several interactive map tables, each map can now have its own unique layers and interactions. Finally, we’ve overhauled the authentication system to be more secure and adaptable for the future. The updated system improves OAuth 2.0 support, streamlines credential management for accessing private content across multiple ArcGIS portals, and offers a more intuitive UI. Check out our blog post for more details and links to resources: https://lnkd.in/gvFqB7dz And as a bonus… since the Esri Developer Summit in Palm Springs took place a month ago and the Plenary videos are available, I want to highlight the Game Engine Maps SDKs section of the Plenary. During that section, Adrien Meriaux shared the story and status of the ArcGIS Maps SDKs for Game Engines, and Mason Gaw demonstrated several new features in v2.0 using the ArcGIS Maps SDK for Unreal Engine. Check it out to see these new features in action (this link jumps to the demo): https://lnkd.in/gk4NhHRB Mike Branscomb, Shimona Lahiri, M.S., Patrick Cozzi, Chris Andrews, Danny Williams, Alban Bergeret, Mark Collins, Rob Harrison, Craig Laliberte, Bill Clifford, Nikola Jancovicova, Christina Corbat EdM, MA, Simon Blakeney, Victor Brodin, Walt Yates, Kenneth Pimentel

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Overture Maps Foundation today announced the general availability of the community-driven Global Entity Reference System (GERS). This innovation will change how the entire geospatial industry works with data. The foundation's open, global, and persistent identifiers turn complex data integrations into simple joins. What used to take weeks of engineering now takes minutes. No vendor lock-in, no proprietary barriers—just shared infrastructure that works for everyone. This is the open source playbook in action: solve hard problems collaboratively, eliminate integration friction, and let innovation flourish. Nearly 40 organizations, including AWS, Meta, Microsoft, TomTom, ESRI, Uber, and Tripadvisor, are already building on this foundation, driving innovation that impacts billions of users. GERS proves that an open approach doesn't just win—they can transform entire industries by making the impossible simple. https://lnkd.in/g8U4SHze

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#hydrospatial news: ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World provides foundational elevation layers, including the TopoBathy layer to support analysis and visualization across the ArcGIS system. These layers are updated quarterly with high resolution elevation data from federal agencies, open sources, and Community Maps Program. https://ow.ly/t8am30sSk8l

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Announcing the public beta of ArcGIS Reality Server, a new capability for ArcGIS Enterprise 12.0 that brings scalable, self-hosted reality mapping to your organization. Reality Server empowers you to generate high-accuracy, photo-realistic 2D and 3D content from drone, aerial, and satellite imagery, securely and at scale. https://ow.ly/SVjO50Y6hxb

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Help park visitors search for nearby trails with a web app that supports English and Spanish. In this new ArcGIS InstantApps tutorial you'll design a web app for hikers visiting the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area near Los Angeles. Visitors will be able to: ✔️ Search nearby trails ✔️ Get directions to the trailhead 📍 ✔️ Show elevation changes Try the tutorial: https://ow.ly/KWcq50VYLRu

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The most valuable drone professionals I know rarely touch a drone. Not because they don’t know how to fly. But flying is the least valuable part of the workflow. The people who actually drive outcomes in this industry spend their time on: GIS and spatial analysis remote sensing interpretation ISR-style workflows data validation and QA translating raw imagery into decisions In other words, they work on meaning, not machinery. Anyone can learn to fly a drone in a weekend. Very few people can answer: What does this data actually represent? What’s the uncertainty? What decisions can safely be made from this? That gap is where real value lives. It’s also why so many drone businesses struggle. They optimize: flight time sensors platforms But neglect: analytics pipelines domain expertise client integration operational context The market doesn’t pay for airtime. It pays for insight. Drones are just the newest sensor in a much older discipline: remote sensing + GIS + systems thinking. The professionals who understand that stop being “drone pilots.” And start becoming a decision infrastructure for real industries.

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Look at this mesmerizing 3D flowww! Version 4.34 of ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript is now live and includes the 3D flow renderer, important component updates, split/merge editing operations, deeper parquet support, consistent layer-level field formatting, a new heat chart, and lots more! Check it out: https://ow.ly/EIbY50XfzI4

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The Digital Forester – New Pod Up! Howard Butler, President of Hobu, Inc., joins us on the podcast to talk all things open source, point clouds, and digital forestry. Together, we trace Howard’s journey from agriculture to geospatial software, and how tools like GDAL, PDAL, and Entwine have become foundational in processing and managing massive spatial datasets. We also dive into forestry-specific innovations like SilviMetric, developed in partnership with the U.S. Forest Service, and explore what’s ahead—from browser-based visualization to AI. Howard’s message is clear: open-source technology isn’t just about code—it’s about control, ownership, and enabling better decisions in forestry and beyond. 🎧 Link to the episode in the comments! #DigitalForester #Forestry #OneTeam

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Scientists from San Diego State University and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution collaboratively built a toolkit for proactive ocean management. The Fisheries and Climate Toolkit (FaCeT) brings together mulitple data sources using ArcGIS Hub to integrate satellite-based ocean data, climate models, biological data, and ecological forecasting tools. The goals are to support resource and conservation managers, policymakers, and communities understand and adapt to changes taking place in the ocean. Learn more in this article from Dr. Camrin Braun (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) and Dr. Rebecca Lewison (San Diego State University). https://lnkd.in/gvhq5_eS

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