


The app alerts the uploader of any defects before they’re corrected, then automatically routes the map to the GIS department after its corrected. Orange County, California uses AI techniques to help streamline workflows including a self-service mapping review app that allows outside uploads of property maps. Their Public Safety Power Shutoff Portal, shared with 3,000 partner agencies, includes data about vulnerable populations amid planned outages during wildfire weather conditions. A 24/7 online Hazard Awareness and Warning Center includes the real-time locations of employee trucks and nearby weather or environmental hazards. From warning workers how to safely check the meter on a property that has an unfriendly dog, to consolidating more than 16 million images of assets and making 3D models of some, the utility demonstrated several uses of its location intelligence tools. Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), one of the largest and oldest electric and gas utilities in California, has infused GIS across its operations and put it in the hands of its 26,000 employees. Several organizations demonstrated how they are using GIS to shape the future: Monday’s presentations made it clear that geography is central to strategies for shaping the world. “Now, it’s about sustainability,” Dangermond said. Kennedy who had talked about a changing world in his 1961 inaugural address, noting that humans were at a crossroads and held, “the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life.” In helping to solve some of our most complex challenges, Dangermond told the crowd of mostly geographic information system (GIS) professionals that their work is essential to creating a more sustainable, equitable, and prosperous world.ĭangermond paraphrased US President John F. The event attracted nearly 18,000 in-person attendees and more than 20,000 people watching online. “What kind of world do you want to see?” That was the question Esri Founder and President Jack Dangermond posed at the 43rd annual Esri User Conference at the San Diego Convention Center on Monday.
