Hi GIS Community,

I am using Experience Builder (not the Developer version) in our Enterprise Portal and am at my wits end with what I feel is the poor layout functionality.

I have some map tools turned on and I want to add additional widgets to the map area using a widget controller. I want these widgets to line up with the map tool widgets and to continue to line up regardless of screen size. I want perfect alignment between the widget controller and the map's built in widget buttons. I can't for the life of my figure out how to achieve this goal. I really don't feel like this is too much to ask for. I've tried searching for solutions and I've tried using the ESRI AI Chatbot, to no avail.

I've attached a picture that shows the misalignment between widget buttons.

I would greatly appreciate any advice or commiseration on this topics. Thank you!!

Also, I have 5 years of GIS experience.

AI Disclosure: just tried to use the ESRI Chatbot, it did not help.

So I have GIS certification and 5+ years of experience through my military enlistment and was able to get a defense contracting job in D.C. However, I quickly learned that I both hated D.C and defense contracting lol, is there a better way to leverage my military certification and experience to get a job outside of the DOD or at least the DMV?

I’ve been applying but I have a pretty good idea that recruiters aren’t even paying mind to me without my bachelors (I’m currently enrolled in college). Is there anyone who’s dealt with this?

Any advice would help.

[GIS Experience] GIS Developer and Software Engineer with 20 years of experience.

[AI Disclosure] AI was used for brainstorming architecture and copy-editing the post description.

Hey everyone,

Wanted to share a project I've been hacking on recently called TectonicPlateMap.org.

I've always been fascinated by geodynamics, but a lot of the existing plate tectonic tools feel clunky or locked behind heavy desktop software. I wanted something snappy and modern that runs completely in the browser.

Under the hood, it’s built with MapLibre GL JS for fast vector rendering. The core dataset ingests all 52 lithospheric plates from Peter Bird’s PB2002 model, including things like spherical equal-area measurements and NNR drift velocity vectors.

I also hooked up live USGS earthquake feeds and Holocene volcano telemetry from the Smithsonian GVP so you can see active seismic and volcanic zones right over the plates. Added a few extra layers too, like subduction trenches, impact craters, and an offline vector basemap mode.

Everything is client-side and open-source. If you're into GIS or earth science, I'd love for you to check it out and let me know how the vector rendering performance feels on your end, or if there's any other geophysical data you think would be cool to add!

https://tectonicplatemap.org/

I’m a second year college student. I just went back to school last year after a few years of thinking about what I want to study. I decided on Geography with Data Science, which is the more technical track within the geography department at the school I’ll be transferring to. They have a more straightforward GIS track but this one adds coding and data science to the degree requirements.

I just started Intro to Mapping and GIS. I’ve been looking forward to it for a long time and had to transfer to a different community college to be able to take this course and I’m sad to say that I’m not enjoying it so far. I’ve never been much of a tech guy but I really like geography and wanted to get a more technical degree so I could be more hireable. I’ve also stalked this sub for a few years and thought I would be better off with the data science option over the more straightforward GIS track given the state of the entry level job market.

I’m curious if any of you didn‘t enjoy GIS at first but grew to like it over time. I hope that as I get more comfortable with the software(ArcGIS) I‘ll learn to like it but I’m wondering if maybe this just isn’t for me. I’m applying to universities after this semester and would like to know if I should pivot so I can apply to other programs.

I have a consultancy but I am trying to grow my clientele instead of small one off jobs. I wonder if anyone here has scaled their own consultancy in this Reddit before. I’m curious if pursuing more private clients is the best way, if so, how did find the contract or create the lead? If it’s public sector, were you partnering with larger firms. Any advice would be great!

Hi there, I have a school assignment where I need to use GIS to map data of grocery stores. I need to calculate the highest DA population density using calculate field but it keeps giving me warning 000405: no records within table, or selection set to zero. Can anyone help me with this issue?

Has anyone had experience do side jobs in GIS? If so how did you find that work?

I manage GIS for a large urban park and I’m building a path asset layer for a work order system. What I have is not great:

• A CAD base map from our design team, converted to GIS. Paths are drawn as edge lines only :C : two lines per path (one per side), no centerline, no attributes, and the lines don’t close at junctions. About 63 miles of asphalt edge linework.
• A trails layer with centerlines, but it only covers about 40% of the paved paths.
• The city’s planimetric database has “interior sidewalk” polygons for the park, traced from aerials. They cover the paths well but carry no surface type and are one big polygon per connected network.

What I'm Trying to do: one polygon per stretch of path, cut into roughly 100 ft segments, each with a name, width, and area.

What I’ve tried in ArcGIS Pro with arcpy so far:

1. Feature To Polygon on the edge lines. This blew up in my face because there are trailing lines and then everything got included (lawns, roads, other path parts that are just close enough)
2. Buffer out / buffer back (fatten each edge by 10 ft, merge, shrink by 10 ft) to fill the gap between paired edges. Works on clean two-edge paths, but fragments into scraps at junctions, misses anything wider than 20 ft, and leaves stubs with no partner edge empty.
3. Using the city polygons as the shape, cutting them crosswise with perpendicular lines generated along my named edge lines, then naming each piece from the edge with the most length along its boundary. This has been my best try yet but I'm definitely seeing differences in the way things are shaped beyond simple projection issues.

Two things I’d like opinions on:

1) How do people decide which source is the edge of record when neither is survey grade? Is there a standard way to express that as a per-feature confidence score?

2) Is there a reliable, licence-friendly way to derive a centerline from paired edge lines that don’t close at junctions? Polygon To Centerline needs Production Mapping, which we don’t have. I’ve seen Voronoi/skeleton approaches mentioned; has anyone used one on messy CAD linework at this scale?

Any pointers to workflows, tools, or papers appreciated. I'll owe you my first child (or free reddit karma) for any advice or directions. Please helppp