Bryan Dickerson, MBA, IAM

The Kansas Water Office has successfully transitioned to ArcGIS Dashboards and ArcGIS Experience Builder, enhancing data sharing by visually informing decision-makers and stakeholders on how resources are utilized to conserve, protect, and restore Kansas water resources. https://ow.ly/Gjv550Xt9q4

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Ahoy, GIS-T attendees 🏴‍☠️! One of the best parts of GIS-T? Getting to collaborate in person—ideas and conversations flowing, and yes…sticky notes. If you're at the symposium, at 10:30 AM CDT, Peter Lemack, PMP and Jake Gamble are taking the stage with an impromptu session: “Arrrrrr Yah Interested in Learning about ROW GIS?” They’ll be walking the plank and diving into how Arkansas Department of Transportation is transforming its right-of-way workflows through a modern digital and spatial database — built in collaboration with Sanborn. From tracking parcels and ownership to supporting planning and surplus property decisions, this project is all about turning ROW data into something usable, scalable, and actionable. #transportation #row #aashto #gist #gist2026 #aashto2026 #stategovernment

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Taylor Bowman and inewsource used interactive mapping to highlight community assets and identify potential partners for events and trainings. Here's how. https://lnkd.in/geHkQJQR

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NSRS modernization is no longer on the horizon. It is happening now. Experts from NOAA National Geodetic Survey will break down the most significant update to the National Spatial Reference System in 40 years and what the transition away from NAD 83 and NAVD 88 means for surveyors, GIS professionals, engineers, and anyone working with geospatial data. Get clear guidance on what is changing and how to prepare your workflows now: https://bit.ly/GWNMAR25

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DIR has issued a Request for Offer (RFO) seeking innovative solutions, emerging technologies, and the latest advancements in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) & Digital Land Surveying Products and Services. For more information on the RFO, visit the ESBD Page here: https://lnkd.in/gZ3TN7yD    #GIS #DigitalLandSurveying #Vendors #DIRisIT 

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The Kansas Water Office has successfully transitioned to ArcGIS Dashboards and ArcGIS Experience Builder, enhancing data sharing by visually informing decision-makers and stakeholders on how resources are utilized to conserve, protect, and restore Kansas water resources. https://ow.ly/T6Pp50XpunR

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The National Spatial Reference System is undergoing a significant transformation, and every geospatial professional has a stake in understanding what comes next. These updates are not abstract—they will shape workflows, data integrity, and positioning practices across the industry. To help practitioners stay ahead of the curve, the experts at NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey will be breaking it all down in an upcoming webinar hosted by the team at Geo Week News. ( It’s an opportunity to hear directly from the source, ask informed questions, and gain clarity on what the changes mean in real-world terms. Best of all, attendance is free—just solid insight, straight from those guiding the evolution of the NSRS. NSRS Modernization is Here: What Surveyors Need to Know Now Wednesday, March 25, 2026 | 12:00pm-1:00pm Eastern Time. https://lnkd.in/e8cebFXw

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Introducing ArcGIS Velocity for ArcGIS Enterprise - Public Beta ArcGIS Velocity powers Esri’s real-time processing and analysis capability, enabling users to ingest, visualize, and analyze spatial real-time to gain new insights and take action. We are excited to announce that the public beta of ArcGIS Velocity for ArcGIS Enterprise on Windows and Linux is now available. Now you can host Velocity in your own environment to explore your streaming IoT data on maps and dashboards, identify temporal patterns, and extract location-based intelligence. #esri #arcgis #mapping #analytics

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⚡ If you work in an electric utility, you know the pain: Maximo and ArcGIS don’t always play nicely together. And when they don’t, field crews, planners, and operators feel it. That’s why we pulled this demo back from the archive ⤵️ Streamlining Electric Utility Operations: Maximo + ArcGIS Integration 👉 https://zurl.co/LdNYO It’s a quick look at how integration can: 📍 Keep Maximo + ArcGIS in sync 📍 Cut out rework and manual fixes 📍 Give your teams the data they need, when they need it If you’re at a utility wrestling with these systems, this one’s for you. #ElectricUtilities #AssetManagement #GIS #Maximo #ArcGIS #Integration #GridModernization

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Coming in 2026: RRAD GridTruth A self-healing, time-aware digital twin that reconciles your GIS with real measurements—then lets you replay reality and run counterfactuals, all inside QGIS. Most planning and analysis tools assume your model is right. In the real world, connectivity drifts, phases go wrong, UPSECTION trails get stale, and studies suffer. GridTruth flips that script. What it does 1) Sync & Diagnose (Self-Healing GIS) • Fuses AMI voltage traces, OMS events, and SCADA/regulator moves with your GIS model. • Auto-flags precise fixes: “Service Location 8459 should be on SECTIONNUM 18-142; phase B→C (confidence 0.91).” • You approve → GridTruth writes back to PostGIS with full audit, versioning, and rollback. 2) Time Machine (Replay Reality) • Scrub a timeline to replay an actual event hour: voltages, flows, energized islands, and customer counts. • See what really happened during storms, switching, or peak days—on the map and the schematic. 3) Counterfactual Sandbox (What-If on the Real Past) • Clone the measured state at time T, then try: open 19100, add +2 taps at R1, stage a 300 kW BESS, close a tie. • Run QSTS on the actual load/DER traces from that period and compare deltas: voltage compliance, losses, customers affected, protection margins. • Export switching steps and TCC updates into your coordination workflow. 4) Optional Safety Envelope • Map-centric fault current and touch/step potential overlays derived from the reconciled model—produces focused crew job briefs. ⸻ Why this matters For Power Engineers • Start from a model validated by measurements. • Reproduce outages exactly, test fixes on the same baseline, and push curve updates with evidence. For GIS Managers • Replace guesswork with measured truth. • Close the loop: suggested edits → review → commit → audit trail. • Track hard metrics: % of meters tied to the correct transformer & phase, % of sections with reconciled UPSECTION, time-to-fix. For Operations & Reliability • Faster post-event analysis, cleaner switching plans, fewer truck rolls, clearer SAIDI/SAIFI/CEMI causality. ⸻ Built for your stack (open, on-prem, practical) • Platform: QGIS + PostGIS (on-prem). • Engines: OpenDSS/GridLAB-D for replay and what-ifs. • Data: Runs “light” with AMI + OMS; scales with SCADA, DER, and weather when available. • Model Assumptions: Primary Conductor with SECTIONNUM/UPSECTION/FEEDER/PHASE, conductor impedance CSV, transformers and service locations (meter→xfmr linkage). • Governance: All changes are explainable, queued for approval, audited, and reversible. ⸻ 3-step workflow 1. Pick Feeder → Sync & Diagnose. Review ranked suggestions and approve. 2. Replay. Drag the timeline; see reality on map & schematic. 3. What-If. Test alternatives against the real past; export switching/TCC/GIS change sets. Release timing Target release: 2nd Qtr, 2026

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