Five Steps to understand the potential impact COVID-19 can have on your organization and community
As global communities and businesses seek to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, you can create
these five proactive steps to develop an instant picture of your organization's risk areas and response capacity.
Step 1
Map the cases
Map confirmed and active cases, fatalities and recoveries cases to identify where COVID-19 infections exist and have occurred.
Step 2
Map the spread
Time-enabled maps can reveal how infections spread over time and where you may want to target interventions.
Step 3
Map vulnerable populations
COVID-19 disproportionally impacts certain demographics such as the elderly and those with underlying health conditions. Mapping social vulnerability, age, and other factors helps you monitor the most at-risk groups and regions.
Step 4
Map your capacity
Map facilities, employees or citizens, medical resources, equipment, goods, and services to understand and respond to current and potential impacts of COVID-19.
Step 5
Communicate with maps
Use interactive web maps, dashboard apps, and story maps to help rapidly communicate your situation.
Follow Best Practices
The ArcGIS Community has created a vast amount of information related to COVID-19
How your GIS department can respond to COVID-19
This post outlines common data sources and workflows for responding to coronavirus.
Essential Configurations for Viral Apps
This blog post outlines best practices to ensure that the applications you build for a large audience are using key components of the ArcGIS Online infrastructure
ArcGIS Platform: Best Practices
You can maximize the value of the ArcGIS platform, in the context of your organization’s goals, by applying the guidelines presented in these best practices and implementation approaches.
Public Health Preparedness: A Geographic Approach
This whitepaper discusses how GIS gives preparedness professionals the situational awareness they need to respond to an emergency efficiently and effectively.
Listen to the Podcast
Coronavirus: Mapping, Visualizing, and Understanding the Crisis
Ryan Lanclos, Esri Director of Public Safety Solutions, explains how location technology is changing the dynamics of the fight against COVID-19 while accelerating digital transformation.
Dashboarding Tips and Tricks
ArcGIS Dashboards Training Videos for
COVID-19
With the current COVID-19 situation across the world, there’s been a proliferation of corona virus themed dashboards emerging over the last few weeks in ArcGIS Online. Many of these were created with ArcGIS Dashboards, which enables users to convey information by presenting location-based analytics using intuitive and interactive data visualizations on a single screen.
Create Responsive Dashboards
Many of you may currently be working on dashboards to be shared with the public. A large portion of website traffic is generated by mobile devices making it important that your dashboards display properly on all screen sizes.
Design Dashboards for your Smartphones
Because mobile dashboards have less real estate than their desktop counterparts, it can be challenging to create an aesthetically pleasing interface and still provide users the ability to get the answers they need at a glance. This document provides general best practices for designing mobile dashboards.
Survey123 Tips and Tricks
Editing records in a web form
You can edit existing records using the Survey123 web app, also known as a web form, by embedding Survey123 forms inside ArcGIS Dashboards. This lets you populate the contents of a Survey123 web form using an existing record from a feature layer and let users update (edit) that information.
Get to Know Survey123
Easy to follow tutorials to better understand the Survey123 platform. This includes tutorials for Survey123 Web Designer and Survey123 Connect; designing XLSForms and other more advanced topics.
Learning Resources
COVID-19 Training Resources for Canadians
To support you during these unprecedented times, we’ve put together a comprehensive guide to help GIS professionals and others find their way through the many training resources available. Our goal is to help you understand, prepare for and respond to COVID-19.
Use ArcGIS Insights for Understanding and Responding to COVID-19
Help your organization respond efficiently and plan effectively using ArcGIS Insights tools and data visualizations.
Learning Resources Gallery
The gallery below highlights a collection of learning resources and tools that can help you ramp up with skills, knowledge, and learn about best practices to respond to COVID-19. The resources include Learn ArcGIS lessons, ArcGIS blog articles, technical documents, whitepapers, and other documentation that can help you ramp up with the skills and knowledge you need to respond to COVID-19.
Are you a new ArcGIS Online user?
ArcGIS Implementation Guide
This guide is useful to anyone who’s just received an ArcGIS Online subscription and is seeking straightforward guidance on how to make and manage maps, data, and users within the organization. It’s a simple yet complete guide for managing your ArcGIS organization. It includes a checklist of the most essential tasks, tips, FAQ, and links to detailed help topics.
Complete the checklist provided in the guide and you’ll be able to:
- Gain experience and confidence in how to explore, make, and share web maps and apps of your own.
- Know where to find data, how to organize it within groups, and how to share it with those who need access.
- Learn how to customize your organization’s homepage.
- Be able to add and assign user types for new members in your organization.