VAMLIS GeoCon 2024

At Virginia Outdoors Foundation (VOF), we create a variety of cartographic products for use in a variety of materials, including baseline documentation reports, stewardship field reports, Board of Trustees meeting materials, and landowner communication. Because of the amount of similar yet unique cartographic products that VOF creates, there was much time spent on somewhat repetitive cartographic tasks. As the organization migrates from ArcMap to ArcGIS Pro, we wished to create tools that not only made the switch easier for staff, but also improved staff efficiency and improved cartographic consistency across the organization. This presentation will demonstrate how we achieved those goals using ArcGIS Pro Project Templates, along with Tasks and Python scripts, to streamline and standardize our cartographic products and processes and automate repetitive tasks.