Community Engagement Tools & Data Sharing

Maximize your use of ArcGIS Hub

ArcGIS Hub includes tools and features that improve decision-making and boost collaboration as well as engagement with stakeholders and communities.

Open data

Share trusted and curated content with stakeholders, staff, and the public with easy-to-use tools.

Indexing, search, and APIs

Powerful indexing and search capabilities help users find what they need. Provide frictionless access to data via APIs or downloads in a variety of open standards-based formats.
Catalog feeds

ArcGIS Hub catalog feeds allow you to federate your data, linking your site’s public content with third-party catalogs, making it easier to discover while keeping content management centralized.
Search engine optimization

Automatically apply search engine optimization (SEO) techniques to extend the reach of your organization.
Data visualizations

Share open data using visualization tools such as interactive maps and stories, charts, graphs, and dashboards. Communicate insights with stunning visual representations of your data.

Sharing, collaboration, and transparency

Drive awareness of your mission, priorities, and the impact of your work with stakeholders and the public. Share open and secure GIS and non-GIS content to support your objectives. Create simple ways for people to find the content most relevant to them.

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Sites

Create unlimited, customizable low- to no-code Hub sites to showcase your content and data. Incorporate your organization’s logos and branding and configure custom domains.
Hub site templates

Deploy templates to kick-start, inspire, and scale your work. Use your open data and content to fuel the suggested apps, maps, and dashboards included in each template or use them as inspiration to create your site from scratch.
Integrate with Esri tools

Seamlessly unify content from other ArcGIS apps such as dashboards, stories, and surveys to deliver your content to stakeholders and community audiences within one easy-to-create destination site.

Organizing efforts and resources

Organize people and efforts around shared goals, measure progress, and scale with your success.

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Projects

Projects allow you to organize, track, and communicate your work towards specific time-bound or geographically focused goals. Projects are easy to configure and can highlight key information about your target area, important milestones, and timely calls to action.
Initiatives

Initiatives provide broader context and show progress towards long-term goals. Use initiatives to bring together multiple projects associated with a shared long-term goal.
Community identities

Community identities provide a way for stakeholders, volunteers, and community members to work together on common goals. Share data securely, have private discussions on important topics, and establish consistent communication.
Team management

Recruit, manage, and engage volunteers to help scale your work. Encourage public participation and improve decision-making with robust team management capabilities.