Apps for the Community

Apps for the Community

Engage your audience

Governments, nonprofits, journalists, and businesses alike need more effective ways to communicate with specific audiences. Whether you need to reach the public at large or particular stakeholders, powerful ArcGIS Apps for the Community let you do this and more.

Share information and stories

Try 30+ different configurable app templates and the powerful storytelling capabilities in Esri Story Maps. Create map-based apps that can be used inside your organization, embedded on websites, or shared with the world. With these apps you can:

  • Engage your community
  • Showcase plans, projects, and infrastructure
  • Communicate with customers
  • Crowdsource community observations, input, and data
  • Educate decision makers
  • Rally your supporters

Connect people to data

Everyone benefits from being able to find the authoritative information they need, when they need it—citizens, journalists, academics, start-ups, even the people inside your organization. Make it accessible via open data portals. Capitalize on existing GIS resources by using ArcGIS Hub to turn on the data so you can engage and communicate with your audiences.

Innovate and take action together

Empower your audience with access to data, maps, and apps they can use to create new information products and take new actions to benefit their communities. It’s the space where governments, NGOs, startups, businesses, and citizens work together to make forward-thinking, problem-solving apps.


Find the right app

ArcGIS Open Data

Steer decisions and results with your data

Crowdsource Manager

allows users within an organization to review problems or observations submitted through the Reporter application

Crowdsource Polling

application presents a map that can be used to gauge sentiment on specific plans or proposals.

Crowdsource Reporter

report a problem or observation. Users can anonymously submit new reports, review existing reports, and comment and vote on reports or observations submitted by other users

Engage your audience

Governments, nonprofits, journalists, and businesses alike need more effective ways to communicate with specific audiences. Whether you need to reach the public at large or particular stakeholders, powerful ArcGIS Apps for the Community let you do this and more.

Share information and stories

Try 30+ different configurable app templates and the powerful storytelling capabilities in Esri Story Maps. Create map-based apps that can be used inside your organization, embedded on websites, or shared with the world. With these apps you can:

  • Engage your community
  • Showcase plans, projects, and infrastructure
  • Communicate with customers
  • Crowdsource community observations, input, and data
  • Educate decision makers
  • Rally your supporters

Connect people to data

Everyone benefits from being able to find the authoritative information they need, when they need it—citizens, journalists, academics, start-ups, even the people inside your organization. Make it accessible via open data portals. Capitalize on existing GIS resources by using ArcGIS Hub to turn on the data so you can engage and communicate with your audiences.

Innovate and take action together

Empower your audience with access to data, maps, and apps they can use to create new information products and take new actions to benefit their communities. It’s the space where governments, NGOs, startups, businesses, and citizens work together to make forward-thinking, problem-solving apps.


Find the right app

ArcGIS Open Data

Steer decisions and results with your data

Crowdsource Manager

allows users within an organization to review problems or observations submitted through the Reporter application

Crowdsource Polling

application presents a map that can be used to gauge sentiment on specific plans or proposals.

Crowdsource Reporter

report a problem or observation. Users can anonymously submit new reports, review existing reports, and comment and vote on reports or observations submitted by other users