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How to Add Google Maps and Imagery in ArcGIS Desktop or ArcGIS Pro Without using additional Tools Until few years ago, adding google maps in ArcGIS is not something easy to do, you needs some plugin or additional tool to do that. Sometimes the plugin is not available for free. This problem has changed in recent years due to the improvement of basemap technology. Adding Google maps or other online maps like bing maps, yahoo maps, Here Maps, Mapbox Maps to ArcGIS desktop or ArcGIS pro now is very easy. I have made tutorial about how to do that in video below. 

Climate Hazards Group InfraRed Precipitation with Station data (CHIRPS) is a 35+ year quasi-global rainfall data set. Spanning 50°S-50°N (and all longitudes) and ranging from 1981 to near-present, CHIRPS incorporates our in-house climatology, CHPclim, 0.05° resolution satellite imagery, and in-situ station data to create gridded rainfall time series for trend analysis and seasonal drought monitoring.  

Download global historically enable water surface raster data at 30 meters in geotiff format. This data have few subdataset that can be used for various of spatial analysis like Flood prone area mapping, wetlands mapping and identification, lakes, ponds and Dam identification, drought monitoring and vice versa One benefit of this dataset is this data is compiled from historical data, so if this data said that certain area are permanently inundated, it has very high probability that the area is true permanent water body, and not seasonal water body.  

Covid-19 pandemic has been hit our lives entirely. There are so many negative impact of COVID-19 to almost all of every aspect of daily living, no matter in which place you are live, which country you are reside. The worsening pandemic needs full attention not only for the global governments, but also all the stakeholders, private companies, non-profit organization, everyone should be cooperated and working together to make this pandemic over soon.  Geospatial data is always playing important role on this matter. Take the story of John Snow in England as an example. He was the first person to map the distribution of utilities with the cholera outbreak distribution, and by looking the map made by himself, he can identify the sources of the infection, just by spatial analysis. He show the power of multivariate mapping and spatial analysis to solve previously uncharacterized disease distribution.  Now if we return to the currently happening COVID-19 outbreaks, many agency, companies or no