2025 WA GIS Conference

At Pierce County Spatial Services, we continually strive to automate repetitive tasks to allocate resources for more meaningful work. Spatial Services provides GIS for all Pierce County residents, county staff and elected officials. We are comprised of data management, customer support, development solutions and asset management experts who work in tandem to provide high quality GIS services to the county.

Our ArcGIS online (AGO) platform supports over 500 county staff users and the general public. Our AGO environment and users are primarily managed by a single employee. The continual rotation of county staff demands consistent user access and content management. This level of user management grew to an unwieldy regular task and diverted resources from other work. This has become especially true with new administrative structures that have required closer attention to our users, content and licensing in the AGO platform.
We integrated many ArcGIS python api administrative processes into our regular scheduled tasks, to increase efficiency and effectiveness of user management.
This presentation will go over 2 easily adoptable, straight-forward examples of how the api can be used to automate user management.