Waynesville staff outlines move from ArcMap to ArcGIS Pro, seeks three-year cloud enterprise agreement

Waynesville staff presented a proposal Sept. 9 to convert the town’s mapping system from Esri’s legacy ArcMap to ArcGIS Pro and to adopt a small‑local‑government cloud enterprise agreement covering roughly three years.

The switch would replace the town’s current concurrent‑user ArcMap licenses — three concurrent seats that cost about $3,766.44 per year — with named‑user ArcGIS Pro licenses and an enterprise package that staff said will cost about $20,600 per year after an initial conversion credit. Jesse Fowler, the town’s GIS staff member, told the board the contract as currently structured brings the three‑year total to just under $50,000 and that Esri offered a conversion credit that reduces the first‑year cost.

Fowler said the move is effectively mandatory because Esri will stop supporting ArcMap. “The movement to ArcGIS Pro isn’t really negotiable,” he said, saying ArcGIS Pro enables functions the town cannot do…