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Discover how Esri leveraged the Global Entity Reference System (GERS) to integrate FEMA’s USA Structures with Overture Buildings, enhancing their GIS capabilities. By joining these datasets through GERS IDs, Esri achieved detailed visualization of attributes like building occupancy and 3D representations. This integration not only improved data accuracy and consistency but also enabled new use cases such as thematic mapping and 3D analysis. Read the full case study.

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