A nugget from esriuc… Top 10 productivity enhancements at ArcGIS R 10.1 as described in the conference opening plenary… Labeling with maplex rule based labeling engine At 10.1 maplex included with all licenses Legends. Dynamic legends ensure all classes in map show p Quickly access over 4000 projection systems via new keyword search tool Geodb […]
8 Tips To Get the Most out of the ESRIUC and Education User Conference (EDUC)
This from our friend Joseph Kerski, the Esri EDU evangelist! Joseph is a staple at esriuc and EDUC and shares some tips on how to get the most out of the events. Educators and first time attendees will find these very useful! From Joseph… Having attended the Esri GIS Education Conference and the International User […]
Earth – The $100,000 150kg Platinum Edition World Record Atlas @Earthplatinum
What weighs in at over 150kg, is valued at more than $100,000 and has broken a 350 year old Guiness World Record? If you guess a massive Atlas then you’d be correct! Yes indeed, Earth: Platinum Edition Atlas created by 90 dedicated cartographers over a four year period with the help of Esri Technology now […]
Jack Talking GeoDesign at TED
This one goes back a little bit, however, the idea is timeless. Enjoy again this TED talk from Esri President Jack Dangermond as he discussed his passion, GeoDesign. About the video… Esri president Jack Dangermond spoke at TED2010 about GeoDesign, a concept which enables architects, urban planners, and others to harness the power of GIS […]
2012 Esri #DevMeetup Schedule – Get your GeoGeek On!
Some news for developers interested in meeting other Esri developers or perhaps looking for a stage where they can present a lightning talk to other GeoGeek in their local tech community. The Esri EDN group has announced a busy 2012 season for the popular DevMeetUp events starting this week (Feb 16 in Anchorage Alaska) and […]
ciao, Bonjour, Guten Tag, Olá, Hola to Esri ArcGIS Online in 9 More Languages
Cool news from the campus in Redlands CA today as Esri has announced that ArcGIS Online has localized for another 9 languages adding support for Arabic, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, and Spanish. Now users of the free to access WMS can easily alter their language setting – simply login to your […]
ArcGIS for SilverLight 1.0
Good news via the Esri dev blog for you ArcGIS developers interested in SilverLight as the ArcGIS Viewer for Silverlight 1.0 and ArcGIS for Sharepoint have been released. Users can now create a Silverlight-based web mapping app via an intuitive WYSIWYG App Builder. More about the SilverLight solutions from Esri. With the ArcGIS Viewer for […]
Offline Mobile GIS and Data Collection & Editing Synced to ArcGIS
Another fine video demo from Rory at WebmapSolutions shows us their latest efforts in dabbling with some work in offline editing with ArcGIS. How do we take our mobile device into an area which lacks WI-FI connectivity and still be able to access base maps and our layers? More than that how do we make […]
New ArcGIS National Geographic Basemap Layer (Demo)
Are you an ArcGIS.com user? If so then you’ll now find another new option when selecting your basemap style as Esri has recent;y added the National Geographic basemap option. This via a recent blog post on the ArcGIS Desktop blog… In the Add Basemap dialog, the Shaded Relief basemap entry has been removed in order […]
US PLSS Data Projection Oops from BLM With ArcGIS.com
An interesting result when you attempt to add the BLM US public land survey system data into an ArcGIS.com map… these PLSS data are available from a KML file at www.geocommunicator.gov. I haven’t run into any projection issues within ArcGIS.com yet to date so I found it a little ironic that this issue crept up […]