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JFinteraKtive: The assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy
by Nathan Shephard and Kenneth Field November 22nd 1963. John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald while in Dallas, Texas. It’s been 50 years since the cataclysmic event in Dealey...
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December Community Maps Webinar Recap
Over 125 attendees joined representatives from the Esri Community Maps team on December 19th to kick off of our new webinar series. The one hour online session included a discussion of the recent...
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Esri Introduces Optimized LAS
Esri has developed technology to optimize LAS format lidar. The format enables fast and efficient access to LAS structured lidar data and is well suited both to direct in desktop applications use as...
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Evaluating the LAS Optimizer
Since Optimized LAS is new on the market people are obviously interested in different ways it compares to other solutions. Optimized LAS has a number of benefits in terms of providing compression,...
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Final report on the 2013 Community Maps survey
We would like to extend a big thank you to the more that one hundred Community members who responded to the Community Maps membership survey run November-December 2013. Many respondents were...
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Beyond basemaps – An introduction to the Living Atlas
Esri’s content landscape has expanded tremendously. Through sharing content in hosted cloud services, access to a suite of basemaps and topics that describe earth, people, life and urban systems are...
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New section on Indexing added to Evaluating LAS Optimizer
A new section entitled ‘The benefit of indexing and rearrangement’ has been added to Evaluating LAS Optimizer. This provides more information about how you can benefit from using Esri’s new Optimized...
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LAS Optimizer Updated to Perform Faster Decompression
Esri’s LAS Optimizer has been updated to include support for parallel decompression. The initial version supported parallel processing when going from LAS to Optimized LAS, but the other direction,...
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CityEngine 2013 key new features
The CityEngine 2013 release has some very exciting new features. Here is a quick overview: Create and Share Rule Packages Create a so-called rule package from a CityEngine rule and associated assets...
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Visualizing Player Movement in Sport using 3D Web GIS
In this blog I present a Diorama of Player Movement using ArcScene and Esri’s CityEngine Web Viewer. This unique 3D GIS visualization helps better understand the interaction of the spatial and temporal...
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ArcGIS Runtime SDK for .NET Beta is available!
We are excited to announce the 10.2.2 beta release of the ArcGIS Runtime SDK for .NET! This SDK enables developers to build rich, high performance GIS applications for Windows PCs, tablets, and...
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The 2014 Community Maps Tour Dates Being Scheduled!
The Community Maps Team is taking a road trip across America. The 2014 Community Maps Tour is being scheduled. Members of our team will be making several stops this year to a town near you. We will be...
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Who’s Ready for a Makeover?
The Social Media Template, a popular web application template on ArcGIS Online, has been redesigned, made responsive and given a new name. Introducing: the Public Information template (hold applause)....
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Support for OGC GeoPackage specification in ArcGIS.
Have you heard about the OGC GeoPackage specification (http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/geopackage)? It is a newly minted OGC spec that defines GeoPackages for exchange and GeoPackage SQLite...
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Be an Early Adopter
With the release of the March 2014 ArcGIS Online update, a new group of templates has been added. The Early Adopter Templates group contains new beta templates to show off your maps. Each of the...
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Announcing the ArcGIS Pro beta program
Esri is pleased to announce the beta release of ArcGIS Pro, which is a new ArcGIS for Desktop application that provides many exciting features. ArcGIS Pro is designed for GIS professionals who need to...
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Community Maps in focus at the 2014 Esri UC
The 2014 Esri International User Conference and Education GIS Conference will feature plenty of opportunities for anyone who is interested in Community Maps. Whether you are a long time Community Maps...
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ArcGIS Runtime SDK for .NET 10.2.3 Beta is available!
The ArcGIS Runtime SDK for .NET 10.2.3 beta is now available on the Esri Beta Community. This is a quality release that resolves some issues encountered in the previous beta. A number of...
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Community contributed content to the ArcGIS Living Atlas includes Urban Systems
There are over 7 billion people on the planet, 50% percent of which live in urban areas. By the year 2050, this figure could reach or exceed 70%. This increase in urbanization will have a profound...
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Invitation to participate in an Esri software Usability Study at the User...
The Esri Development Team invites you to participate in a moderated and recorded Usability Study of 3 specific areas of ArcGIS Pro: GIS Content Management, Raster, and Map Authoring. Who we’re looking...
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