by Matt Ball on July 11, 2011
This year’s Top 10 enhancements to ArcGIS takes a new three-part format with lists for Desktop, Server and Mobile. Top 10 Desktop Enhancements 10. Searching has great improvement, with search for the right projection easier, spatial filtering to search within map extent, and spatial keyword support 9. Editor tracking allows for editor information updated by [...]
by Matt Ball on May 25, 2011
Today at the Esri Forestry GIS Solutions Conference there was a sneak peek at the beta of ArcGIS 10.1, from Damian Spangrud ArcGIS Product Manager. The beta will be available for wide open trial in June 2011 for anyone that’s a current customer, with release in early 2012. You can sign up via Beta Community. [...]
by Matt Ball on June 2, 2010
Researchers at the Georgia Department of Natural Resources have developed a side-scan sonar methodology to map the habitat of navigable streams. The team of aquatic resources biologist Adam Keiser and GIS specialist Thom Litts have created a workflow that automates the processing of data from a side-imaging sonar unit into a GIS layer that reveals [...]
by Matt Ball on March 24, 2010
The innovation in the coming release of ESRI’s ArcGIS 10, ArcGIS Server, ArcGIS Explorer, along with the data foundation that is ArcGIS Online, all come together for ArcGIS.com, which will go live some time in April. Bernie Szukalski, the technology evangelist at ESRI who manages this new offering, gave me a sneak peak and stated, [...]
by Matt Ball on March 22, 2010
In a continuation of ESRI’s cloud-centric strategy following the Federal User Conference, where the relationship with Amazon Web Services was announced, this week’s Business Partner Conference includes news that users will be able to rent ArcGIS Server on Amazon and just pay for usage. In addition there are plans to have an online application store [...]