Fall 2012
" is a cloud-based mapping system for organizations that is essentially changing how GIS managers, as well as IT managers, think about mapping and GIS," said Jack Dangermond, president, Esri. "ArcGIS Online works with all types of data and is built on a powerful enterprise mapping platform that lets users simply manage their geospatial content, such as data, maps, images, applications, and other geographic information."
ArcGIS Online allows you to do the following:
- Reach your users
- Go mobile
- Utilize ready-to-use content
- Collaborate effortlessly
- Add data with ease
- Make maps directly in Excel
- Turn your data into web-enabled services
- Control security and data ownership
- Benefit from use as platform for building custom applications
Climate Change and Africa
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A collaborative research program is using GIS to better learn how climate change, conflict, and humanitarian aid intersect to impact vulnerable populations in Africa. |
Esri Maps for Office
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Esri Maps for Office is a new analysis tool that allows business professionals to visualize data by creating and sharing interactive maps directly within Microsoft Office. Released at the end of July, it is available as a free download to organizations with ArcGIS Online subscriptions. Users will be able to map enable their data, impact their audiences, and share maps in just one click. . |
Using Maps to Tell Your Story
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Map-based storytelling enables you to serve your colleagues, customers, and constituents by combining geospatial data with text and multimedia content into compelling and intuitive user experiences. . [PDF] |
Project Atlas Promotes Transparency and Progress for Puget Sound Restoration
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After more than a century of industrial use and the effects of population growth and development, there is a growing environmental crisis in the waters of Puget Sound. The GIS-based Project Atlas helps the Puget Sound Partnership monitor restoration projects with an easy-to-use map interface. |
Podcast: A Global Cartographic Resource
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This podcast is an interview with Esri software user Mani Singh, president of mapsofworld.com. Singh discusses using ArcGIS to create and serve high-quality maps of every part of the world.
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Compelling Thematic Cartography
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ArcGIS Online has opened up the world of mapmaking, allowing anyone to author and publish thematic web maps in interesting ways on an unlimited array of topics. This article explores why it is important to think about design when creating thematic maps. |
Designing Great Web Maps
| Web maps have characteristics that make them different from print maps or other on-screen maps. This article will help you take those differences into account and create more effective web maps. The content, creation, and compilation of web maps are covered in this article. |
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CityEngine enables the quick creation of 3D urban environments out of 2D data. But beyond that, it can take existing 3D models or real-world information in a variety of file formats, incorporate the information into an urban scenario, and manipulate the scene using real-world or fantasy-world procedural instructions. Then any of the data can be output to the web or repurposed in multiple formats. | |
Philadelphia Uses Robotics and GIS to Map below Market Street: Lidar Speeds Up Mapping of Bustling Center City
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Center City, Philadelphia, needed comprehensive spatial data to understand its public infrastructure better. The mix of GIS, lidar, and robotics produced a view of the infrastructure inside and out. |
Balancing Past and Future: Using 3D GIS Analysis to Route Light Rail through Historic Mesa, Arizona
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In December 2008, the Valley Metro Light Rail system debuted in the Phoenix metropolitan area. In the months that followed, the City of Mesa's single station had more passengers than any other stop on the system. Topics in this article include modeling, collaboration with the community, and redevelopment. |
Discovering and Mapping Natural Hazards with Lidar:
DOGAMI Serves up 33 Terabytes of Lidar Data to Oregonians
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Center City, Philadelphia, needed comprehensive spatial data to understand its public infrastructure better. The mix of GIS, lidar, and robotics produced a view of the infrastructure inside and out. |
Here's Looking at You
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This year marked 40 years of earth observation by Landsat. Thanks to nearly a half-century of data collection, scientists now have baseline knowledge of the earth that is proving invaluable in evaluating environmental change and characterizing the effects of people on the landscape. |
Podcast: Brian Beha of Pictometry
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Brian Beha, director of business development for Pictometry, discusses how the beauty of imagery is in the eye of the beholder, telling different stories to everyone from assessors to fire fighters. He also explains why ArcGIS is the ideal platform for working with his company's aerial oblique imagery data. |
Improved Support for Landsat Imagery in ArcGIS 10.1
| Esri has further improved support for Landsat imagery, including simplified workflows for ArcGIS 10.1 for Desktop and improvements in the World Landsat Services on ArcGIS Online. "Technology barriers are coming down," said Rachel Headley, PhD, Landsat project, United States Geological Survey (USGS) Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS). "We are now enabling entirely new communities to share and enjoy the views of earth that Landsat has documented for more than four decades." |
Imagery Grant Program to Support Natural Resources Management through GIS and Imagery Software, Data, and Training
| Esri, PCI Geomatics, MDA, and RapidEye today announced their new Natural Resources Imagery Grant Program. The grant program will provide software, data, and training for detecting and analyzing land-cover change through the combined use of GIS, image processing, and remote-sensing technologies. |
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