ArcWatch: GIS News, Views, and Insights

April 2013

Not Just Plane Art

Imagine this: Ten photomosaics created using students' drawings of planes, trains, and automobiles, an art exhibit at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas, needed to go online for easy viewing by the general public. Senior GIS programmer Don Kang and his team at the Clark County Department of Aviation in Nevada came up with an ingenious solution. They used ArcGIS to create the Children's Art Photomosaic website. The application for the site uses an image service created in ArcGIS for Server that lets you zoom in and clearly see each of the 100,000 images that make up the photomosaics. Read the article.

Artist Robert Silvers used 30,000 pieces of children's art to create the photomosaics on display at McCarran International Airport.

The Headlines

See the Big Picture

Collecting and reporting information and monitoring operations and systems in real time just became a lot easier with Esri's new Operations Dashboard for ArcGIS and Collector for ArcGIS apps. Read this article to find out how to use them.

Assessing Forest Damage

The Alabama Forestry Commission used ArcGIS to assess and map the damage to more than 200,000 acres of forestland after a swarm of deadly tornadoes struck the state two years ago. Read the article. Register for the Esri Forestry GIS Conference.

A Diplomatic Coup for GIS

Esri's new Education Ambassador program made inroads with students in Ghana when Bob Kolvoord traveled there to tell them about GIS and the power of spatial thinking and analysis. Read the article. Want to be an education ambassador? Apply today.

News Bytes

The Next Generation of ArcGIS

Watch this series of presentations from the Esri International Developer Summit and find out where ArcGIS will go next.
Superstorm Sandy's Superheroes

Josh Keller and Cory MacVie from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) built the useful Check Your Home application after Superstorm Sandy hit. Read the article.
No Bones about It

GIS can be used to map bones. In one case, David C. Rose used ArcGIS to identify and map features inside a human foot bone. Read the article.
Geodesign Summit Coming to China

Esri and Peking University will host the Geodesign International Conference in Beijing October 28–29, 2013. Register today.
Make Data Fit the Community Maps Program

Learn a process for quickly migrating source data to the Local Government Information Model.
Esri Maps for Office 2.0 Ready to Use

Download this new version of Esri Maps for Office, powered by ArcGIS Online.
Mapping the Best Ballpark Food

Centerpoints

A Geographic Shift

ArcGIS is always evolving, so expect some exciting changes ahead. Many coming innovations were discussed at the Esri Federal GIS Conference. Read the article.

Free Mapping Solutions

Work in government? Choose from dozens of ArcGIS for Local Government no-cost maps and apps. See the City of Fort Lauderdale's GIS Application Gallery in action.

Take a GIS Road Trip

Whether you will come by air, land, or sea, it's time to plan your week at the Esri International User Conference in San Diego, California.

Technical Talk

Design Secrets

Listen to usability expert Jared M. Spool's Esri DevSummit talk, Anatomy of a Design Decision. He lays out five different styles of design. Which one is right for you?
ArcGIS for Developers

Esri introduces ArcGIS for Developers, a site that gives you the resources you need to get started bringing geo into your apps. Read the article.
Swift and Lossless

The Air Force used ArcToolbox with Python tools to create a repeatable process in ArcGIS for Desktop for quickly migrating to a new data model without a loss of data.
Attention .NET Developers!

The 10.2 beta release of ArcGIS Runtime SDK for Windows Store Apps is here. Read the blog.
DevSummit Presentations

Missed the DevSummit or want to refresh your memory of a session? Download the proceedings.
A Winning Strategy

Who won Esri's 100 Lines or Less ArcGIS JavaScript Code Challenge, and how did he do it? Read the blog.
GIS Tools for Apache Hadoop

This is an open source toolkit for big spatial data analytics using the Hadoop framework. Read the blog.

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Visible, Valuable GIS Resources

Use ArcGIS Online with ArcGIS for Server to give your organization's employees access to your map services. Read the article.
Take a Free Seminar

Tune in to Esri's live training seminar Increase the Value of ArcGIS Services with ArcGIS Online on April 25, 2013.
Maplex Labels for ArcGIS Online

You can add Maplex labels as a tiled service to your ArcGIS Online web maps. Here's how.
Melding Motion Control and GIS

Watch this video of the soon-to-be-released Leap Motion Controller integrated with the ArcGIS for Desktop ArcGlobe application.
Video: Migrate to the Esri UC
Test Esri Betas, Tell Us What You Think
What's New in ArcGIS Online?
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Endpoints

Around the World

Want to explore Arapahoe County, Colorado? Interested in Iowa State University? Take a tour of the maps contributed by Esri users. They shared this content for free in Esri's secure cloud through the Community Maps Program.

Teach with SpatiaLABS

SpatiaLABS 2013 offers real-world scenarios in the form of lab exercises to teach college-level students how to apply spatial analysis to problem solving. Delivered on DVD, the 64 labs can be uploaded to the school's server for faculty.

Hardware Offer

Try Esri CityEngine packaged with a Dell Precision Workstation. Esri CityEngine provides professional users with a conceptual design and modeling solution for generating high-quality 3D cities and buildings using their existing GIS data.

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