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Welcome to Surveying E-news, a periodic publication from the Esri survey team. Each issue provides a quick glimpse of industry news; upcoming events; reminders; and information about integrating surveying, engineering, and GIS.
In This Issue
The Survey Summit 2011
Special Offer: GIS Starter Kit for Surveyors
Industry News
Software and Hardware News
Training News
Events
The Survey Summit 2011
Save the Date for the Survey Summit 2012
If you attended the inaugural
Survey Summit/ACSM Annual Conference, you know it featured informative sessions, educational workshops, intriguing speakers, and ample networking opportunities. Designed to address the latest geospatial trends, challenges, and solutions in surveying and related industries, the Survey Summit is the only event of its kind. Now is the perfect time to start planning to attend the 2012 summit, to be held July 21-24 in San Diego, California. Don’t miss out.
2011 Survey Summit Proceedings
Did you miss out on the world’s premier surveying conference, or do you want to relive the event? Visit the
2011 Survey Summit Proceedings web page; you can read presentations and watch videos of the visionary leaders who presented and discussed topics related to the future of surveying at this year’s gathering. Or visit
Professional Surveyor Magazine for a firsthand report of the event.
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Special Offer: GIS Starter Kit for Surveyors
Put Your Data to Work with GIS
The GIS for Surveyors Starter Kit helps you get started with Esri’s surveying solutions. With this complete software bundle, you can create, maintain, visualize, and share survey and other geographic data. The starter kit includes training and educational materials to get you up and running faster. It will help you integrate GIS into your workflows by providing a platform on which you can store, retrieve, visualize, plan, and share survey and other geographic data throughout your organization.
Get started with GIS now.
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Industry News
Is High-Accuracy GPS at Risk?
Brent Jones, Esri’s surveying, land administration, and engineering industry manager, discusses the implications of the proposed LightSquared 4G broadband network and how it might interfere with the high-accuracy GPS signals that surveying and other related professions rely on to do business. Get in on the discussion at the
Spatial Roundtable.
International Contributions Add Detail to Popular Basemap
Organizations around the world supply authoritative content to Esri’s World Topographic Map, resulting in a truly global, highly detailed, and cartographically uniform basemap. The World Topographic Map, along with other basemaps, is freely available in the online versions of ArcGIS, ArcGIS Explorer, ArcGIS for Desktop, and ArcGIS for Server. The Dutch Kadaster is the latest organization to contribute data to the World Topographic Map. It follows data contributors in Spain, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, and United Kingdom. The Netherlands contributed datasets from its topographic database, which includes airports, buildings, and neighborhoods. To view the World Topographic Map and the data contributed by the Netherlands, visit
ArcGIS.com.
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Register Your GIS Day Celebration
Have you registered your 2011 GIS Day event? Whether you are planning a large- or small-scale celebration, registering at
gisday.com will help you spread the word to your community. GIS Day will be celebrated around the world on November 16, 2011.
Volunteer to Be a GeoMentor
Do you know how to work with GIS? Do you want to spread the word about the power of geography to young people? The GeoMentor Program gives you the opportunity to help a school or club do more with geography. The GeoMentor Program helps mentors and educators connect and establish partnerships. Register with your Esri Global ID at
geomentor.org, then sign in and find a partner. If you're already collaborating, post a link to online pictures or descriptions of activities.
New Esri Press Book
Making Spatial Decisions Using GIS: A Workbook, Second Edition, offers scenario-based lessons to develop GIS and critical-thinking skills. The 12 projects include step-by-step exercises and independent work. The scenarios deal with spatial decision making for hazardous emergencies, natural disasters, crime, and urban planning. Data and ArcGIS 10 for Desktop software are provided.
Buy the workbook.
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Software and Hardware News
What's Next for 3D Modeling and Design?
In this video, Esri's Gert van Maren talks about how to create high-quality 3D content using CityEngine from Procedural, a company Esri recently purchased.
Watch the video.
New Version of ArcGIS for iOS Now Available
Esri has released an updated version of
ArcGIS for iOS that includes several enhancements, as well as support for pop-up windows, access to ArcGIS Online basemaps, and new collaboration features. The new update lets users view pop-up windows in their maps, giving them the ability to see additional information by simply tapping on the map. This intuitive feature makes accessing text, photos, pie charts, and website links even easier. Download the ArcGIS for iOS application from the
App Store.
ArcGIS Online Adds Drag-and-Drop Capability
The latest release of
ArcGIS Online supports the addition of data from a .csv or .txt file directly to the map viewer. Users can also add GPS Exchange format (.gpx) files; Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC), Web Map Service (WMS) layers; and KML layers. Location information, such as business or customer locations, can now be quickly visualized on a web map. ArcGIS Online also gives users control over how features from .csv, .txt, or .gpx files are displayed. Discover how ArcGIS Online gives everyone the opportunity to create and share maps and geospatial applications.
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Empower Your Mobile Workforce
Esri offers US customers a new
ArcGIS mobile solution with a Juniper Mesa Geo 3G Rugged Notepad [PDF]. The Mesa Geo 3G Rugged Notepad features the advantages of both a Tablet PC and a rugged handheld computer and includes an integrated digital 3.2-megapixel color camera. The Mesa is a data collection handheld device with a large 5.7-inch VGA active viewing display but still feels like a compact handheld. Visit the
Esri Store to find more software and extensions, upgrades, data, books, and hardware bundles.
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Training News
Take Two New Esri Technical Certification Exams
Are you an ArcGIS Desktop or ArcGIS Engine application development whiz? Is enterprise system integration or information product design your forte? If you answered yes, consider taking the new Esri Technical Certification exams,
ArcGIS Desktop Developer Associate and
Enterprise System Design Associate.
Managing Parcel Data Using ArcGIS Desktop 10
As your communities change, you need to update your land records data to reflect the real world and at the same time maintain a record of historic boundaries and associated information. In this three-hour web training course, you will learn how to use ArcGIS 10 Parcel Editor tools to update the spatial and attribute information for existing parcels while ensuring the topological integrity of the parcel fabric.
Register for this course.
Introduction to Editing Parcels Using ArcGIS Desktop 10
Parcel data is the foundation of a local government's land records database. ArcGIS 10 introduces a new data model, workflow, and tools that allow you to efficiently create and manage parcel data more accurately than ever before. This three-hour web training course explains the new concepts and gets you started working with the new tools right away.
Register for this course.
Working with CAD Data in ArcGIS Desktop
Knowing how to integrate CAD data into GIS workflows will help you streamline GIS data editing, enhance GIS maps, and perform GIS analyses. In this course, you will learn how to display CAD data with GIS layers in ArcGIS, use CAD data directly in ArcGIS geoprocessing and analysis operations, and import CAD data into a geodatabase. This one-day instructor-led class is suited to experienced CAD users who have basic ArcGIS skills.
Enroll now.
Maximizing GPS Accuracy in GIS Data Collection
This free 60-minute training seminar examines techniques for maximizing the accuracy of GPS during mobile GIS data collection. The seminar explains the concept of differential correction, the relationship between GPS and GIS, how to select the right type of GPS device for your needs, environmental impacts on GPS accuracy, and key data collection methodologies.
Watch this seminar now.
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Events
InterGeo Annual Conference
September 27-29, 2011
Nuremberg, Germany
Texas Society of Professional Surveyors (TSPS) Annual Conference
October 5-8, 2011
Frisco, Texas, USA
Survey Summit
July 21-24, 2012
San Diego, California, USA
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