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Cover Stories

• Announcing ArcGIS Explorer
• Defining the Components of the Geospatial Workforce - Who Are We?
• Where Did That Geospatial Data Come From?
  - 4th Annual Survey and GIS Summit 2006
• USGS, NGA, and DHS Collaborate to Build "GIS for the Gulf"
• Sears Holdings Corporation Deploys GIS Navigation and Mapping System
• USDA Web Soil Survey Supports Public Access to Volumes of Data
• Science Instructor Mark Ericson At the Santa Fe Indian School
• Liwal Helps in the Rebuilding and Rehabilitation of Afghanistan
• The Republic of Iraq Maps Its Future
• Putting the "Art" Back into Cartography

GIS Product News

• Business Analyst Online for Economic Development, Education, and Health
• Segmentation Module Now Available for ArcGIS 9.1 Business Analyst
• ArcIMS 9.1 Route Server Now Available
• ArcPad 7 Now Shipping
• OLAP for ArcGIS Add-On Now Available for Download
• Job Tracking for ArcGIS (JTX) Improves Integration with ArcGIS Spatial Tools
• ArcWeb Services 2006 Now Available

GIS in Action

• Southern Company's Enterprise GIS Streamlines Communication Between Its Five Electric Utilities
• Loudoun County, Virginia, Public Information Mapping Makes Successful Transition with GIS
• Middle Rio Grande River Being Restored Using GIS
• West Springfield, Massachusetts, Builds Information Portals with GIS
• Web Portal Links More Than 1,500 Public Mapping Servers
• Esri Business Partners Provide Data, Software, and Services Solutions
  - Plans Being Finalized for 2006 Esri Worldwide Business Partner Conference
• Santa Ynez Valley, California, Union High School Students Map Town Water System with GIS and GPS
• Mosquito Control Operations at Florida Keys Mosquito Control District Integrates GIS
• Community and Land Services Highlighted in ArcIMS Sites
• Revisiting ArcNews Fall 2005
• For Puget Sound, Washington, GIS and Modeling Are Protecting and Restoring Shorelines and Open Spaces
  - Protecting Signature Landscapes, Natural Resources, and Habitats

GIS in Disaster Preparedness and Response

• In Japan, Niigata Chuetsu Earthquake Damage Assessment Data Is Gathered More Efficiently Using GIS
• Florida State Emergency Response Task Force Provides Hurricane Katrina Support Using GIS
• Mexico's National Center for Disaster Prevention Delivers Natural and Human-Made Risk Information to the Web via GIS

Routing and Logistics GIS

• How GIS Helps with Transportation Logistics
• Colorado's North Front Range Metropolitan Planning Organization Makes Ride Sharing Easier with GIS
• Cobb County, Georgia, Creates a Geodatabase for Routing and Other Transportation Services Using GIS
• Apex Office Supply Delivers Products More Efficiently with GIS

Environmental Inventory with GIS

• Why Use Environmental GIS?
• In Transcarpathia, Ukraine, GIS Aids Statistical Forest Inventory
• Cambridge, Massachusetts, Community Trees Are Managed with GIS
• 4-H Clubs Inventory Trees in Hillsboro, Oregon, and Park Conditions in St. Louis, Missouri
• Federation of Earth Science Information Partners and Esri

GIS Community News

• GIS Users Meet in August for 26th Annual Esri International User Conference
• Dr. Jane Goodall DVD
• Esri Developer Summit Spotlights Spatial Value
• 20th European Conference for Esri Users and European Educational User Conference
• URISA Plans Busy Year of Conferences in 2006
• Worldwide Business Partner Conference
• Operation GIS Day 2005
• GIS Day 2006
• Esri's Business GeoInfo Summit
• Intelligent Enterprise Readers Vote Esri "Best GIS"
• First Asia-Pacific Conference for Esri Users
• First Australasia Conference for Esri Education Users a Success in Tasmania
• Beijing Capital Company, Esri China (Beijing) Ltd. Form Strategic Relationship
• Exclusive ArcNews Online Articles
• Geologic Map of Washington State Wins Design Awards
• The University of Redlands, California, Begins Initiative to Promote Education and Applied Research in GIS
• Crossing Borders: Geographers Respond to Katrina
• Applying GIS in Higher Education Social Science and Public Policy Research Methods Courses
• Learning to Think Spatially Now Available
• African Adventure Novel by ArcNews Editor Published
• Sudan, Borneo, Russia—Esri T-Shirts Go Eastern Hemisphere!