Customer Success Stories

The impetus for the Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe (INSPIRE) initiative is the need to develop interoperable architectures and standardized interfaces between geospatial implementations throughout Europe to provide a means for addressing common environmental concerns.

Abu Dhabi SDI Supports E-Government Programs [PDF]
ESRI's Jim Baumann describes how Abu Dhabi's spatial data infrastructure helps empower government and society.

European Union to Develop Comprehensive Spatial Data Infrastructure
Recognizing the need to unify its spatial data infrastructure (SDI), the European Union (EU) began to develop the INSPIRE initiative in 2002. The goal: To make geospatial data more readily available for European community policy making.

Colombia National Mapping Agency: Countrywide Mapping Made Possible with GIS [PDF]
Read how the Colombia National Mapping Agency replaced its digital basemap and thematic map production system with a more efficient GIS system.

Build Mashups Using the New ArcGIS API for JavaScript
Developers are quickly adding elements of where to their Web sites along with other important data. They're creating mashups—popular applications that, in the GIS world, merge cartographic and other types of data from multiple sources into one Web mapping application. Mashups combine Web services to create new content.

LandNet Singapore—Share to Synergise
Supporting Singapore's vision of an integrated government, Singapore Land Authority's (SLA) Land Information Network (LandNet) is a spatial data-sharing portal that has propelled interagency sharing of information to a higher level.