{"id":5376,"date":"2015-08-04T09:25:01","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T16:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/insider\/?p=5376"},"modified":"2015-08-04T09:25:01","modified_gmt":"2015-08-04T16:25:01","slug":"new-app-puts-the-world-in-your-hand","status":"publish","type":"insider","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/insider\/new-app-puts-the-world-in-your-hand","title":{"rendered":"New App Puts the World in Your Hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Field Notes &#8211; Earth uses the power of three new global maps to help answer important questions about our place in the world. <\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5378\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/app\/uploads\/files\/2015\/07\/composite_banner-1024x435.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"271\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/\">Esri<\/a> is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Field Notes &#8211; Earth, a new smartphone app that uses three powerful new maps to help you answer important questions about your place in the world, such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What is your ideal climate?<\/li>\n<li>Where does your food come from?<\/li>\n<li>What drives your choice to live in a high or low density location?<\/li>\n<li>\u2026and much more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Built using Esri\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/landing-pages\/appstudio\">AppStudio for ArcGIS<\/a>, this free app shares the power of geographic information through a common language to describe in tremendous detail the landscape of planet Earth.<!--more--><br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nThe Maps<\/strong><br \/>\nField Notes &#8211; Earth includes a small but significant sampling of the amazing questions that can be answered from Esri\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/features\/maps\/index.html\">Living Atlas of the World<\/a>, which includes beautiful and authoritative maps on thousands of topics. The three comprehensive maps from the Living Atlas of the World featured in Field Notes &#8211; Earth show highly detailed global information layers that provide stunning new insights into the world around us.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Life.<\/strong> The <a href=\"http:\/\/esriurl.com\/elu\">World Ecological Land Units<\/a> map shows the complex support system all living things on land depend upon and interact with. There are nearly 4,000 different colors on this map; each represents a different ecologically valid combination of climate, landform, rock type, and land cover.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Oceans.<\/strong> There is still much to be discovered in the depths of the Earth\u2019s oceans. The new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grida.no\/news\/press\/6090.aspx\">World Seafloor Geomorphology<\/a> map is a major step forward in our understanding of the complex role the oceans play in Earth systems.<\/li>\n<li><strong>People.<\/strong> The new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/insider\/2014\/09\/10\/building-the-most-detailed-population-map-in-the-world\/\">World Population Estimate<\/a> map shows where people live across the planet. The map combines census data, satellite imagery, land cover, and roads to illuminate Earth\u2019s human population.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Maps like these update and transform our understanding and expectations in ways that help us to be wiser citizens of our planet, and Field Notes &#8211; Earth puts the power of these maps in the palm of your hand.<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nThe App<\/strong><br \/>\nField Notes &#8211; Earth is designed to let you ask questions about the Earth from the convenience of your smart phone.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5384\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5384\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/app\/uploads\/files\/2015\/07\/combo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5384\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/app\/uploads\/files\/2015\/07\/combo-1024x531.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"331\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5384\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Available for iPhone and Android, Field Notes\u200a\u2014\u200aEarth lets you pick a place (left), pick your profiles (center), and get results about your place.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nSimply choose a place, such as your hometown, your current residence, or a place you\u2019re considering relocating to, and you\u2019ll learn interesting facts about population, nature, and physical landscapes. Field Notes &#8211; Earth then gives you the option to choose a second location to compare and contrast the differences side-by-side.<br \/>\nThe ability to compare different places on Earth and gain understanding and knowledge from that experience is genuinely exciting. Maps like those found in Field Notes &#8211; Earth bring out the inner geographer in all of us and start meaningful conversations about important issues facing our world today.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nTry It Today<\/strong><br \/>\nField Notes &#8211; Earth is available now for <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/field-notes-earth\/id1014160540\" target=\"_blank\">iPhone<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.esri.fieldnotesearth\">Android<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","castos_file_data":"","podmotor_file_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5376","insider","type-insider","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esri-insider"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>New App Puts the World in Your Hand<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/insider\/new-app-puts-the-world-in-your-hand\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New App Puts the World in Your Hand\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Field Notes &#8211; Earth uses the power of three new global maps to help answer important questions about our place in the world. 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