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May 20, 2025

What's New in ArcGIS AllSource 1.4

By Stephen Kredel

As frost melts and nature blooms once more, a new season of intelligence analysis comes. The release of ArcGIS AllSource 1.4 includes the addition of new tools and enhancements to others, with a focus on military symbology. Military Overlay continues to see improvements with the addition of four new standardized styles: APP-6(E), APP-6(D), MIL-STD-2525C, and MIL-STD-2525D with change 1.

To learn more about enhanced and added tools, read What’s New for ArcGIS AllSource 1.4.

Military Overlay

Military Overlay creates and manages symbolized features that support military planning and operations. Using unit symbols and tactical graphic symbols, you can represent units, equipment, and activities of military organizations on a map.

Military Overlay on Create/Edit tab.
In prior releases, setting the Current Standard (A) was on the Settings tab, causing unnecessary steps when creating a symbol other than the default standard.

With this release, In addition to including four new standards, the symbol creation workflow has been tightened. Now, when creating symbology, you can change the Current Standard at the Create/Edit tab before editing the symbology. Taking a refreshed and renewed approach to military symbol editing.

To learn more, checkout the Military Overlay help documentation.

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Stephen Kredel

Stephen Kredel is a Product Engineer on the ArcGIS AllSource team. He joined Esri in 2022 and focuses on technical writing and help documentation. He has four years experience as a Geospatial Intelligence Imagery Analyst in the U.S. Army and earned his B.A. in history from the University of Redlands.

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