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June 2017

Top 25 Things to Experience at the Esri User Conference

By Carla Wheeler
ArcWatch Editor

The Esri User Conference in San Diego, California, is always chock-full of educational, interesting, and fun experiences. To help you locate the activities that most interest you, check out this guide, Top 25 Things to Experience at the Esri User Conference. It’s available in story form and as an Esri Story Map Tour app. The app includes an interactive map of where the events will take place. The conference will be held July 10–14, 2017. Read the article. View the Esri Story Map Tour app.

Where can you learn about the ArcGIS Hub? Where can you get free ArcGIS training? Where can you find the food trucks? Find out using this Esri Story Map Tour app.

The Tip

Make an Esri Story Map Series App in Minutes
The Esri Story Map Series app presents a series of maps and other types of content via a set of tabs, bullets, or side accordion controls. Learn the steps to follow to produce an app using the tabbed layout. Read the tip.

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The Headlines

Create Consistent Branding for Web Apps

Maintain a consistent look and feel to your organization’s web apps by using new administrative settings in ArcGIS Online, called shared-theme properties. Read the article.

North Korea's Missile Tests Mapped

North Korean missile tests, including launch site locations, were mapped using an Esri Story Map Journal app. Author: Florent Giauna, Esri France. Data source: James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. View the story map.

The Geospatial Report

Touched by the Tactile Atlas of Switzerland

Cartographers can create maps that help people with visual impairments read with their fingers. Case in point: the Tactile Atlas of Switzerland. Learn more.
Add Text and Images in an Animation in ArcGIS Pro

You can place text and images in an animation that you have created in ArcGIS Pro. The work can be done using only ArcGIS Pro rather than other media editing packages. Learn how in this video.
Why Culver's Counts on Esri

Eugene Boyd, a GIS analyst for Culver Franchising Systems, Inc., explains why the restaurant chain uses Esri Demographics and ArcGIS technology to make smart business decisions. Watch the video.
The Life Saving Power of GIS

In nations around the world—such as Nigeria, Somalia, and Haiti—GIS is helping relief organizations fight polio, relieve famine, and recover from earthquakes. Read the article in the Press-Enterprise.

Tech Time

Learn to Work with Insights for ArcGIS

Art Haddad and Linda Beale from Esri present a one-hour tech session on how to analyze and visualize data using Insights for ArcGIS, which was designed to quickly answer questions about your data in a user-friendly interface. “We can take advantage of the power of GIS by removing a lot of the technological complexity,” Haddad said. View the tech session. Watch a video about the design of Insights for ArcGIS.

New High-Resolution Imagery is Available

Esri has just published new high-resolution aerial imagery for the continental United States, provided by the US Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency. Read the blog. View the imagery.
Manage Planet Imagery in ArcGIS

Esri now offers free, open-source tools to manage PlanetScope and RapidEye imagery in ArcGIS. Read the blog.
Use Maps to Improve Power BI Reports

Esri hosts Introduction to ArcGIS Maps for Power BI, a free, 30-minute seminar on how to visualize tabular data on maps to gain greater insight into your information. Watch the seminar.

Maps & More

Create a Predominance Visualization

Find out how to use ArcGIS Arcade, an expression language, to create predominance visualizations in web apps built using the ArcGIS platform. Read the blog. Watch the tech session.

Children's Imaginations Come Alive in Maps

Children's Imaginations Come Alive in Maps

More than 50 maps drawn by children appear in the new Esri book Children Map the World: Commemorating the International Map Year, Volume 4. Read the National Geographic article.

Hardware Offer

The Septentrio Altus NR2 GNSS Receiver increases data collection accuracy when using Esri's Collector for ArcGIS on Android, iOS, or Windows mobile devices. Order today.

The Last Word

Land Reform, Wolf Ladejinsky's Way

In 1945, the American general Douglas MacArthur appointed Wolf Ladejinsky to implement massive land reform in war-ravaged Japan. Today, using mobile GIS apps connected to the cloud, land markets in developing economies can carry on Ladejinsky’s simple formula to enfranchise people and increase national revenue. Read the blog.
Tour 12 Lonely, Abandoned Islands

Maps, satellite imagery, photos, and graphics are combined in an Esri Story Map Journal app to tell the hair-raising and haunting stories of 12 abandoned islands around the world. The islands include Bikini Atoll, Poveglia, and Clipperton Island. See the story map.

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