It’s been a while since we have heard from the Applications Prototype Team in Redlands. As always they are busy working on the next greatest idea that could eventuate into a product or provide a good showcase of technology. The Applications Prototype Team has built a sample web application using the Silverlight PivotViewer control to browse a large imagery collection of New Zealand. The Silverlight PivotViewer makes it easier to interact with massive amounts of data on the web in ways that are powerful, informative, and valuable and the team has been able to leverage these capabilities in this...

ArcGIS Mobile 10 has received an update to address a couple of issues. The latest build is now available on the Customer Care Portal for download. If you log into the Esri Customer Care Portal, you will find that we have updated the download for ArcGIS Mobile. It is now titled "ArcGIS Mobile 10 (Build 2475)". This is a quick bug fix update to ArcGIS Mobile and the first of several updates we intend to bring to you over the next year. Running the update setup will not require uninstalling ArcGIS Mobile 10. It will simply update your existing installation. Fixes in this update...

About a month ago I posted information about ArcGIS for Windows Phone and the ArcGIS API for Windows Phone which was coming soon. Information about this can be found here: http://geo.geek.nz/esri/…. Well it’s now here and the the public beta of the ArcGIS API for Windows Phone has been made available. We’re proud to announce that the initial beta for version 2.1 of the ArcGIS API for Windows Phone is now available for download on the resource center.  The API is built on the Silverlight framework of the Windows Phone Application Platform which includes existing Microsoft tools and...

The latest version of ArcGIS Explorer has been released and is now available for download! ArcGIS Explorer is a free virtual globe that is much more than just a fun and easy way to explore the world in 2D and 3D. You can use it to add your own data to your maps and combine it with free data from ESRI. You can also customize your maps by adding photos, reports, videos, and other information. The latest version, ArcGIS Explorer Build 1500 comes packed with a bundle of updates and new features. Some of these include: Updated Basemap Gallery The basemap gallery contains a variety of ready-to-use ArcGIS...

ArcGIS Explorer Build 1500 is coming soon! There are a bundle of new features and as we build up to this latest release, a sneak peak of what’s coming has been collated into a great video which can be found below. View The Video

The deprecation plans for ArcGIS 10 and ArcGIS 10.1 has been released. With every release, platforms not being used as much anymore or at the end of their supportability are assessed. With platforms, these can include operating systems, databases, development environments, hardware and the like. Periodically, it is necessary to deprecate specific functionalities and/or platforms to continue delivering optimal support for the remaining Esri software functionalities and platforms. At the ArcGIS 10 and upcoming ArcGIS 10.1 releases, Esri has a number of changes in our functionality and platform support....

Earlier this year Microsoft unveiled Windows Phone at Mobile World Congress 2010. With this new platform, Microsoft offers a fresh approach to phone software, distinguished by smart design and truly integrated experiences that bring to the surface the content people care about from the Web and applications. For the first time ever, Microsoft will bring together Xbox LIVE games and the Zune music and video experience on a mobile phone, exclusively on Windows Phone 7 Series. For developers, Microsoft Silverlight is the platform for Windows Phone development and as such the ArcGIS API for Windows Phone...

With ArcGIS 10 being released and the kick of the ESRI International User Conference 2010, ESRI has made ArcGIS Server 10 available to customers via Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud . “ArcGIS Server on Amazon EC2 gives customers another option for deploying ArcGIS Server," explains Ismael Chivite, product manager for ArcGIS Server. "Essentially, ArcGIS Server on Amazon EC2 will reduce the complexity of software deployments for many organizations. Instead of installing and maintaining local instances of ArcGIS Server on premises, customers can launch ArcGIS Server on EC2 instances with...

Last week I posted about a new ArcGIS 10 editing add-in which has been developed for OpenStreetMap. The add-on allows ArcGIS users to download data from OpenStreetMap, store it locally in a geodatabase, and use the advanced editing environment of ArcGIS Desktop 10 to create, modify, or delete data. Once the edits are complete, the changes can be posted back to OpenStreetMap and made available to the OpenStreetMap community. Full information on this can be found here: http://geo.geek.nz/development/… The project’s website is now on CodePlex. This includes downloads, documentation and screenshots...

ArcGIS 9.3.1 Service Pack 2 has been released. This release includes an good number of fixes and enhancements. The announcement around this release can be found here: http://geo.geek.nz/esri/… A detailed list of fixes and enhancements associated with each product can be found here: ArcGIS 9.3.1 (Desktop, Server, Engine) Service Pack 2 ArcGIS Image Server 9.3.1 Service Pack 2 ArcIMS 9.3.1 Service Pack 2 ArcSDE 9.3.1 Service Pack 2 ArcGIS 9.3.1 Service Pack 2 download locations can be found here: US ArcGIS 9.3.1 (Desktop, Server, Engine) Service Pack 2 ArcGIS Image Server 9.3.1 Service Pack...