ArcGIS For iOS Now Available On The App Store!

ArcGIS for iOS is now available for download from the App Store! This has been in the works for a while now and was showcased at the ESRI Developer Summit 2010 and ESRI Business Partner Conference 2010. The initial versions looked great and now it’s been made FREELY available for download from the App Store.

ArcGIS is a great way to discover and use maps. Maps come to life in ArcGIS. Tap on the map or use your current location and discover information about what you see. You can query the map, search and find interesting information, measure distances and areas of interest and share maps with others.

Find community hosted maps from ArcGIS Online – ESRI’s online GIS. Alternatively you can use the authoring tools on ArcGIS.com to create your own maps that can be used in ArcGIS.

If you are an existing ESRI customer this application is part of your ArcGIS system. You can share your corporate maps and extend the reach of your GIS to your iOS devices within your enterprise using ArcGIS Server.

ArcGIS for iOS offers a number of compelling features that will be useful to most users. These include: 

• Navigate map galleries in just a few taps
• Use maps authored in ArcGIS.com
• Access your own GIS data
• Display and zoom to current location
• Perform linear and area measurements based on your current location or by interacting with the map.
• Retrieve detailed map metadata
• View feature attribute information
• Perform keyword search and get access to relevant information
• Execute predefined searches
• Change the visibility of layers
• Access popular maps faster by adding them to your favorites list
• Share maps with other iPhone/iPad users

Head over to iTunes here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/… or search for “ArcGIS” on the App Store from your iPhone or iPod Touch.

Here are some screenshots of how ArcGIS for iOS looks and works!

 

Your last browsed map is available on start-up.

Allowing ArcGIS for iOS to use Location Services will locate your current position and automatically zoom to it.

 

Useful map tools have been provided. 

Searching capability is available as well. These make use of locator services available on ArcGIS.com

 

When a search result is selected, you are zoomed to that location and provided with more information.

Integration with ArcGIS.com is available as well. You can browse a bundle of the content available on ArcGIS.com directly from ArcGIS for iOS. These predefined maps can then be used within the application.

An example map from ArcGIS.com. This example is showing the Gulf Oil Spill Forecast.

ArcGIS for iOS really aligns itself well within the ArcGIS 10 system. The seamless integration with ArcGIS Server, ArcGIS.com along with being able to leverage some of the powerful features of iOS makes ArcGIS for iOS a useful but great mobile GIS application to have on the to go!

Go download and have a play!