ArcGIS Online Public Beta Now Available!

Earlier this morning the new ArcGIS Online went into public beta. ArcGIS Online has been in a limited beta stage for quite a few months as the development teams have been adding new features and fixing issues.

The new ArcGIS Online opens a number of doors for GIS users allowing sharing and finding of GIS content across the web.

With ArcGIS Online, you can upload maps, register online map services, create and save Web maps as items for others to share, and discover and use maps published by ESRI and other ESRI users. You can organize and control access to the maps you share by making them public or private, and you can create and join groups.

The ArcGIS Online Team has great write up on how it works, along with a nice sharing demonstration. This write up can be found here: http://blogs.esri.com/support/…

If you are wanting to make use of ArcGIS Explorer with some of the shared layers on ArcGIS Online, remember this is intended only for use with ArcGIS Explorer 900. ArcGIS Explorer 900 is still in limited beta stage.

Go have a look at the new ArcGIS Online and start sharing some of your data! You can access this here: http://www.arcgisonline.com