A new press release is about to published by ESRI talking about a carbon accounting program using geospatial technology to meet Kyoto reporting requirements in New Zealand. The New Zealand Ministry for the Environment is implementing geographic information system (GIS) software from ESRI to analyze, measure, and report greenhouse gas emissions and land-use change. GIS will be used to comply with the reporting requirements of the Kyoto Protocol in an effort to reduce greenhouse gases that contribute to Earth’s climate changes. The Land Use and Carbon Analysis System (LUCAS) is built on a...

ESRI released this patch a few weeks back but since then there has been a few issues so the patch has been pulled and updated. The final version of this patch is now up. The ArcGIS 9.3.1 Download Layer Package Patch was released to address issues with downloading secure content from ArcGIS Online when using ArcGIS. This patch addresses issues with downloading secure content from ArcGIS Online when using ArcGIS Desktop. Content that is not shared with everyone cannot be downloaded. This patch allows all content from ArcGIS Online to be downloaded. We recommend that all Desktop users download and...

A big new addition to the ESRI Resource Centres is the Enterprise Resource Centre. Launched a few days ago, the Enterprise Resource Centre contains resources to help IT professionals implement a sustainable enterprise GIS. The Enterprise Resource Centre contains best practices, patterns and guidance in the areas of security, performance and scalability, application architecture and interoperability. The Enterprise Resource Centre is broken into three categories for resources. Application Architectures The ArcGIS Platform provides a comprehensive suite of applications and services. The Application...

Users are always on the lookout for ways to speed up map caching. There are a few things that users can take into consideration when looking into speeding up caching ArcGIS Server map services. The Mapping Centre has complied a short list of some of what they have learnt over the past few months. This list if focused around how you can optimise the environment you are caching your map in. So what are these tips? Upgrade to ArcGIS 9.3.1.  If you have not upgraded to 9.3.1, do it before caching because the file I/O for writing map cache tile images was vastly improved in the latest version. The...

For those that have been wondering how to go about doing this. A short article has been posted by the ESRI Support Centre. This article provides a brief look into integrating the Adobe Flex Builder Plugin into an existing Eclipse IDE. You can find this article here: http://blogs.esri.com/support/… Extremely useful for existing Java ADF developers wanting to work with the ArcGIS API for...

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...

Information on the upcoming ArcGIS 9.3.1 Seminar Series, “Creating Effective Web Maps” is now live. Location: Eagle Technology Group Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand. Date: Tuesday June 30, 2009 Location: Eagle Technology Group Ltd, Wellington, New Zealand Date: Thursday July 2, 2009 There is going to be a morning session and an afternoon session at each venue making it four sessions in total. Spaces are limited. The agenda is as follows: Morning session: 9:00-10:15: Design Strategies for Authoring and Publishing 10:15-10:30: Break 10:30-12:00: Building Web Applications...

The release candidate build of the ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/WPF is now available download from the ESRI Resource Centre for ArcGIS Server. Build numbers are as follows: Initial Release: 1.0.0.160 Updated Release: 1.0.0.209 Release Candidate: 1.0.0.255 There are a number of updates and enhancements along with a few breaking changes as well as a few bugs which have been resolved. The updates/enhancements include: Breaking Change: All assemblies and namespaces have been appended with name “Client”. For example: ESRI.ArcGIS.* has become ESRI.ArcGIS.Client.*. This change was made...

Late last week the New Zealand Archaeological Association launched their new site recording scheme website. ArchSite is a new initiative that will enable people to more easily access information about archaeological sites in New Zealand. ArchSite is an online database that contains information about recorded archaeological sites, and uses GIS (Geographic Information System) technology to manage and display site information. ArchSite is the national inventory of archaeological sites in New Zealand, and the information it contains is used for research, site management and protection. There are currently...

A new whitepaper has been published which talks about the common topic of ArcGIS Server and virtualisation. Virtualization is becoming a standard IT practice. It is becoming increasingly popular among ArcGIS® customers as well. Virtualization solutions are being broadly used in test, development, and production environments, providing tremendous benefits to ArcGIS Server deployments. ESRI uses virtualization technologies for the development, quality assurance, and certification processes of ArcGIS Server. This document provides an overview of virtualization and addresses some of the most common...