Land Information New Zealand Minister Maurice Williamson is set to address ~ 400 senior executives at the upcoming ESRI Senior Executive Summit 2010. This closed event is part of the ESRI International User Conference 2010 which is set to kick off in San Deigo next week. Mr Williamson will address a senior executive seminar at the Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) International Users Conference on Sunday morning (early Monday morning NZ time). The week-long conference is being held in San Diego and attracts over 12,000 professionals from around the world. "Geospatial information and...

The ESRI International User Conference 2010 is about to kick off in San Deigo next week and for the last few years ESRI has created a nice little Flex application that allows you to find a room or router around the San Deigo Convention Centre. The application is a great and useful showcase of some of the capabilities of ArcGIS Server, ArcGIS API for Flex and Network Analyst. The route finder displays distance in either mi or km as well as approximate walking time. There is also the option of search for accessible routes. Definitely worth using if you are attending this years UC. You can find the...

It’s been a couple months since the public beta of the ArcGIS API for iPhone was made available. This much anticipated API enables developers to build iPhone applications that utilize the power mapping, geocoding, geoprocessing and custom capabilities provided by ArcGIS Server. Since then we have seen the release of the iPhone 4 as well as ArcGIS for iOS and with these releases there has also been a name change. As some of you have already noticed, we renamed ArcGIS API for iPhone to ArcGIS API for iOS in anticipation of providing support for iOS 4. We are very pleased to announce that Update 1 of...

ArcGIS 10 introduces a new add-in model making easier for developers to customize and extend certain functionality. Leveraging this model, a new editing add-in has been developed for OpenStreetMap. For a while, ArcGIS users have been able to use the OpenStreetMap (OSM) content as a basemap in ArcGIS Desktop or in web applications thanks to a republishing of this content through ArcGIS Online. After the earthquakes, we have received many requests from users of ArcGIS who want to contribute to OSM, but who prefer to use the editing capabilities of ArcGIS Desktop. This free add-in is designed to help...

Those using ArcGIS Server 10 might come across this issue when publishing map services with mobile data access capabilities. In the past it was OK to publish an MXD as a map service with mobile data access capabilities enabled as long as it contained supported layers. However using ArcGIS Server 10, you will receive the following error message when trying to start a map service with mobile data access capabilities enabled. Now this message isn’t very useful and might be confusing to a number of users. So turning logging onto verbose and interrogating the log files we fine the following error...

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....

The much anticipated ArcGIS Viewer for Flex has now been made available for download as a public beta. The ArcGIS API for Flex development team is excited to announce that the ArcGIS Viewer for Flex (BETA) application is now available for testing. The ArcGIS Viewer for Flex is built with the ArcGIS API for Flex 2.0, and is based on the popular Sample Flex Viewer that was used with the 1.x versions of the Flex API. This comes on the back of the release of the ArcGIS API for Flex 2.0 which was made available last week. Information about that release can be found here:...

Late last week we sent out an email to customers in New Zealand informing them of the some of the changes to licensing with ArcGIS Mobile 10. There are some new and exciting changes so thought I would share this with everyone! ESRI and Eagle Technology Group Ltd have announced the following licensing changes to ArcGIS Mobile 10: ArcGIS Mobile is now a feature of ArcGIS Desktop (ArcInfo, ArcEditor, ArcView).  ArcGIS Desktop 10 users are entitled to one (1) ArcGIS Mobile deployment for use in conjunction with their ArcGIS Desktop product.  This means that users can install ArcGIS Mobile on...

Last last month a critical bug was posted which affected those using ArcGIS 10 and geodatabase replication. Information about this bug can be found here: http://geo.geek.nz/development/… An upgrade patch has now been released and is available for download. This is a mandatory patch and should be applied to all ArcGIS 10 clients (ArcGIS Desktop, ArcGIS Engine, ArcGIS Server) before synchronizing or creating replicas in the upgraded database. This upgrade patch can be downloaded here: http://resources.arcgis.com/content/… Apply this patch as soon as possible as data corruption could occur if...

Both the ArcGIS API for Flex 2.0 and the ArcGIS API for JavaScript 2.0 are now available. These API’s have been in public beta for a the last few month and have now been made available coinciding with the release of ArcGIS 10. Information on the ArcGIS 10 release can be found here: http://geo.geek.nz/esri/… Both API’s introduce a number of new features with the release of ArcGIS. Some of these include: The ArcGIS API for JavaScript 2.0 Feature Layers Editing Time Aware Layers Network Analyst Image Server New Samples Updates To The Geometry Service Mapping Enhancements The ArcGIS...