ArcGIS.com has now gone live and is available for use. While this is in beta its available for the public to use. ArcGIS.com was talked about and showcased heavily at the ESRI Business Partner Conference 2010 and the ESRI Developer Summit 2010 and forms part of what’s coming with the release of ArcGIS 10. We are pleased to announce that ArcGIS.com is now in public beta. This new site has replaced http://www.arcgisonline.com and includes a number of new features and improvements that we invite you to explore. At the ArcGIS.com site, you can browse featured ArcGIS Online content such as maps and...

Early last year I wrote up a post about ArcGIS Online and the move towards migrating its map services to the Google Maps/Bing Maps tiling scheme. Information on this can be found here: http://geo.geek.nz/esri/… Just before Christmas the ArcGIS Online Team completed this update and migration. ArcGIS Online servers were updated late last week (services.arcgisonline.com, server.arcgisonline.com, premium.arcgisonline.com), and the hosted ArcGIS Online map services were migrated to the Google Maps/Bing Maps tiling scheme in Web Mercator Auxiliary Sphere (WKID 102100). These map services may be used...

Many users wonder how to go about creating web mapping applications. Powerful web mapping applications! Well now you will be able to tune into an ESRI Live Training Seminar and get started using the ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/WPF. Public demand is increasing for Web maps that can tell interesting stories and communicate important information quickly. ESRI will host a live training seminar this month that will teach Web application developers the fundamentals of designing fast, rich, and interactive mapping applications using the ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/WPF. As part of a press...

The ESRI International User Conference 2009 has kicked off and to go with this has been the official launch of the ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/WPF. The ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverilght/WPF 1.0 was made available on the weekend. Information about this can be found here: http://geo.geek.nz/esri/… With the official launch, a new press release has been published. Developers of desktop and Web applications can now deliver rich mapping and geographic information system (GIS) content with the release of ESRI’s ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/WPF. They can combine GIS-based Web...

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...

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...

With the recent addition of the ArcGIS Map Templates Resource Centre, ESRI now offers map templates as a new resource to help ArcGIS software users make great-looking, professional-quality maps for print, the Web and mobile applications. To complement this, ESRI will be hosting a live training seminar which will allow users to tune into a free live training seminar about using templates to improve mapmaking skills. Getting Started with Map Templates, a live training seminar airing at www.esri.com/lts on Thursday, June 25, 2009, will walk geographic information system (GIS) professionals and...

A new press release is about to be published that talks about the new dynamic geocoding and routing services now offered through ArcGIS Online. ArcGIS Online is a fairly new platform, and ESRI has been working hard to add a number of new services and features to this platform. ArcGIS Server and ArcGIS Desktop users can now complement their GIS projects with geocoding, place-finding, and routing capabilities. Composed of World Geocoding and World Routing, these new professional ArcGIS Online location services use the most current and detailed Tele Atlas reference data and are hosted and maintained by...

At the ESRI Developer Summit 2009 earlier this year, ESRI announced that ArCGIS Online will migrate its map services to the Microsoft Virtual Earth/Google Maps tiling scheme. Not many attendees might have picked up on this news, but in the next update which will come through later this year, the tiling scheme will mimic those of Microsoft and Google. This change is in response to feedback from many ArcGIS users who have requested that ESRI use a common map tiling scheme matching other popular online map providers. The new services will particularly enable ArcGIS web developers to more easily combine...

Earlier this month ESRI announced that ArcGIS Online would feature a new premium service. The first addition to this premium service was the introduction of Microsoft Virtual Earth. A few weeks ago ESRI followed up this announcement with a patch for ArcGIS 9.3. This allowed ArcGIS 9.3 users to consume ArcGIS Online Premium Services. ESRI have now made available the ArcGIS Online Premium Services. ArcGIS Online Services Premium subscriptions are now available:  Microsoft Virtual Earth map services for use in ArcGIS Desktop and ArcGIS Explorer can be previewed in the content showcase on the ArcGIS...