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:...

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...

ArcGIS 10 has now been released and as users begin to download and use this latest release, some are wondering about exact functionality changes between editions and where some of the new functionality lies. These questions are answered in a recently published ArcGIS Server 10 Functionality Matrix. This document is a guide for determining the edition and capacity level of ArcGIS Server that best fits your organization. The document goes on to look at each of these in detail providing a list of exactly what’s available in a particular edition. This is a very useful document when determining which...

The ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/WPF 2.0 Release Candidate is now available for download! The release candidate for version 2.0 of the ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/WPF is now available for download on the ArcGIS Resource Center.   This release is feature complete for version 2.0.  It is important to note that you can install the 2.0 release candidate side-by-side with previous versions of the ArcGIS API for Silverlight/WPF.   Keep in mind that to download the API setup, you will need to login to the ArcGIS Resource Center.  Since the ArcGIS API for...

ArcGIS Explorer Build 1200 was made available earlier this year and came packed with a bundle of new features. Information on this release can be found here: http://geo.geek.nz/esri/… Pictures of ArcGIS Explorer Build 1200 is action can be found here: http://geo.geek.nz/esri/… With the release of ArcGIS 10 around the corner, a compatibility update patch has been released for ArcGIS Explorer Build 1200. An ArcGIS Explorer 1200 and ArcGIS Server 10 compatibility update patch has just been released. This update enables ArcGIS Explorer build 1200 to consume map services from ArcGIS Server 10...

ArcGIS 10 is coming soon and many have been asking questions around recommended system requirements. Updated system requirements for ArcGIS 10 are now available on the ArcGIS 10 Resource Centres here: http://resources.arcgis.com/…  I wanted to take these and add MY recommended system requirements for ArcGIS 10.  ArcGIS Desktop 10 ArcInfo, ArcView, ArcEditor CPU Speed: ~ 2.2 GHz or higher Processor: Intel® Pentium® Dual-Core Intel® Core™ i3 Intel® Core™ i5 Intel® Core™ i7 Processor Memory: ~ 4 GB or higher Video/Graphics Adapter: ...

Earlier this year a targeted list of issues to be addressed with ArcGIS 9.3.1 Service Pack 2 was released. Information on this document and initial release can be found here: http://geo.geek.nz/esri/… These targeted list of issues have now been updated. We have recently updated the targeted list of issues that are planned to be addressed in SP2. This list is still subject to change at any time, and may change again before it is released. We are providing this list so you are able to effectively plan to upgrade to SP2 as necessary. ArcGIS 9.3.1 Service Pack 2 is scheduled to be available in late...

Earlier this year at the ESRI Federal User Conference 2010, ESRI announced a new and exciting relationship with Amazon Web Services. Information on this announcement can be found here: http://geo.geek.nz/esri/… Since then there has been little information around this released publically but as we move closer to the release of ArcGIS 10, a subscription model is being offered to clients wanting to make use of the cloud. ESRI announces that, for the first time, customers have the option to purchase a cloud-based subscription to ArcGIS Server, ESRI’s server-based geographic information system...

ArcGIS Server 10 introduces some great enhancements when working with caches. Cache generation is not only faster but there are a number of new tools to help you manage large caches which also makes it easier to move. Some of these tools were touched on at the ESRI Developer Summit 2010 and for those looking at some of the more advanced topics around caching you can have a watch of the technical session from the ESRI Developer Summit 2010. This can be found here: http://www.esri.com/events/… With the introduction of these enhancements, I have been using ArcGIS Server 10 build our map service...