Tag Archives: arcgis

March 14, 2011

ArcGIS API For iOS 1.8 Public Beta Now Available

The Esri Developer Summit 2011 has brought with it updated releases to the many of the API’s. The public beta of the ArcGIS API for iOS 1.8 has now been made available on the Esri Beta Community. Through the community ...

March 14, 2011

ArcGIS 9.3.1 Service Pack 2 Quality Improvement Patch

A  couples weeks ago the ArcGIS Desktop 9.3.1 Service Pack 2 Quality Improvement Patch was released. I want to stress the importance of this patch. Many users currently run ArcGIS 9.3.1 and this service pack targets a number of the ...

March 14, 2011

ArcGIS Online Basemaps Now Freely Available Regardless Of Use

This was announced earlier this month but I wanted to remind everyone of this change. ArcGIS Online basemaps published and hosted by Esri are now available for free to all users regardless of commercial, non-commercial, internal, ...

March 14, 2011

Esri Speaker Series Podcast, ArcGIS For Windows Phone Expands Mobile GIS Options

Mobile GIS is growing and growing with this are a number of mobile options available from Esri. ArcGIS for Windows Phone is once such option. It’s a new and exciting API and application allowing Windows Phone users to leverage the ...

March 14, 2011

Esri Beta Community Launched

Now that the Esri Developer Summit 2011 is over, many upcoming products and API’s have been released into public beta. Up until now there hasn’t been an easy way to manage this beta process or a portal targeted towards beta’s ...

March 14, 2011

Estimating The Cost Of A GIS In The Amazon Cloud

Cloud computing is growing all around us and as we look at leveraging some it’s powerful capabilities it’s always good to understand how costs are calculated. Using the Amazon model a new whitepaper has been released which talks about how ...

March 14, 2011

A New Approach To Metadata With ArcGIS 10

It’s been a while since metadata in ArcGIS has had an update. With ArcGIS 10 there is a whole new look and feel which might take some time to get used but they provide some great new opportunities for creating ...

February 18, 2011

ArcGIS Server Virtualisation … The Do’s And Don’ts

Over the last few years we have seen a massive increases in the use of virtualised environments for running applications. Virtualisation offers a number of benefits over running applications on physical environments but sometimes this can be at a cost ...

February 14, 2011

ArcGIS API For Android Public Beta Now Available

Information about the ArcGIS for Android was released late last year and for those working on the Android platform it was exciting to know an API was in the works and something was coming soon. This initial information can be ...

January 28, 2011

Geodatabase Toolset For ArcCatalog 10 Now Available!

The popular Geodatabase Toolset for ArcCatalog 10 is now available for download! The toolset was released for ArcGIS 9.3/9.3.1 a couple years ago and since then has been a popular download for many working with geodatabases. Information on the initial ...