With ArcGIS 10 being released and the kick of the ESRI International User Conference 2010, ESRI has made ArcGIS Server 10 available to customers via Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud . “ArcGIS Server on Amazon EC2 gives customers another option for deploying ArcGIS Server," explains Ismael Chivite, product manager for ArcGIS Server. "Essentially, ArcGIS Server on Amazon EC2 will reduce the complexity of software deployments for many organizations. Instead of installing and maintaining local instances of ArcGIS Server on premises, customers can launch ArcGIS Server on EC2 instances with...

Last week I posted about a new ArcGIS 10 editing add-in which has been developed for OpenStreetMap. The add-on allows ArcGIS users to download data from OpenStreetMap, store it locally in a geodatabase, and use the advanced editing environment of ArcGIS Desktop 10 to create, modify, or delete data. Once the edits are complete, the changes can be posted back to OpenStreetMap and made available to the OpenStreetMap community. Full information on this can be found here: http://geo.geek.nz/development/… The project’s website is now on CodePlex. This includes downloads, documentation and screenshots...

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...

ArcGIS 10 has now been released and is available for download. A release that will really transform the way users work and interact with GIS. With this release, users will be more productive with their work and will be able to take advantage of GIS everywhere. "ArcGIS is a complete system that enables you to solve your most challenging issues," said Damian Spangrud, ArcGIS product manager. "This release provides greater ease of use, more powerful analysis tools, additional Web GIS applications, and new mobile platforms. It also promotes collaboration via an online system for using,...

Jack Dangermond will be a keynote speaker at this year’s Where 2.0 in San Jose, California, on April 1, 2010 as he talks about new ways to collaborate and share spatial data. As part of his presentation, Spatial Analysis and the GeoWeb, Dangermond will discuss how open GIS services can be used to facilitate mashups and create applications that leverage data and spatial analytic functions. Open GIS services are used to create dynamic, modern Web applications that help decision makers with asset/data management, planning and analysis, business operations, and situational awareness. There will also...

During the Plenary Session of the ESRI Business Partner Conference 2010 yesterday morning, ESRI launched the new ESRI Partner Network. EPN is a new program designed specifically to help the global partner community. A press release has been made available talking about the this new program. The newly launched ESRI Partner Network is designed to serve the needs of ESRI’s global partner community of more than 2,000 companies in 46 countries. These partners develop and deliver industry-leading geographic information system (GIS) solutions and services on the ArcGIS software platform. The new...

ArcGIS Explorer Build 1200 has been released and is now available for download. Detailed information on this latest build can be found here: http://geo.geek.nz/esri/… As part of this release a press release has been published. The new release of ESRI ArcGIS Explorer builds on its intuitive design, improving access to geoprocessing services and expanding available maps in the Basemap Gallery. ArcGIS Explorer is a free, downloadable globe viewer with geographic information system (GIS) functionality. The release features a new Analysis Gallery that allows users to directly connect to and use...

Next week ESRI will be hosting a seminar which will explain how to use map templates and other resources. ESRI will host a free, live training seminar to demonstrate how to use these valuable templates and other resources. Best Practices for Working with Map Templates will air at www.esri.com/lts on Thursday, March 4, at 9:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m., and 3:00 p.m. Pacific standard time. Cartographers, geographic information system (GIS) professionals, and ArcGIS Desktop users of all experience levels are encouraged to attend. Some familiarity with ArcGIS Desktop is recommended. Using the cartography,...

With the situation which everyone is well aware of in Haiti, many organisations have been stepping up to help in responding to this tragic disaster. ESRI is one of these organisations. As part of a press release which has just been released, ESRI talks about the way they are helping assist in the Haiti earthquake response. ESRI is working closely with the geographic information system (GIS) community and agencies responding to the Haiti earthquake by providing software, technical support, GIS data, and personnel. In the immediate aftermath of the earthquake—characterized as one of the worst natural...

A interesting article has appeared up in the Reseller News this week by Chris Bell. It talks about how resellers should get onto the mapping bandwagon and whether mapping application will provide new revenue streams. Geographic information systems (GIS) mapping applications are already being used internationally to do everything from matching ISPs’ broadband supply with demand to providing pawnbrokers with market analysis. This is aligned around the press release that we did in conjunction with Microsoft New Zealand for ESRI MapIt ESRI’s software is used in more than 300,000 organisations...