Whether you are implementing GIS in your water, wastewater or stormwater utility and creating a data model for the first time or you are updating your existing GIS datamodel, you will no doubt ask yourself this question - How should I model my utility's asset in a geometric network and why should I use a geometric network?  You should model ...

by Kyle Watson Hello blog readers, This is a story about ''which side of the tracks'' you are on and how demographic analysis comes into play.  More importantly how to identify certain anomalies when one side is completely opposite of the other - and the sum doesn't equal its parts. To illustrate this point let's say we are a national ...

As you may have seen, we released the Water Distribution Capital Improvement Planning (CIP) Template  a last week.  First, we wanted to say a big thank you to all of our users and business partners who helped us to refine the initial geoprocessing models and the toolset also shared their workflows for capital ...

If you have been following us on twitter, you already know that we released the ArcGIS Water Distribution Capital Planning template (we are calling this the CIP Template for short) yesterday.  The CIP template includes a set of models to help you understand how to you can use GIS to score and rank your infrastructure and a set of tools to ...

  Green is the new black.  From reusable bags at the supermarket and energy efficient appliances to hybrid cars and recycling, we are all trying to do our part.  ESRI Data can be used to identify some interesting trends in our efforts to be green. The U.S. city with the highest likelihood to buy foods labeled as natural or ...

                Many of you have had a chance to test out the Mobile template and provided great feedback.  One question that keeps coming up is “How do I interface (or integrate) the mobile map with my other utility systems?”  Typically, when we get asked this ...

by Catherine Spisszak ESRI Data is showcased in a recent edition of Crain’s New York City Facts. This online article provides very interesting facts about New York City, including which neighborhoods are expected to grow the fastest over the next five years due to good schools, rehabbed housing and new shopping. Click here to check ...

The 2009 update to Address Coder, ESRI’s stand-alone geocoding and data appending software, started shipping this week. The update includes Tele Atlas geocoding reference data (based on February 2009 data) and ESRI’s 2009 demographic and Tapestry data. We made some minor changes to the user interface to improve the setup of geocoding/data ...

by Catherine Spisszak   ESRI is proud to announce the release of its 2009/2014 Updated Demographic Data.  The 2009 data is currently available in ArcGIS Business Analyst Online and for all ad hoc data only orders. In the past year, changes in the nation’s economy have become extremely personal. The failure of the ...

I started typing this blog entry last week.  My original idea was to share 5 simple steps to set up the dashboard or Flex sample viewer.  Since then, two great things came up, the creating effective web maps seminar and an unbelievable flex guide from a user.  Both are discussed below with my original 5 steps. I recently had the ...