October 2009 - Posts

• Answers to your questions about ArcGIS Online Groups

  10/29/09–In a post last week , we answered some of the functionality questions we didn't get to during our live training seminar . Today, we'll address the audience's questions about ArcGIS Online groups . Can groups be private? Yes. When you create a Read More... Posted Thursday, October 29, 2009 9:00 AM by mzurn | 0 Comments Filed under: ArcGIS Online, groups, seminar

• Wondering Which ArcGIS Web Mapping API to Use?

  10/27/09–Developers can build Web mapping applications by accessing ArcGIS Online maps and tasks through the free ArcGIS Web Mapping APIs . There are APIs for JavaScript, Silverlight, and Flex (as well as Web application developer frameworks for .NET Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 27, 2009 9:00 AM by mzurn | 0 Comments Filed under: Web mapping APIs, Silverlight, Flex, JavaScript, .NET, Java, ArcGIS Server

• Is World Places Locator really as limited as it seems?

  10/22/09– Is World Places Locator really as limited as it seems? This question was posted to the ArcGIS Online forums by a user who is in the process of migrating from the old ArcWeb Services ESRI Place Finder Sample to the new World Places Locator available Read More... Posted Thursday, October 22, 2009 9:00 AM by mzurn | 0 Comments Filed under: ArcGIS Online, geocoding, task service, Place Finder, Locator

• Answers to your questions about ArcGIS Online functionality

  10/20/09–As we mentioned in last week's post about our live training seminar, we had about 150 questions from the audience. Because we couldn't get to most of them, we promised we'd answer some of them in later posts. Today, we'll address a few of the Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 20, 2009 9:00 AM by mzurn | 0 Comments Filed under: ArcGIS Online, sharing, web maps, legends, recorded seminar, file size, iPhone, editing, mobile

• Narrowing search results

  10/15/09–In a previous post, we showed you how to find items published during a given time frame . Here's another search tip. You can narrow results by excluding a keyword. There is a caveat with this tip: you need to exclude keywords in conjunction with Read More... Posted Thursday, October 15, 2009 9:00 AM by mzurn | 0 Comments Filed under: ArcGIS Online, search, sharing

• Who attended the ArcGIS Online live training seminar?

  10/13/09–Last Thursday, we had more than 1800 users participate in our live training seminar . Here are some quick facts about the attendees who filled out a post-seminar survey: Over half had never used the ArcGIS Online sharing application before. After Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 13, 2009 9:00 AM by mzurn | 0 Comments Filed under: ArcGIS Online, live training seminar

• Recording of Web Mapping API webinar now available

  10/09/09–If you missed last month's live webinar about building applications with the ArcGIS Web Mapping APIs, you can now view a recording . During the one-hour session, you'll see and hear Rob Shanks highlight a number of live user sites built with Read More... Posted Friday, October 09, 2009 8:00 AM by mzurn | 0 Comments Filed under: ArcGIS Online, Web mapping APIs, Silverlight, Flex, mapping for everyone, JavaScript

• Participate in a free live training seminar about sharing your maps

  10/6/09–On Thursday, October 8 at 9:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m., and 3:00 p.m. (Pacific daylight time), ESRI will host a live training seminar about sharing your maps using ArcGIS Online . The one hour online seminar is free and open to anyone who wants an introduction Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 06, 2009 12:00 PM by mzurn | 0 Comments Filed under: ArcGIS Online, maps, sharing, live training seminar

• ArcGIS Online Sharing Application updated

  10/1/09–The ArcGIS Online Sharing application was updated. The two most significant enhancements include: Presentation of Search Results Improved presentation of search by displaying thumbnail images for items found rather than general item type icons. Read More... Posted Thursday, October 01, 2009 8:30 AM by michellekh | 0 Comments Filed under: ArcGIS Online, updates, sharing