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Hi, my name is Jeff, and I am a member of the Geodata Raster team at the Eastern ESRI Support Services located in Charlotte, NC. I posed the question above because whether to mosaic or not is one of the most common workflow questions when dealing with...
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The next time someone gives you a blank stare when you try to explain what GIS is, just send them to YouTube. In honor of GIS Day , a group of musically inclined GIS users in Austin, TX created this fun and rocking video . I'm already looking forward...
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11/18/09—Last spring, ESRI announced that it would be migrating its hosted ArcGIS Online map services to the Google Maps/Bing Maps tiling scheme . This migration is expected to be completed in December 2009. This change is in response to feedback from...
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Many of you have probably heard about ArcGIS 9.4 Beta since the UC back in July. At this point, you might be wondering what is going on and where ESRI is at with it. Well, we launched the ArcGIS 9.4 Beta Program with the release of ArcGIS 9.4 Beta 1 on...
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Next week is a big week—Sunday kicks off Geography Awareness Week and Thursday is GIS Day . So here's a short, interactive activity designed as a teaching aid for those completely new to GIS. It's intended to reinforce essential key points about what...
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11/12/09–Here's a little known technique the ArcGIS Content team sometimes uses when working with cached map services in ArcMap 9.3.1. Suppose your area of interest is along the border of the U.S. and Mexico. You prefer the cartography in the ArcGIS Online...
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Tree symbols are a great way to enhance the appearance of a large scale, detailed map. To make attractive point symbols for trees, you need a good place to start from and thankfully all of us ArcGIS users have that. Using multi-layer character marker...
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This week we released Introduction to the HAZUS-MH Comprehensive Data Management System , the latest in a series of Web training courses covering Hazards U.S. Multi-Hazard (HAZUS-MH) , a hazard loss estimation tool developed by the Federal Emergency Management...
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11/05/09–Add-ins are used to extend ArcGIS Explorer's capabilities and can be created using Visual Studio and the ArcGIS Explorer SDK. The ArcGIS Explorer team has published a variety of ready-to-use add-ins that you can download from the ArcGIS Explorer...
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Bringing back the Classic (view) Hi, my name is Phillip, and I am a Server Support Analyst with ESRI’s Eastern Support Services. Windows 7 has arrived…and with it comes many dandy new features and advancements. One of our challenges at ESRI Support Services...
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11/03/09–ArcGIS Online maps, tasks, and APIs received some good press coverage in October. Here are excerpts from a few of the articles: From the ESRI press release, ESRI Brings GIS to the Public with Mapping for Everyone Web Site ESRI has launched a...
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September and October sure went fast. We on the Mapping Center team have been very busy working on mapping projects, and have not spent as much time here--but we're finding a balance and will be getting more good blogs out here soon (several are in the...
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Good day, folks! My name is Khalid, and I am a member of the Geodata Raster Unit at ESRI Support Services. This post is the first of a series that examines basic concepts revolving around raster data. Gaining familiarity with the terminology associated...
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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...
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While anyone can use GIS tools to make a map, not everyone has a background in proper map design and cartographic theory. If decisions are based on inaccurate or misleading maps, the results can be disastrous. Creating and Publishing Maps with ArcGIS...
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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...
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As I’m sure you’re aware, there have been many versions of ArcGIS software released through the years, and again, as you’re probably already aware, support for each version depreciates with each release and over time. The entire process is outlined in...
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The ArcGIS 9.4 release will include many productivity improvements to help you get your GIS work done faster. But ArcGIS 9.4 won't be released until next year—so here are some tips you can try out in ArcMap right away. The 10 shortcuts below can shave...
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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...
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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...
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We’ve all been there. It’s Monday morning and squinting through the haze of the past weekend, you boot up your computer and double-click the ArcMap icon, so you can finish up Joe Somebody’s latest über urgent request: something involving lots of acronyms...
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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...
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ArcGIS Online , now in public beta, is a destination that offers a lot to the GIS users who choose to visit. The site is a rich content source for GIS data, maps, and tools; it offers tools for quickly creating a Web map, and it's a venue for sharing...
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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...
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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...
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