3D GIS Community
Esri is proud to present another free Live Training Seminar. The next seminar will take place on Thursday, May 24, 2012 and discuss Working with Lidar Data in ArcGIS 10.1. There will be three live presentations on May 24th: 9:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m., and 3:00 p.m. PDT (U.S. & Canada).
Seminar Overview
The seminar will show how you can quickly create a LAS dataset from a collection of LAS files, view the data as points and TINs (triangulated irregular networks), take measurements, and edit classification codes. You will also learn how to manage collections of LAS files using a mosaic dataset, as well as share to desktop and web applications.
Click here to see how to attend.
Submitted by: Melanie Harlow
Are you interested in learning about lidar and GIS at 10.1? A live training seminar will be offered next Thursday, May 24, 2012 to introduce Esri’s lidar capabilities at ArcGIS 10.1. There will be three offerings at: 9:00 am, 11:00 am, and 3:00 pm PDT (U.S. & Canada). To find out more information regarding the latest Working with Lidar Data in ArcGIS 10.1 seminar click the link below.
http://training.esri.com/Gateway/index.cfm?fa=seminars.viewDetails&course_id=178
Lindsay Weitz
Product Engineer, Software Product Release
Virtual 3D cities and geodesign in 3D are hot topics these days, and at the recent Esri Partner Conference and Developer Summit lead product engineer Mark Bockenhauer demonstrated some interesting capabilities which can potentially make your entire virtual city, including the software used to view and analyze it, completely portable – even pocketable.
We’ve heard lots of feedback over the last few days from users who want to find the old “Insert your favorite” blog. Unfortunately the redirects we had in place when we deployed the new ArcGIS Blog pointed to its home page instead of these specific locations, leading to many unhappy readers. We have most of these redirects in place now & will have the rest completed today. If you’d rather not wait, here’s a table matching the old individual blogs to their corresponding URLs and RSS feeds in the new unified blog.
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By Aileen Buckley, Mapping Center Lead
ArcGIS 10.0 Service Pack 4 (SP4) for English, is now available to our users for download via the ArcGIS Resource Center. This Service Pack contains performance improvements and maintenance fixes. Here are links to the downloads:
Release Note: ArcGIS 10.0 Service Pack 4 for the other five languages (French, German, Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Spanish) will be released in the next two weeks. A follow up blog entry will be posted to announce the availability once they are ready.
For the past few years the various ArcGIS product development teams have hosted a few dozen separate blogs covering the width of the ArcGIS system. Now we have pulled those together into a single ArcGIS Blog so that you can more easily browse, subscribe to, learn from, and stay up-to-speed on the latest information from all our engineers and developers. In addition, the single blog reflects ArcGIS as a system and allows us to better tell big picture implementation stories that we couldn’t in the fragmented system.
If you do want to narrow your focus, just click a Category (under Technical Communities and Industry Communities) or Tag to see the posts for that particular area. You should find a category or tag that matches up with the subject area for each of the old separate blogs. A few may have been overlooked or thought to be unnecessary. We appreciate your feedback on specific categories or tags that should be added to help focus in on subject matter that is of interest to you.
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Have a question? Want to talk GIS? Looking for some good ideas? Jump into the conversation!
A few weeks back we rolled out some new features that we hope will improve the forums’ usefulness. One of the new features is the ability for those who post questions in the forums to rate the replies. In addition, any logged in user can also join in and vote on the various replies and conversations in order to help us identify the best information, helping you find good information more quickly. Another huge benefit to the new voting tools is that it helps us all identify, recognize, and reward those forums users who contribute the most helpful information.
Until June 2010, our old discussion forums (now archived) supported what we called the “Forums MVP Program”. Once every 6 months we would identify the Top 10 members of the community and make them eligible for MVP recognition and some valuable prizes.
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Esri CityEngine 2011.2 is available now for download from the Customer Care Portal. This version replaces CityEngine 2011.1 and is strongly recommended as it contains a number of improvements.
In addition to several bug fixes, the highlights of new features in version 2011.2 are:
- Improved FileGDB import and export
- Python (Jython) is update to version 2.5.2
- Support of multi-touch gestures for viewport navigation
- Added Visual C Runtime installer to CityEngine setup
More information is available at http://resources.arcgis.com/content/cityengine/about.
Gert van Maren
3D Product Manager
Some really good improvements are coming soon to the Resource Center. Checkout this sneak peak of the updates that will be released in conjunction with ArcGIS 10.1.
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Recently, we made changes to some of the Globe services that are referenced by the 3D Virtual City template. These changes improve perfomance and in order to take advantage, you need the latest VirtualCity.3dd Globe document which points to these new services.
To get the new VirtualCity.3dd, please download the template again here.
Thanks
Gert
