Thursday, July 26th, 2012
Esri recognized more than 170 organizations during the Special Achievement in GIS (SAG) Awards ceremony yesterday at the annual Esri International User Conference (Esri UC) in San Diego, California. The SAG Awards acknowledge innovative and intelligent applications of GIS technology.
Wednesday, July 25th, 2012
DigitalGlobe today announced that Esri has licensed the rights for DigitalGlobe’s Global Basemap imagery layer. The announcement was made at the Esri International User Conference, occurring this week in San Diego, California. The imagery layer will be integrated into Esri’s existing imagery basemap in ArcGIS Online, Esri’s cloud-based mapping and collaborative content management system. Later
Tuesday, July 24th, 2012
Esri today announced that the City and County of Honolulu was awarded one of the company’s annual Making a Difference Awards. Honolulu Mayor Peter Carlisle was honored for his administration’s ground-breaking use of geographic information systems (GIS) in the city’s urban planning efforts.
Monday, July 23rd, 2012
Today, Esri announced a strategic alliance with Microsoft to assist public and private agencies and communities around the world during disasters. Microsoft will display Esri public information maps on its cloud-based Disaster Response Incident Portal, as well as point citizens to the maps via its online outlets, such as MSN and Bing. Esri’s ArcGIS integration
Sunday, July 22nd, 2012
Safe Software, makers of FME and the leaders in spatial data transformation technology, today announced the release of FME 2012 Service Pack 3 (SP3), which features compatibility with Esri’s newly released ArcGIS 10.1 and support of Autodesk’s 2013 version of AutoCAD Map 3D. FME 2012 SP3’s timely support of the latest versions of these industry-leading
Sunday, July 22nd, 2012
Esri Canada today announced that Calgary Co-op, one of the largest retail co-operatives in North America, will leverage the Esri Business Analyst (Canadian Edition) solution to improve strategic planning. Powered by Esri’s geographic information system (GIS) technology combined with extensive demographic and segmentation information, the solution will enable the retailer to efficiently map their stores, integrate
Monday, July 16th, 2012
The Esri Guide to GIS Analysis, Volume 3: Modeling Suitability, Movement, and Interaction, explains the best methods to apply modeling techniques to GIS analyses. With full-color maps and illustrations and sample applications, this book by Andy Mitchell will help GIS professionals and students make better use of modeling to evaluate locations and analyze movement.
Monday, July 16th, 2012
Julia Marton-Lefèvre, director general of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the world’s largest conservation/environment membership organization, will speak at the Esri International User Conference (Esri UC) in San Diego, California, on July 23, 2012. Esri is the largest developer of geographic information system (GIS) technologies in the world.
Monday, July 16th, 2012
The geospatial revolution continues to make a growing impact on society as industries across the world have embraced geographic information systems (GIS) technology. This powerful tool is used for developing data-driven solutions that help organizations overcome business challenges – and the need for GIS-skilled professionals have never been greater.
Monday, July 16th, 2012
3-GIS, a GIS software development company based in Decatur, Alabama will exhibit in booth 2408 at the Esri International User Conference July 23-27 in San Diego, California.