Tuesday, October 4th, 2011
The City of Paris signed an enterprise license agreement (ELA) with Esri France, making ArcGIS software available throughout the city. The agreement enables the city to build an enterprise-wide geographic information system (GIS) to increase efficiency and improve services.
Tuesday, September 27th, 2011
On September 24, 2011, conservationist and primatologist Dr. Jane Goodall, United Nations (UN) Messenger of Peace and founder of the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI), presented Jack Dangermond, president of Esri, the Jane Goodall Global Leadership Award for Excellence in Conservation Science during the Institute’s program, A Conversation with Jane Goodall, in Hollywood, California.
Tuesday, September 27th, 2011
To achieve a robust GIS practice while reducing overhead costs in multiple offices, Environmental Resources Management (ERM), a leading global provider of environmental, health and safety, risk, and social consulting services, has signed an enterprise license agreement (ELA) with Esri. The ELA provides unlimited access to Esri desktop and server software products and extensions throughout
Thursday, September 22nd, 2011
Esri will exhibit its software for 3D modeling and urban planning, called Esri CityEngine, at the INTERGEO 2011 Conference in Nuremberg, Germany, which will take place September 27–29. The INTERGEO Conference is one of the largest exhibitions for geodesy, geoinformation, and land management in the world. Earlier this year, Esri acquired Procedural, maker of CityEngine,
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011
The Esri Electric and Gas User Conference is designed to facilitate collaboration among those who work to ensure reliable energy worldwide. The conference will be held October 9-12, 2011, at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center in Columbia, South Carolina.
Thursday, September 1st, 2011
Esri Community Analyst is now available to qualified nonprofit organizations located in the United States for 50 percent off the regular subscription fee. Humanitarian, environmental, and conservation groups can implement this Software as a Service (SaaS) mapping and data analysis solution to better understand the populations they serve, track the effectiveness of their services, and
Monday, August 29th, 2011
New technology is changing the face of mapping organizations around the world. Are national mapping agencies and traditional mapmakers able to keep up? The question is posed at the Spatial Roundtable by Mark Cygan, Esri’s map, chart, data production, and spatial data infrastructure (SDI) industry manager. Cygan and other industry leaders discuss which strategies and
Sunday, August 28th, 2011
The insurance industry, and those of us attached to it, are tracking Hurricane Irene with special interest and with special capabilities. A new map created by GIS software provider ESRI (Redlands, Calif.) combines extremely detailed street and topographical mapping with storm tracking features and, perhaps most interestingly, with volunteered insight provided by individuals using popular
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011
Esri Community Analyst lets you quickly analyze everything from crime patterns to consumer spending and then create maps and reports from your analyses in a few easy steps. To familiarize you with this simple-to-use online mapping application, Esri will host the live training seminar Introduction to Esri Community Analyst on August 25, 2011.
Thursday, August 11th, 2011
California Department of Public Health’s Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) and Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health (MCAH) programs are working together to use GIS technology from Esri to identify geographic locations with people who are eligible for but not receiving WIC services.
