Wednesday, July 15th, 2026
Members spanning technology, public sector, academia and non-profits standardize on open spatial data and unique IDs via GERS Summary Overture’s membership has nearly doubled since 2024, with new additions spanning tech, government, academia, and non-profits (including Grab, Uber, Samsara, Fresno County, and UC Santa Cruz). By adopting Overture data across buildings, addresses, and administrative divisions,
Wednesday, July 15th, 2026
New Titles Expand on Landmark Work to Showcase How GIS Drives Better Decisions Across Water and Land Management Esri will debut the Power of Where Collection at the 2026 Esri User Conference. The collection builds on the 2024 book The Power of Where by Jack Dangermond, extending its ideas into real-world GIS applications. New
Wednesday, July 15th, 2026
ArcGIS Users Can Provide Road Closure Data to Additional Consumer Apps to Help Improve Travel for Motorists Esri has expanded its Community Maps Program, enabling ArcGIS users to share real-time road closures directly with Google Maps and Waze. More than 100 communities worldwide already contribute authoritative road closure data through Esri’s Community Maps Program. The
Wednesday, July 15th, 2026
New Integration Connects Platforms, Enabling Real-Time Mapping Directly Within Existing Systems Esri is launching ArcGIS for ServiceNow, an integration that connects ServiceNow, the AI control tower for business reinvention, with ArcGIS, bringing location intelligence into everyday enterprise workflows. The solution supports organizations across commercial, government, health care, utilities, energy, telecom, and other sectors. Users can
Tuesday, July 14th, 2026
GIS data as a service reduces the cost and complexity of managing GIS infrastructure Esri users connect directly to continuously updated data within ArcGIS environments, freeing up time for analysis and decision making HERE Technologies, the world’s leading mapping and location data company, today announced HERE GIS Data Suite is available through a data-as-a-service model,
Tuesday, July 14th, 2026
ArcGIS Velocity Brings Real-Time Data Ingestion, Analysis, and Automated Alerting to ArcGIS Enterprise Deployments Esri announces that ArcGIS Velocity is now available for ArcGIS Enterprise, enabling real-time data analytics and automated actions in self-hosted environments. This capability’s new deployment unifies real-time workflows across ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Enterprise. This update benefits organizations across industries: public
Tuesday, July 14th, 2026
Exclusive agreement expands access to Nearmap aerial imagery through the world’s leading geospatial platform SALT LAKE CITY – Nearmap, the global property intelligence company providing organizations with a complete, current view of the built environment, today announced that Esri has selected Nearmap basemap imagery for ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World, making Nearmap the exclusive aerial
Monday, July 13th, 2026
GIS teams can now find, buy, and stream SkyFi imagery in ESRI ArcGIS, without downloading or converting files. AUSTIN, TX — July 13, 2026 — SkyFi, the leading Earth Intelligence platform, today released two capabilities that simplify the process of ordering and overlaying satellite imagery over ArcGIS maps. Built with input from commercial enterprise users,
Monday, July 13th, 2026
Southeast Asia’s space industry is undergoing a “revolutionary transformation”, as space endeavours shift from conquering the cosmos to making life better on Earth in a move that could bring massive economic benefits to the region. That was the key message delivered by space industry veteran Major-General (Ret) Clint Crosier during his opening keynote at the
Monday, July 13th, 2026
Update July 11, 12:21 a.m. EDT (0421 UTC): SpaceX confirms deployment of the Starlink satellites SpaceX launched its latest batch of Starlink satellites Friday night from Vandenberg Space Force Base using its second most-flown Falcon 9 first stage booster. The Starlink 17-48 mission added another 24 broadband internet satellites to the company’s low Earth orbit
