Thursday, July 7th, 2016
Redlands, California —The National Council for Geographic Education (NCGE) has selected Esri Education Manager Charlie Fitzpatrick for its 2016 George J. Miller award. NCGE, a nonprofit organization with the mission of enhancing the status and quality of geography teaching and learning, grants the annual award to individuals who have demonstrated a lifetime of distinguished service
Friday, July 1st, 2016
Redlands, California —Esri, the world’s leading mapping platform company,continues to foster industry innovation and development of novel approaches to the world’s most difficult challenges. The company’s unique Startup Program enables the most promising emerging businesses to incorporate location analytics into their services and solutions. By providing access to Esri’s flagship ArcGIS platform at no cost, selected startups
Friday, July 1st, 2016
Redlands, California — Esri’s latest version of ArcGIS Full Motion Video (FMV) presents new capabilities to improve the way analysts and managers interact with videos. ArcGIS FMV allows users to view, organize, and analyze video from drones and other collection platforms. This release includes a performance boost in playback and panning, and in zooming the video
Thursday, June 30th, 2016
Redlands, California — Attendees of the Esri User Conference are among the first to experience Insights for ArcGIS, a data analysis application that marks a milestone in the evolution of GIS. “Insights for ArcGIS represents not just an evolutionary step, but perhaps a revolutionary one,” said Bern Szukalksi, Esri’s tech evangelist. “It empowers anyone
Thursday, June 30th, 2016
Redlands, California — Fresh out of beta, Drone2Map for ArcGIS was released today by Esri with new features and enhancements. The desktop app allows people to process images from drones and quickly create imagery products for mapping, analysis, and sharing across the ArcGIS platform. “Novices and experts alike can use Drone2Map to process still imagery captured
Wednesday, June 29th, 2016
REDLANDS, Calif.- This week, Esri presented Pinellas County, Florida, with the 2016 Enterprise GIS Award for innovating a smart community governance model. That model fulfilled county initiatives to build a public GIS with apps that benefit the community. One of those apps used Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) open data to save property owners $5.3
Wednesday, June 29th, 2016
Redlands, California —Esri, the world leader in geographic information system (GIS) technology, has launched a suite of public mapping tools and data to help communities protect the places and natural resources that help people, wildlife, and the economy thrive. Leading the Green Infrastructure for the U.S. initiative, Esri has partnered with National Geographic Society to
Wednesday, June 29th, 2016
Redlands, California —Today Esri announced the winners of its 2016 Storytelling with Maps Contest at the Esri User Conference in San Diego. The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society took grand prize for a story map of the organization’s 2015 annual report. The contest, which had a record-breaking 965 submissions, invites individuals and organizations to create narratives using
Tuesday, June 28th, 2016
“What progress has preserved.” This is the four word slogan for Columbus, Georgia; a city that was founded in 1828 on the shores of the Chattahoochee River, named after Christopher Columbus, and burned to the ground during the Civil War. The City of Columbus has embodied its slogan by rising above history’s challenges and becoming
Tuesday, June 28th, 2016
Redlands, California —Esri will give all customers that have a qualifying product with a current maintenance subscription unlimited access to free self-paced e-Learning through its new Training website, Esri president Jack Dangermond announced today. “Esri encourages lifelong learning,” Dangermond said in announcing the complimentary e-Learning at the Esri User Conference (Esri UC) in San Diego,