ArcGIS Pro 1.3 has been released. You can download it from your My ESRI account, or a free 60 day trial here.
There is a whole bunch of new stuff in this release, including editing Geodatabase topology, adding Vector tiles, an Animation Timeline pane, and Space Time Pattern Mining tools, just to name a few.
In the ESRI UC 2016 Q&A that is online here, I found this little tidbit about what are the product names:
Several years ago, as part of the naming standards issue, we changed the names to be consistent with ArcGIS for Server and ArcGIS for Desktop, etc. What we found is that we made a mistake, and that our users are more comfortable referring to these products as ArcGIS Server and ArcGIS Desktop, so starting now ESRI is changing these names back to ArcGIS Desktop and ArcGIS Server.
These changes will be implemented on our website and in the software over the next release cycles.
All us old timers rejoice! 🙂
ESRI is having another free MOOC on building apps. This course will show you how to combine location and narrative in one application to better communicate and broadcast your story, create custom web applications that solve problems in your community, and build powerful native applications for iOS and Android devices without touching a piece of code. If you are a developer, you’ll be interested in ESRI’s APIs, SDKs, and the buzzing GeoDev community.
The free course goes on for 4 weeks (July 20 to August 17) and you will receive a certificate of completion and awards. Check out the syllabus and sign up if you are interested.
Google announced on their blog that both Google Earth and Maps have new sharper satellite imagery from Landsat 8. Continue reading
Here are some of my notes from a Road Ahead session on ArcGIS Server today.
As for distributed Web GIS: Continue reading
Here are a few notes I jotted down while at the Road Ahead workshop for ArcGIS Desktop.
10.5 at the end of the year Continue reading
After watching a drone fly around in a cage at the ESRI conference, I decided to head upstairs to the technical workshop about creating vector tiles. Here are a few things about them that you should know. Continue reading
The 2016 ESRI User Conference got off to a great start today in beautiful downtown San Diego.
Instead of giving you a blow by blow of what happened today in the Plenary, you can just watch it here.
Do you like maps? Do you like lamps? If you said YES to both, then you must get a map lamp! You know you want one!
4 out of 5 GIS Analysts think map lamps are cool. Even Chuck Norris approves map lamps.
So go get yours today! 🙂
Our next stop for California Friday is actually many locations. July 4th will be here soon and that means Fireworks! The fireworks app I have used for the past few years has been updated once again. This year I added Riverside County. If you love fireworks and want to find out where you can legally buy and shoot them off in SoCal, check out the app!
You can view cities in LA, Orange, Ventura, and Riverside County that allow the sale and discharge of fireworks. Included are days and times when fireworks will be sold and when you can light them up, as well as links to city web sites and telephone numbers. Data was collected from municipal codes, web sites, and/or contacting each city. Enjoy!
For a list of 296 communities permitting state-approved fireworks in California, check out the California Fireworks Newswire website.
SoCalGIS.org 