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ESRI’s Change to World Topographic Map sub layers

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ESRI’s ArcGIS Online team made a change to the World Topographic Map on February 3, 2014.  This will affect you if you reference the sub layers.  Check out their blog post for more info.

If you use Geocortex Essentials, this may affect you as well.  If you use the topo base map, you might see warnings from the Essentials REST manager.  To fix it, do the following:

  1. Log into REST manager on each Essentials server
  2. For each site, click on the “edit” button
  3. You should immediately see two warnings similar to what is shown below
  4. Simply click “OK” to both prompts and then click “Save Site”
  5. Repeat for every site and you are done

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Thanks goes to Doug Yates at NorthSouth GIS for the fix.

ArcGIS 10.2.1 – You Might Want to Wait

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Some early adopters of ArcGIS 10.2.1 are reporting some problems.  If you can wait, I would stick with 10.2 until a service pack is released for 10.2.1.  Here are some comments that I have read in emails:

Sarasota County – Install the full release in a development environment first. Sarasota County GIS experienced difficulties with License Manager (port related), Web Adaptor (must remove existing arcgis site if you want to update it as arcgis again), Server (system and utilities tools have display touchy behavior changes if you want them hosted on say your GpCluster server(s). We are still working to move certain server tools such as Printing off of our mapCluster.

Merced County – Read the version notes and see if anything helps. If you don’t see a benefit then don’t upgrade. I am testing it on a my machine but I’ve already had issues with Model Builder Models acting differently. The geoprocessing tool works differently and will need to be upgraded in each of your models. I for one will not be updating server to 10.2.1 after hearing the news from Florida. I already did not plan on upgrading because this .1 release does not improve anything for my organization.

If you have installed 10.2.1, please add a comment so we all can learn from you!

US Census Data Two DVD Set

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Demographic data down to the block level on DVD … and it’s free!

Availability: Summary File 1 is available as a two DVD set. The DVDs contain the 2010 Census Data Engine retrieval software allowing users to manipulate, display, and download data from the file.

Discs:

  • U.S. Summary. DVD containing all substate data in Summary File 1. Geography: states, metropolitan statistical areas, counties, county subdivisions, places (i.e. cities and census designated places), ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, congressional districts (111th Congress), American Indian and Alaska Native Areas, Hawaiian Home Lands, census tracts, census block groups, and census blocks.
  • National File. DVD containing data for larger geographic areas. Geography: United States, regions, divisions, states, counties, county subdivisions, places (i.e. cities and census designated places), metropolitan statistical areas, ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, congressional districts (111th Congress), American Indian and Alaska Native Areas, and Hawaiian Home Lands. Users needing totals for geographical areas that are in more than one state (e.g., American Indian reservations and metro areas) will find them easier to obtain from this file than from the U.S. Summary file (see above).

For more information and to order the free DVD set, visit this US Census page.