A Request for Maps/Screen Shots

Posted on July 19, 2016 by socalgovgis - Michael Carson

Every semester, I give my GIS students (generally planners and public administrators) a rundown of how GIS is being used in our communities. At the Esri conference this year, I saw many new applications and thought I’d ask my colleagues what they are doing now with GIS. If you could send me a map, picture, screen shot or something similar along with a sentence or two of what you are doing, I’d be delighted to have it. I will be happy to share when it is all compiled. You can reach me at barrywaite@outlook.com. The focus is on how we use GIS to solve problems.

By the way, for those of you who hadn’t heard, I have graduated from the City of Carson after 29 years. I’m thinking of becoming a cowboy or an astronaut, but I’ll keep teaching and want to stay in contact with all my GIS friends!

Many thanks!

Barry Waite
Instructor, USC Price School of Public Policy

ArcGIS Pro 1.3 Released

Posted on July 12, 2016 by socalgovgis - Michael Carson

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.

No more “for” in ArcGIS

Posted on July 12, 2016 by socalgovgis - Michael Carson

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! 🙂

Do-It-Yourself Geo Apps

Posted on July 7, 2016 by socalgovgis - Michael Carson

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 Earth and Maps Get Sharper Satellite Imagery

Posted on July 6, 2016 by socalgovgis - Michael Carson

Google announced on their blog that both Google Earth and Maps have new sharper satellite imagery from Landsat 8. Continue reading →

ArcGIS Server Road Ahead

Posted on June 30, 2016 by socalgovgis - Michael Carson

Here are some of my notes from a Road Ahead session on ArcGIS Server today.

10.5 will be a massive release
Builds on 10.4/10.4.1 quality and features
Distributed Web GIS pattern
Support big data analytics
DevOps friendly

As for distributed Web GIS: Continue reading →

ArcGIS Desktop Road Ahead

Posted on June 30, 2016 by socalgovgis - Michael Carson

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 →

ArcGIS Vector Tiles

Posted on June 28, 2016 by socalgovgis - Michael Carson

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 →