There’s one week to go before the 2016 Esri User Conference (UC) in San Diego, and Esri has released its annual UC Q&A, which sets the scene for the UC and provides answers to common questions about Esri’s products and services. This year the PDF download numbers 199 pages (up from 169 last year); so,…
Read detailsBy this stage you’re probably wanting to know who’s taken out the first prize in our inaugural story map competition. In my previous two blogs I went through our honourable mentions (including our third place winner) and our runner-up. If you haven’t already give these a look. So, without further ado: To the victor go…
Read detailsWelcome back to the second installation of our Story Map Competition blog. If you’ve missed them, have a look at my previous blog on the origins of the competition and a discussion of some of our notable entries. Our silver prize winner In 2nd place we have Significant UK Offshore Discoveries and Fields by Simon…
Read detailsLast year at Exprodat we decided to hold an internal competition that would couple the keen minds of our staff and our deeply ingrained love of (quality) maps. In days gone our map competitions elicited a few high quality entries, but due to the limitless possibilities of available data and the necessity of using ArcGIS…
Read detailsI came away from this year’s excellent Esri Business Partner Conference with one clear message: ArcGIS is a Web GIS system (or rather, ‘an integrated Web GIS Platform’ in Esri speak). Now Esri have talked about the importance of Web GIS for several years, but this year the message was unambiguous. If you want to…
Read detailsLook around, and you’ll find GIS everywhere – in obvious and less obvious ways. From Google Maps to air traffic control, from parcel tracking to land use analysis, geographical information systems have come to underpin every major aspect of our economy, including oil and gas. GIS is no longer a standalone concept or system, it’s…
Read detailsI have recently been looking at the ArcGIS Pro SDK to develop some custom apps. When I started using the fine grained API to create functions I soon found that I needed to use Esri’s QueuedTask. For example, if I try to get the table of a feature layer I receive this error: “This method…
Read detailsThe focus on web mapping application is back, or maybe it never really went away. As we use browser-based mapping technologies more and more I think it is time to discuss what, in my experience, has been important in web-based map creation. In this blog I suggest some things to consider when publishing from a…
Read detailsIntroduction In my current role, scripting is by far my favourite activity. I’ve always enjoyed language, and in the same way I enjoy writing and reading other’s scripts. Although reading, understanding, and altering scripts written by others can often be seen as an area where the drudgery must be mitigated or avoided, I enjoy trying…
Read detailsTopology is the study of geometrical properties and spatial relations that are unaffected by continuous changes in the shape and size of a figure. A topologist doesn’t see any difference between a donut and a coffee cup. In ArcGIS, topology in a geodatabase is the arrangement that defines how point, line and polygon features share…
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