New ESRI World Topographic Basemap

I’m really impressed with the recently announced World Topographic base map from ESRI.  As James Fee noted on his his blog, “the cartography just catches your eye.”  According to ESRI the map is designed to be used as a basemap by GIS professionals...

ArcGIS Server in the Cloud

I’m surprised the announcement that ESRI is collaborating with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to bring ArcGIS Server into its cloud computing environment isn’t getting more attention.  This, in my opinion, is a significant development even though it will...

How to Use CAD Annotation in ArcPad

This is a guest post by Michele Mattix of Geomattix, LLC.   CAD users beware!  While ArcGIS supports the mapping of CAD data, ArcPad – ESRI’s field software – does not.  Though it is no problem to convert CAD data into the geodatabase format, the handling of CAD...

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