While Google has announced to open-source its code of Google Earth Enterprise, Esri has released an update of ArcGIS Earth that enhances the on-premises experience. Google made two recent announcements about the future of two of its mapping products. First, they...
GeoJSON is a geospatial data format that has become quite popular in the last few years. This blog post discusses what GeoJSON is, how you can create it and some Esri tools that enable using the format. What is GeoJSON? The GeoJSON data format is a data format based...
This blog post covers Esri’s recent involvement in the open data science community and R in particular. Also covered is why R is so popular among statisticians, how the ArcGIS-R bridge can benefit ArcGIS users and the challenges that come with using R. Until 2015,...
This blog post tells you how to install and get started with the ArcGIS-R bridge. Installing the ArcGIS-R bridge The installation for both ArcMap and ArcGIS Pro is pretty straightforward: after a clone or download from its GitHub repository, you can find detailed...
This blog post covers new features in the ArcGIS JavaScript API 4.2, released as part of ArcGIS 10.5. Discussed below are new widgets, smart mapping in 2D and 3D, vector tiles in 3D, support for the Arcade scripting language and more. Widgets Widgets are reusable...