The ability to share your content, maps, and apps with other users is a key benefit to the ArcGIS system. It’s also critical that users can make use of a variety of ArcGIS apps and software to maximise their use of ArcGIS. With the updated user types, effective from June 2024, users with a Creator user type and above now have access to ArcGIS Pro Basic. So, this raises the question, with wider ArcGIS access, how do I use these apps together and share content between the different parts of the system? In this blog, we’re going to explore how ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Pro can be used together, sh ..read more

UNE for ArcGIS is a powerful tool for utility companies to view, edit, explore, and trace their utility network (UN) – whether that is water, gas or electric. In this blog, we’re going to demonstrate the app’s capabilities through an electricity workflow, following the journey of employees at a fictitious Electric Distribution company. There’s three different end users working together on the same network, carrying out their work independently but all using the same, accurate digital twin of their assets. These examples are based on Glen Olli’s technical demos in our UNE – The Future of Spatia ..read more

I was recently reading our blog about ArcGIS for Excel and went on a deep dive into how we can integrate spatial visualisation with our everyday workflows in Microsoft applications. Along with new tools, comes access to your existing ArcGIS data and ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World. ArcGIS for Microsoft 365 is a suite of apps that bridge the gap between the ArcGIS system and Microsoft business applications, including Excel, Power BI, Power Automate, SharePoint, and Teams. In this blog, I’ll delve into the core functionality and capabilities of each product, along with providing links to existi ..read more

Arcade is a lightweight expression language for customising your ArcGIS maps and apps. Whether it’s for enhancing your pop-ups, integrating other data layers, performing on-the-fly calculations, or so much more, Arcade is a helpful tool to understand. We’ve already written a few blogs about Arcade and featured it in our webinars. In this blog, I’d like to dive deeper into one of Arcade’s building blocks – keywords. After addressing what they are, we’ll look at some examples in ArcGIS Quick Capture. And don’t worry, you do not need to have coding experience to be successful with Arcade. I’ll sa ..read more

Sweet for ArcGIS is a powerful tool for ensuring that data is valid at the point of entry. As well as the data rules configured within Sweet, the very nature of the data itself is important for defining the application’s purpose. Typical use cases for Sweet for ArcGIS include habitat surveying, agricultural management and road network editing, all large outdoor projects. But what if you want to edit an indoor environment? For example, you might be looking to plan a new office space and need to conform to certain building standards, or you might want to track critical assets within a medical fa ..read more

If you’re reading this, I’m going to assume you’ve made a map or two in the past to help visualise your data with geographical context. But what if you want to share this with others so they can interact, better understand, or even edit the data? Creating a web app allows you to share your data exactly the way you want to, using one of the app builders ArcGIS has to offer. In this blog, we will be taking a close look at ArcGIS Instant Apps, one of our most intuitive app builders that’s capable of creating a powerful app in a matter of minutes, or you may say…. in an instant. App templates ArcG ..read more

Whether you are a seasoned GIS user or new to ArcGIS Pro, your operating of ArcGIS Pro will be improved by considering the configuration of it. Whenever I create an ArcGIS Pro project, or teach others how to, I always remember to note that – whilst you can accept the workspace defaults that Pro offers you, you do not have to! You are the operator, and you should spend a few moments considering the options you have so that Pro works better for you. ArcGIS Pro Start page including settings, templates and learning resources When you create a project, ArcGIS Pro generates a folder structure cont ..read more

The ArcGIS system contains a diverse portfolio of individual products that meet the wide needs of our customers. From a capability and technology perspective this choice is great news, from a licensing perspective it has made life a little complex. The user type model, introduced in 2018, successfully combined capabilities and apps together to align with the needs of different GIS users. We’re excited to announce that updated user types are coming to ArcGIS that expand these and simplify the licensing. Effective from June 2024, we are updating the user type license model to use six role-based ..read more

Today we are excited to announce the Beta release of our new British National Grid Terrain 3D Elevation Layer. This opens a whole new world of 3D data and experiences in ArcGIS Online. Best of all, the layer is freely available through the ArcGIS Living Atlas of The World. This service provides two significant improvements. Firstly it allows you for the first time to use Esri UK’s open basemaps within a 3D scene. Secondly it allows you to display 3D data with British National Grid coordinates without the need for reprojection, saving you time in your workflows. In this post we will explore how ..read more

Three acronyms, but it’s not as complex as it appears—thanks to work behind the scenes, you can now access features from Ordnance Survey’s National Geographic Database (NGD) directly in ArcGIS Online. With the NGD API, you can access up-to-date, authoritative OS data for buildings, land use, road networks and more. Best of all, by accessing the data through the OS’s API, you can get just the data that you want, where you want, and when you want, without having to maintain or download large datasets. How to get started: The first step is to retrieve your API key and API service URL from the OS ..read more