Most ArcGIS applications work well with Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) services, allowing you to use the power of ArcGIS alongside geospatial web services from other platforms. Both ArcGIS Pro and the Map Viewers in ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Enterprise allow you to work with both older WMS and WFS format services as well as those built on the more modern OGC-API Features standard. We have sometimes seen users having difficultly with OGC Services in ArcGIS when the service needs additional parameters to access it, for example API keys or identifiers. To get the best experience in these situati ..read more

LocatorHub retired on the 31st December 2023 and there is no further support available for the product. For further details please see the Product Lifecycle. Please note we recently changed the terms of use to allow customers who were in maintenance until 31st December 2023 to continue to use LocatorHub unsupported while they complete their migration.  Please see here for further details: LocatorHub Retirement – Change to Terms of Use For further details of the recommended migration paths please see our Addressing what’s next blog. If you have any questions please contact your Customer Su ..read more

With the release of ArcGIS Pro 3.2, it is necessary for any customers using OSTN15 transformations (geographic transformations WGS_1984_to_OSGB_1936_OSTN15 and ETRS_1989_To_OSGB_1936_OSTN15) to download and install the supplementary ArcGIS Coordinate Systems Data from My Esri. The underlying files required for these transformations were unintentionally added to the standard build of ArcGIS Pro for versions 2.9 through to 3.1. If you have data requiring OSTN15 transformation in your projects and you upgrade from ArcGIS Pro 2.9-3.1 to ArcGIS Pro 3.2, you may see the following warning message: Tr ..read more

UK Data Loader 7.1.2 We have released an update to UK Data Loader to support the release of ArcGIS Pro 3.2. If you experience issues when using the UK Data Loader with ArcGIS Pro 3.2 then please ensure you use the latest version which can be downloaded here ..read more

UK Data Loader 7.1.1 We have released an update to UK Data Loader to support locator integrations with some third party applications. We have added more fields to some of the locators: For the UPRN and Postcode locator the Organisation field has been added For the Street locator the following fields have been added UPRN BlpuClass WardCode ParishCode BLPUState LocalCustodianCode The updated tool can be downloaded here. As always we are actively seeking feedback on your experiences with locators to drive our roadmap in the future. Please let us know your thoughts and ideas b ..read more

LocatorHub is retiring on 31st December 2023.  From this date there will be no support available for the product and no further releases.  For further details please see the Product Lifecycle We know that many of our customers have already migrated away from LocatorHub and that others are in the process of doing so, but we also recognise that some of you may still need to use LocatorHub into the new year, while you complete your migration process.  To enable you to continue to use LocatorHub, we grant all customers who were in maintenance for LocatorHub to 31st December 2023, in ..read more

We are pleased to announce that UK Data Loader 7.1 has now been released. This release focuses on new locator functionality. For more information see our Addressing what’s next blog post. The updated tool can be downloaded here. As always we are actively seeking feedback on your experiences with locators to drive our roadmap in the future. So please let us know your thoughts and ideas by emailing UKDataLoader@esriuk.com or contacting your Customer Success Manager ..read more

As most of you are aware, LocatorHub is retiring in December 2023. This blog will collate the resources we have made available, and go through our plans for UK Data Loader and Connector for OS Places API, to address some concerns over the retirement of LocatorHub.  Where can I find the information?  We have a made variety of resources available which you can review or re-watch:  Addressing LocatorHub’s Retirement Plans webinar   Benefits of ArcGIS Locators for finding places blog  LocatorHub Retirement Reminder blog   GB Addressing website  ..read more

We are pleased to announce that UK Data Loader 7.0 has now been released. The main feature of this release is the addition of tools to support the new Transport Theme from the Ordnance Survey National Geographic Database. This is our first tool designed to support data from the NGD and allows users to create routable networks from the data and include both speed restrictions and average speeds into those networks. Note: From 7.0 we will only be supporting ArcGIS Pro 3.0 and above The updated tool can be downloaded here. As always we are actively seeking feedback on your experiences with locato ..read more

Esri UK are moving the hosting of Sweet for ArcGIS to a new Esri UK Managed Service environment. This move aligns with our ethos of consistently keeping to best practice with the Sweet for ArcGIS architecture. It also has the added benefit of improving our URLs. NOTE: This change only impacts users using the ArcGIS Online version of Sweet and Phase 1 Habitat Survey, users on Enterprise are not impacted. We have made the process for migrating to the new environment as simple as possible by adding in a migration wizard into the latest release of Sweet. The migration wizard will be made available ..read more