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Jack Dangermond, whose company Esri leads the world in GIS technology, was a featured speaker at the NACo eighty-first annual conference and exposition in July 2016. He shared his vision about the future of smart communities in which government is more responsive, productive, efficient, transparent, and engaged with its citizens. The overarching theme of the Esri president’s presentation was that GIS enables a smarter world.
Among the company’s lofty goals is its initiative to create a greener infrastructure for America. Esri has created a planning and development solution for analyzing ways to accommodate community growth without adversely impacting the environment. Counties can see what’s at stake—inside and outside their borders—and take action to preserve valuable cultural, scenic, ecological, and agricultural landscapes.
first published week of: 04/11/2022
The association’s letter represents a general endorsement of the institute’s certification process, said Scott Grams, executive director of the institute.
first published week of: 06/06/2022
Using ArcGIS, Esri’s Chinese software engineers will be developing core technologies for web and cloud-based mapping systems, advanced spatial information visualization, and mobile mapping solutions.
The Esri (Beijing) Software Research and Development Center allows Esri to bring its expertise in advanced spatial technology, software development, and information management to China and provide localized software and services that meet the needs of GIS user Scott Morehouse, Esri’s director of software development
Esri has been supporting GIS users in China for 20 years. The R&D center in Beijing affirms Esri's commitment to continue to nurture and support GIS technology for the country. Furthermore, by employing local software developers, Esri will help advance the spatial technology expertise of the Chinese workforce and enable China’s GIS community to extend its influence to Esri's global customer base.
first published week of: 10/17/2022
XMap 7 is a three-tiered GIS software suite that has been engineered to extend the reach of GIS to field technicians and mobile professionals through straightforward two-way data synchronization and form-based data collection and editing.
XMap 7 GIS Enterprise is the most advanced level of the three tiers. It offers offer a full array of GIS importing, editing, and analysis tools as well as powerful data administration and deployment functionality. Using XMap 7 GIS Enterprise, a GIS manager or IT administrator can:
first published week of: 08/15/2022
The decision concerned an appeal by the Sierra Club, which was charged $375,000 by Orange County for a mapping database of 640,000 land parcels that were in the GIS format, which stands for geographic information system, and can be read by most mapping software.
The case, which took six years to meander through the courts, included a friend-of-the-court brief by Wired and other news outlets who argued that only the cost of the duplication was required to obtain the database.
Orange, one of 58 counties in California, said it housed the mapping data on its own proprietary software, and that it would only release the data if the Sierra Club paid a licensing fee.
Read full story at Wired…
first published week of: 05/09/2022
The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) membership approved a 30 day public comment period for a revision to the OpenGIS® Web Coverage Service (WCS) Interface Standard.
The revision includes two extensions to WCS: the WCS 1.1 Transaction Extension and the Web Coverage Processing Service Processing (WCPS) Extension.
The WCS Interface Standard specifies an application programming interface (API) for requesting coverage data, such as imagery, from one or more distributed sources.
The WCS 1.1 Transaction Extension defines how WCS clients can requestthat a WCS server import one or more new coverages into that server,update existing coverages, and/or delete existing coverages.
The WCPS Extension adds a raster expression language to WCS which allows analysis and processing of multi-dimensional grid coverage data over the World Wide Web. Resulting coverages can be transmitted directly or made available for download by URLs communicated to the client.
first published week of: 04/25/2022