ArcGIS Online

For those who don’t know yet, ArcGIS Online is Esri’s web GIS. This September, ArcGIS Online gets new spatial analytics capabilities, new tools ( like Summarize Center and Dispersion, and Find Point Clusters), new configurable apps and lots more.

To learn more, read  Bern Szukalski’s blog “What’s New In ArcGIS Online (September 2018)”  or see the What’s new help topic or view all posts related to this release.

New to ArcGIS Online? Take the free trial here.

Esri Vector Basemaps

This recent update to Esri Vector Basemaps brings a handful of features to the maps. A new style named ‘Charted Territory’ has also been added to the collection; and, a basemap localization has been launched across six languages. Read Andrew Greens’s blog to learn more and for information and lists of data updates, including contributions made through the Community Maps Program, view these blogs.

Esri Demographics

With the September update to ArcGIS Online (discussed earlier), the latest release includes demographic updates for several countries, namely, Canada, United States. Included are the 2018 demographics from Michael Bauer Research for China, India, Malaysia, Philippines, and Thailand. Twenty-eight countries also received improved Settlement Points methodology. Unfortunately, the Philippines is not included.

For the ready-to-use Living Atlas Maps user within ArcGIS Online, demographic layers and maps for the Philippines, including Estonia, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand have been updated. Learn more from Esri’s Lucy Guerra’s blog “What’s New In Esri Demographics (September 2018)”.

CityEngine 2018.1

Good news for existing users of CityEngine and wannabe users like urban planners, gamers, land developers, etc. The latest version, CityEngine 2018.1, provides:

• Better drawing experience
• Web publishing of elevation data
• Support for large datasets on the web
• New out-of-the-box content: fences
• And more enhancements and fixes.

To learn more about what’s new in CityEngine 2018.1, go to CityEngine 2018.1 release notes or read Madeline Schueren’s earlier blog.

Go to My Esri to upgrade to CityEngine 2018.1. Or, if you are new to CityEngine, try it out now with a fully functional free trial version.

ArcGIS Enterprise

As of September, Esri has introduced new enhancements in ArcGIS Enterprise, namely:

• Custom disk space threshold for collaborated content – If you are using distributed collaboration, you can now customize the disk space threshold in ArcGIS Enterprise 10.6.1 within the REST API. This feature allows the default value, 10 GB of available disk space, to be updated with a custom absolute value based on your site’s storage requirements. To learn more read the blog of Esri’s Joel Jeyarajah and Caroline Wright “What’s new in ArcGIS Enterprise 10.6.1: Custom disk space threshold for collaborated content” as well as how to customize the threshold.
• New stuff in Distributed Collaboration – Notable enhancements are: share web mapping applications; synchronize workspace on demand; modify content storage threshold (see above). To learn more about these enhancements, read Hilary Curtis’s blog “What’s New in Distributed Collaboration at ArcGIS Enterprise 10.6.1”.

To learn more, visit our About Distributed Collaboration technical documentation and a recent blog on Administering Your Collaboration – Tips and Tricks.

AND. . . by the way, collaboration is now available for all ArcGIS Online organizations with ArcGIS Enterprise 10.5.1 and higher. For details on enabling collaboration in My Esri, visit the release blog written by Hilary Curtis and Kelly Gerrow-Wilcox.

Insights for ArcGIS 3.0

As of September 2018, Insights for ArcGIS 3.0 is the latest version. This release includes many new capabilities that can invigorate your analysis workflows and presentations!  These new features are available in both ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Enterprise. This release of Insights supports ArcGIS Enterprise 10.6.1. Take a deep dive here into all the new capabilities of Insights for ArGIS 3.0

New to Insights for ArcGIS, try it out for 21 days. Take the free trial.