What ArcGIS Online did in the summer holidays.

It's officially the end of the summer holidays but not to worry as ArcGIS Online had lots of great new features added. The following blog article aims to give you an overview of five of my favourite updates, including the new functionality and content for UK users.

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New OS Open Basemaps available for free in ArcGIS Online

With the latest release of ArcGIS Online you now automatically get access to free high quality basemaps for Great Britain. We have created the new basemaps using the latest Ordnance Survey Open Data products and enhanced them for use in the ArcGIS platform. Enhancements include a consistent cartographic style to provide a clean and consistent mapping from small to large scale, as well as additi

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A Month Of Handy Hints For ArcGIS Users

The Esri training team ran a tip a day in June and have pulled all 30 together in this blog article. A couple of the desktop ones are things I’d done recently on a project to make life easier: setting the extent for the Full Extent command and giving the elements in ModelBuilder meaningful names. Continue Reading

Smart Mapping in ArcGIS Online

Back in March, Smart Mapping was added to ArcGIS Online. One of the aims is to make it easier to produce effective maps of your data, but it also adds sophisticated style options to ArcGIS Online. If you haven’t looked at it yet, or have only used a few bits, it’s worth taking a look through the series of blog posts on it.

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It just got easier to add Esri UK Online Content into ArcGIS Online

Do you use Esri UK’s Online Content, either the free or premium Services? Ever wanted to make use of them in ArcGIS Online? There is a new Marketplace app that will add all your maps and gazetteers to your ArcGIS Online account at the click of a button. And it’s free!

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The Esri UK Open Data site is here and here’s how to set up your own

Have you seen ArcGIS Open Data, which you can set up free from your ArcGIS Online Organization Subscription? This article will give you a broad introduction into what ArcGIS Open Data is, how you can activate it and show you examples of Open Data Portals already available for you to use.

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Fancy Adding Your Own Rasters to ArcGIS Online?

Ever wanted to have your own raster data in ArcGIS Online, but don’t have ArcGIS for Server? Well now you can with the help of ArcGIS for Desktop!

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ArcGIS 10.3 Delivers Lots of GIS Goodies

ArcGIS 10.3 has arrived and brings with it a host of new features, enhancements and some new apps. This summary will give you a flavour of what's new and includes links to further details on each item.

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There’s a Buzz About Story Maps

A couple of Esri blog articles about story maps caught my eye this week. The first was an interesting post about how the story map templates evolve. The second post was about using presentations in story maps.

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The Web AppBuilder For ArcGIS Makes Tailoring Your Organisation’s Portal Easier.

The Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS (Beta) makes tailoring your organisation’s Portal easier. It allows you to tailor the style and functions of applications more closely to the needs of your users. Not only that but the application uses JavaScript and HTML, making it cross platform. If you want to use the same configuration for multiple applications you can export it as a template.

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