A short guide to creating ArcGIS Online services that use the British National Grid coordinate system.

A new ESRI app was released this week. Explorer for ArcGIS compliments the existing apps by focusing on using maps as a communication tool. The initial release is for iOS but the Android and Mac version are in development.

Every week new schools sign up to the Esri UK ArcGIS for Schools Programme and we are starting to see some great results. The immediacy that ArcGIS Online affords along with its simplicity has allowed some of our schools to produce maps in minutes as a response to recent world events.

A recent upgrade to the ArcGIS Online Basemaps added support for re-sampling at scales larger than the map has data for (ie when zoomed in beyond the dats). This allows the client application to re-sample the closest available scale and display that, instead of a 'Map data not available' image.

On reflection, there were 3 main themes that emerged from the Esri Dev Summit this year: ArcGIS is now a Platform, 3D will be available across the platform and JavaScript will become the main Web development tool for Esri.

The March release of the Operations Dashboard will allow a single-display operation view to be created, shared and then accessed on a mobile device (iOS and Android).

Disconnected editing in the Collector App is coming soon and you can read about how it's going to work in a series of blog postings from the Esri mobile team.

A quick mention for a couple of choice morsels in the recent ArcGIS Online enhancements.

A short interview with Jim Barry, Program Manager for the Esri Developer Network, in which he shares his toughts on some of the current developments in the ArcGIS Platform.