Watch this space for broader coverage, including Australia.Īs well as Esri Maps for Office 2.0, Operations Dashboard for ArcGIS and the ArcGIS Collector apps, the March release enhances some existing ArcGIS Online web application templates while adding a new one. To recap, these templates are designed so that if you have built a web map, you can rapidly wrap it in a configurable web app that can also be hosted inside ArcGIS Online. Alternatively, you can download the source of the app, make it your own and then host it from your own infrastructure. Right now, this feature has significant data for the US, Canada and some countries in Western Europe. Like the Network analysis and Geocoding task services mentioned earlier, imagine a developer being able to build this geo-enrichment in to their application. If you extend the thinking around this, Esri Maps for Office is just one way of consuming this kind of capability. So for example, if your spreadsheet has rows including cities, and associated data from your enterprise, you could use the ArcGIS platform to add columns of data for say, population count, in different age brackets, income information or a range of other variables. With Esri Maps for Office V2.0, users can now enrich their spreadsheets with demographic and lifestyle data. This is a somewhat nascent, but very interesting element of the release. The latter opens up using the ArcGIS Online catalogue as a means of curating references to anything that can be reached through a URL. It includes the following file types: DOC, DOCX, JPG, JPEG, PDF, PNG, PPT, PPTX, TIF, TIFF, VSD, XLS, and XLSX, as well as a very useful URL item type. This release adds support for a range of non-spatial content types to be added to an ArcGIS Online organisation. For more information on this, take a look at this post in the Esri blog.Īlso related to layers in web maps, support for ArcGIS Server 10.1’s dynamic layers has been added, which means you can now modify the symbology on a map service, not just a feature service as was previously the case. Obviously the map service needs to be coming out of a 10.1 server. The latter is a set of web-accessible tiles that reside on a server as files rather than presenting as a service. Still on the Map Viewer, the list of layer types you can add to a web map has been extended to include OGC WMTS, GeoRSS feeds and generic tile layers. Users can now select features on a map they have created in Excel, and then use the network analysis services to, for example, locate nearby features in another layer within a 10 minute drive time area.įor me, this new capability is less about the way it looks/acts in these user interfaces, and more about the fact that I now have this new option to consume these types of services in applications that I build myself. It can also be seen in the new Find Nearby capability in Esri Maps for Office 2.0 that was made available this week. Clicking this exposes a UI for building a route between one or more locations with step-by-step directions and interaction with the map.Īpplications that already leverage this capability include the Operations Dashboard for ArcGIS, and the recently released ArcGIS Viewer for Flex V3.2. Back in December, a ready-to-use network analysis services API was added to ArcGIS Online to complement the existing geocoding services API. This was a big enabler for developers, who could now add routing, directions, closest facility, and service area analysis capabilities to their applications directly through the API. In the March release, these services are exposed in a number of ways. With an organisational account, users will now see a Directions button on the toolbar above the map in the standard Map Viewer. This release is very interesting as it includes a mix of updates to existing features, some new data enrichment capabilities being rolled out globally in a staged approach, and also, for the first time, a couple of pieces of functionality that are in general beta mode for all organisations with an ArcGIS Online account. As I was putting my fingers to the keyboard for this final part of a three part series on the December release, Esri announced another major release on 19 March. My plan for the final part of this trilogy was to discuss Task Services – and I will cover that off, in what will now be an overview of the March release. ArcGIS Online is evolving at a rapid pace – there’s no doubt about it.
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