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ESRI (UK) Case Study

ESRI (UK) Case Study

Buried deep in the ESRI (UK) website is a case study I helped put together showcasing some of the ways we use GIS (specifically ESRI products) within UCL Department of Geography and Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis. ESRI (UK) co-sponsor my PhD research and I have had a very positive and productive relationship with the company. I ...

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18 Nov ESRI | Comments

G-I-S State of Mind

G-I-S State of Mind

For GIS nerds only: Just to prove that GIS users are “hip” and “cool” here is a video that takes a contemporary “rap” artist’s song and adapts it with GIS- specific lyrics. I really “dig” this, especially the “sweet” line about geodatabases.

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ArcGIS Desktop 10 Service Pack 1

ArcGIS Desktop 10 Service Pack 1

ESRI have released the first service pack for ArcGIS 10. The list of fixes is enormous and having encountered several of the bugs so I would highly recommend you perform the update. The ArcGIS Desktop 10 service pack is 361mb in size so make sure you have a decent internet connection.The download page is here. ...

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ArcGIS for iPhone: Review

ArcGIS for iPhone: Review

ESRI have just launched their ArcGIS for iPhone Application. I have tested it out and thought I would share a my first impressions. I conducted the test on my iPhone 3GS running software version 4.0.1 and with 1 to 3 bars of 3G signal. Overall I found the app to be very impressive. You are ...

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11 Jun ESRI | 1 comment

Jack Dangermond gives AGI Keynote at University College London

Jack Dangermond gives AGI Keynote at University College London

Jack Dangermond head of ESRI, the world’s largest GIS software company, presented the AGI Education keynote at UCL on Monday 7th June. The talk entitled “Some Developments in GIS” focussed on current innovations in GIS software and on the direction in which the field is heading. He acknowledged the instrumental role that UCL has played ...

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UK Election Map: What colour is your constituency?

UK Election Map: What colour is your constituency?

Overview The 2010 UK election results have been visualised in hundreds of different ways. The map below is another contribution. We have used the RGB Colour Model to create the colours. The colour model works by mixing Red, Green and Blue to produce the final colour (more details below).We have given the Conservatives blue, Labour ...

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26 Apr ESRI, Software | Comments

Graduate Jobs with ESRI (UK)

Graduate Jobs with ESRI (UK)

ESRI (UK) have a couple of graduate vacancies with their Technical Solutions Group (TSG) for the following roles: GIS Developer: Reporting to the TSG Technology Manager, the role of the GIS Developer is to support the sales process through the development of bespoke demonstration applications, and to work with Customers and Business Partner organisations to ...

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03 Apr ESRI, Software | Comments

Jack Dangermond at Where 2.0: GIS on the Web–A Big Step

Jack Dangermond at Where 2.0: GIS on the Web–A Big Step

I have embedded below Jack Dangermond’s recent talk at Where 2.0. It introduces the exciting opportunities provided by what Dangermond calls “GIS in the Sky”. Thanks to Alex Singleton for sending me the link to the video posted on GIS and Science.

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Some Examples of GIS at UCL: ESRI (UK) Update

Some Examples of GIS at UCL: ESRI (UK) Update

Below is the presentation I gave today at ESRI (UK). It was designed to give a few examples of PhD research within my immediate research group at UCL and also provide an update of my PhD research to date. GIS Research at UCL View more presentations from James Cheshire.

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ESRI’s Free Maps

ESRI’s Free Maps

Following a slightly critical post about the map featured on ESRI’s Geomedicine website I thought I would balance things with a post on a good example (in my opinion) of a mapping service from ESRI. I was really impressed with their Free Embeddable Maps website. Users can select from a number of demographic measures such ...

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