Esri Technology

The OnStar Story Jeff Joyner from OnStar General Motors started the day looking at one of the earliest location-based services, OnStar. It all started back in 1995 with a project then called Beacon. It morphed from a $2000 add-on for Cadallic owners in 1996, that supported some nine calls per...

Esri's Director of Education, David DiBiase shared that Esri sales staff have been able to quote pricing for ArcGIS Online for Organizations (the product name is in flux) as of last Friday. The subscription offering allows organizations to skin the service, create and manage accounts and is...

Teaching high school stduents and elementary students about GPS and having them use it to make maps is not a new idea. What is new in Urbana, IL is that the older students are teaching the younger ones. And, both groups are English as a second language students and the teaching and learning is...

The Texas Forest Service and Texas A&M University have unveiled a new Web application that will forewarn residents when conditions are ripe for wildfire. The free application — dubbed TxWRAP — is designed to help homeowners and communities determine wildfire risk so they can act before a wildfire...

The new map is based on the Flex API and avaialble here. It uses a Bing basemap but I was unable to access it due to a huge splashscreen which I could not dismiss. This happens on my laptop now and again... (Safari, MacOS X if you are wondering...and no I don't want to change my resolution.) -...

GreenUp DC is part of the city’s overall effort to get citizens to become active participants in Mayor Vincent Gray’s sustainability initiatives, and to track performance of various environmental programs, according to the District Department of the Environment (DDOE). Esri built it. -...

Lawrie Jordan, director of imagery at Esri, and special assistant to Jack Dangermond, gave the keynote address at the SPAR International conference on Monday in Houston. Jordon touched on more than a few GIS trends he is seeing, including the “convergence” of GIS and 3D imaging technology,...

With the centennial of the sinking of the Titanic upon us, please click on the attached link for the Esri map that plots the geography, class, and fate of the passengers on the ship. Some key results: First-class passengers were primarily from affluent European and American cities, while...

From Esri: Given the current national debate around healthcare, we thought you might be interested in running the following map online. This week’s story features Census data revealing a wide regional disparity in the number of doctor’s offices relative to the population. Many counties,...

UN Ambassador Betty King spoke to the conference “Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for the United Nations and the International Community”organized by UNITAR’s operational Satellite Application Programme (UNOSAT) and Esri, at the WMO in Geneva, Switzerland April 3-5. It's very rah, rah GIS...