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...

How do you put a value on geospatial technology? Does it just come down to revenue and profits? Or intrinsically is it more because critical information is held within the bounds of certain technology formats?

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...

It’s a fair question as discussions continue about a new rail line from San Bernardino, CA into Redlands. The first phase of a planned line has three stops for the passenger rail service in Redlands: one near Esri, one near the 14-screen cinema, and one near the University of Redlands. The...

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.) -...

GIS software inertia involves the use of programs the same way for weeks, months and years without any change. Existing but not yet found or explored tools, new enhancements and workflows are left to gather electronic dust as users continue to do the same tasks, the same way. Why does this happen?...

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,...