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Esri in Redlands, California offers ArcGIS, a geographic information system.
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ArcGIS Online Join Features Demo 3 – Join to a table based on common attribute
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ArcGIS Collector App (iOS & Android)
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ArcGIS Maps for Power BI Demo - Drive Time Analysis
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Introduction to Python in ArcGIS Pro
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| Deployment Types | On-premise |
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| Operating Systems | Windows |
| Mobile Application | No |
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Esri in Redlands, California offers ArcGIS, a geographic information system.
Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 9.
The most common users of ArcGIS are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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ArcGIS is widely used across various industries and departments for a range of tasks. Users have found it valuable for assessing distances between clinic sites and patient locations, generating maps, integrating data, and conducting spatial data analysis. It has become the go-to tool for logistics network optimization at FedEx and is extensively used in architecture, engineering, and civil engineering projects. In educational settings, ArcGIS is commonly used for completing projects and research tasks. It also plays a crucial role in research projects related to geography and groundwater chemistry analysis. Furthermore, ArcGIS facilitates collaboration between different fields of research and offers sophisticated visualization and statistical analysis capabilities. The software is integrated with mapping platforms to optimize operations across industries. Additionally, it has been instrumental in solving location and planning problems, promoting organized development, facilitating cartography, creating infographics, and presenting data in a visually engaging manner.
Versatile Tool: Users have found ArcGIS to be a versatile tool for planning and promoting organized development in various territories. It allows for the visualization, management, editing, calculation, and analysis of georeferenced entities and attributes. Many reviewers appreciate its wide range of possibilities with geographic data.
Intuitive Interface: ArcGIS is praised for its easy-to-use interface and intuitive menus. Users find it easy to learn, with localized tools that make navigation straightforward. The intuitive user interface has been mentioned by multiple reviewers as a positive aspect of using ArcGIS.
Powerful Integration: Reviewers highly value ArcGIS's powerful integration with other systems. They appreciate the continuous enhancement and upgrades that keep the software up-to-date. Additionally, the rock-solid ArcGIS.com cloud technology has been commended by users for its reliability and convenience.
Confusing User Interface: Many users have expressed frustration with the user interface of ArcGIS, finding it confusing and difficult to get used to. Some reviewers have suggested that a usability study should be conducted to improve the work process.
Expensive Cost: The high cost of ArcGIS is a common concern among users, especially for small companies and professionals in underdeveloped countries. Reviewers mention the expensive price of the software itself as well as the high annual maintenance fees compared to the new features provided.
Installation and Technical Support Issues: Users have reported problems with the installation process for new versions of ArcGIS, often requiring technical support. They have requested training materials and user-friendly videos to better utilize and understand the software.
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March 26, 2018
Hurricane winds through a GIS
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Initially is was used by me to analyze and characterize the historical trajectories of hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean.
Its versatility and ability to work phenomena in geographical coordinates and across different time zones allowed me to analyze the behavior of hurricanes since 1851. With other programs such as AutoCAD it would have been impossible to do so. It is currently being used to characterize the rainfall pattern in Venezuela. Different people of the company are being trained in the use of this tool, with the local commercial representative (Esri).
- It allows to work and analyze phenomena on a large scale.
- The fact that one is able to work in geographical coordinates makes it much more versatile for these tasks than programs such as AutoCAD or similar, designed to work in smaller domains.
- The interpolation functions that it has can be extended and improved.
- The interface with the user can also be improved so that any user who uses it for the first time, can access to understand the program more easily.
- For me it has been excellent, both personally and for the company where I work.
- It allowed me to develop my work of promotion in the university where I impact classes, work that allowed to develop a map of probabilities of risk associated with the action of the hurricanes and its connection with the climatic phenomenon known as ENSO.
- It was also of enormous utility to the company where I work, which devotes a large part of its activities to developing offshore oceanographic measurements, linked to the oil and gas activity because it allows a better management and knowledge of the risk associated with each job
- Capaware, MapGuide, Map Server and Open Sourc
Another geographic information tool that I have used is Google Earth, very useful for basic tasks, but which does not remotely have the capabilities of ArcGIS. Specifically, other GIS software that I have used in the recent past was the Map Server, the MapGuide Open Source, and the Capaware, because they were free software.
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The people who use this software have very specific objectives. Some are geologists, others are assistant engineers, whose chiefs have requested that they are instructed in order to assemble and articulate databases of a different nature, so that they are accessible to potential customers and internal users who are frequently requesting data and statistics. that are not at hand, but managed by certain departments.
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They should be people with general knowledge of spatial georeferencing, who understand elementary concepts such as latitude, longitude, time zones, horizontal and vertical reference datums, geoidal and elopsoidal heights. Furthermore, I think it is desirable that they have managed or used data in other databases and that they really understand what is the intrinsic utility of a geographic information system.
- Generation of geological risk maps.
- Generation of risk maps by hurricane action.
- Articulation of a large database with various meteorological and oceanographic variables.
- Allow such data to be seen by any user with permission from anywhere and at any time.
- For commercial purposes, allowing showing the strengths of the organization in relation to the large amount of data it has and the analysis thereof, before any customer.
- Guarantee the perpetuity of the data, since having it properly stored avoids its possible loss over time.
January 12, 2018
The best GIS on the market
Well, ArcGIS has been used in my organization since 2010, when happened de Mayon change in the municipality, with the intention of obtaining real data of the urbanization and people for making them pay taxes. The software is only used in the Catastral Department, not in other locations. The main problem that is the transition from a trial version for one that had been paid, it was very expensive for the organization and limit the number of users.
- ArcGIS has an excellent core of tools to make possible everything you need in spatial analysis, from analysis of raster data to the conversion of CAD file to shapefile to simplify their use
- The simple use of the software is its other great virtues, it is very easy to use, very friendly with the user, the localizations of the tools, the intuitive nature of the menus and the facility to open and save the files
- The exit format of the maps maybe it is other of the great advantages of ArcGIS in comparison with other GIS, you have a big range of formats to save your map images, and that allows you to uses in any way you like
- The first thing is the cost, it is a very expensive software for countries of the underdeveloped world, so the professionals of GIS who want to use it, sometimes observe a big range of limitations, because we can use only a few tools that the organization pay and our analysis sometimes are limited because of that.
- For a rookie user, maybe the software can be overwhelming, seeing so many tools and so many options and features maybe can be afraid or do not know where to start, so it is necessary to prepare a big range of tutorials for people that do not know anything about the GIS, because they can be a possible users but maybe they can be afraid of the software
- The process of installation of a new version in our case bring us a big problem because the software does not want to be uninstalled so we have to contact technical support to make the transition from version 9.3 to 10 and that delay many of our work
- The best positive thing was the municipality to update the data of the urbanization and owners to start a new set of tax payments and increase the budget of the organization.
- Another positive impact was encountering GIS professionals in the organization, that allowed us to use not only information about the urbanization, but also data of the people, like localization, transportation, quality of the services, and other things that we had to be seeing to improve the way they live
- The negative issue was the cost of the license because all the money expended maybe could be used in social programs or in other expense issues.
ArcGIS is superior to all the other GIS existing in the market, none of them are half as good as ArcGIS is. They constantly try to evolve or to copy ArcGIS but they cannot do it. The principal limitation of the free software is the constant updates, that make the program so annoying and limiting in their use. Another issue is that QGIS always tries to copy some elements or tools from ArcGIS, but the result it is not very good, the new tools frequently have errors and their use is not efficient. Maybe a free software like QGIS can solve an easy problem of spatial analysis but does not have the power of ArcGIS to solve in the right way.
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We make all the maps which are used in the organization to make plan or to monitoring the daily activities. All the maps with do have attibute data vinculated to the urbanization like name of the streets, long, the problem that each one have and so many other attributes that helped to make the daily activities in the right place, without wasting resources and budget.
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With support Arcgis you have to know a basic knowledge of programming language because it is extremely necessary to make some queries, make models with the shape files and to create new data and to represent it in the maps. The people with help most of the time they are interns who are traying to develop their abilities with GIS software, we have to support them with basic tools of GIS and with data analysis tools.