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ArcMap will be replaced by ArcGIS Pro

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In the questions and answers session of Esri UC 2017 Q & A, there has been concern about the future of ArcMap. Because Esri’s new generation desktop GIS product is ArcGIS Pro. It is advancing by leaps and bounds and technologically advanced to any other product on the market, this powerful application provides professional mapping functions, advanced analysis and data management.

In addition, developed in a 64-bit architecture, to enjoy and explore the new advantages and features that migrate to ArcGIS Pro is required to log in with an account subscribed to ArcGIS Online. Then the million dollar question would be:

Will ArcMap be replaced with ArcGIS Pro?

Yes. ArcGIS Pro will eventually replace ArcMap. We will continue to support and maintain ArcMap. However, our focus is on making ArcGIS Pro the world’s best desktop GIS. There are still some capabilities of ArcMap that are not yet in ArcGIS Pro, so some ArcGIS Desktop users will be using both ArcGIS Pro and ArcMap till Pro has everything you need to fully support your work.

This response has been published in Esri UC 2017 Q&A, although there will be a whole process of accompaniment in the migration, but sadly the life of ArcMap with technical support is scheduled until 2022.

Although after that time I think there will be a lot of users who keep using ArcMap, simply because if it works well and you are comfortable there would be no reason to change. This has happened with some users who are still reluctant to abandon ArcView 3.

We only have to wait for the future how ArcMap lovers will react, I think it is good to adapt to changes and explore new opportunities, each one is free to make a decision, but living from the past is not always the best option.

What’s New in ArcMap 10.5.1?

What’s New in ArcMap 10.5.1?

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What’s New in ArcMap 10.5.1?

ArcMap 10.5.1 is a quality improvement release focused on increasing performance and fixing bugs. Improvements include

  • Enhancements to the Slope and Aspect tools in the Spatial Analyst extension and the Raster Surface toolset in the 3D Analyst extension.
  • Updates to the Append Control Points, Build Pyramids and Statistics, and Transfer Attributes tools.
  • New product types and processing templates for some Airbus and DigitalGlobe sensors.
  • Improved support for the PostgreSQL database.
  • Fixes addressing the unique requirements of localized versions of ArcMap.

Get the full details on what’s new in ArcMap 10.5.1.

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ArcGIS Pro 2

ArcGIS Pro 2.0

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ArcGIS Pro 2.0

ArcGIS Pro 2.0, the next release of Esri’s flagship 64-bit desktop GIS application, has been released and is available from My Esri. ArcGIS Pro 2.0 continues Esri’s mission to provide new and user-requested functionality, the latest innovations for working with 2D and 3D spatial data, tools for performing advanced analytics, and enhanced support across the ArcGIS platform.

Highly Requested Workflows

Your favorite workflows are now easier and more powerful in ArcGIS Pro 2.0. You can now perform more complete workflows solely in ArcGIS Pro, such as map creation and data management.

  • Create more effective and meaningful maps with annotation and grids.
  • Getting started with new ArcGIS Pro projects has vastly improved with Favorites.
  • Modify your topology properties directly in ArcGIS Pro.
  • Enhanced traverse tool improves your COGO workflows.
  • Highly requested context menu options for importing and exporting data included in the Catalog pane.

Unique Innovations

ArcGIS Pro 2.0 features unique innovations that cannot be found in any other desktop GIS.

  • Easily explore your 3D landscapes with the new innovative 3D navigation controls and sync the views of your 3D and 2D maps.
  • Your layouts are more useful and powerful than ever with embeddable dynamic interactive charts.
  • Improvements to 3D drawing including feature drawing by camera distance and enhanced lighting of 3D objects make your 3D visualizations even better.
  • Analytics Improvements with fill missing values tools and enhanced spacetime cubes.
  • Get more done with new geoprocessing tools only available in ArcGIS Pro.

ArcGIS Platform Integration

ArcGIS Pro 2.0 works better with the rest of the ArcGIS platform, including ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Enterprise, and Esri’s vast library of ready-to-use apps. Your cross-platform workflows are now easier and more powerful than ever.

  • Enhancements for editing and interacting with the geodatabase in the ArcGIS Pro 2.0 SDK.
  • Consume native OGC Web Feature Service (WFS) Services directly in ArcGIS Pro.
  • Sync with feature layers that reference data registered in Portal for ArcGIS 10.5.1.
  • Vertical coordinate systems are included when sharing web scenes and web scene layers.
  • Continue to work in ArcGIS Pro while packaging operations complete in the background.

Get the full details on what’s new in ArcGIS Pro 2.0.

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What is the ArcGIS 3D Analyst extension

What is the ArcGIS 3D Analyst extension?

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What is the ArcGIS 3D Analyst extension?

Three-dimensional visualization and analysis; includes ArcGlobe and ArcScene applications. Also includes terrain data management and geoprocessing tools.

ArcGIS 3D Analyst extends ArcGIS to be a fully functioning 3D GIS system. It allows you to view, manage, analyze, and share your 3D GIS data.

  • View huge volumes of 3D GIS data in a global view using ArcGlobe, or view site-level data in a local coordinate system using ArcScene.
  • Manage 3D GIS data by editing features directly inside ArcGlobe or ArcScene, and add 3D components to 2D data through geoprocessing tools.
  • Analyze GIS data in three dimensions using geoprocessing tools, and use interactive tools in a 3D view.
  • Share 3D views of GIS data by publishing Globe Services and share 3D analytic tools through geoprocessing services.

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AutoCAD Map 3D

AutoCAD Map 3D vs AutoCAD

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Compare AutoCAD Map 3D vs. AutoCAD

AutoCAD Map 3D is GIS mapping software that includes the tools and functionality of AutoCAD.

AutoCAD Map 3D

Utilize and maintain CAD and GIS data to support planning, design, and data management.

USE FOR:
GIS analysis and planning
Gathering existing conditions data
Converting GIS data into CAD data

WHAT IT DOES:
Create thematic maps for analysis
Perform data queries
Build topologies
Utilize georeferenced Imagery
Connect to multiple external data sources

LICENSING:
Single-user
Multi-user (networked) licenses available

INCLUDES:
A360 collaboration tool
AutoCAD mobile app

https://www.autodesk.com/products/autocad-map-3d/overview

AutoCAD

Design every detail with 2D and 3D CAD software. Share drawings across desktop, cloud, and mobile.

USE FOR:
2D drafting, drawings, and documentation
3D modeling and visualization

WHAT IT DOES:
Create and edit 2D geometry.
Create and edit 3D models with solids, surfaces, and mesh objects.
Annotate drawings with text, dimensions, leaders, and tables.
Customize the ribbon and tool palettes.
Customize with add-on apps and APIs.
Extract object data to tables.
Attach and import data from PDF files.
Share and use data from and DGN files, Navisworks, and Bing Maps.
Apply and monitor CAD standards.

LICENSING:
Single-user
Multi-user (network)

INCLUDES:
Access to the Autodesk App Store
AutoCAD mobile app

https://www.autodesk.com/products/autocad/overview

Portal ArcGIS

What is portal for ArcGIS?

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What is portal for ArcGIS?

Portal for ArcGIS allows you to share maps, applications, and other geographic information with other people in your organization. The content that you share is delivered through a website. You can customize the website to fit your organization’s look and feel.

Key features

Portal for ArcGIS brings together all the geographic information in your ArcGIS platform and shares it throughout your organization. Portal for ArcGIS you can:

  • Create, save, and share web maps
  • Create and host web mapping apps
  • Search for GIS content within your organization
  • Create groups for sharing GIS information with coworkers
  • Share links to GIS applications
  • Share map and layer packages to use in ArcGIS Desktop

Portal for ArcGIS puts GIS in the hands of people who might not otherwise have any experience with it. Portal for ArcGIS includes geographic viewers designed for those who are just beginning with GIS. Experienced GIS users can connect to Portal for ArcGIS from ArcGIS Desktop, developer APIs, and other application

Portal for ArcGIS includes

  • Portal for ArcGIS website
  • Map viewer
  • Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS
  • Activity Dashboard for ArcGIS
  • Scene viewer
  • ArcGIS applications
  • Living Atlas of the World content
  • Administrator tools
  • ArcGIS Portal Directory

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Insights for ArcGIS

What is Insights for ArcGIS?

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Insights for ArcGIS

Insights is an app that allows you to perform iterative and exploratory data analysis. With a drag-and-drop interface, you can answer questions with data from ArcGIS, Excel spreadsheets, and business databases.

Another notable development in ArcGIS 10.5 is the arrival in ArcGIS Enterprise of a new web application (premium) for exploring spatial and non-spatial data in your organization. Through user-friendly

Fully integrated with the ArcGIS platform, Insights can be accessed from your organization’s ArcGIS portal, allowing you to take advantage of geographic data in your GIS as well as other data sources in the company’s IT system (Excel Files, SQL Database. Explore, analyze, iterate in your layers and tables to reveal trends and phenomena in your data. Although Insights is an application running in a browser, it allows to work on very large datasets in a very efficient way.

In Insights, in a few clicks or by simple drag and drop, the user implements spatial or statistical analysis algorithms sometimes very complex. The multiple viewing options offered in Insights allow you to present your data in maps, diagrams, or tables through forms organized in a multi-page document. These can be saved and shared with other users on your ArcGIS portal. You can also share the workflow of your exploratory analysis to allow other users to replay it on other datasets.

Insights for ArcGIS is a Premium application integrated with ArcGIS Server 10.5.

Key Features

In Insights, you organize your work in workbooks, which can contain multiple pages. An Insights workbook is a new item type in your organization.

With an Insights workbook, you can do the following:

  • Integrate data based on geography or common attributes
  • Analyze data from multiple sources, such as ArcGIS, Excel, and databases
  • Apply spatial analysis tools as a seamless part of your question-and-answer workflow
  • Create great-looking maps, charts, and tables using smart visualization defaults
  • Enable location for your data with geocoding services, boundary layers from your organization, or custom locations such as sales territories
  • Recognize patterns, outliers, and dependencies in your data by interacting directly with maps, charts, and tables
  • Automate your analysis with models
  • Share your work, data, and results

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ArcGIS Server

What is ArcGIS Server?

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ARCGIS SERVER
ArcGIS Server is software that makes your geographic information available to others in your organization and optionally anyone with an Internet connection. This is accomplished through web services, which allow a powerful server computer to receive and process requests for information sent by other devices. ArcGIS Server opens your GIS to tablets, smartphones, laptops, desktop workstations, and any other devices that can connect to web services.

PREPARING HARDWARE, SOFTWARE, AND DATA
The hardware you use for your server is typically more powerful than your other desktop computers. ArcGIS Server requires a machine capable of running a 64-bit operating system. The ArcGIS Server architecture is scalable, meaning you can add multiple machines if extra processing power is needed. ArcGIS Server can also be deployed on virtual machines or commercial cloud platforms such as Amazon EC2.

PUBLISHING GIS WEB SERVICES
If you’ve worked with ArcGIS Desktop, then you know how to use applications like ArcMap to view and analyze GIS data. You use these same applications when publishing web services to ArcGIS Server. you can author maps, geoprocessing models, mosaic datasets, and other GIS resources in ArcGIS Desktop and use a simple wizard to share them as web services.

USING GIS WEB SERVICES
Once you have web services running, you can use them in any application, device, or API that can communicate through HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol).

ArcGIS.com and Portal for ArcGIS let you make and save maps that display your services. You can optionally overlay your service with other services.
The ArcGIS APIs for JavaScript, iOS, Android, and Windows Phone allow you to develop custom applications that use the full breadth of your web services within an interface you design yourself.
ArcGIS Desktop applications, such as ArcMap and ArcGIS Pro, are designed to use web services published by ArcGIS Server. Using a service in these applications is often as easy as clicking the Add Data button.
Any other application that can make a SOAP or REST web service request can connect to ArcGIS Server. Supported clients range from smartphone and tablet apps that find the nearest grocery store to enterprise desktop applications for customer management or resource planning.

MAINTAINING YOUR SERVER
As you work with your server over time, you’ll need to adjust settings, add and remove services, and set up security rules. ArcGIS Server Manager is a web application included with every installation of ArcGIS Server that provides an intuitive point-and-click interface for administering the server. You can use Manager to view the server logs, stop and start services, publish service definitions, define users and roles for security, and perform other similar tasks.

As easy as it is to use Manager, there are times when you may want to administer your server automatically through scripting. ArcGIS Server has a REST-ful administrator API that allows you to automate server management tasks using the scripting language of your choice. For example, you can write a Python script that checks the health of your services periodically and sends you an e-mail if a service is detected to be down.

ArcGIS Server opens your GIS to many types of devices through web services. You can take the resources you’re familiar with through ArcGIS, such as map documents and geoprocessing models, and publish them to your server to create GIS web services. The services can be consumed in any application or device that can make a web service call using HTTP.
ArcGIS Server includes an administrative Manager application and an API which you can use to maintain your server and set rules for security, logging, and other behavior.

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ArcGIS Enterprise

What is ArcGIS Enterprise?

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ARCGIS ENTERPRISE

ArcGIS Enterprise, the next evolution of the ArcGIS Server product line, is a full-featured mapping and analytics platform. It includes a powerful GIS web services server plus dedicated Web GIS infrastructure for organizing and sharing your work in order to make maps, geographic information, and analyses available on any device, anywhere, at any time.

 

WHAT’S INCLUDED WITH ARCGIS ENTERPRISE?

The ArcGIS Enterprise product includes the following software components that are designed to work together:

ArcGIS Server—the core web services component for making maps and performing analysis.

Portal for ArcGIS—allows you to share maps, applications, and other geographic information with other people in your organization.

ArcGIS Data Store—lets you configure data storage for hosting and federated servers used with your deployment.

ArcGIS Web Adaptor—allows you to integrate your ArcGIS Server and Portal for ArcGIS with your existing web server and your organization’s security mechanisms.

 

ARCGIS SERVER ROLES AND EXTENSIONS

ArcGIS GIS Server—For serving GIS resources such as map services, feature services, and geoprocessing services to your users. This role is also necessary for providing hosting for an on-premises Web GIS, where the GIS Server acts as the portal’s hosting server. You can license ArcGIS GIS Server as Advanced, Standard, or Basic. All editions of ArcGIS Enterprise include an ArcGIS Server licensed in a GIS Server role.

ArcGIS Image Server—For publishing image services for on-the-fly visualization and performing distributed analytics on raster data.

ArcGIS GeoAnalytics Server—For performing distributed analytics on tabular and feature data.

ArcGIS GeoEvent Server—For enabling real-time event-based data streams to be integrated as data sources in your GIS.

Esri Business Analyst Server—For enabling organizations to host Business Analyst-based capabilities.

 

SUPPORTED ENVIRONMENTS

ArcGIS Enterprise has a flexible deployment model that supports various configurations:

On-premises, on physical hardware or virtualized environments.

In the cloud, on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure.

A mixture of on-premises and cloud.

This flexibility allows you to add a variety of capabilities and distribute your deployment across infrastructure that best supports your business needs. Your ArcGIS Enterprise deployment can also be connected or disconnected from the open Internet.

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What is ArcMap

What is ArcMap?

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ARCMAP
ArcMap is where you display and explore GIS datasets for your study area, where you assign symbols, and where you create map layouts for printing or publication. ArcMap is also the application you use to create and edit datasets.

ArcMap represents geographic information as a collection of layers and other elements in a map. Common map elements include the data frame containing map layers for a given extent plus a scale bar, north arrow, title, descriptive text, a symbol legend, and so on.

TYPICAL TASKS PERFORMED IN ARCMAP
ArcMap is the primary application used in ArcGIS and is used to perform a wide range of common GIS tasks as well as specialized, user-specific tasks. Here is a list of some common workflows you can perform:

1-Work with maps—You can open and use ArcMap documents to explore information, navigate around your map documents, turn layers on and off, query features to access the rich attribute data that is behind the map, and to visualize geographic information.

2-Print maps—You can print maps, from the simplest to very sophisticated cartography, using ArcMap.

3-Compile and edit GIS datasets—ArcMap provides one of the primary ways that users automate geodatabase datasets. ArcMap supports scalable full-function editing. You select layers in the map document to edit and the new and updated features are saved in the layer’s dataset.

4-Use geoprocessing to automate work and perform analysis—GIS is both visual and analytical. ArcMap has the ability to execute any geoprocessing model or script as well as to view and work with the results through map visualization. Geoprocessing can be used for analysis as well as to automate many mundane tasks such as map book generation, repairing broken data links in a collection of map documents, and to perform GIS data processing.

5-Organize and manage your geodatabases and ArcGIS documents—ArcMap includes the Catalog window that enables you to organize all of your GIS datasets and geodatabases, your map documents and other ArcGIS files, your geoprocessing tools, and many other GIS information sets. You can also set up and manage geodatabase schemas in the Catalog window.

6-Publish map documents as map services using ArcGIS Server—ArcGIS content is brought to life on the web by publishing geographic information as a series of map services. ArcMap provides a simple user experience for publishing your map documents as map services.

7-Share maps, layers, geoprocessing models, and geodatabases with other users—ArcMap includes tools that make it easy to package and share GIS datasets with other users. This includes the ability to share your GIS maps and data using ArcGIS Online.

8-Document your geographic information—A key goal in GIS communities is to describe your geographic information sets to help you document your projects and for more effective search and data sharing. Using the Catalog window, you can document all of your GIS contents. For organizations who use standards-based metadata, you can also document your datasets using the ArcGIS metadata editor.

9-Customize the user experience—ArcMap includes tools for customization, including the ability to write software add-ins to add new functionality, to simplify and streamline the user interface, and to use geoprocessing for task automation.

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