Maps help us understand our world relative to our varied needs and interests. Our goal is your success in creating and sharing maps with ArcGIS.
Web Maps are online maps that are ready-to-use gateways to useful information that anyone can create, save, and share at ArcGIS.com. Intelligent Web Maps are useful information products that are easy to access and use.
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The stories maps tell can be simple, like your opinion on why your town is a great place to live; significant news, like the results of a scientific analysis; or a useful service, like a tour.
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The content behind intelligent web maps is produced by hundreds of thousands of people, many of whom use ArcGIS to do that work. Publishing that content to make intelligent web maps is a skill and sometimes an art form.
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Web maps can be imbedded into simple browser pages, blogs, and even highly custom applications that work on all kinds of devices from smart phones to kiosks. This example used one of the predefined HTML templates available on ArcGIS Online.
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People like nice things and that's fundamentally why maps with visual appeal that communicate in elegant terms are better.
Read more...Across the United States on the weekend of June 1-2, coders, software developers, entrepreneurs, and citizens of all kinds worked together to try to improve our societies through the National Civic Day of Hacking. Using open data and technology, teams collaborated … Continue reading
(Contributed by Owen Evans, Esri solution engineer). Embedding maps on the web is a great way to bring your content to places it will benefit people the most such as blog posts, news articles, and press releases. Another place that web … Continue reading
Web maps are increasingly becoming the principal manner in which we publicly share our GIS stories. For many of our users, designing content within ArcMap is the best way to ensure quick authoring with the ArcGIS Online map viewer. Because … Continue reading
This post is a compilation of some of the most popular tools and sources of information about maps and cartographic design. These links were originally posted on the Esri Mapping Center site several years ago, but are updated below. Blogs & … Continue reading
Attention Community Map Contributors! There will be a User Software Applications Fair at this year’s Esri International User Conference. The submission deadline is June 21, 2013. In order to participate, you will need to register for the conference. The application categories are … Continue reading
