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With very little fanfare, ArcGIS 10.2.2 was released last week. Don’t be fooled by the lack of attention, this is an important update to…

This post will cover 3 aspects of ArcGIS License Manager: Using ArcGIS Desktop 9.3x and 10.x with License Manager 10.x ArcGIS License…

It’s that time of year again… when 12,000 people (approximately) head to San Diego to refill their Esri Kool-Aid and see what’s coming down…

I’ve had some question regarding large sets of ortho imagery tiles and how you can turn this into one seamless raster (and maintain…

That’s right, ArcGIS 10.3 (ArcGIS for Desktop, ArcGIS for Server, etc), and ArcGIS Pro are now officially released. In a post from Esri…

If you are migrating to ArcGIS for Desktop 10.3, there are a few additional steps not covered in the install guide. That said, if you are…

ArcGIS 10.3.1 has been officially released by Esri. Like most build number increments, there are both fixes (service packs, quick fixes…

ArcGIS 10.4 has finally arrived (most of it). Esri announced last week that their flagship product suite, ArcGIS 10.4 is here. This includes…

Update 2020-11-04: Fixed a small, yet important, typo in the ‘Create transformation’ steps . Special thanks to Darren M. for catching this…

A tiny Python script to show how to export ArcMap Layers to LYR Files with Python. Although it’s a short script, it shows how easy it is to…

An issue with multi-field unique keys (composite key) is that we can’t use them to setup a join or relate between objects (Feature Classes…

We’ve all been there - Staring at the progress bar, wondering why task manager continues to say our 32-cores are sitting nearly idle while…

As Python continues its dominance as the defacto scripting language for GIS software, we hit a point when one Python environment isn’t…

If we are using Python with ArcGIS, there are existing tools to append data. However, calling a Geoprocessing tool from Python doesn’t feel…