Keeping it Simple: Road Layouts in ArcGIS Pro Layout

Want to know how to create custom maps with ArcGIS Pro Layout? Or just find out where the other most complex road junctions across England are?

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Visualising Brexit Isles

Brexit has divided a nation politically. The esri UK Media Maps team put together a Brexit Isles visualisation to understand how the two nations would look geographically. Find out what inspired us and how we put the maps together.

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Revealing hidden communities: a guide to multivariate dot density maps

This is a multivariate dot density map. The map reveals religious identity across London. Each person is represented by a single dot - the colour depicting religious allegiance. So how did I create it?

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Visualising Lightning: an exercise in aggregating data

I received some interesting data from the Met Office - lightning strike locations for the UK and Ireland. Given a new set of data there is a common process that I work through to arrive at the final map.

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ArcGIS Online summer update adds a Companion

The ArcGIS Online Update for June 2018 has arrived. There are many new features including an improved Organisation page, new smart mapping styles, authoritative items and the new ArcGIS Companion app.

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When a single map isn’t enough…

At our annual conference, Ken Field presented on thematic map design. Ken describes himself as a professional ‘cartonerd’ and is part of Esri’s cartography team, having moved to sunnier climes. For those of us that missed his talk, I’m delighted to be able to share his insight in this guest blog.

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Top 10 Things You Can Do Better in ArcGIS Pro!

Have you thought about moving on from ArcMap? ArcGIS Pro has been designed to help you work more efficiently and a lot faster.  With suggestions from the Esri UK team, this post will count you through the top ten things that you can do better in ArcGIS Pro. 

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ArcGIS Pro 2.1 brings a blizzard of new features

The latest update for ArcGIS Pro, Esri’s flagship desktop application has arrived. With so many new features, even the most observant eye might miss some of the exciting advances that have been made in this most recent update. This blog will take you through my selection of the new tool developments and features in ArcGIS Pro 2.1.

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ArcGIS Pro 2.0 has been released!

ArcGIS Pro 2.0, Esri’s next generation of desktop GIS, was released on Tuesday night and it is now available from My Esri. This article will discuss some of the new highlights and features I found interesting from the latest update. ArcGIS Pro 2.0 includes helpful additions to ease workflows, provide better data visualisations and integrates with the platform more than previous GIS desktop re

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An exercise in mapping cycle activity

In this blog post, I am going to discuss my workflow on how to process and create a great visualisation of exercise data, with an example focusing on cycling data. I will also discuss the use of a 3rd party application, Relive, that allows you to create a 3D flythrough of your cycling routes using a combination of Esri maps and Strava data. 

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