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What is GIS? Five key concepts to improve your understanding

When you’re running late for work and trying to find shortcuts along your route, you’re using GIS. When organisations have digitised plans of their estate, also GIS. Biologists tracking animal migrations… You can guess where I’m going with this. So, … Continue reading →

Creating a spooky map with the Living Atlas

Halloween is just around the corner, and what better way to celebrate than with a spooky map? Inspired by the Inferno map by John Nelson, we wanted to produce a scary map that centred on Halloween-related place names. In this … Continue reading →

Cover more ground with the new Maps+ beta services

The new Maps+ Beta services are now live and available to existing Maps+ subscribers from within the ArcGIS Marketplace (sign in required). In anticipation of this, I took the opportunity to get to know the new arrivals to the Maps+ family. … Continue reading →

Back to basemaps: create an ArcGIS basemap to support your data

Basemaps are what the name suggests – background vector or raster layer(s) to enhance the data or visual display shown in the foreground, along with providing content and orienting the viewer. Sometimes basemaps are a blank slate, allowing the data … Continue reading →

Data that gives back: empowering your charity’s decisions

The landscape of charitable causes is a broad one. Think of the big or small charity organisations that strive to make the world a better place by supporting causes such as: animals, arts and culture, community development, education, environmental, health, … Continue reading →

Thirteen Group

Thirteen Group’s Community Resilience strategy works to understand local communities better, inform decisions and signpost customers to the services available.

Your Living Atlas winter wrap-up

Over the course of 2022, we have accepted 255 new datasets to the UK Living Atlas and welcomed 8 data contributors to the platform! I’d just like to say thank you to those who have shared their data to help … Continue reading →

Explore the 2021 Census data with ArcGIS Living Atlas

Back in 2021, many of us in England and Wales may remember filling in the many pages of the census. Since then, much of the data has been processed by the Office for National Statistics and is starting to become … Continue reading →

Important Update for Office for National Statistics Datasets in ArcGIS Living Atlas

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) are currently undergoing migration of their feature layers to ArcGIS Online. ONS services in the Living Atlas will be removed and replaced with new services. Read on to find out how it might affect … Continue reading Continue Reading

Your Living Atlas Autumn Roundup

For this Q3 update, we have welcomed 26 new datasets and 3 new contributors to Living Atlas – Met Office, Rural Payments Agency and Digital Health and Care Wales! As of today, UK Living Atlas has 632 items and 57 … Continue reading →