Earth Day 2021 – Restore Our Earth

Every year on April 22nd over a billion people across the world come together to observe Earth Day. First established in 1970, Earth Day was created to drive action in combating the ongoing global environmental and climate crisis. The theme … Continue reading

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OS OpenMap – Local Buildings & Function Sites in the Living Atlas

This month, we are excited to bring OS OpenMap – Local Buildings, Important Buildings and Functional Sites to the Living Atlas! Ordnance Survey® describe OS OpenMap – Local as the most detailed ‘street level’ mapping product available within the open … Continue reading

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UK COVID-19 Service in the Living Atlas

Update Since the blog was originally posted the historic data tables have been added to the service. The field details are below The service Esri UK’s “UK COVID-19 Data” is a feature service containing coronavirus (COVID-19) data automatically updated from … Continue reading &rar

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Are you missing the Living Atlas global datasets that cover the UK?

There are a wealth of datasets within the UK in the Living Atlas, prime for use by the GIS community. However, always filtering by the UK  we may miss out on curated global datasets. Familiar global datasets include things like … Continue reading Continue Reading

If I can write JavaScript, so can you

I’m not a developer. Until recently, I’d never so much as looked at a line of code, let alone attempted to write some myself. I assumed that without a computer science degree, there was no point even trying. When struggling … Continue reading

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Mapping our Protected Planet

From extensive national parks to local nature reserves, areas of protected land are close to many of our hearts. In my own hometown of Whitley Bay is a beautiful but tiny nature reserve called Holywell Dene. A dene, if you’re … Continue reading

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More Mapping Options With GB Vector Basemaps

In April we launched the beta version of our GB Vector Basemaps… …after some great feedback and a lot more work the live versions of these basemaps were released ready for you to use. Along with a few changes to … Continue reading

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Go Green! – OS Open Greenspace is now in the Living Atlas

Esri UK has been working with the Ordnance Survey to nominate their first dataset into the Living Atlas - OS Open Greespace! Dive into the data and explore a couple of possible use cases…

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Mapping leisure choice in 30 minutes with OS Greenspace

To celebrate the arrival of the Ordnance Survey Open Greenspace dataset to the ArcGIS Living Atlas a number of us at Esri UK took part in a 30 Minute Map competition. I decided to map leisure activities and have put together a breakdown of the steps I used.

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ArcGIS Online’s hot summer update

The summer update to ArcGIS Online brings hot new features you’ll want to use. We’ve selected some exciting highlights to share with you.

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