Powered by ArcGIS – An OMS solution deployed in less than a week!
What do potholes and electric outages have in common? Like puncturing a tyre when hitting an unexpected pothole, power disruptions can cause emotional and economic havoc. Most South Africans can...
How to leverage Esri in the Insurance Business
Insurance Companies help consumers to manage risk and to do this they traditionally built risk models to help them categorise their customers into risk categories. This was based on criteria like...
Modelling the holiday-based redistribution of South Africans in December
MAP SERIES Over the coming months, I’m planning on developing a map series to showcase often overlooked aspects of Cartography and GIS. The idea is to explore topical subject matter to create...
Insights for ArcGIS – A new spatial Business Intelligence (BI) tool in ArcGIS 10.5
ArcGIS 10.5 is on its way, with the planned release scheduled for mid-December 2016. One of the big changes coming is a new product being unveiled called Insights for ArcGIS. So, what exactly is...
Mathematically Verifying South African ID Numbers with Survey123
This blog post describes how South African ID numbers can be verified mathematically in Survey123. South African ID numbers have the following format: {YYMMDD}{G}{SSS}{C}{A}{Z} YYMMDD : Date of...
Esri Field Mobility
Maintaining field assets such as roads or fire hydrants, requires engineers and managers to know what condition these assets are in. After all, prevention is better than cure and fixing problems is...
How to save over 70GB of hard drive space in one click!
Recently I found myself wondering where exactly all the space on my hard drive was going. One day it was there, and the next it was gone. I did my usual Windows clean-up but still wasn’t happy with...
Make your own 3D web app
We all know that ArcGIS comes with a very large number of out of the box apps that seemingly do just about everything! Surprisingly though, we often come across the problem of finding an app that...
Moving and shaking the mining industry
Anyone who believes that Mining, as an industry and technology consumer, is standing by and doing nothing while it struggles through a major downturn, surely did not attend the Esri Mining User...