Esri South Africa Appointed As Reseller For Atira 3d WINMINOP Software
Bringing the popular WINMINOP software into the Esri South Africa stable adds considerable value to mining clients – creating a seamless flow of survey data into your spatial data management system.
Risks and Opportunities for the Mining Industry
Reading the EY risks and opportunities report got me thinking about how geospatial can help.
CTICC Welcomes Esri AUC!
by Richard Kaufholz | Nov 10, 2015 | News
Our team has touched down in the Mother City to put the final touches together for the first ever Esri Africa User Conference! There are over 900 people expected to rain down on the Cape Town...
Running a Data Interopability ETL tool in a python script
by Richard Kaufholz | Oct 21, 2015 | Data Interoperability
The Data Interoperability Extension for ArcGIS is an incredibly powerful tool for migrating and transforming data (both spatial AND non-spatial). We have been using it a lot lately with our clients...
OSM – OpenStreetMap
by Administrator | Sep 16, 2015 | Content
OSM – a valuable source of free geographic information OSM (OpenStreetMap) is free data that is compiled by a community of mappers from all over the world. The mappers contribute and maintain road...
Tips and Tricks for Geocoding in ArcGIS Online
by Administrator | Sep 8, 2015 | ArcGIS Online
Placing an address on a map either to find or place or to provide business context is becoming vitally important in our society. Location matters. Most commonly address information that is stored in...
Esri South Africa releases first of its kind GISc diploma in 2016!
by Vee Naidoo | Sep 7, 2015 | News
Esri South Africa has been providing training and professional education services for over 25 years. In interacting with this vibrant community of GIS users over the years, it become clear that...

How to maintain data connections in your MXD
by Melikhaya Sihawu | Sep 3, 2015 | Desktop
Software: ArcGIS Desktop Platform: Windows Problem: Broken links Answer: Often you may need to repair data sources and broken links in your MXDs. The idea of fixing this problem manually can be...
Check to see if a field exists using Python
by Julian | Aug 20, 2015 | Desktop, Geodatabase, Tips and Tricks
Ever wanted to know if a certain field exists in a feature class or attribute table? This could be to either populate it with something if it does exist or create it first if it does not exist, then...
6 things you can do with ArcGIS in 60 minutes or less
by Richard Kaufholz | Aug 20, 2015 | Tips and Tricks
The ArcGIS product stack can sometimes be overwhelming. Quite often I get asked if we “can do something” – before I even hear the “thing” my answer is yes! The challenge is always how to do it and...
Adding a Custom Widget to the Web App Builder
by Lawrence Loedolff | Aug 14, 2015 | Apps, Portal
Note that the functionality to deploy custom widgets in the Portal-hosted Web AppBuilder is now supported at 10.5.1. See this Esri blog for more...