Category: General Updates

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) provide real world solutions to real world problems by integrating hardware, software, and data for capturing, managing, analysing and displaying all forms of geographically referenced information.

We would like to hear from you if you have recently completed a degree or post graduate study specialising in GIS, Geography or Computer Science and you are:

• Technically capable with good analytical and communication skills.
• Keen to learn about geospatial information technologies.
• Interested in working within a structured development programme with training in New Zealand’s leading GIS software.

Eagle Technology is offering a selected graduate a six month paid internship position in our Wellington office.

Anticipated start date: June 24, 2019

To apply, please attach a full CV of no more than 2 pages and a covering letter to:

jane_crawford@eagle.co.nz

A letter of recommendation from a relevant university professor or past supervisor can be included with your application.

Applications close on May 31, 2019 (if a suitable candidate is not found prior).

Applicants must already be entitled to work in New Zealand and CV’s via recruitment agencies will not be accepted.

New Zealand’s Geospatial Accelerated Learning Programme is Open.

Eagle Technology is now taking applications for the Winter 2019 GALoP-X.

Starting on the 1st July 2019, this is the 3rd intake for the Geospatial Accelerated Learning Programme (GALoP) programme with the express 6 week version designed to condense the key leanings and skills needed to either kick start or re-invigorate a GIS career. GALoP was launched in 2018 to help close the skills gaps that we see in NZ and give participants skills in key technical areas focused on ArcGIS technology combined with understanding how and where GIS fits in to real world scenarios and environments. Alongside the hands-on technical skills, the course provides overviews of key areas such as solution architecture, project management, business cases as well as a greater understanding of the various ways in which geospatial can be applied to problems in the real world.

GALoP-X is taking applications from both organisations and individuals:

• employers looking to fast-track their staff into highly productive roles,
• individuals making the transition from education to a GIS career; or 
• experienced individuals making a change from another area to a GIS-focused career.

Some of the key benefits include:

• Gaining hands-on technical skills to increase productivity and innovation 
• Building experience with the latest Esri and Esri-related technology
• Fast-tracking geospatial capability
• Developing skill sets to undertake a greater variety of work
• Gaining insights into best practice and how to successfully deliver geospatial projects in-house
• Equipping attendees with skills to help manage work more effectively and efficiently
• Gaining a competitive edge with training on the latest technology
• Investing in either your own or your team’s career development
• Assisting in the promotion of either your organisation or yourself as an employer / employee to be sought out 
• Growing your or your organisation’s geospatial network

For more information on the programme – see the course summary or the detailed programme.

The 2019 Winter GALOP-X programme commences on 1st July 2019 for 6 weeks at the Eagle offices in central Wellington.

To start GALoPing contact us on galop@eagle.co.nz

It’s that time of year when everyone’s minds turn to…GIS Basemaps! So, to round out the year we thought we’d give you a quick update on where we are with the super popular Eagle Basemaps.

Imagery Basemap Improvements

Firstly, a bit of an update on the latest changes to the awesome NZ Imagery Basemap where we’ve tweaked the settings and imagery to make it even more useful…

No Image…No More

Have you ever experienced the dreaded grey tile telling you “No image is available”, when zooming into an Imagery Basemap? Well, with our latest update this issue is no more! We have used a technique called ‘resampling’ which replaces this message with the highest-resolution imagery available for that area. The imagery may not be as crisp in rural areas as it is in urban areas, where higher-resolution imagery is available, but it sure gives better reference than a grey tile!

Imagery Basemap Before…

Imagery Basemap now!

Updated and Improved Imagery

The Imagery within this Basemap has also had over 20 updates this year including both urban and rural areas with more to come in the first part of next year. These 2019 updates include the following:

• Mid & South Canterbury Urban/Rural

• North Canterbury Urban

• Northland Urban 2015 Imagery (extended content)

Incoming Mid/South Canterbury Updates:

Ashburton Domain Old

Ashburton Domain New

Stafford Street Timaru (Before)

Stafford Street Timaru (Now)

Metadata Rocks!

Finally, on the Imagery Basemap – we wanted to make sure that you all know about a great way to see e.g. how old the imagery that you are looking at is. We maintain a layer of all of the imagery footprints along with metadata showing the “who, when and how” of the captured imagery. This can be access from the REST service here and easily added to any of your webmaps.

Other NZ Basemaps

Outside of the Imagery Basemap we of course keep the other Basemaps up to date including the Canvas & Community ones. These will have a data refresh over the Christmas New year period (no holidays for the servers).

Vector is the future: Faster, Smaller, Cooler!

Finally, a bit of an exciting sneak peak at what’s to come in 2019….

In 2019, coming soon to a map near you are new Eagle Vector Basemaps. Vector Basemaps are lightweight in comparison to their traditional cached counterparts – 10’s of GB compared to 100’s – making them ideal for downloading for offline use, and, require far less time to process, meaning we can provide you with weekly data updates straight from the LINZ Data Service.

We plan on first rolling out Esri-styled vector Basemaps, however, with tools like the ArcGIS Vector Tile Styler Editor, you can customise their symbology to truly make them your own.

And, if you’re worried about the support of our current cached Basemaps, don’t be! Our vector Basemaps will be offered as a new alternative, ready to be taken advantage of in ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online. They can even be published as Vector PDFs!

Below is a quick sneak peek of a new and updated Community vector Basemap!

Have a great Christmas and New Year and while you’re relaxing on the beach just spare a thought for the poor servers…

The Eagle Basemap Team

Following the success of this year’s Geospatial Accelerated Learning programme (GALoP), Eagle is excited to announce that we are now taking applications for our new condensed GALoP-X. Starting in February 2019, this is an exciting evolution of the existing GALoP programme designed to condense the key leanings and skills covered in the full GALoP in an intensive 6 week course. The full 3-month GALoP was launched this year in order to help close the skills gap and give participants skills in key technical areas focused on ArcGIS technology combined with understanding how and where GIS fits in to real world scenarios and environments. This includes important areas such as solution architecture, project management, business cases and a greater understanding of the various ways in which geospatial can be applied to problems in the real world.

GALoP-X is taking applications from both organisations and individuals: employers looking to fast-track their staff into highly productive roles, individuals making the transition from education to a GIS career or indeed experienced individuals making a change from another area to a GIS-focused career.

Some of the key benefits include the following:

• Gaining hands-on technical skills to increase productivity and innovation 
• Building experience with the latest Esri and Esri-related technology
• Fast-tracking geospatial capability
• Developing skill sets to undertake a greater variety of work
• Gaining insights into best practice and how to successfully deliver geospatial projects in-house
• Equipping attendees with skills to help manage work more effectively and efficiently
• Gaining a competitive edge with training on the latest technology
• Investing in either your own or your team’s career development
• Assisting in the promotion of either your organisation or yourself as an employer / employee to be sought out 
• Growing your or your organisation’s geospatial network

Читайте о пуме здесь.

For more information on the programme - see the 2 page summary or the detailed programme

The GALOP-X programme commences on February 18th 2019 for 6 weeks at the Eagle offices in central Wellington while the full 3 month GALoP course is scheduled for mid-2019.

To start GALoPing contact us on galop@eagle.co.nz

It has now been a couple of months since the geospatial event of the year – The NZ Esri User Conference – and we know there was a lot to take in at the time. So, we had an idea…

…in order to refresh your memory about what was shown on the big stage, we thought we’d put up a few videos that cover the main ArcGIS technology demonstrations from the plenary including ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Hub, ArcGIS Pro and Insights:

NZEUC 2018 Plenary Video Playlist

So book out 45 mins from your busy schedule, sit back and enjoy (popcorn optional).

The ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World is a collection of thousands of curated authoritative maps, intelligent map layers, imagery, tools and apps built by ArcGIS users worldwide, by Esri and Eagle and other Distributors across the globe. This rich catalogue of geographic information is available in ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Enterprise and ArcGIS Pro.

ArcGIS Online and can be used from around the globe. It includes useful maps, apps, and data layers to support your work and there are multiple ways to explore and use the Living Atlas. Through the ArcGIS Living Atlas app you can browse and preview the layers, maps and apps of the Living Atlas by theme or category. You can also easily search and add Living Atlas layers to you project in ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Enterprise and ArcGIS Pro.

New Zealand and the Living Atlas

New in the Living Atlas for New Zealand are boundary layers. Here at Eagle, we have added many authoritative boundary layers to the Living Atlas and these layers can be used throughout the platform. The layers have a default pop-up and symbology, but you can easily change the pop-up and symbology as well as add filters to only show the boundaries that you are interested in.

What’s better is that you can use these layers in your analyses as well. So, if want to join your data or summarize your data to one of the boundary layers you don’t have to download the layer first. You can just add it to you project in the Map Viewer in ArcGIS Online or in ArcGIS Pro and start your analysis.

Here is a list of the recently added boundary layers:

·         Regional Councils 2018

·         Territorial Authorities 2018

·         Territorial Authorities Subdivision 2018

·         Community Boards 2018

·         Urban – Rural Areas

·         Mesh Blocks 2018

·         Statistical Areas 1

·         Statistical Areas 2

·         Constituencies 2018

·         Maori Constituencies 2018

·         Wards 2018

·         District Health Boards

·         School Enrollment zones

Where can I find the new layers?

In the group New Zealand Boundary Layers, you can find all the layers. When you are working on a project you can also easily search for them in the Map Viewer and in ArcGIS Pro and add them to your projects

ArcGIS Online

The new layers can be found in ArcGIS Online. They are added to the Living Atlas, so when you search for data, you can select the Living Atlas. Using the filters, you can even filter to only show New Zealand data.

ArcGIS Pro

The layers can also be added from ArcGIS Pro. In the Catalog pane, select the Portal tab. Here you can search for data in your own content, your groups and ArcGIS Online. There is also a Living Atlas category where you search for Living Atlas items.

How can I contribute to the Living Atlas?

 Many of the items in the Living Atlas are contributed by the user community, curated by Esri and the local Esri representative (Eagle in New Zealand and the South Pacific region). The GIS community is known for sharing data and information as we know that we all benefit from it and it allows us to make better informed decisions.

We would like you to share your authoritative data with the Living Atlas. Making it part of the living atlas will ensure that your data will reach a broad audience and you will help the GIS community making your data available.

Contributing your data is as easy as 1,2,3:

1. Just go to the Living Atlas, sign in and click on the tab My Contributions. This app will help to improve your item details and make sure that you have checked all the boxes before nominating it.

2. After you nominate your item for the Living Atlas, a curator will look at it and if there are any questions, they will get in touch with you.

3. You will remain the owner of the item, so removing an item or updating an item’s data will be reflected in the Living Atlas.

If you have any questions about the Living Atlas, contact Boudewijn Boogaard at eagle technology on  bbo@eagle.co.nz.

Resources

New Zealand Boundary Layers group

https://www.arcgis.com/home/group.html?id=8047736c3e43467aa62241976851eff9

Enable the living Atlas for ArcGIS Enterprise

http://enterprise.arcgis.com/en/portal/latest/administer/windows/configure-living-atlas-content.htm

Living Atlas

https://livingatlas.arcgis.com