ArcGIS Online Blog

The October 2025 release of Esri Demographics introduces a wealth of data to significantly improve your analysis and enhance decision-making. Key highlights include: 

• Esri France: Updating data vintage from 2022 to 2025. Removing 14 population/housing variables and adding 4 household-related variables. 

• Canada, Environics Analytics: Updating data vintage from 2024 to 2025. Adding 14 DemoStats variables and 145 Household Spend variables, while removing 162 outdated Household Spend variables.  

• Esri Norway: Adding 200 new data variables for Norway users. 

Discover all these updates and more in our What's New October2025 blog article. 

Browse and add content from ArcGIS Hub catalogs directly within Map Viewer. Its a smoother, smarter way to map with curated community data.

ArcGIS Online was just updated (October 2025).

We're exploring ways to improve data quality tools in ArcGIS Online - please take our short survey. 

If you missed the UC, or just want a recap of what we covered,  this article is for you. We'll explore enhancements to Editing over the past year, including tools for drawing and selecting features, improved snapping, managing templates, and batch attribute editing.

Read the blog for the latest information on the June release of ArcGIS Velocity. 

Want to explore how a deep understanding of U.S. neighborhoods can improve your mapping and analysis? Get started with the newly released version of ArcGIS Tapestry.

For most models, tool dialog boxes can be opened in view-only mode to see the parameters used in the tool. The following article describes how to fix the issue when a tool dialog box is not appearing correctly.

Esri Academy is hosting a free ModelBuilder in ArcGIS Online live training seminar on June 12. 

The new ArcGIS Living Atlas "evaluate and nominate" app was recently released. This app is what you use to perform an evaluation on your items when you want to contribute to ArcGIS Living Atlas (always a great idea).

It can also be used to review any of your content for suggestions on improvements to your item description even if you don't end up contributing to Living Atlas. Great item documentation is always a good idea as a best practice for your organization.

For more information, see Living Atlas evaluate and nominate app released by @JimHerries.