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Here is another really interesting story related to the recovery in Weed - StartUp company Recovers.org is helping volunteers organize themselves to meet the needs of the community. Weed Fire Community Recovery HubRecovery Resources ... View more

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Please use http://tmservices1.esri.com/arcgis/rest/services/LiveFeeds/NOAA_METAR_current_wind_speed_direction/MapServer ... View more

For more information - please see this website :http://www.esri.com/software/maintenance/benefits/agol-entitlements Customers with ArcGIS for Desktop licenses who are on maintenance are entitled to be part of an ArcGIS Online Organization Plan. Every Desktop license on maintenance counts as one Named User for the plan. Alternatively, if you want to implement Portal for ArcGIS, ArcGIS for Desktop licenses on maintenance are entitled to be part of the Portal for ArcGIS Named User license. You�??ll be asked to choose whether you want your ArcGIS for Desktop License Entitlements applied to an ArcGIS Online Organization Plan account or Portal for ArcGIS instance. Qualified Licensing Programs The ArcGIS for Desktop license entitlement for ArcGIS Online applies to customers with ArcGIS for Desktop �?? Perpetual Use or the Home Use Program [License must be current on maintenance]. More importantly, contact your Esri Rep to find out what it means from you from a policy perspective and a technology perspective. Like opening web maps in Desktop with curated content created by someone else for printing and disconnected editing, sharing Desktop templates as empty features services that others can use and modify for their own purposes...etc. ... View more

Michael - Here are my thoughts after consulting with some of our experts and some of their maps and information products. 1. Read the resource page for Make Closest Facility 2. Make sure you have a Network Dataset that is formatted for your analysis 3. Create "incidents" using either building centroids or block centroids using the Feature to Point geoprocess and use these for the Closest Facility Analysis. 4. Join the calculated routes back to the incidents. Calculated routes contain the target facilityID.  Join this to the incidents based on the incident id. 5. Visualize theoretical service areas using the Create Thiessen Polygons based on the facility / incident relationships and then symbolize your network by the service polygon they fall in. [ATTACH=CONFIG]15417[/ATTACH] see the live map Please let us know if you try this approach and how it works if you do. Of course, if anyone else has done this before please reply to the thread. Thanks for posting! - Paul ... View more

I am glad we could help! For more on environment settings and output extent please see the Help topic http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#/Output_Extent/001w00000009000000/. Thank you for posting/reading. - Paul ... View more

I would like to help you figure out what the problem is. Certainly a big square in the middle of your map does not sound normal or helpful! Perhaps you can send me an email at pdoherty@esri.com and we can discuss a data exchange so I can take a look. Then perhaps we can post a solution for others to read. Kernel density can be a very helpful visualization tool for quickly making a more meaningful picture of your â??dots on the mapâ?�. However, to really analyze the data you may want to take a look at some other tools already available at your disposal, such as Hot Spot Analysis. For supporting decision making inthe Public Safety Community this is a best practice. For more about the spatial statistics toolbox please see our Spatial Statistics Resources page http://esriurl.com/spatialstats. I look forward to hearing from you. - Paul ... View more

JimGirvan et al., Esri has been hard at work supporting a blossoming SAR-GIS user community over the past three years. Right now there a core group of Users called 'MapSAR' we are supporting as they put together ArcGIS Desktop templates, best practices material, and training sessions to support a variety of SAR-GIS functions. The MapSAR template has the following customized capabilities and will add more features over time: 1. Map production templates (Data driven pages and map templates) 2. Custom GPS data download tools (GPX file importer) 3. An Operational Layer geodatabase (Joined and related tables) with symbology 4. Search area buffer tool (Buffer Analysis) Of course, since SAR is inherently spatial, there are numerous spatial analyses (cross-country mobility modeling, network analysis, helicopter landing models, probability) thatour Users and Esri are working towards. For more information please see our blog post if you have not already and stay tuned-in to the Esri Public Safety Resource Center in 2012. Thanks for posting! Sincerely, Paul Doherty Public Safety Technology Specialist pdoherty@esri.com | USNG 11SMT8196368376 ... View more

MtnResQ, Esri has been hard at work supporting a blossoming SAR-GIS user community over the past three years. Right now there a core group of Users called 'MapSAR' we are supporting as they put together ArcGIS Desktop templates, best practices material, and training sessions to support a variety of SAR-GIS functions. The MapSAR template has the following customized capabilities and will add more features over time: 1.     Map production templates (Data driven pages and map templates) 2.     Custom GPS data download tools (GPX file importer) 3.     An Operational Layer geodatabase (Joined and related tables) with symbology 4.     Search area buffer tool (Buffer Analysis) Of course, since SAR is inherently spatial, there are numerous spatial analyses (cross-country mobility modeling, network analysis, helicopter landing models, probability) thatour Users and Esri are working towards. For more information please see our blog post if you have not already and stay tuned-in to the Esri Public Safety Resource Center in 2012. Thanks for posting! Sincerely, Paul Doherty Public Safety Technology Specialist pdoherty@esri.com | USNG 11SMT8196368376 ... View more