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New versions of Explorer for ArcGIS are here for Android (18.1) and iOS (18.1.1), bringing offline maps and feature parity on both platforms. What’s New with Explorer on Android? Explorer for ArcGIS 18.1.0 on Android modernizes the app and aligns it with the app currently available on iOS. With this release, the following functionality is brought to Android devices: Work offline You can’t be connected everywhere you want to explore, so now you can take your maps offline with you. Prepare a map for offline use in your office and put it on your device, either by downloading it through the app or by sideloading it onto your device. Once it’s on your device, you can work with it in the same way as any other map in Explorer. For details on making offline maps, see Make offline maps. Note: With this release, Android supports working offline with vector data as well as imagery and other raster data. The capabilities are the same as those on iOS. Use improved markup and share it Capture sketches and notes on the map with improved tools. You can clean up as you go, making your sketch a true circle and your line straight. Place markers, draw arrows, and add notes and labels. You can use your sketches across your maps, and even share them as layers to your organization. Mobile workers in the field and ArcGIS Pro users in the office can see and act on what you’ve found. For more information, see Markup. Find your features with the compass Walk right to your assets using the new compass tool. See how far you are from your assets and which direction you need to go. From a feature, search result, or pin, select Compass . This complements the directions that are available through integration with Navigator for ArcGIS and Google Maps. Experience a new, simplified browsing experience Discover maps with ease through a new, simplified browsing experience. Note: You can still search for, browse to, and open groups—we learned from our iOS release. Use beautiful, more responsive and informative maps Explorer for ArcGIS 17.1.0 includes support for related records, labeling, smart mapping, and vector tile basemaps. The Explorer team is excited to bring one of the most requested features to life with this update: related records. You can now bring more data to your users by creating pop-ups with related records in your map, and you’ll see the same pop-ups in Explorer. Another common request has been support for labels, and with this release they are supported. You can even use Arcade expressions to make the best labels for your map. ArcGIS provides smart mapping to help you make your maps beautiful, while showcasing your data’s important values. Explorer now honors the styling done through smart mapping, bringing the maps you are making in Map Viewer to your devices. Improve your maps with smart mapping: get started with the How to smart map story map. One of the benefits of working on a mobile device is the high-resolution display, but not all basemaps take full advantage of it. With this release, Explorer supports vector tile basemaps to bring crisp, responsive basemaps to your device. Vector tiles have a combination of tile access performance and vector drawing, allowing the tiles to adapt to any resolution of the display, which may vary across devices. See Vector tile layers (ArcGIS Online or ArcGIS Enterprise) to learn more. Interact with UX customized for your device Explorer now makes the best use of available screen space. When working on a phone, the panel resizes to fit your needs. If you need to see mostly the map, collapse the panel into a summary. When you need both the map and details, use the panel in half the screen. When you want to focus on the details, make the panel full-screen. If you are using a tablet, the panel is fixed to the side of the screen. What’s New with Explorer on iOS? Take your imagery and other raster data offline You can now bring your raster data offline with you by including tile packages in your mobile map packages. Using ArcGIS Pro 2.1 or later, create a mobile map package (MMPK) that contains tile packages (TPKs) of your raster data. You can use the ‘Share Package’ tool in ArcGIS Pro to choose who can see the package and then upload the MMPK to your ArcGIS Online or ArcGIS Enterprise organization (or, if you prefer, you can sideload the file onto your device directly). Once your mobile map package is in ArcGIS, users with permission to see the package can sign in to Explorer and download it to their device. Various bug fixes and improvements In addition to the functionality described above, there have been other enhancements made and issues addressed. Of note are the following changes: Updated translations have been added. Pan and zoom updates: pan and zoom are now supported when a tool panel (such as bookmarks) displays, and What’s Here results pan and zoom the same as other results. Selecting a search suggestion during dictation no longer crashes the app. Differences between iOS and Android While the majority of the functionality is the same, be aware of the following differences: Sharing a map by URL through the app is only supported on iOS. Zoom to a feature is only supported on iOS. Later releases will synchronize these across the platforms. How do I get Explorer for ArcGIS? Download Explorer for ArcGIS for your mobile device on the Google Play Store or the Apple App Store today! We’d love to hear what you think of the new releases. If you want to learn even more, we also have a great documentation site you should check out. Happy mapping! Scott and the entire Explorer team
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Today we are excited to announce integration between ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Maps for Power BI. This update is a part of the Microsoft Power BI Desktop May 2018 update and allows you to include feature layers and custom basemaps from your ArcGIS Online organization in your Power BI reports and dashboards. To date, only public feature layers and Esri default basemaps have been available to use in your ArcGIS Maps visuals in Power BI. Now, Level 1 or Level 2 named users in ArcGIS Online can sign into ArcGIS Maps for Power BI and start using secured content that is only available within their ArcGIS Online organization. Maximize value by using ArcGIS and Power BI together This is an exciting new capability for organizations that use both Microsoft Power BI and ArcGIS Online. Now it is as easy as adding your feature layers to a map visual on a shared Power BI report to distribute them throughout your organization, even to people who have no prior knowledge of GIS. (Keep in mind when sharing secured layers that report viewers will need to have the proper ArcGIS credentials to view secured content.) Many organizations have standardized on Microsoft Power BI as their business intelligence tool-of-choice, and the ability to use authoritative location content from ArcGIS Online inside your business intelligence system will take your organization to the next level. A new way to buy Plus subscriptions We are also launching a new Plus subscription purchasing option with the May update. Plus subscriptions for ArcGIS Maps for Power BI are intended for Power BI users who need more capabilities than are included in the free map visual, but who don’t have or need to create private feature layers in ArcGIS Online. Since November, Plus subscriptions have been available for purchase individually, but this isn’t ideal when sharing reports with large numbers of people. With each person who views a report with Plus content needing their own Plus subscription, it can be unwieldy to have them all buying their own individual accounts. Today we are launching the ability to purchase Plus subscriptions for your entire organization in one transaction. This will allow anyone in your organization that uses Power BI to view and share map visuals with Plus content. To find out full details about what’s included with a Plus subscription, or to contact Esri about purchasing a Plus subscription for your organization – head on over to our product page. For more details about ArcGIS Online integration or Plus subscriptions for your organization, take a look at the Microsoft blog we co-authored with Senior Program Manager Lukasz Pawlowski from Microsoft. To review detailed system requirements and get our full documentation on the ArcGIS Maps for Power BI visual, head over to our help site. Happy mapping! Scott and the entire ArcGIS Maps for Power BI team
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Hey Mike - it's definitely not dead. We've rolled out the large updates you've mentioned and we've also rolled out smaller updates fixing many quality of life issues along the way. For example we completely re-wrote how we handle polygon generalization across scales. It is much improved and no longer results in 'abstract art' when zoomed in looking at polygon boundaries. Lately we've been working on two big projects - 1) the ability for ArcGIS Online customers to sign in and use their private feature layers and custom basemaps, and 2) the ability for organizations to purchase Plus enterprise-wide. You should see both of those released very soon.
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Hi Ramiro - at this time it is not possible to use your imagery in ArcGIS Maps for Power BI. In the near future you will be able to use custom basemaps from your ArcGIS Online organization, which will allow you to get your raster imagery into your maps in Power BI. To prepare for this functionality you'll want to create a basemap with your drone imagery in ArcGIS Online and make it available to your organization. In the future, when you sign into ArcGIS Maps for Power BI with ArcGIS Online credentials you will have the option to use any of the basemaps set up for use by your organization.
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Hi Chad - we will have a new version of Explorer for ArcGIS out on Android (and available on the Google Play store) in the next few weeks. It will provide feature and experience parity with the version you've seen on iOS / in the Apple store. Keep an eye on the ArcGIS blog; I'll announce it there as soon as it's ready to go.
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You can add publicly shared ArcGIS Online feature services as reference layers in ArcGIS Maps for Power BI. In the future we will support the usage of private feature services as reference layers by allowing ArcGIS named users to sign in. Keep an eye out for this ArcGIS Online sign-in capability in the coming months.
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Hi Sharon - Your data are not persisted on Esri servers. We do cache information within the map object itself within Power BI, but it is only accessible to the map. It is used to draw the map quickly when a report is loaded and underlying data hasn't changed. Otherwise the visual would need to re-geocode all items every time the visual is loaded - which would result in a slower experience. Let me know if you have other questions. -Scott (ArcGIS Maps for Power BI product team)
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Hi James - make sure your ArcGIS content meets the prerequisites on the following page: Add custom reference layers to ArcGIS—ArcGIS Maps for Power BI | ArcGIS The key is that the map visual in Power BI only recognizes feature layers. If you're publishing a web map or some other complex or raster object, the map visual will filter that out of the list of available reference layers. Let me know if you have published a feature layer, shared with everyone, and it still isn't visible. If that's the case you may be experiencing a bug that we would need to dig into.
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Hey Vitaly - I don't have any more current information than what is in my initial response. Our vendor will provide the updated info to us in early 2018 and we will need to process and validate the data. We will have it in our services later in 2018.
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At this time, no, signing in with ArcGIS named user accounts is not supported. It's something we'll be working on in 2018.
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Hey Vitaly - yes, that's been on our radar for a little while now. We would like to expose that information to the user to help you track down troublesome records and do data cleanup. I don't have a timeline for you but it is something we've discussed and want to do.
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The team has asked that you try to clear your browser cache and try again. If that doesn't work, email me at sball at esri dot com and we'll try to get it sorted out.
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Currently there is no option for centralized organization setup - but that is something we are looking at. We recognize the need for some kind of organizational bulk-purchase option so each Plus user doesn't have to manually input cc info. Our plan over time is to have options for all organizations, large and small, ones that are new to mapping or ones that have existing GIS departments. To that end, eventually some variation of the following options will be available: Free Individual Plus Organizational Plus Sign-in with existing ArcGIS accounts (ArcGIS Online or Enterprise) We aren't announcing timelines for all of these capabilities at this time, but hopefully knowing the direction we're heading will be useful.
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Hey Yoav - good questions. A Plus subscriber can absolutely create maps that can be used by people who don't have plus subscriptions. As long as no Plus content (denoted by the new silver Plus icon) is added to the map, it will be view-able by all. If a Plus subscriber adds Plus content to a map, the viewer must also have a Plus subscription. If the person attempting to view a map with Plus content does not have a Plus subscription, they will see a blocking message telling them the map has Plus content and they need to become a subscriber to see the contents of the map. More info on Plus here: About Plus—ArcGIS Maps for Power BI | ArcGIS
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Thanks Vitaly, I'm glad it showed up for you. Still not sure why it didn't show up immediately - Microsoft confirmed that it was deployed to your local CDN. They suggest it could have been a caching issue. I'm investigating this new issue. Will respond back when I have more information.
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