ArcGIS Pro Roadmap - May 2024
Our goal is to build the best GIS software available. This ArcGIS Pro Roadmap* gives you a sneak peek of what we're focusing on for the near-, mid- and long-term of ArcGIS Pro development. This gives our current estimate of when each capability will be released. New capabilities will be made available for testing through the Early Adopter Community prior to a release. We'll revise the roadmap throughout the year to ensure it reflects the latest information.
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* Capabilities on this roadmap are tentative and subject to change, delay, or cancellation. The continued development or release of a capability is at the sole discretion of Esri.
Near-Term (next release or two)
Edit Templates in the Database – Ability to store edit templates authored in ArcGIS Pro in a database and use within ArcGIS Pro, or outside of ArcGIS Pro through a Feature Service.
Layer & Feature Effects - Apply visual effects such as blur and drop shadow to layers or a subset of features for emphasis.
Spatial Filters for Feature Layers – Use spatial filtering in feature layer definition queries.
Connect to NoSQL Databases - Connect directly to Elasticsearch and OpenSearch databases to query, visualize and analyze data in ArcGIS Pro.
Share Web Layers from NoSQL Databases - Share data from Elasticsearch and OpenSearch databases to ArcGIS Enterprise as web layers.
Portal Projects for ArcGIS Pro - Use your ArcGIS Enterprise portal to share projects, collaborate and work more effectively with others in your organization.
Unified Metadata Editor - A new metadata editor will be incorporated, providing a unified experience across ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Enterprise, and ArcGIS Pro. The editor will provide a simplified interface for essential metadata and a completeness score for required elements.
Set Named User License Checkout Time – ArcGIS Online administrators will be able to limit the duration that an ArcGIS Pro license can be taken offline.
Version-specific Patch Notifications - The current ‘Check for updates on startup’ works for the latest version of ArcGIS Pro. This new capability will allow ArcGIS Pro to check for available patches for previous versions. As a hypothetical example, once implemented, if ArcGIS Pro 3.6 is the latest version, users running ArcGIS Pro 3.4 will be able to receive notifications and download patches specific to ArcGIS Pro 3.4.
Parcel Fabric Traverse from Deed - use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to extract measurements from metes-and-bounds legal descriptions into the traverse grid.
Trend Analysis - A new tool that creates charts to help explore, visualize, and quantify global trends for point data in a particular direction. For example, with global temperature data, there is a strong South-North trend because temperatures change quickly moving away from the equator, but there is no West-East trend because temperatures do not significantly change along the same line of latitude. Visualizing data is crucial for understanding spatial arrangements. Traditional charts and tools summarize quantitative data effectively but don’t really summarize how the values change across space. This is where this chart is helpful; it uniquely displays global trends in different directions.
Sensitivity analysis to uncertainty in spatial pattern analysis - In sensitivity analysis, you determine the extent to which your outcome is affected by changes in the input variables. For example, in a location identified as a hot spot, if we provide lower and upper bounds for errors in your input variable, sensitivity analysis will generate multiple realizations of the outcomes and summarize the results as a predominance map. This analysis is useful to quantify uncertainty in your analysis and applies to many pattern analysis tools.
Suitability Modeler: Comparison - The Suitability Modeler Compare functionality and user experience allows the user to compare a set of similar models. The user can compare two models or analyze a series of models relative to each other to explore where they are similar and where they differ to determine the best model.
Floor Plan Features from Point Clouds - Support taking point cloud data captured using building scan devices and extract floorplan features in the Indoors model.
IPS Configuration – Allow IPS admins to control a focused set of indoor positioning features to tailor the behavior and the performance to their specific scenarios and use cases. For example, disable falling back to system GPS in cases where high-accuracy GPS receivers have to be used.
Mid-term (next two or three releases)
AI Assistants – ArcGIS Pro users get support from AI assistants to increase productivity in several areas. The help chatbot answers questions in natural language referencing documentation while other focused assistants will aid in writing queries and planning GIS workflows.
Street Name Index for Layouts - A new layout element to show where street names or other features are located within a map grid or across map series pages. Various options for formatting the text will be available.
Timeline View - Visualize your data along a temporal axis. Timelines complement the spatial view of your data on the map by showing where in time your data falls. By plotting your data along a timeline, you can understand the temporal order of your data and discern temporal trends that emerge.
Point Cloud Scene Layer Data Management - Add, Delete, Change very large point cloud services based on reference data sources.
Roof Editing in Stereo - Tools specifically designed to create and edit pitches, ridge lines, gables and other roof specific features.
Materials Authoring - Author properties to support reflectivity, roughness and other properties for more photo-realistic visualizations in 3d scenes.
Oriented Imagery – Inspection Workflow and AI Integration - Enable collection of features in image space as part of inspection workflows. Tight integration with ArcGIS Image Analyst Extension based AI workflows for creating training data, training models and inferencing. Integration with pre-trained models such as face blurring, car number plate blurring as well as a range of feature extraction such as road signs. User will be able to drive to a collection of images, features or labels to collect or review attributes.
Mesh Segmentation Models - Mesh Segmentation will provide the ability to train and use deep learning models for identifying parts of a 3D mesh as objects such as trees, buildings or roofs.
Reading Alignments from IFC - Building Smart International is actively working on expanding the IFC standard to include more infrastructure support, including things like rail, tunnels, and roadways. To address the anticipated needs, this project builds on our current capabilities to read 3D elements from IFC to include alignments and other linear elements as part of our BIM model support.
Residential Waste Collection Solver - A new Vehicle Routing Problem solver to support the residential waste collection workflow. This new solver will allow for a high density of order locations so every house on the street could be visited and the street edges routed in an efficient manner. This solver will also support business constraints such as capacity of the vehicles, following driver time regulations, and emptying the vehicle mid-route and before the return to the depot at the end of the day.
Offline Map Areas - Download and sync Offline Map Areas that have been pre-provisioned in web maps. The data for the offline map area is packaged once for all users who need it and hosted in ArcGIS Enterprise or ArcGIS Online. A single offline map area can be downloaded by many users, allowing it to perform better at scale when supporting many offline workers because the data they download has already been packaged.
Aviation Terminal Charts - Terminal Charts are aeronautical charts used for navigation under Visual Flight Rules (VFR) that display the areas and airspaces surrounding airports.
IPS Emulator - Integrate an option to emulate the IPS engine available in Maps SDK directly within ArcGIS Pro. This will serve for quality assessment and parameter tuning to achieve better blue dot performance.
Long-term (in the plan but not assigned to a release at this point)
Share ArcGIS Pro Model - Author a ModelBuilder model in ArcGIS Pro and share it as an item to ArcGIS Online or ArcGIS Enterprise. You will be able to view and run the model from a browser. You will also be able to download, view and run the model in ArcGIS Pro projects.
Terrain Editing - Ability to interactively edit the ground or other surfaces. Add, remove and replace data referenced by the surface.
High Fidelity Rendering - A series of display improvements to support more photo-realistic 3D scene visualizations.
3D Mesh as Ground - The ability to use integrated mesh or TIN information as a true triangulated ground surface that would be more precise than raster surfaces and allow structures such as tunnels and mines.
Integrated Mesh Scene Layer Data Management - Add, Delete, Change very large integrated mesh services based on SLPK.
Cloud Drive Support - Support storage of ArcGIS Pro files and data in common cloud drives like OneDrive and Google Drive.
Oriented Imagery – Live Video Superposition - Superposition of live video streams onto surfaces of objects (flashlight mode) enabling live representation of scenes from multiple image sources.
Infrastructure-less IPS - ArcGIS IPS will not rely on the installation of dedicated hardware.
