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When disasters occur, timely and accessible imagery aids responders in accelerating humanitarian response and recovery. Today we are happy to announce that Vantor imagery for disaster response and emergency management, made publicly available through their Open Data Program, is now available in ArcGIS Living Atlas.

Grab your sneakers, sunscreen, and lanyard, storytellers. It’s time for the 2026 Esri User Conference—and with it, the kick-off of a new ArcGIS StoryMaps competition theme. Maps are for the bold. Bold is the urban planner who refuses to believe “that’s just the way cities are.” It’s the disaster response team that refuses to leave anyone behind. It’s the leader who acts with clarity—and insight—instead of impulse. Better is what we all want. For ourselves, for our organizations, for our communities.

ArcGIS is a comprehensive geospatial platform for professionals and organizations. It is the leading geographic information system (GIS) technology and provides capabilities for creating, managing, analyzing, mapping, and sharing all types of data. It is ArcGIS that can help your utility or telecom company achieve digital transformation, which is critical in tackling today’s challenges. Technology is key to this transformation, and location plays a huge role.

As ArcGIS Online users, you create some of the world’s most important maps. You share maps that provide evacuation routes, disease hotspots, migration patterns, voting locations, hazard identification, resource aid, and much more. It’s crucial that these maps perform well whether viewed by a small team or broadcasted to regional, national, or global audiences.

Without detailed maps of surface water features, engineers, scientists, and policy makers are unable to understand ecosystem functions, assess flood risk, or effectively manage critical freshwater supplies. However, in many other parts of the world, detailed maps of river networks and watersheds are lacking. Since 2006, HydroSHEDS has filled this gap as one of the world’s most widely used hydrographic frameworks.

ArcGIS Blog The June 2026 release of ArcGIS Experience Builder in ArcGIS Online brings new capabilities for multilingual apps, data collection, imagery analysis, and accessibility. Highlights include a new translation system and Language Switcher widget, the QuickCapture and Image Change Detection widgets, dynamic attributes created with Arcade expressions, and data source-level message actions.

Building, extending, or automating with Esri developer technology? Check out these resources. Whether you’re building a mapping application with an ArcGIS Maps SDK, automating spatial workflows with the ArcGIS API for Python, integrating geocoding and routing into a mobile app, or deploying a full ArcGIS Enterprise environment, Esri has a dedicated set of resources to support you at every stage of development.

Today, developers who ask the frontier models about Esri developer technology often encounter hallucinations, outdated information, and SDK mix-ups. We are excited to announce an Ask AI beta tool which addresses these problems! Ask AI is a free, lightweight question answering tool on the Esri Developer website designed to help quickly find answers from Esri Developer documentation and generate code blocks.

The second quarter Esri Community Maps basemap release reflects the contributions of more than 170 participating organizations from around the world. Together, these organizations have helped improve map content across four continents, providing updated authoritative data for counties, cities, and campus areas that millions of people rely on every day.

Most spatial analysis projects begin long before the analysis itself. Before you can find similar places such as affordable neighborhoods or build a predictive model for tasks such as estimating house prices, or even explore spatial patterns across communities, you first need location context.