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GIS Tutorial

ArcGIS Desktop Reaches End of Life: A Look Back at Its Legacy and the Road Ahead

From the launch of Arc/Info in 1982, to ArcView bringing desktop GIS to the masses in 1993, and the ...

Topic: GIS Tutorial sailor 2026-03-01

GIS Tutorial

Python and NumPy Versions in ArcGIS Products

Many users encounter issues when installing third-party packages for ArcPy, sometimes accidentally c...

Topic: GIS Tutorial sailor 2025-11-07

GIS Tutorial

Extracting Siwei Earth Map Service API — A Fun but Flawed Experiment

In the previous article, Loading the Geovis Earth Basemap in ArcGIS Pro, ArcMap, and QGIS, I introdu...

Topic: GIS Tutorial sailor 2025-10-09

GIS Tutorial

Loading the Geovis Earth Basemap in ArcGIS Pro, ArcMap, and QGIS

In the previous article, A Guide to Using Jilin-1 Satellite Imagery as a Basemap in ArcGIS Pro, I in...

Topic: GIS Tutorial sailor 2025-10-09

GIS Tutorial

Extracting River Centerlines Using QGIS

Extracting river/canal centerlines is a common task in GIS data processing. Users of ArcMap or ArcGI...

Topic: GIS Tutorial sailor 2025-07-03

GIS Data

China Geographic Regional Partition Data: SHP Vector Files

Following my previous article "This Certification is Highly Valuable for GIS Job Seekers, Yet Overlo...

Topic: GIS Data sailor 2025-06-25

GIS Tutorial

Integrating Tianditu Basemaps in ArcMap: Step-by-Step Guide

Author: An anonymous GIS professional specializing in astronomy, geography, remote sensing, and geom...

Topic: GIS Tutorial sailor 2025-06-10

GIS Tutorial

ArcGIS Desktop in 2025: Why This Veteran GIS Platform Endures

A reader recently noted that my earlier guide on purchasing licensed ArcGIS Pro is outdated. Upon re...

Topic: GIS Tutorial sailor 2025-03-21

GIS Software

ArcGIS 10.8.2 Desktop Installation Package

Share the official ArcGIS 10.8.2 installation package (ISO format) containing all Desktop components...

Topic: GIS Software sailor 2023-11-11