ArcUser; The Magazine for Esri Software Users, Volume 16, Number 1, Winter 2013

70, [2] pages. Illustrations. Mailing information and stamps and notations on the back cover. In this issue there are articles and discussions on: Lidar, Mobile Media, Maplex, Statistical Data, Mapping, Economic Development, GIS, Geospatial Data, Data Storage, Spatial Analysis, Mars Mission, Geoprocessing Tools. Esri (Environmental Systems Research Institute) is an international supplier of geographic information system (GIS) software, web GIS and geodatabase management applications. The company was founded as Environmental Systems Research Institute in 1969 as a land-use consulting firm. Esri products (particularly ArcGIS Desktop) have 40.7% of the global market share. In 2014, Esri had approximately a 43 percent share of the GIS software market worldwide, more than any other vendor. The company hosts an annual International User's Conference, which was first held on the Redlands campus in 1981 with 16 attendees. The User's Conference has been held in San Diego at the San Diego Convention Center since 1997. An estimated 15,000 users from 131 countries attended in 2012.…