"A geographic information system (GIS) is a computer system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present all types of geographical data."
"A geographic information system (GIS) lets us visualize, question, analyze, interpret, and understand data to reveal relationships, patterns, and trends."- ESRI.com
GIS on campus at The University of Iowa typically falls under the software package ArcGIS, from ESRI (including ArcMap, ArcCatalog, etc.), though there are additional resources including various types of remote sensing software, available in specific computer labs.
General Support Information
Current Status
Maintenance
Past 90 Days
Alert History
GIS online maps will be offline for a system upgrade. Access will be restored as soon as possible.
If you have questions, contact fm-gis-help@uiowa.edu.
TheArcGIS desktop license manager (gislm.iowa.uiowa.edu) will be migrated from Hyper-V to VMWare.
ITS will update the ArcGIS license server, gislm.iowa.uiowa.edu, to support ArcGIS Desktop Release 10.8.2.
The ArcGIS license server (gislm.iowa.uiowa.edu) will be updated to support ArcGIS desktop version 10.8.
The Facilities Management ArcGIS servers will be unavailable due to an update. During this time the maps website (http://maps.uiowa.edu) as well as the collector-based editing maps will be unavailable.
During this time the Facilities Management ArcGIS server will be updated. The maps site at maps.uiowa.edu as well as the collector-based editing maps will be unavailable. ArcMap and ArcCatalog users are not affected.
ITS will be updating the license server (gislm.iowa.uiowa.edu) to support ArcGIS Desktop Release 10.7.1.
The ArcGIS license server (gislm.iowa.uiowa.edu) will be updated to support ArcGIS desktop version 10.7.
The ESRI ArcGIS maps service will be down for maintenance. This will affect any systems that connect to maps.facilities.uiowa.edu, including the UI Tree Inventory app or the construction closures map.
The ESRI ArcGIS license manager (gislm.iowa.uiowa.edu) will be updated to allow desktop client installations to use version 10.6. This will require a brief outage while the license server is updated.
The ESRI ArcGIS license manager (gislm.iowa.uiowa.edu) will be updated to the new yearly subscription. This will require a brief outage while the license server is updated.
The ESRI ArcGIS license manager will be updated to version 10.5.1 on gislm.iowa.uiowa.edu during this time. A brief outage will occur during the upgrade.
New ArcGIS product licenses are available. During this maintenance window the license manager will add the new licenses and remove the old licenses. This will create a brief outage while the new licenses load. After the upgrade, City Engine 2016 will be available as an option. All versions of the desktop software will remain the same.