• Google maps now have the capability of controlling the entire color scheme and has the ability to control what layers are visable.  If the color scheme does not work well for a particular application then I think that ESRI should create a GUI to control the Google map elements.
• http://gmaps-samples-v3.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/styledmaps/wizard/index.html

• Iterate Feature Selection:  Iterates over features in a feature class.
• Iterate Row Selection:  Iterates over rows in a table.
• Iterate Field Values:  Iterates over each value in a field.
• Iterate Multivalue:  Iterates over a list of values.

• Duccio Rocchini and Chiara Cateni , 2006. On The Measure of Spatial Centroid in Geography. Asian Journal of Information Technology, 5: 729-731.
  URL: http://medwelljournals.com/abstract/?doi=ajit.2006.729.731
• RE Deakin, SC Bird, RI Grenfell, 2002. The Centroid? Where would you like it to be be?. Cartography Volume 31, Issue 2, 2002.

The current measure polygon feature tool measures, as far as I can tell, the highest feature in the layer hierarchy.  I on occasion produce ArcReader viewer software for non-spatial professionals.  They may find it difficult to understand the layer hierarchy and the need to have the feature they are querying as the highest layer switched on, or that the local government area layer is switched on even though only a label can be seen.

It would be useful for the ArcReader user if the measure feature tool measured say on the layer selected in the layer effects toolbar, or had its own independent feature layer selection option.

Also the highlighter tool would be useful if it had snapping and text capabilities.

We need to be fully compliant with LAS 1.4 with all point record formats since many vendors provide their lidar data with all of the point record formats available in LAS version 1.4. Full waveform support is not required at this time (although I don't think anyone would object), but full access to the data in LAS version 1.4, e.g., full range of class codes and record formats, would benefit the community of users of lidar data and ArcGIS's LAS Dataset.

Currently, from the ArcGIS resource center:

"ArcGIS supports LAS versions 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3. The waveform information that is available when using LAS version 1.3 is not supported. Additionally, LAS version 1.4 files that are 1.3 compliant, containing point record formats 0 through 5, are supported. LAS version 1.4 files containing point record formats 6 through 10 are not supported. "

 

I do a lot of studies of vector-borne disease, such as malaria and leishmaniasis.  In a typical project, I create buffer zones (using the flight range of the mosquito) around villages and use zonal statistics to estimate the mean of NDVI (normalized difference vegetation index), average precipitation, temperature, elevation and slope within each buffer zone to determine which factors are associated with high mosquito densities and high rates of malaria. The buffer zones frequently overlap since the flight range of the mosquito can be 1 to 8 kilometers depending on mosquito species. Once I estimate which factors are important, I can model the disease distribution for other areas by buffering and and calculating the zonal statistics for other villages.

We also frequently do the same thing around houses using high resolution imagery to determine which factors are supporting populations of sand flies (or other insects) near the house. 

This is a pretty basic and critical function for my work.  But, I think it would be useful to others in environmental fields or ecological niche work.