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GIS & Geospatial Technologies: ArcGIS account

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Whenever you use Esri or ArcGIS resources, UC San Diego affiliates with a UCSD email account should sign in using the "Your ArcGIS organization's URL" login and the “ucsdonline” as the organization’s address URL. Your affiliation with UC San Diego’s ArcGIS Online organization gives you access to resources that are not otherwise available to someone outside of an organization. 

Visit:  www.arcgis.com

Once you have gone through the UC San Diego SSO Login (dual authentication may be required) you will be redirected to the UC San Diego ArcGIS Online Organization homepage.

ucsdonline.maps.arcgis.com

Note:  Just because you can sign on to ArcGIS Online, does not mean you are affiliated with the UC San Diego AGO. Public accounts exist, but these accounts do not have access to all the training resources, and additional apps (Community Analyst, Business Analyst, etc.). Check the URL and ensure that you are connected to the UC San Diego Org. If you don't see the following in the URL: ucsdonline.maps.arcgis.com, you are not signed into the UC San Diego Org.

ArcGIS provisioned resources with SSO

​ArcGIS Online is an online, collaborative GIS that allows students, staff, faculty and other UC San Diego affiliates to use, create, publish, and share maps, scenes, apps, layers, analytics, and data using Esri's secure cloud.

Signing in with your UC San Diego Single Sign-On (SSO) credentials, you are automatically provisioned with the following:

You also have access to the following products:

  • Nearmap (2.8" high-resolution imagery for the entire U.S. dating back to 2014)

Reach out to ITS Software Licensing Support or GIS Librarian to get information or access to the following products

  • AppStudio Developer Edition
  • Streetmap Premium (Geocoding and networking)
  • ArcGIS Enterprise
  • Offline license for ArcGIS Pro

UCSD Extension Logins

UCSD Extension students with non-UCSD email accounts: Sign in with ArcGIS login

UCSD Extension students should use this option. 

  1. Go to: https://arcgis.com 
  2. Click Sign In
  3. Sign in with ArcGIS Login. This is an account created for you at the request of your instructor by an administrator.
  4. When you sign in with the ArcGIS Login, you should not see a UCSD sign in page. 

Reach out to your instructor for the link to download ArcGIS Pro software