• 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

After creating a feature class, it would be convenient to go back after data input, and make changes to the field ordering (position).

 

• Drag and Drop selected layers from TOC directly to the Layout.
• Context menu in TOC: Add to Legend/Remove from Legend options.
• Legend context menu: Add/Remove Item.

• Resizing Legend Element horizontally and vertically distributes Legend Items into columns and wraps legend text, especially labels into multiple rows.
• More different shapes of Legend’s frame (not only rectangle). Wrap Legend’s contents around graphics in the Layout. Change vertical content’s alignment.
• Threading Legend Elements – allow contents to flow between connected Legends in different parts of the Layout. Possibility to rotate Legend Element.
• Edit Legend’s spacing with possibility to parametrically define each size directly in the Layout.
• Change Appearance and Arrangement of all Items directly in Legend’s context menu.
• Access map connection settings directly through Legend context menu. Possibility to define custom reference scale.
• Insert special-purpose formatting objects: Line, Heading, Space, Column Break, etc.
• Introduce overall Legend Style, which would define Legend properties and formatting including: items format, spacing between legend’s parts, title format, etc.
• Legend context menu example

• Reorder, move or copy legend’s items directly in the Layout by drag & drop inside single Legend Element or between different Legends.
• Possibility to replace items by drag &drop while preserving item’s formatting and settings.
• Insert Placeholder or Proxy to temporarily take the place of currently unavailable layer.
• Access Legend Items directly from the Layout. Apply style or custom formatting, patch shape and size to item parts, multiple items selected or the whole legend. Possibility for each item to have custom background.
• Control display of: Item, Name, Heading, Label, Description, Patch for selected/all items.
• Legend Item context menu example:

import arcpy

# Create a Describe object from the feature class
#
desc = arcpy.Describe("C:/data/arch.dgn/Point")

# Print some feature class properties
#
print "File Size: " + desc.fileSize
print "Date Modified : " + desc.dateModified
print "Read/Write: " + desc.permissions

• 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.

It would be very useful if the ArcGIS Server logging tools were extended to provide more comprehensive information on the traffic, availability, and performance for individual services (OGC and ESRI GeoServices REST.)  Specifically, my clients are interested in "Google Analytics" type of reports on the # visits, # hits by location, new vs. returning visitors, projection/CRS utilized, popular tiles accessed, etc.  This type of information would be useful in planning and justifying costs for extending our systems architecture.