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GIS in Action Contest

Posted: July 5th, 2008, 7:09pm CEST by Caitlin

Tags: ESRI

ESRI is looking for your little slice of GIS life on a video: Do you think your use of GIS is too common to be interesting? Think again. You would be amazed by the many uses of ESRI’s ArcGIS software, which is a good deal of what makes the ESRI UC so inspirational. So, have a [...]

All Points Blog

What's the next ESRI Summit?

Posted: June 30th, 2008, 1:00pm CEST

Tags: ESRI

The ESRI Surveying and Engineering GIS Summit is in its fifth year this August. The ESRI Remote Sensing and GIS Summit debuts at the same time, just before the formal Monday opening of the ESRI International User Conference. Also occurring before the main event are the Executive Summit (invitation only) and the Education User Conference, EdUC.

Of these, I've only managed to attend EdUC (I have a standing commitment to ride in or volunteer at the Pan Mass Challenge bike event, which often occurs the Friday/Sat preceding UC). It's just great and I hope I can attend again somehow, now that I'm teaching again. The Executive Summit, which my colleague Joe Francica has attended (his 2005 review), is all about helping executives "get" or "get more" out of GIS.

But these "new" summits are different. They are, from what I gather, opportunities to build bridges with related disciplines. I use that term with care. A discipline has its own rules, its own tools and technologies, in these cases, tools and technologies allied with GIS. I want to contrast disciplines with "industries" or "business areas." While ESRI does have a "surveying industry manager," Brent Jones, who hails from the Northeast, somehow it doesn't fall into the same space as other ESRI "industries." It's more like the "industry" I used to manage at ESRI, the one called "CAD." Surveying, like CAD and remote sensing, is horizontal and serves many industries. Other ESRI industries, oil and gas, pipeline, water, insurance, forestry, agriculture and others tap into GIS to better serve their customers and their bottom line. Surveying, photogrammetry, remote sensing and even CAD are more about data creation and preparation. They are sometimes thought of more as "inputs" to spatial databases and analyses.

So, what will be the next summit ESRI will announce? Will it be LiDAR? CAD? GPS? Location determination? User generated data? With what other technologies does ESRI and by extension the rest of the GIS establishment need to build bridges?

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ArcGIS 9.3 is now available

Posted: June 26th, 2008, 8:55am CEST by _ioSu_

Tags: ESRI

Spatially Adjusted and GISUser inform us that ESRI's ArcGIS 9.3 has been released.
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ESRI Releases

Posted: June 26th, 2008, 6:55am CEST by Caitlin

Tags: ESRI

Two press releases of note issued by ESRI today announced both a new version of ArcGIS Explorer for download and the long awaited shipping of ArcGIS 9.3. New Version of ArcGIS Explorer Offers More Data Support and Better Map Displays ArcGIS 9.3 Improves Your Entire GIS Workflow

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ArcGIS Explorer Update

Posted: June 25th, 2008, 5:54pm CEST by lxnyce

Tags: ESRI

The AnyGeo Blog brings us news about this new ESRI update. Rather than repeat the list here, you can head on over to the AnyGeo blog for more information. Here is a snippet from their summary : "The ESRI International UC is just around the corner so that means loads of product releases. We know that ArcGIS 9.3 will come very soon, but today the company has opted to announce the release of the latest update of ArcGIS Explorer, jam-packed with loads of new functionality."
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COGO/Parcel Maintenance Survey

Posted: June 19th, 2008, 7:05pm CEST by Caitlin

Tags: ESRI

If you maintain land records and use ArcGIS software then ESRI wants to hear from you: ESRI is committed to providing you with the best software tools possible, and you can help us achieve that goal. Please take a few minutes to tell us about your use of GIS land record and parcel maintenance tools. Your [...]

All Points Blog

Wanted: SEO Specialist at ESRI

Posted: June 19th, 2008, 1:00pm CEST

Tags: ESRI

Details at Dice.com

- via Twitter
ESRI Podcast Series: An Overview of ArcGIS Server 9.3

Posted: June 19th, 2008, 9:59am CEST

Enclosure: [download]

Tags: ESRI

In this podcast sponsored by ESRI, Ismael Chivite, ArcGIS Server Product Manager at ESRI, gives an overview of what's new with the ArcGIS Server 9.3 release. Learn about the new ArcGIS API for JavaScript, whats happening with ArcGIS Image Server, role-based security, and faster Web services via improved map caching options.

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ArcGIS 9.3 Supports GIS In Adobe Acrobat 9

Posted: June 4th, 2008, 2:45pm CEST by lxnyce

Tags: ESRI

The mandown blog has a good overview of this weeks Adobe and ESRI talks. To sum it up, here is an excerpt from ESRI's press release : "Redlands, California—ESRI announces support for Adobe Acrobat 9 software and new geospatial capabilities available in PDF with the release of ArcGIS 9.3. ESRI has collaborated with Adobe Systems Incorporated over the past year to ensure a seamless workflow for geographic information system (GIS) professionals using ArcGIS who wish to widely distribute maps in PDF. Recipients of PDF map documents can find and display a location in the file using x,y coordinates as well as measure features directly on the map. This enabling capability enhances both existing customer workflows and creates new ones because recipients without ArcGIS can directly interact in new ways with maps using Acrobat 9." For more information, please visit the mandown blog.
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All Points Blog

GIS helps Manage NASCAR Fans

Posted: May 30th, 2008, 3:57am CEST

Tags: ESRI

Police and others in Dover, Delaware are now using GIS to better respond to issues related to the large crowds that come to town twice a year for the races. Credit is given to "Gary Nowak, the city's new geographic information system chief," for writing a computer program with the required data. The systems runs on laptops and helps law enforcement respond to situation in the Dover Downs "campgrounds" where tailgaters gather. Apparently near real time data is added, but it's not clear how. Says the local paper: "The program details the status of crowds around the racetrack."

- Delaware Online/The News Journal

To get the rest of the story, read this article from ESRI. It notes the underlying technology and how the data are updated.

Using ArcGIS Server and ArcGIS Mobile software from ESRI, staff operating in the command center and in the field can visualize where disturbances, code violations, accidents, and other incidents occur.
This view of the entire race, with real-time event data being posted by field personnel using ArcGIS Mobile, provides the command center with a common operating picture that can be shared with other personnel in different locations. The server-based GIS provides an enterprise platform that can be accessed using browser-based desktop or mobile clients. It makes extensive capabilities available without having to install any special client software and without training.

The project won an ESRI SAG Award in 2007.

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2008 ESRI International User Conference to Host a Special Climate Change GIS Program

Posted: May 27th, 2008, 2:58am CEST by Caitlin

Tags: ESRI

The upcoming 2008 ESRI International User Conference will play host to over 14,000 attendees and numerous technical and subject-based tracks. One of the new subject threads is the Climate Change GIS track where conference goers can learn about the role of data and technology in investigating and mitigating global warming. Carla Wheeler, ESRI [...]

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What’s Coming in ArcGIS Server 9.3

Posted: May 23rd, 2008, 3:32pm CEST by lxnyce

Tags: ESRI

The what is special about Geospatial has information about what's new in the upcoming ArcGIS release. Here is a snippet of their blog, summarizing what they believe is most important. REST and JavaScript APIs Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Services Support PostgreSQL Support Collaborative Design Activity (COLLADA) File Support Improved Performance Better Diagnostics Enhanced Security More Documentation For a lot more informationa nd the official announcement link, please visit the blog.
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ArcGIS Flex API Usage

Posted: May 19th, 2008, 4:00pm CEST by lxnyce

Tags: ESRI

The Thunderhead Explorer blog, has an article showing the usage of the ArcGIS Flex API along with source. From the articles summary : "A devastating earthquake hit Si Chuan province, China on 5/12. To support the earthquake relief efforts I created a web site to collect all the resources for donations, China-Earthquake-Relief.com. I wanted to put a dynamic map on it to demonstrate the helps from all over the world. So I tried the ESRI ArcGIS Flex API, which was just released for closed technology review and testing. It’s a chance to give you a peek on the new Flex Map API around the block." Visit the article for a demonstration and source code for building your own.
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The ESRI-Google Where 2.0 Announcement

Posted: May 16th, 2008, 6:55pm CEST by Satri

Tags: ESRI

Several geoblogs mentioned the Google ESRI joint keynote at Where 2.0, and All Points Blog elaborates on what it may mean for the near and far future. From their conclusions: "These announcements have some important implications for the geospatial marketplace: 1) the use of and demand for ArcGIS Server should rise. 2) any geo data or services provider who wants to play on the Web needs to look at how it will provide findability and usability of its data and services in this way. 3) geodata-finding portals may, in time, become extinct - if the KML vision for search and distribution becomes a de facto one as well. 4) the technology may be available, but the institutional barriers to data sharing may still be blocking the path (as noted in a question at the end of the session)." Also interesting is the GeoServer 1.7.0 plan to be automatically crawlable by Google’s geosearch.
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ArcGIS 9.3 JavaScript API Demonstrations

Posted: May 16th, 2008, 2:42pm CEST by lxnyce

Tags: ESRI

The mandown blog informs us about the changes to the ESRI website. From their summary "With the release of ArcGIS Server 9.3, you can mash up GIS-based Web services from ArcGIS Server with other Web content. Try the examples below to see how you can use the ArcGIS JavaScript API to integrate ArcGIS Server into your Web applications." Please head on over to the mandown blog for more information.
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All Points Blog

Jane's Puts Global Incident Map Behind Pay Wall

Posted: May 16th, 2008, 1:26pm CEST

Tags: ESRI

We posted this press release yesterday. The Inquirer isn't too keen on Jane's, the media star for defense and industry news, interactive map.

Using software called ESRIs ArcIMS Geographical Information System (GIS), which apparently is the thing to use if you want dynamic maps on the Internet, Janes says it has built an integrated intelligence picture by exporting events and geospatially fusing them to third party content".

The resource, however, isnt a free service and to use it, one has to subscribe.

So if the company you work for is planning to ship you off to Colombia, or Nigeria in the near future and is unwilling to pay for a subscription, you might want to either cough up the cash yourself, or find yourself a free Global Incident map somewhere else.

Jane's is well-respected, but can it parlay that into a specific pay service for this map? It'll be interesting to see the uptake. In the meantime, here's a free global incident map built on Google Maps. The Guardian calls that mashup more of a demo.

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ArcNews Survey

Posted: May 8th, 2008, 4:56pm CEST by Caitlin

Tags: ESRI

ESRI is looking for feedback on the newly redesigned ArcNews publication. ArcNews is published quarterly with stories about GIS implementation using ESRI’s suite of software. The survey takes about 8 minutes to complete. 2008 ArcNews Reader Survey

All Points Blog

Off Topic: Dangermonds Honored from Contributions to Flower Show

Posted: April 25th, 2008, 2:45pm CEST

Tags: ESRI

The couple is the first recipient of the National Garden Clubs Inc. Special Flower Show Award recognizing "significant contributions to the Redlands Horticultural and Improvement Society's flower shows." This year's event was held at ESRI headquarters in the cafeteria.

- Redlands Daily Facts
Rail Service Between Redlands and San Bernardino Explored

Posted: April 21st, 2008, 1:05pm CEST

Tags: ESRI

ESRI is one of the proponents and is suggesting a stop at New York Street, near headquarters. The project if approved is envision to be funded by federal grants, an increased sales tax and private donations. The train would be completed in 2015.

- Press Enterprise

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ArcGIS Explorer 600 - A Sneak Peek

Posted: April 3rd, 2008, 2:38pm CEST by lxnyce

Tags: ESRI

The geoLibro brings us news about this. The ESRI official blog, has a post about the upcoming ArcGIS Explorer interface. It includes a sneak pic, so head on over there to get a look. From their summary : "The next release of ArcGIS Explorer - Build 480 - is coming up quickly, with some important new features and enhancements. But at the recent ESRI Developer Summit plenary session we took a longer look ahead, beyond Explorer 480, and showed the first public demonstration of ArcGIS Explorer 600 and its new user interface." Update : Mandown Blog Update : James Fee Blog For some opinions about the interface, please visit the geoLibro blog.
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All Points Blog

ESRI Honored by Girl Scouts

Posted: April 2nd, 2008, 1:00pm CEST

Tags: ESRI

The awards are for the "top 10 female leaders in San Bernardino and Riverside counties." Nine of the honorees are individual women associated with public and private organizations and education, but ESRI is listed as just ESRI, with no single individual noted. There are many talented women at ESRI; I had the privilege of working for and with a number of them.

- press release

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ArcGIS Online and Geoprocessing

Posted: March 31st, 2008, 9:43pm CEST by lxnyce

Tags: ESRI

From The Memory Leak blog : "Something doesn’t make sense here. I often have heard ESRI describe Web2.0 mapping as useful, but not really GIS. To be true GIS, ESRI claims, geoprocessing capability must be provided. But then when I look at ArcGIS Online (Beta), I don’t see any geoprocessing services. I thought I saw this demo’d somewhere, but don’t see anything. I suppose ESRI is working on this - otherwise the name should be changed to ArcData Online." For some interesting ideas on the issues of geoprocessing, please visit The Memory Leak blog.
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ArcGIS Online and Geoprocessing

Posted: March 31st, 2008, 9:43pm CEST by lxnyce

Tags: ESRI

From The Memory Leak blog : "Something doesn’t make sense here. I often have heard ESRI describe Web2.0 mapping as useful, but not really GIS. To be true GIS, ESRI claims, geoprocessing capability must be provided. But then when I look at ArcGIS Online (Beta), I don’t see any geoprocessing services. I thought I saw this demo’d somewhere, but don’t see anything. I suppose ESRI is working on this - otherwise the name should be changed to ArcData Online." For some interesting ideas on the issues of geoprocessing, please visit The Memory Leak blog.
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ArcGIS 9.2 Service Pack 5 Released and More on the Dev Summit

Posted: March 27th, 2008, 6:30pm CET by Satri

Tags: ESRI

Spatially Adjusted informs us the ArcGIS 9.2 Service Pack 5 is now available and here's the official list of addressed issues for ArcGIS (ArcSDE, ArcIMS, etc are also updated). And in addition to lxnyce's round up of ESRI developer summit 2008 news, Spatially Adjusted provided regular coverage, including his reflections: "Well I think most would agree, the 2008 DevSummit was one of the best. There was tons of new stuff to learn about, much more attendees, more ESRI staff, better layout of the conference (the Community Center was particularly good) and better session (and more of them)."
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ArcGIS 9.3 Full Support For Vista

Posted: March 25th, 2008, 6:42pm CET by lxnyce

Tags: ESRI

The Mandown blog has an entry titled "ArcGIS 9.3 To Offer Full Support For Microsoft Windows Vista". From their summary : "Redlands, California—ESRI's upcoming ArcGIS 9.3 software release will fully support the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system across the ArcGIS family of products. The new support now makes ArcGIS fully compatible with Vista for increased reliability." For the full press announcement, and the relative links, please visit the Mandown blog.
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ArcGIS 9.2 Service Pack 5 Due Soon

Posted: March 25th, 2008, 6:41pm CET by Caitlin

Tags: ESRI

The latest Service Pack for ArcGIS is now available. ESRI had announced earlier this month that ArcGIS 9.2 Service Pack 5 would be available for download by the end of March. Also available is a PDF that lists and describes “What’s New in ArcGIS 9.2 Service Packs.”

All Points Blog

ArcWeb Services: Renew Only at this Time

Posted: March 24th, 2008, 12:00pm CET

Tags: ESRI

Update 4/3/08: This is the official word from ESRI:

ESRI is restructuring its Web services program to reflect our new technology and the relationships we are creating with a number of new technology partners. We are basically shifting our focus from geo-services for developers (the ArcWeb vision based on ArcIMS) to geo-services focused on helping ArcGIS end users and developers (based on ArcGIS Server). We will continue supporting ArcWeb users and the platform into the future, but we are shifting our emphasis to ArcGIS Server. Most people will see this as a kind of technology upgrade to a more modern platform for the Web 2.0 environment.

The new services are called ArcGIS Online and are already being used externally by ArcGIS Desktop users and as a foundation for ArcGIS Explorer. These services are divided into core services that are free to our desktop, explorer and server users, and premium services that will be priced similar to ArcWeb.

Regarding existing application operations built on ArcWeb, we will continue supporting the existing ArcWeb platform and customers for several years, while at the same time introducing new opportunities with the ArcGIS Server platform at 9.3. Existing customers can renew their ArcWeb Services subscription and buy more credits. New users can contact ESRI Professional Services to explore whether they wish to use ArcWeb or ArcGIS to develop their solutions. Our Professional Services division was involved in the ArcWeb Services implementations and will continue to build solutions on that platform.

The ArcGIS 9.3 platform will introduce many new and exciting opportunities. Further details will be provided as we complete this transition.

Update 4/1/08: ESRI replied to my query of 3/24/08 today saying essentially, "we'll get back to you."

Continue reading "Update 2: ArcWeb Services: Renew Only at this Time"

Slashgeo

ESRI Dev Summit 2008 Roundup

Posted: March 22nd, 2008, 2:49pm CET by lxnyce

Tags: ESRI

There has been a lot of news this week about the recent events at the ESRI developer summit. I have composed those into one story for your reading pleasure. Summit Reflections - Another overview of the summit Security In ArcGIS - Discusses the changed security model. Mobile SDK - Programming And Design Patterns For The ArcGIS Mobile SDK API Discussion - Discusses REST, Javascript, map-cache and Geodatabase. FLEX API - Discusses the FLEX API ArcWeb Services - Talks about discontinued ArcWeb Services Using REST API - Discusses using the REST API ArcGIS Server Code Challenge Winner - See the $15G winner Fortran API - Discusses lack of Fortran API.
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James Fee GIS Blog

The Closing Q&A

Posted: March 21st, 2008, 10:40pm CET by James Fee

Tags: ESRI

Yikes - I just saw this draft from yesterday that I didn’t get posted so pardon the untimeliness of it.

The closing Q&A session was over lunch and was pretty calm. A couple issues were raised that I thought I would mention.

VB6 will not be supported at ArcGIS 9.4 and you should really move to .NET.

The File Geodatabase SDK (or whatever it will be called) has been sidelined and they still need to figure out what it will be. The simple solution everyone would like is for them to just work with the GDAL team and get something written into GDAL/OGR (they did at least mention GDAL on stage). I’m just not sure what the problem is on this and why they don’t want greater use of the File Geodatabase (could be why I’m a consultant and they make money selling software).

Dave Bouwman asked them to stop overselling ArcGIS Server. His comment was well received by everyone out there and those on stage all agreed they need to do a better job giving a realistic picture of what it can do and how quickly you can deploy applications.

There was some worry about the future of ArcIMS. Of course the Web ADF works with IMS, but the picture is pretty clear that you need to start seriously working at migrating to ArcGIS Server. There were quite a bit of ArcIMS folks looking at the RESTful API and the JavaScript API. There is a natural progression from AXL to JSON I believe and being able to see the JSON will better help them understand how it all works. The point is though that you probably need to move on as no new features will be incorporated into ArcIMS.

It was the last chance to enjoy an ESRI Squishee

All Points Blog

ESRI History Talk

Posted: March 21st, 2008, 12:00pm CET

Tags: ESRI

From the Redlands Daily Facts, this talk is set for next Monday:

"Jack P. Dangermond and the History of ESRI" is the program when the Redlands Area Historical Society meets, 7 p.m. in the Assembly Room at the A.K. Smiley Public Library, 125 W. Vine St.

James Fee GIS Blog

2008 ESRI Developer Summit Day 2

Posted: March 20th, 2008, 12:36pm CET by James Fee

Tags: ESRI

My laptop seems to have died and I can’t get it to boot up at all. I’ll try and get my notes figured out when I get back to the office, but you can read some blog posts from Day 2 of the Developer Summit. I’m sure we’ll see more come online tomorrow when the bloggers recover from a late night out in Palm Springs. Some reaction to the Dev Summit from other bloggers is below:
Mmmm… Kooool-Aid! DevSummit With the Goggles On

Building Mashups Using The ArcGIS JavaScript API’s At The ESRI Developer Summit 2008

ArcGIS Code Challenge… Thanks Everyone! (or where everyone who meets Dave now knows that they can ask him to buy them a beer)

ArcGIS Server .NET ADF Session
2008 ESRI Developer Summit Plenary

Posted: March 18th, 2008, 4:47pm CET by James Fee

Tags: ESRI

Jim McKinney opened the Plenary by introducing Jack Dangermond to welcome everyone to the DevSummit. The DevSummit has gotten much bigger over the last 3 years. It had more than doubled since the first DevSummit. The conference has changed from previous years. It is a longer a conference than before (pre-conference seminars). More sessions than before, presentations will be recorded and put up on EDN, larger community center and ESRI showcase (the server island was described as a continent). ESRI has also added the demo theaters to the showcase to augment the tech sessions. It definitely feels much larger than before. On top of it all, the plenary is much shorter (only 2 hours) than before so everyone can get right into tech sessions.

ESRI has committed to releasing service packs every quarter for 9.2. The future includes SP5 for 9.2 out soon and 9.3 in “June” (or before the User Conference) and 9.4 should arrive in “early” 2009.

ArcGIS Server

Ismael Chivite, the ArcGIS Server product manager, lead the talk on ArcGIS Server. The tag line that ESRI has been using is “Making GIS Knowledge Available To Anyone…”. This aligns with what was send at the FedUC and the BPC. Putting GIS into consumer clients (Google Maps, Google Earth, Virtual Earth) is clearly a huge change for ESRI. ArcGIS Server 9.3 performance is improved because of improved caching workflows (partial cache and on demand cache). This means you don’t need to create map tiles for the world, but pick areas you feel are important. The areas that are not tiled, can be created on demand as users view the world. The “simple” javascript API will speed development over “traditional” .NET or Java ADFs. Security can now be managed from within the Server Manager on each service. Much like the ArcGIS Explorer resource center that everyone can see, there will be a detailed ArcGIS Server 9.3 resource center (only available for Beta users at this point) that will aggregate the documentation and other documents in one place. ESRI is committed to delivering more code samples and web tasks for developers to use. (I can confirm that there are more samples available than I’ve ever seen for an ESRI release)

Web ADFs (.NET and Java)

Rex Hansen demonstrated how you can quickly take code samples out of the Resource Center and create WebADF and ASP.NET AJAX applications quickly and easily. The sample Rex demonstrated was simple and valuable which is definitely something that has been missing on ESRI samples from before. Rex showed how you can quickly take the ESRI sample and create a Sharepoint Web part using your own data. Hopefully this will improve usability of creating quick WebADF applications that leverage Microsoft development tools.

Rex apparently lost his mind and started talking about Java and AGS 9.3. The Java example was very similar in the sense that the code was simple and any Java developer should be able to customize it to work with their own data and projects. Rex looked pretty familiar with Eclipse so maybe he’s been cheating on us .NET folks.

Javascript API

The ArcGIS Javascript API is probably the biggest new feature of ArcGIS Server at 9.3. Now instead of being limited to .NET or Java, you can now pick a simple Javascript API to publish to ESRI’s Javascript API, or Virtual Earth and Google Maps.

Jeremy Bartley demonstrated the new Javascript API by visiting the Javascript API section of the ArcGIS Resource Center. Javascript API resource center allows you to interactively explore the API. Much like how Google has described the Google Maps API, ESRI has really taken the time to explain their Javascript API (Now I’m sure it isn’t as detailed at Google’s Docs, but the change from previous ESRI documentation is very noticeable.) The Javascript API reference is clean and easy to use and there are even plans for a “community” section where developers will be able to upload their own code or tricks that they have for the Javascript API (this will also be available for the .NET and Java sections as well). The speed that you can add ArcGIS Server services to your maps is just slick. One line of Javascript code and a url to the service and you are running. Many have already browsed the Services Explorer on the demos that ESRI has posted and have been able to see the capabilities of the service.

Jeremy also demonstrated the Google Maps and Virtual Earth extenders. Seeing ArcGIS Server being leveraged in Google Maps really gives developers the ability to take classic GIS analysis and put it in a context that “ordinary” users can work with. I will say when Jeremy was done, the crowd really gave ESRI a good cheer. I think that proves that this Javascript API is going to be used quite a bit moving forward. One point about the Javascript API’s is that no development or deployment license is required on the Web server hosting your application.

ArcGIS Mobile

Developers I’ve talked with this week have really been interested in what ESRI has been doing with ESRI Mobile solutions. What is interesting at 9.3 is that ESRI includes ArcSDE SQL Express with ArcGIS Engine. You can do both one and two way replication with ArcGIS Server. ArcGIS Mobile integrates deeply with Visual Studio and enables quick development and deployment. Being able to develop a mobile application on Windows Mobile and Smartphone with a couple lines of code should increase Mobile usage among ESRI Developers.

ArcGIS Desktop/Engine

Euan Cameron talked about changes to ArcGIS Engine 9.3. The biggest news I think was the ability to include SQL Server Express Support with deployments. At 9.3 ESRI increased the amount of documentation and code. Desktop now allows the ability to have “Z Aware” editing, HTML popup windows (like what you are seeing with ArcGIS Explorer), more online support content and VBA 6.5 (thus Vista and Office integration).

Bernie Szukalski started to demo some 9.3 enhancements (the new “left hand tool”), and ArcGIS Desktop 9.3 crashed. We got to see the error detection and debugging tools. Crash dumps created automatically and ESRI will use these to help track down crashes. This should result in Service Packs addressing problems quicker than before.

ArcGIS Explorer

Now ther real reason that Bernie Szukalski was up on stage (no he wasn’t there to crash ArcGIS Desktop) was to demonstrated ArcGIS Explorer The future releases of ArcGIS Explorer include 480 will be released in May and followed by releases 600 and 700 by the end of th year. Bernie was demonstrating how you can include ArcGIS Server Globe Services, ArcIMS Services, WMS Services, local imagery, file geodatabases and KML. The new icon symbols really look great and very sharp (and will be available with ArcGIS 9.3 Desktop for use in any ArcMap or ArcGIS Server production). Bernie even when to the Google 3D Warehouse to grab a KMZ of a 3D building. Bernie also demonstrated how you can even embed YouTube videos right into the info bubbles. Any HTML content can be used, there is no limits so you can put any web content into ArcGIS Explorer.

ArcGIS Explorer 480 will increase performance (multi-threaded), Direct Connect to SDE!!!!!, GPX support, GeoRSS, improved task framework and popups and ability to load AGX in your web browser. The future moving forward includes a new user interface, integrated 2D and 3D display, markup and collaboration and a Map Control to embed Explorer objects. You’ll be able to take the map display and use it in your applications.

ESRI demonstrated build 600 (which isn’t the next version) and it has the new “ribbon” interface that you’ll recognize from Microsoft Office. Now tasks aren’t hidden in the table of contents, but available quickly and easily. It really does look like a Microsoft Office application which should help with its adoption. The usability of build 600 is really striking compared to the existing ArcGIS Explorer builds and even Google Earth. Another key feature of build 600 is the ability to view maps in 2D. The enhanced Explorer SDK which will be available with either build 600 or 700. Embedding AGX inside your applications will be big for many developers.

Lastly Scott Morehouse discussed where the ArcGIS Platform is going. ESRI is at the “envisioning” stage with 9.4 so the User Conference will be where we’ll see what will be part of the release. It will build upon what happened in 9.2 and 9.3 so it shouldn’t rock the boat and will probably be a nice stable release. The release schedule of ArcGIS Explorer will be adopted by the Server and Desktop teams so we’ll be seeing more and quicker releases of software, rather than these big Service Packs and large jumps in technology we have been getting. There will be more support for standards, much improved Linux support, faster services in ArcGIS Server and more stability. 9.4 will also see Flex and Silverlight be part of the Server platform. Desktop will continue to be improved with stability/performance and new editing tools showing up. ArcGIS Online is now an integral part of ArcGIS and is not a separate product. More online documentation, best practices and code galleries will also begin to show up with 9.3 and on to 9.4.

Jim Barry described where EDN was heading including more blogs coming online in the next few months (Desktop Developer and Engine) as well as highlighting some of the improved online support tools at 9.3. Also the forums are being updated as part of the 9.3 beta program and when 9.3 is released, will replace the old forums that have existed for years.

That ended the plenary and we will move on to the “super sessions”.
ESRI Store Bookshelf

Posted: March 18th, 2008, 12:38am CET by James Fee

Tags: ESRI

How about this choice at the ESRI Store at the Developer Summit?

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ArcIMS Goes Out With a Whimper

Posted: March 17th, 2008, 9:19pm CET by lxnyce

Tags: ESRI

The Fuzzy Tolerance blog notes a pretty interesting, but unofficial observation. From their summary : "If you’ve got people on ArcIMS projects, it’s probably time to bail if it’s early or say “that and no more” and stop investing time and money in it. If you’re an ESRI-only shop, snuggle up with a dozen or so ArcObjects diagrams and a box of tissues. If not, there are a lot of great open source solutions you can try. But either way, every dollar you spend today on an ArcIMS project will mean two dollars spent in a year or so converting it to something else." This information comes from observations noticed at the ESRI developer summit this year. Head on over to the Fuzzy Tolerance blog to get an in depth report about these observations.
Read more of this story at Slashgeo.
ArcIMS Goes Out With a Whimper

Posted: March 17th, 2008, 9:19pm CET by lxnyce

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The Fuzzy Tolerance blog notes a pretty interesting, but unofficial observation. From their summary : "If you’ve got people on ArcIMS projects, it’s probably time to bail if it’s early or say “that and no more” and stop investing time and money in it. If you’re an ESRI-only shop, snuggle up with a dozen or so ArcObjects diagrams and a box of tissues. If not, there are a lot of great open source solutions you can try. But either way, every dollar you spend today on an ArcIMS project will mean two dollars spent in a year or so converting it to something else." This information comes from observations noticed at the ESRI developer summit this year. Head on over to the Fuzzy Tolerance blog to get an in depth report about these observations.
Read more of this story at Slashgeo.

James Fee GIS Blog

ESRI Business Partner Conference Day 1

Posted: March 17th, 2008, 5:48pm CET by James Fee

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There really wasn’t that much going on yesterday other than a couple points Jack made on stage that will probably be built upon during the Dev Summit:

1. Jack says Microsoft and Google are the key to collaborative GIS using ArcGIS Server as the back-end. The hope is ArcGIS will integrate with everything moving forward.

2. ArcGIS 9.3 will be in everyone’s hands by June. That means that this will be a very sort beta period. Reading between the lines, this could mean that there are very few new features and this really will be a release that focuses on quality and documentation.

3. As others mentioned at the FedUC, Jack talked about Open API support. Want to use OpenLayers with ArcGIS Server, no problem.

4. The new Javascript API will increase production thousandfold. Now you can use the simple APIs to deploy quick and simple mapping websites and use the WebADF for the detailed heavy sites.

5. Did you use AML with ArcPlot? 9.4 might add the ability to script map production.

Now there was much more, but we’ll leave that for the DevSummit where we’ll learn the details.

GIS Lounge - Geographic Information Systems

Find out what’s coming in ArcGIS 9.3

Posted: March 17th, 2008, 5:45pm CET by Caitlin

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If you’re curious about the enchancements to be found in the upcoming release of ArcGIS 9.3, check out ESRI’s ”What’s Coming in ArcGIS 9.3” page. The update is expected to be released sometime in the third quarter of 2008. If you still have questions, you can ask them through ESRI’s questions page.

James Fee GIS Blog

Off to the 2008 ESRI Business Partner Conference

Posted: March 15th, 2008, 12:39am CET by James Fee

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I’ll be driving out from Tempe early tomorrow morning to the 2008 ESRI Business Partner Conference. I’m looking forward to meeting and talking with everyone. Feel free to email me if you want to hook up and get drinks or food (I’m staying at Hotel Zoso down the street). I’ll of course be staying over the week for the Developer Summit as well. Looks like the weather will be much colder than the nice warm days we’ve been having so make sure you pack accordingly (note: my definition of cold will probably be different than others).

Alas, our 9.3 beta didn’t show up before I left work today so I guess I’ll have to just watch, rather than participate. Oh and if you want something to read on the airplane on your way to Palm Springs, why not print out some of the slide shows before and bone up on your 9.3 knowlege.

Slashgeo

ArcGIS 9.3 Beta Released

Posted: March 13th, 2008, 2:15pm CET by lxnyce

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The Mandown blog has the following info : "It's now official, ESRI has released ArcGIS 9.3 beta to participants in the beta program. We have been actively working with the ESRI development teams on testing ArcGIS 9.3 and this has been great. We already have done some pretty cool stuff and submitted some great feedback. ESRI is really looking forward to beta testers feeding back bugs and other comments on the latest release." For more information as well as the official announcement, please visit the Mandown blog.
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James Fee GIS Blog

Licensing Woes

Posted: March 12th, 2008, 9:11pm CET by James Fee

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This has to be a mistake. I can’t imagine the logic for forcing such a policy.

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Got ArcGIS 9.3 Questions?

Posted: March 12th, 2008, 7:36pm CET

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ESRI offers up this page to ask such questions. The answers, per ESRI are "are routed to the appropriate person, and then answers are provided via e-mail within a few business days."

I'm not sure why responses are not collected into an FAQ. I have suggested that to ESRI.

Slashgeo

ArcGIS Explorer API

Posted: March 12th, 2008, 3:19pm CET by lxnyce

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Ogle Earth has a small blurb about this announcement. From their summary : "ArcGIS Explorer API: ESRI is about to announce an API for ArcGIS Explorer, reports All Points Blog, and adds, “A few additional products in the ArcGIS Explorer family will be announced as well.” Yes! The Mac and Linux versions! Just kidding. Meanwhile, the official ArcGIS Explorer blog showcases an example of ArcGIS Explorer being put to use at the municipal level." For more information and links to relevant pages, please visit the Ogle Earth blog.
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ESRI to Release API for ArcGIS Explorer

Posted: March 12th, 2008, 1:17am CET

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At next week's DevSummit, ESRI will announce an API for ArcGIS Explorer. Called ArcGIS Explorer Objects, a software developer will be able "re-skin" the app as well as toggle between 2D and 3D for example. A few additional products in the ArcGIS Explorer family will be announced as well.

UPDATE: Source of my information was provided by Bernie Szukalski during at demo at GITA. He believed it was a significant development.

James Fee GIS Blog

ESRI Developer Summit Meetup

Posted: March 10th, 2008, 7:14pm CET by James Fee

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OK, as promised, we are going to have yet another meetup this year at the ESRI Developer Summit. If you are going and want to hang out and talk shop, feel free to drop on by. You don’t need to be a blogger, developer or even at the Summit to attend. Just drop by and say hello and feel free to talk about anything you wish.

When: Monday 3/17 @ 6:30
Where: Wyndham Lobby Bar
Who: Anyone who wants to talk ESRI or GIS
What: Dinner/Drinks/Talking

I can think of two big things to talk about.

All Points Blog

Data Point on ESRI Local Government ELA

Posted: March 4th, 2008, 3:29pm CET

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Atanas Entchev has been trying to tease out pricing for the the new Enterprise License Agreement option for local governments with fewer than 100,000 people via this post.

I can offer another data point, based on what I believe to be use of this program from the Redlands Daily Facts.

The [Redlands, CA] City Council will consider an agreement with Environmental Systems Research Institute for licenses on the Geographic information software the city uses. According to the staff report, the city has acquired its licenses on a piece-by-piece basis in the past. By reaching a three-year agreement with ESRI, the city stands to save at least $100,330 over the next three years. The cost for the agreement is $24,500 per year for the next three years.

Redlands population stands at about 75,000 per the city website (water supply page).
Homeland Security Data Model and GDM-O-Matic

Posted: February 25th, 2008, 8:01am CET

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At the ESRI FedUC, it was discussed that version 2.0 of the Department of Homeland Security's geospatial data model (GDM) is a major rework of the model. It eliminates overlaps of the re-cast model into flattened more approachable form and incorporates hundreds of comments from users across the modeling community. Also ongoing is the development of version 2 of an Oracle 10g Spatial implementation model with an expected release in March 2008. More information can be found at the FGDC website.

In addition, DHS is developing an implementation model translation tool with the unusual name of GDM-O-Matic. GDM-O-Matic is a simple tool to construct format-compliant XML files and a standardized way to look at geospatial data to compel geospatial data sharing. It was designed to be a transformation tool that would understand intricacies of the DHS GDM. It also enables NGA-authorized users to load Homeland Security Infrastructure Program (HSIP) data directly into a GDM-compliant geodatabase.
Quote of the Day - "Adding technology to a bad process..."

Posted: February 22nd, 2008, 2:27am CET

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Jim Geringer, former governor of Wyoming and ESRI's director of policy and public sector, and speaking at ESRI's FedUC, had a few pointed words for those in the public sector who think technology solves most problems: "Adding technology to a bad process only adds speed to a very bad process," said Geringer. Geringer, during his time in office, recognized overlaps and redundancies to processes that could have benefited from best practices. He proded the audience to understand the nation's processes as a system. "GIS must provide a 'simple' way to explain the system and grasp the issues, said Geringer.

As an example, Geringer told the story of how as governor he was asked to evaluate a particular environmental problem. He received several reports some coming from his health department, the EPA and others. He asked, "Why cant we have one report for this project?" After not receiving the answer he expected, he said, "W-E-L-L G-E-T O-N-E!"

While GIS may not eliminate the number of reports we get from various constituencies, it should be an imperative of our government, federal, state or local, to provide a common picture, a common base map and a common set of criteria to decision makers.
DOI to "integrate and modernize its resources for managing map and geospecific data"

Posted: February 21st, 2008, 8:23pm CET

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That from said Jason Cason, associate deputy secretary of the department who spoke at the ESRI Federal User Conference. Alas, the article in GCN doesn't really explain how that will happen, but lots of DOI projects were shown like GeoCommunicator. Said Interior Secretary Dick Kempthorne via video: "In short we're using geospatial technologies to save lives," Kempthorne said.
Quote of the Day - Dangermond: "Fully employed for a long time"

Posted: February 20th, 2008, 6:36pm CET

Tags: ESRI

Speaking at the opening plenary session of the ESRI Federal User's Conference at the Washington Convention Center (Wash. DC), Jack Dangermond expounded on the many applications his user's were employing at the federal level. But he also mentioned one key issue: lots of problems in the world, environmental, political, and health-related, create lots of opportunities for GIS. "I am certain that you and I will be fully employed for a long time."
This of course once again highlights the dearth of trained GIS professionals that many have alluded to recently, especially at the federal level and perhaps the expanding need be recognized as a GISP to provide a foundation for the required training.

AnyGeo - Anything Geospatial

Enterprise GIS Implementaion (ESRI) RFP issued

Posted: February 19th, 2008, 7:13pm CET

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Recall a few weeks back I mentioned an RFP for an enterprise GIS (ESRI) Implementation. Well, the RFP has been let and details are now available. Good luck, you have until about March 14 to get in on...

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All Points Blog

ESRI's Building Q

Posted: February 13th, 2008, 1:00pm CET

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Just in case you want to keep up with your ESRI campus changes, the newest building is set for completion in December. Building Q will include "a 300-person auditorium, an executive briefing center, a prototype laboratory and office space." Marketing, contracts and industry solutions will come together in the $5.1 million building under construction on New York Street in Redlands.

- Redlands Daily Facts
Migration News 2008

Posted: February 6th, 2008, 2:03pm CET

Tags: ESRI

When I was a newbie in the industry the "big news" was a utility switching from one vendor to another. Smallworld wins were a big deal, for example and press announcements the way to tell the story. Now the turf is the Web and Microsoft is touting, via blog (and one PR), switching Yellowbook off MapQuest onto Virtual Earth and Windermere's real estate tool Property Point 3 moving off an ESRI/Google solution onto the platform. I'm guessing, but don't really know that the dollars were much bigger back in the "utility flip" days.

- Virtual Earth/Live Maps Blog

Slashgeo

The Gripe about ESRI's Web ADF

Posted: January 31st, 2008, 10:56pm CET by Satri

Tags: ESRI

Spatially Adjusted ran a critical entry about ESRI's Web ADF [Application Developer Framework]. Make sure you read the numerous comments. It started from this Doron's .NET space blog entry: "The ArcGIS Server API for working with web applications, is called the Web ADF, and is composed from a host of server controls and libraries. I am sorry to say, that it is a horribly designed, badly documented piece of API. In other words, it sucks pretty bad. Now, I would be a bad sport if I didn't give a few example, won't I?" [read the entry to get to the examples] From SA: "This brings up a bigger issue with ESRI products lately. With long lead times between versions, we get so much more added functionality in each release. So rather than small jumps where feedback can help grow the product we are left with frameworks being dumped on us and we have to figure it out because of poor documentation." Recent mentions on geoblogs include this Dave Bouwman entry.
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All Points Blog

ESRI Job Fair Saturday

Posted: January 30th, 2008, 3:11pm CET

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The local paper notes the event scheduled 9 a.m. to noon Saturday at the Cafe at headquarters in Redlands, California.

"The company made no mention of how many j

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