James Fee GIS Blog

Doesn’t that sound like a blog entry?  ESRI gets so close to actually blogging it just hurts to think about it.  Come on guys, blog this stuff!
http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/about/whats-new.html

[Read more →]

I ran into an interesting discussion today with some users at a client site today.  It seems while the GIS manager would just love to migrate everyone to ArcGIS 9.1, he just can’t seem to get people to move off of ArcView 3.x.  I did a little demo to show them how much easier it [...]

[Read more →]

I’ve grown to really dislike emailing datasets to people.  Shapefiles have always been a pain as you either have to attach at least 3 files to an email or "zip" it up to ensure that the files are readable on the other end.  The Geodatabase did better as it was one file containing one or [...]

[Read more →]

For years ESRI has had versions of ArcExplorer. The first versions were based upon MapObjects while the later ones have grown out of ArcIMS Author. They work pretty well for most people, but their limitations are beginning to show. I think ESRI should introduce a new ArcGIS client that would enable people who want and [...]

[Read more →]

Our company has grown much in GIS in the 3 years I’ve been here and in doing so we’ve eliminated every stand alone ArcGIS installation in favor of concurrent licenses. While this enables us to save money over all the stand alone ArcView and ArcEditor licenses we’d need, we’ve begun to run into the problem [...]

[Read more →]

Trying to find GIS information on the Internet can be like looking for the proverbial needle in the haystack.  Well lucky for us we have a couple tools that enable us to see what other users are saying about topics we care about.  I use my RSS aggregator to read the blogs that I feel [...]

[Read more →]

I’ve got one heck of a month planned. I start by visiting a client that I haven’t seen in some time to try and help them get a handle on their GIS. They have been so busy during the past year that they have not had much change to make sure their GIS [...]

[Read more →]

Link: Roger Tomlinson’s Book, Thinking About GIS, Details GIS Planning for Managers.
The revised and updated second edition of this book, which provides planning wisdom for implementing a GIS, is now available from ESRI Press.

If you haven’t read this book and work in the GIS industry, you should go ahead and buy it now. Heck, [...]

[Read more →]

The title graphic on the top of this blog was found online at the USGS. 
Historical Photos of Geographers at Work
The photo dates from circa 1925.  I’m going to change the graphic monthly to a different interesting image that somehow relates to GIS, mapping or programming.

[Read more →]

I’ve moved from Blogger to TypePad to get better control over the site.  You’ll also notice that the web address is now http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com rather than the more complex old address.  Make sure you are using the following RSS feed rather than any old ones to make sure you area always up to date.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/SpatiallyAdjusted

[Read more →]

My first vacation in over two years (pretty sad when I have to count the 2003 ESRI User Conference weekend as a vacation) is about to happen. Building a GIS practice from scratch is a lot of work, but I’m glad I had an opportunity to do it, again.
Anyway I’m going to a place [...]

[Read more →]

Rob Elkins asked me in my previous post about EDN for any suggestion I might have.

 
ISO downloads - I’ve come to rely on this for MSDN.  Many time while traveling I might need something and I always know I’ll have access to the complete MSDN catalog.  I could see where I might want to install [...]

[Read more →]

One of more intriguing reasons to use UMN MapServer is Ka Map.  I’m quite impressed with how it is able to pan and zoom without having to load the whole page.  We’ve tried to do as much as we can on the client side of ArcIMS and with Ka Map we can continue that trend.
Since [...]

[Read more →]

I’m quite impressed with ESRI and their EDN.  For a first time effort, they really did a great job.  I haven’t seen any pictures of what it looks like so I thought I’d upload a couple of our copy.  I apologize for the quality of the pictures as the only camera we had left in [...]

[Read more →]

How cool is this?  Oracle has released tools for Visual Studio .NET 2003 to provide integrated support for creating .NET applications that access Oracle databases.  Rather than use the weird, non-standard Oracle Java based tools or command line, you can now use the Oracle explorer to browse and alster the schema right from inside Visual [...]

[Read more →]

I posted a blog entry moving to a .NET development environment last month and questioned what the possible licensing issues were with ArcGIS Engine.  I had searched ESRI’s site to see if there was a definitive answer, but couldn’t really find much.  Lucky for me ESRI Product Manager Rob Elkins saw what I wrote and [...]

[Read more →]

EDN showed its head this afternoon.  Tomorrow when my programmer gets in I’ll set him up to start playing with ArcGIS Engine and we can see what can be accomplished with it. 
One question though, how come no MapObjects or MapObjects Java in the EDN?

[Read more →]

Another ESRI conference is upon us and I just noticed that the survey that Jack Dangermond always sends out is in my inbox.  I was filling it out as I always do putting in that I’d like support for MySQL or PostgreSQL and low and behold later in the survey there is a question asking [...]

[Read more →]

I’ve noticed an interesting trend during the last year with our clients.  Many of them have decided that internally they don’t want web based ESRI ArcIMS or similar products.  We’ve worked with them to create either stand alone ESRI MapObjects applications (hopefully we’ll upgrade them to ESRI ArcGIS Engine soon) or just using ESRI ArcPublisher [...]

[Read more →]

We have finally gotten all the paperwork on our end squared away and EDN has been ordered.  It will be nice to finally have a development copy of ArcGIS Engine to see how it works for us as we move from MapObjects to a pure .NET development environment.  We are finishing up what will possibly [...]

[Read more →]