James Fee GIS Blog

note - see post update below
I had a great opportunity to sit down with Gjermund Weisz of Sportsim at the ESRI 2005 User Conference and talk to him about his product and how ESRI ArcWeb Services is working for him. Sportsim is a free product that users can upload their GPS tracks from their [...]

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Link - A Podcast
Howard Butler of Hobu.biz fame has created a podcast about his thoughts about ESRI 2005 User Conference and UMN Mapserver RFC 1. I think you did a pretty good job Howard and hopefully you’ll continue with more of them (especially with such great music).

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Link - New Site Design
I guess it is the weekend for new site design with GIS or Mapping blogs. The Map Room has a great new look that is actually making me think about changing my darker colors to white also. I’ve always felt a darker webpage looks richer, but white is so [...]

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Link - ESRI webservices
ColdFusion users (and you guys thought they were extinct) talk over the announcement of Public ArcWeb Services. Maybe they’ll check out some of the news about improvements to ArcWeb Services 2005 and ArcIMS 9.2 in some of the blogs about the User Conference.

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I was just checking out some of the “A list” GIS blogs and it looks like the All Points Blog has a new look and a new simple URL. I’m not sure if there are any other changes planned but maybe we’ll find out on Monday (or maybe sooner).
http://www.allpointsblog.com/

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Link - Visiting the Mothership - despite Microsoft !!
Ed was lucky enough to make it by Apple’s Campus and confirm that they are still around. If you remember last week there was some “discussion” about the digital imagery that Microsoft was using for their Virtual Earth web mapping program. Ed makes the point [...]

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Link - ESRI UC Blog Feedback
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Looks like ESRI is looking for opinions about their UC Blog and Blogging in general. Anyone who is interesting is seeing ESRI blog more should [...]

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It is safe to say he had a blast Thursday night as we all did. He did enjoy dancing to GRIDLOCK with this nice little girl. She did dance him under the table though, but not bad for a 2 year old.

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The family and I had a blast tonight at the Thursday night party. I’ll post some pictures of my son dancing with a little girl to GRIDLOCK. It was nice meeting Steve’s family and his little boy is just a riot. I also bumped into many of people I hadn’t seen in [...]

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Link - MSN Blogger Map
How long till we see something like this at ESRI? This is the kind of stuff ESRI should be playing around with. Little things that people can then download the code and create other mashups themselves. Sounds like a great ArcWeb demo for ArcWeb - Public Services
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I was really interesting in learning about the changes and improvements to ArcGIS Server and ArcIMS with 9.2. Personally I’ve been a huge user of ArcIMS, but with the improvements to ArcGIS Server I’m looking at migrating our applications to it. Some plans for Server GIS ESRI is going to have free [...]

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Link - Migrate apps from Internet Explorer to Mozilla via PubSub
Ever have trouble getting your Internet Explorer-specific Web applications to work with Mozilla? This article covers common issues associated with migrating applications to the open source Mozilla-based browser. You’ll first learn basic cross-browser development techniques, and then develop strategies for overcoming the differences between Mozilla [...]

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I had a great time at the blogger meetup tonight at Dick’s Last Resort. We had a great turnout with just about all the ESRI developer bloggers and many ESRI Developer Network people. Even Scott Morehouse was there! I ended up spending most of the night talking Art, J, Steve and sitting [...]

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I had a nice lunch with Brian Goldin and Jithen Singh after the .NET SIG. I owe J a couple beers tonight for picking up lunch for me (not even a dollar in my wallet). A vendor for a company called OQO came by with their handheld computer. I had seen it [...]

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I attended the first ever ArcGIS .NET Developer Special Interest Group Meeting (SIG) today and was happy to see so many ESRI developers who are really interested in GIS programming. I also got to meet fact to face many of the bloggers who will be at our blogger meetup later today at Dick’s Last [...]

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I decided to change up my schedule and head over to a “developer” technical workshop. I tried to first go to ArcGIS Server: Developing Applications with .NET but that was overflowing. I then peaked into ArcGIS Developer: ArcGIS for Java Developers, but I’m just so far removed from Java that I didn’t stay [...]

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The ESRI UC Blog is reporting that as of this afternoon 13,264 people were registered for the user conference. Thinking back to my first one back in Palm Springs I don’t think I could have imagined this many people. With Google Maps, Google Earth and other consumer GIS tools one can only think [...]

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Link - ArcWeb services sign-up is now available
Brian announced that you can now sign up for free Public ArcWeb Services. Given how popular the Google Maps API has been I hope these programmer will take a look at the ESRI ArcWeb API and give it a try. I think ESRI needs to [...]

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ArcGIS 9.2 is due to arrive “mid-2006″. As was said yesterday is a usability release focused upon changes that users have wanted (many since ArcGIS 8 was first released) as well as some bug fixes. It looks like this 9.2 release will be very popular with ESRI users and the improved documentation is [...]

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Link - ESRI UC Report
GISUser.com has their ESRI UC Report from the first day. It is a pretty detailed writeup of the proceedings, but they missed a huge announcement much like everyone else. I’m wondering what can be done to get ArcWeb more visible to users. Do people not understand what it can [...]

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