James Fee GIS Blog

Don’t forget to continue to check out the ESRI UC Blog. They are continuing to post announcements through the week so if you are looking for something to do, make sure you stop by. I’m sure they would also appreciate comments so make sure you leave them in their comments.

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Link - ArcWeb at the UC Plenary
ArcWeb Public Services announced - This is a collection of datasources for ArcWeb Services that can now be used for free, for non-commercial purposes. The availability of this is imminent and will allow users to use ArcWeb Services APIs without any credit limits. These are the production and stable [...]

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Well it has been one month since I decided to restart Spatially Adjusted back up. Over that time I’ve posted 118 times and had over 5,000 unique visitors. Thanks for sticking around and reading and if I don’t have you in my GIS blogroll on the left, leave me a comment here and [...]

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Link - Public ArcWeb Services is HUGE
This is HUGE opportunity for developers and something that probably hasn’t quite sunk in yet. Now you’ll be able to add some great services to your app and guess what you won’t have to worry about us slapping ads in there and later if you want to leverage some [...]

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Link - UC Plenary and the AEWeb Demo
Todays details: the Web Application Site builder (aka Designer ) is a .NET winforms based application (not COM). It is a site builder tool for creating ArcExplorer Style web applications for your own sites. The output can then be reloaded in the builder for some customizations [...]

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I had lunch this afternoon (Sushi) with Brian Goldin and Steve Citron-Pousty. Took us a while to find a place that didn’t have a 30 minute wait, but eventually we did. I let both of them know how much I appreciated them blogging about ESRI and how hopefully more ESRI employees will take [...]

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The new ArcWeb Services update looks great. It is all vector based using what looks like Flash inside the browser. The user interface is very “Google like” in its simplicity. In the past most ArcIMS and ArcWeb sites were overly complex, but now it appears that they will be as easy to [...]

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The new ArcIMS designer tool looks great. The older Java tools have never really been updated in years. The new Designer is based on COM (I assume?) .NET and creates some really slick maps. It blows the Google Maps AJAX client out of the water and you can even use Visual Studio.net [...]

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You can now edit cartography features in 9.2 just as you would with the datasets themselves. Many times the symbology of ArcGIS just doesn’t display correctly, but now you can edit how the symbology is displayed. It is kind of hard to describe this, but if you think about how a product such [...]

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Some great new usability features of 9.2.
1. Add native Microsoft Excel spreadsheets as a table in the TOC. (w00t)
2. New measure tool calculates length and area
3. Calculate Acres directly from the table view, no longer do you have to add vba code to do this
4. Sort the fields in the query [...]

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I just heard that ESRI is blogging the User Conference. Check them out.

http://esriuc.blogspot.com/

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I’m on MSN Instant Messenger so if you want to say hi, just add “cageyjames@hotmail.com” to your contact list.

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Since we’ll go into ArcGIS more later today I’ll focus on two announcements that I think are huge for ESRI.
First the new ArcExplorer. No its not really like the old one, but more like Google Earth (in fact at least the demo blew Google Earth away with functionality, but we’ll see how easy it [...]

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Jack talked about the four core ESRI software strategies; Desktop, Mobile, Geodatabase and Server. ArcGIS 9.2 was mentioned for a early 2006 release. Clint Brown was then featured in a small video explaining that the 9.2 release would be consumer driven, more usable, higher quality with more documentation. I can’t argue with [...]

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It is pretty amazing how much the ESRI User Conference has grown over the years. The stage is huge and I like how it has been rotated 90 degrees so everyone is much closer (think widescreen). I’m looking forward to listening to Jack this morning and see how he responds to the changes [...]

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Remember my post this morning when I said I liked the look of MSN Virtual Earth? Well I still do but unlike Google Maps it isn’t as easy to use. The more you try other solutions, the more respect one has for how well Google Maps works. Simplicity is key here and [...]

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Link - http://virtualearth.msn.com/
Just a quick note before I head out this morning for San Diego. MSN Virtual Earth is up and running. Looks like they are using the Terraserver images in the background and some more up to date aerials in the urban areas. That works much nicer than those low-res satellite [...]

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I’m heading out to San Diego early tomorrow morning. I’m driving this year rather than flying, mostly because I’ve done so much of it over the past year and I’m just tired of the hassle. Anyway, I plan to head out by way of Interstate 8 from the Phoenix area and I’d like [...]

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I was looking at my old mouse pad on my desk and was thinking of what ESRI UC logo items I have around the house. I found 6 beer pints (I have 4 more at work) and thought I’d take a picture of them. Time to buy one more this year…

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Link - Implementing a selection box for Google Maps - via PubSub
An enterprising Google Map “hacker” has created some code that will allow you to zoom in via drawing a window on the screen. To zoom into an area, click the ‘z’ button and move your mouse to select an area, then release ‘z’. [...]

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