I love the java applet that Gjermund Weisz is using on his blog about Sportsim. I’ve been thinking about taking part in the Arizona Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon and if I do it, I’m going to use Sportsim.
Run For Central Park, July 23rd 2005
Just noticed that there is now a new option at Google Maps. In addition to “Map” and “Satellite” there is a new “Hybrid” version which I think works pretty well. You get road names, streets and landmarks right over the top of the satellite image. I didn’t spend too much time looking at [...]
Link - Image Server
On Monday during the Plenary we will introduce a new type of Image Server. It takes a different approach to serving up large (TB) quantities of Images. The data is held in the raw file format (no need to pre-process, or load into a DBMS). The Server builds an index so that [...]
It is a shame that the inaugural ArcWeb User Group Meeting is being held the same time as the blogger meet-up. Well I could go to the first 30 minutes and then run over to Dick’s Last Resort.
It is pretty hard these days not to have a MrSID image behind your vector data. Almost every project I am involved with has a satellite or aerial image behind it. These MrSID images are great because they compress huge raster datasets down to a fraction of their size, but in doing that [...]
I’m lucky enough to have either lived in Southern California or Arizona over the past 30 years so I’ve always had a quick trip to the ESRI User Conference. For me the biggest question usually is do I leave Sunday or Monday morning. Some bloggers are already heading out (here, here and here). [...]
Brian Flood just announced that he’ll be presenting at the .NET Developer SIG meeting at the ESRI User Conference next week. He plans to demo ArcGIS Server InProcess Redirect and using background threads in ArcMap. Now I’m going to have to get there early and get a good seat to view the screen.
Update [...]
Link - Transpac 2005 Tracks via Google Maps Mania
The Transpac race from Long Beach to Honolulu is run every two years, alternating with the Pacific Cup. 2005’s race, the 43rd, got started on July 11th. Position reports from each boat are collected by radio at 9am PDT, are posted on the web by about 1:30pm [...]
Link - It’s social software
Stefan Geens read David’s post and has an interesting take on it. Stefan doesn’t know much about GIS and even admits it, so his viewpoint is from an “ESRI outsider”.
Maguire implies that Google Earth and its ilk are a fad, a bubble, and rhetorically wonders why people have written about [...]
Great job!
Just a note:
Geographic Exploration - The New Fad?
David Maguire has written another blog post and he gives us his thoughts on Google Earth, MSN, Yahoo! and others who have entered the GIS arena. Personally I’m glad to see he gets why the others have been successful (ease of use, global data, branding) and he lets us [...]
Steve Citron-Pousty just posted about a whole new section of the ESRI Developer Network devoted to Java. I think EDN got off to a slow start while everyone got geared up to support it, but now it seems to be flying along with tons of new features. I have to admit I feel [...]
Just a reminder (I’m sure you’ve seen it everywhere) to upload and tag those photos you are taking at the User Conference with the esriuc05 tag. If you just signed up for Flickr it could take a day or two for the pictures to show up, but once you are “approved” they show up that [...]
Link - Google Maps Future? Prognostication starts now!
Some interesting thoughts Dave. I’m sure those ads will be in there and the big question isn’t if consumers will care about them, its how will the developers feel about them. If you have to pay for using Google Maps without ads, many of them might [...]
Chris tells me to move on and don’t worry about how ESRI is seen by others.
Moreover, the comment posting and removal scandal happened more than a month ago. That was Before Google Earth (B.G.E.) and I’m surprised that it is still being discussed. What do you think?
Chris is missing my point or at least combining [...]
Talk about good PR, Google has taken their Maps API and applied it to the moon landings that took place July 20, 1969. They have included the locations of the moon landings and some nice information about each in those nice little bubbles. If you zoom in really close you’ll get a great [...]
Well by this time next week, most of us will be enjoying yet another ESRI User Conference. I believe this is my 10th and 5th in a row. My focus on the UC has changed over the years, but I still enjoy going. I’m just amazed at how big it has become [...]
I’m sure you’ll see this in your email inbox, but just in case you didn’t here is the link to ESRI’s answers to our questions.
ESRI International User Conference 2005 - Preconference Survey Q & A
Keyur Shah teases us with some great information about ArcGIS Server 9.2. I was already planning to go to the Technical Workshop ArcGIS Road Ahead: What’s Coming for GIS Developers at 9.2 and it sounds like it will be very compelling.
Brian Goldin has some news about updates to the ESRI Developer Network on his blog. I’m interested to see how this plays out over the course of the User Conference and I’m hopeful people will take advantage of the new comment features. I like the idea as it is much quicker to get [...]
