James Fee GIS Blog

Link - Hurricane Katrina Media Gallery
Looks like DigitalGlobe has Released Satellite Imagery from Hurricane Katrina. The amount of devastation is just unbelievable. I was down there back in June and I hope everyone that I’ve worked with in Gulfport, MS is OK.
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “DigitalGlobe Releases Satellite Imagery of Hurricane Katrina”, url: “http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/2005/08/31/digitalglobe-releases-satellite-imagery-of-hurricane-katrina/” });

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Link - ArcWeb Public Services - Part 0.1
There are several things I still need to figure out, like how to zoom and pan, but my first impressions are pretty positive. I was able to take the data I used for my Google Maps sample project and use it in my ArcWeb sample without too much [...]

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I’ve just about had it with Technorati and their servers timing out so I’m moving my tags to Ice Rocket. I made a modification to the Movable Type plug-in that I used to create all the tags at the bottom of my posts to point to Ice Rocket so if anyone else wants to [...]

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For those not familiar with the term “NIMBY” look here
Link - EarthHack.net via Ogle Earth
Who gave Google the right to web publish photographs of my backyard so detailed that you can see the details of my landscaping? Or which side of the driveway I park my car on?
Yes, I know these photos have been available [...]

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Link - Hurricane Katrina Approaching the Gulf Coast
A huge 250meter pixel (6200×8000) jpg satellite image (metadata here) of Hurricane Katrina off the coast of Louisiana/Mississippi. You can also download a world file from the site to add this to your ArcGIS Desktop session.

SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Satellite Image of Hurricane Katrina Approaching the Gulf Coast”, url: [...]

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Link - Storm Tracker
I had been meaning to blog about the ArcWeb Services Hurricane Tracker, but I got sidetracked at work. How come no one at ESRI blogged it either? In fact, ESRI had a whole site up running with it. Of course no RSS feed means many missed it.
Update - Ray [...]

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Link - Google Is an Advertising Company
If Google has a platform, it’s an advertising platform, not a developer platform. I’m not even saying Google should have a developer platform — I’m just saying they don’t. Any software that uses Google as a back-end for web search could be modified to use Yahoo or MSN by [...]

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More Web Mapping
Here’s a quick and dirty comparison of ESRI’s ArcWeb Public Services and the Google Maps API. Both are free to use and offer developers a way to display geographic data via the Web.
Walt has a nice quick look at the features of both ArcWeb Services and the Google Maps API. In response [...]

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Link - VBA code for Google Earth KML paths
ArcObjects VBA code to take a feature layer, split it up into line segments, and then generate a valid KML file. It’s pretty basic, and you have to hard code some values, but it does the job. It will work with either lines or polygons, and it [...]

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I’ve been reading up on some blogs over the past few weeks and a common theme is that because ESRI is “proprietary” they will fail in the long run and I just don’t see that happening. There is much confusion with how open some products are. For example many people say that because [...]

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Link - Updated FAQ: Can I use Virtual Earth on my commercial website? RSS
I have asked Microsoft about this and the short answer is no. If you read the MSN Terms of Use (http://privacy.msn.com/tou/) it clearly states: “The MSN Web Sites are only for your personal use. You will not use the MSN Web Sites [...]

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Link - Board of Geographic Names Invites are Like Gmail Invites
I assume that invites are limited because of the Board’s inherently governmental function. So why in this new era of international spats over boundaries and place names in Google Earth has anyone from GE (Google Earth) or the BGN (Board of Geographic Names) thought to [...]

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I’ve upgraded to MovableType 3.2 and I want to update the template also. For the time being I’m going to use the default look until I get some of the javascript stuff integrated again. Maybe I’ll move from a static install to a dynamic PHP install of MT.
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Site Update”, url: “http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/2005/08/25/site-update/” [...]

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Link - Google Earth does not respect UN recognized borders!!!
It is obvious that Google Earth accepted as a final solution of internationally recognized border between Montenegro and Croatia old Montenegrin proposal that leads me to conclusion that Google Earth used data obtained from Serbian or Montenegrin experts and did not verify them by independent sources [...]

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Link - Google Earth Continued
I’ve recently seen various forum and blog posts about Google Earth moving into traditional GIS territory. In some regards this is true, GE is a very fast, very internet friendly, very ubiquitous geospatial viewer that provides a whole globe full of free base data. However, it is not a very good [...]

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Link IWorkspace
Looks like Jeff Archer is now blogging. Seems like he loves GIS and VWs, much like me.
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Jeff Archer Is Now Bloggin”, url: “http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/2005/08/24/jeff-archer-is-now-bloggin/” });

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Link - Google Awarded Geocoding Patent
Since patents are all the rage these days I thought I would toss out the following: Google was awarded a patent today. The patent is for technology that allows a geocode (latitude, longitude) to be generated for a postal addresses. Unlike patent applications (which are what usually get people talking) [...]

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How long before the Google Earth/Google Map people start talking about integration between those products and the new Google IM client? Too bad ESRI didn’t already have GeoChat up and running, then people could use it as an example, unfortunately we only have that one lone blog entry to show what it is capable [...]

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Links - Google Earth Wishlist - Part 1 & Google Earth Wishlist - Part 2
While playing with the free version of Google Earth I started a list of enhancements that I’d like to see in the product. The desired outcome is to make it easier to use Google Earth as a spatial data delivery platform, [...]

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Link - 10 Utils to make Opensource GIS that little bit easier…
In the same vain as my other ArcIMS thread, here are my top 10 utilities (ok so its not really ten) for making my life with OGC apps that little bit easier. If i have missed any which you recommend, please let me know. [...]

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