James Fee GIS Blog

Link - Geocoding With SQL Server
With the release of the Google Maps API, I wanted to try out some mapping. This ended up being the fairfaxinfo.com project. As nice as the Google API is, it does nothing to help with the hardest part of mapping: getting addresses translated into longitude/latitude. The only free [...]

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Link - Google, ESRI and FUD: Comments
The discussion continues to roll on about the role of ESRI and Google in the future GIS world.

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Link - Mapdex.org
Like it or not ESRI is a major player in web mapping. One of the projects (www.mapdex.org) I have been involved with has indexed over 1650 ArcIMS servers, serving nearly 30,000 map services, containing over 400,000 GIS layers. There is so much more out there…
Jeremy Bartley wrote that in the comments of Google, [...]

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Link - State of Ajax: Progress, Challenges, and Implications for SOAs
Because Ajax is a sincerely compelling synthesis of the ubiquitous features found in the most popular Internet browsers is why. Practitioners of Ajax get high-intensity user interaction (end-user productivity), asynchronicity (efficient backround processing), web browser access to web services (web service access, reuse, and interoperability, [...]

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People always compare ESRI to Microsoft and while there are similarities, I’ve always thought of ESRI more like Adobe. Both have professional products that focus on a section of the marketplace and both are very secretive about what goes on inside the company. Well either Hell has frozen over or pigs are flying [...]

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Link - Geo Coding
In the comments on the ROK Developer Blog, Jason posted a link to a GIS blog I hadn’t seen before. Geo Coding seems focused on using AJAX with ArcIMS and ArcGIS Server. I’ve added it to my blogroll and my RSS aggregator. Cool stuff!

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Link - ArcIMS & AJAX
Well, now that everyone and their mother has seen Googlemaps, all I keep hear from my clients is “can you make it pan like googlemaps?”. To be honest, I had thought about doing something exactly like it several years back, but dismissed the idea thinking no one would really want [...]

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Link - VerySpatial
While driving from Phoenix to Las Vegas I ended up listening to a couple VerySpatial Podcasts on my iPod. I have a degree in Geography so the kind of discussions that happen on this podcast are really interesting to me. If you’ve been looking for a regular GIS/Geography podcast, you might [...]

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Well I’m officially back from vacation, though I’m taking today and tomorrow off also. We all had a great time in Las Vegas and we almost broke even after a horrible start (I am officially the worst poker player in the history of Vegas). We were so busy in the Casino that I [...]

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Link - Shape2KML v1.0 via ArcScripts
Shape2KML works within ArcMap 9.x to convert points, lines, and polygons to KML for viewing and manipulation in Google Earth.
Seems like a very simple method to convert shapefiles to KML. Unfortunately there isn’t any source code to see how this was done and make improvements, but I’m sure any [...]

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Link - The Role of ArcPad
David Maguire responded to my post earlier about the purpose of ArcPad and I really can’t argue with any of his points. I guess it is more that I’m looking at this from a different angle than the ESRI ArcPad team is. As a developer I’d just rather [...]

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I’m going to be heading out tomorrow on vacation for a couple days and I don’t plan to take my computer with me. I should be back on Wednesday so until then enjoy the lastest in web based GIS mapping.
Virtual Neptune
Wonder when the API will be out.

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I added a couple new GIS bloggers to my blog roll. I’m quite impressed with how long it is getting.

Walt EisLordKingSquirrel.com
The Tarblog

Walt’s blog has some really nice posts about GIS including his take on ESRI and Google.

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Link - ESRI and Google and major uphill battle Update - Link seems to be back up now
I usually try and not use FUD in my posts because I think the term has been overused, but in this case I think it is appropriate. Berlin Brown seems to have gone off the deep [...]

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Link - Asynchronous client script callbacks
ASP.NET V1.0 and V1.1 have no explicit support for this technology (AJAX). Although they provide basic ways to manipulate script blocks, there is no easy way to incorporate more advanced techniques such as asynchronous client script callbacks.
With the upcoming release of ASP.NET V2.0, however, Microsoft focused on useability. This is [...]

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Link - Metadata: Tips & Tricks
I was just browsing around the ESRI Virtual Campus and I saw they have an upcoming Metadata Live Seminar that will be streamed over the Internet, times and date are below. Seems like a great opportunity for everyone wanting to learn more about how to use metadata.
Thursday, August 25, [...]

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Its been a little over a month since I made my post about ESRI and the blog PR battle and I wanted to take another look to see how far they have progressed since then. The previous blog post looked at how often the keyword “esri” was mentioned in blog posts vs “google earth” [...]

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Link - Its google … it must be right
After comparing some common overlays from both Mapserver and Arcims (using the php code i posted earlier), it was obvious something was up, either my data being projected was wrong or googles base data was out
Chris makes the same assertion that I did yesterday and it backs [...]

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Link - ArcIMS Talking Points and Blogs
What is a blog? There are tons of definitions, but I would think every one of them would classify the ArcIMS Talking Points as a blog. The only problem I have with it is there isn’t a RSS feed, that would be great and probably give everyone [...]

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