James Fee GIS Blog

Link - Obligatory ArcGIS Explorer Post

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I’ll admit it, my company uses ArcPublisher quite a but internally and externally with clients. Internally we use ArcSDE to share data and externally we use ArcIMS (with ArcSDE) to share data. Its worked pretty well over the past 2 years, but at over 100 megabytes it is a beast to download. [...]

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Link - GMaps API data quality deteriorating?
the basemap data you get via the API is only from TeleAtlas, but if you look at the maps through Google’s branded gateway, they are enhanced with NavTech data too. As rich pointed out, there’s a long discussion about this on the Google Maps API Google Group, or Usenet [...]

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Link - ArcGIS Explorer - how it works
Upon start up the client automatically makes a web services connection to a set of ESRI ArcWeb Services globe services. The web services are powered by ArcGIS Server 9.2. A new set of explorer services has been added to the Server core so that anyone (with ArcGIS Server) [...]

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Link - WMS Connect 1.0.0
So the question comes to mind on why would you need such a tool? The core ArcGIS WMS extension is great for quickly visualizing services within the ArcGIS framework. However, it doesn’t natively allow users to modify the WMS map requests and it does require an existent Internet connection.
The WMS [...]

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Link - Oracle Database 10g Express Edition Downloads Beta
I don’t think this is going to be much of a threat to MySQL or PostgreSQL users. What Oracle should have done is offer the depreciated 8i Enterprise Edition instead of dumbing down 10g. Basically this is a ploy to get companies hooked on Oracle [...]

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Link - ArcGIS Explorer - thanks to all who sent this in
Well here we have a nice close look at ArcGIS Explorer including this screen shot of the interface.
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screenshot via esri.com
It has a very nice Windows XP look to it vs the non standard look of ArcGIS (yea i said it) and [...]

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Link - 2006 ESRI Developer Summit
Join us for the first ESRI Developer Summit held on March 17–18, 2006 at the Palm Springs Convention Center in Palm Springs, California is a two day event for GIS, Mapping, and Spatial Developers.
Event features include

Keynote presentations on developer opportunities in GIS
In-depth technical presentations by ESRI staff
Community Center

Tech [...]

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Link - ArcGIS Explorer – geographic exploration system
With ArcGIS Explorer you can fuse data from multiple servers (OGC WMS, ArcGIS Server, and ArcIMS) and overlay local vector and raster data sets. The task-based interface allows fast visualization of massive 2D and 3D server-resident global terrain, raster and vector databases. The user interface exposes additional tasks [...]

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Link - Google Maps + ESRI’s ArcWeb Services

Users can geocode by city (Lawrence), address (1930 Constant Avenue, Lawrence), zipcode (66047), or the intersection of streets (9th & Iowa, Lawrence). We are using the Public Services category of ESRI’s ArcWeb Services.
The black and white imagery is coming from ESRI’s ArcSDE through ArcIMS. [...]

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Tropical Storm BETA Public Advisoryr
Another week and another storm in the Caribbean is going to cause havoc for residents. These storms with Greek names are just freaky, though I can assume if you are hit by one its name isn’t very important considering more pressing needs such as food, water, shelter. Anyway, [...]

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I’ve added many more feeds into Planet Geospatial tonight for a total of over 60 blogs. You’ll see some old posts at the top of the page for a couple hours. It seems that some blogs feeds (in this case Atom feeds as usual) have bogus dates in them. The Python script [...]

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Both Ed Parsons and Jeff Thurston give us a quick look at the new ESRI ArcGIS Explorer at the 20th ESRI European User Conference. I’m not one to use the word “Google Earth Killer” until I’ve played with it, but both Ed says:
ArcGIS Explorer will be a free 15Mb download from the ESRI website [...]

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Flickr user supercooper has created his own ArcMap crash dialog.

Actually this Flickr user has some nice looking maps uploaded. Not a bad way to show your portfolio.

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Link - Haunted map
Just in time for Halloween, there is a wonderful new Virtual Earth mashup. If you are interested in where haunted buildings are in your area (doesn’t seem to have any haunted places in the Phoenix Metro area), you can give it a quick look. I like the theme that was [...]

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I’ve been keeping an eye on Wilma using the ESRI hurricane tracker mostly because I have many friends in the Fort Myers, FL area. Anyway I just noticed something on the tracker that made me look twice.

Say hello to Tropical Depression Alpha (hiding off there to the right of the image). So the [...]

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I’ve had this idea in my head ever since I’ve started posting every GIS blog I’ve found on my blog front page figure out a way to bring them all together so people can follow the GIS blog community without having to visit every site I was thinking this would be a good [...]

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Adobe blogs about it.
Link - Making inroads…
Modern mapmaking now starts with GIS data from state or local government that includes way more information than you really want. The task nowadays is to remove the unwanted data from the map to reduce clutter and focus on the desired information. One of the tasks these Illustartor users [...]

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Link - Top 10 Most Common Student-Encountered GIS Problems
I have been working with and teaching undergrad and grad students GIS for 4+ years now and have compiled a list of the 10 most frequent problems that they encounter. In my current position, I spend about 15 hours per week holding office hours in the main [...]

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Link - ET GeoWizards LT on ArcScripts
ET GeoWizards LT is a set of data processing functions for ArcGIS presented in a user-friendly, wizard type interface.
ET GeoWizards LT was created as a subset of the free functions of ET GeoWizards (available from http://www.ian-ko.com) and complies with the requirements for posting on ArcScripts:
- It is 100% [...]

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