James Fee GIS Blog

Link - Autodesk Bars the Door to Open Design Alliance at Autodesk University - via All Points Blog
Kind of makes you wonder if they will allow people working on MapServer into their future conferences. Heck even ESRI allowed Google/Keyhole to attend the ESRI Conference (though it was low key). Just another closed door [...]

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Link - MapServer Foundation - Picking up the pieces
“There was an initial flurry of “oh wow!” and “that’s interesting” messages followed by some more cautious voices and finally the unleashing of a bit of a backlash. That backlash is what Ed McNierney captured so well in his message. The initiative to form the foundation [...]

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Link - MapServer Community, Autodesk Announce MapServer Foundation
I wasn’t really going to comment on the formation of the MapServer Foundation until I had some time to think about it but since I’ve been getting IMs and emails about it all day I figure I’ll put some things down in a post. First if you [...]

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Link - GIS CAD Interoperability - via Rise and Shout
Well how about that…
When I just started thinking that all the ESRI bloggers were either too busy or too worried to blog anymore, a new blog by Don Kuehne appears. Might be a good topic also as GIS/CAD interoperability is a big issue [...]

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Link - StrataVarious Patent #6,307,573
“A novel display control and information management system seamlessly integrates layered and slotted formatted data from both local and remote sources to provide a highly versatile information display. The system permits selective control of display so that complex data and data flows can be seamlessly accessed with enhanced cognition of [...]

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I’ve been playing around with ArcWeb Public Services and the different formats that can be returned (svg, swf, jpg, or png). SWF is the default image format of the map, but how does it compare to png? Take a look below at the same map returned as both swf and png.
ArcWeb Services SWF [...]

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When I visited ESRI a couple weeks ago I was told there wouldn’t be as much REST documentation as SOAP and that made sense to me at the time as using SOAP was pretty much the only way to take advantage of ArcWeb in the past. Still after playing with REST and ArcWeb this [...]

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I’ve been playing around with Public ArcWeb Services and it seems that know very little of how Flash works because I didn’t have a clue that a SWF file would resize to the browser window no matter what I told AWS to return the image size (a 250×200 pixel swf).
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Actually, [...]

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Link - Do Google Earth
Displays shape data on top of Google Earth:
- Launches Google Earth from Arcview
- Displays selected features of active theme
- If no features are selected, all those in the active view are shown
Sigh, I wish I still had Arcview 3.2a installed or I would give this a try. I’ve got the [...]

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Now that Arizona State University has won the Territorial Cup back from those folks from down in Tucson.

[tags]arizonastate, asu, territorialcup[/tags]
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “The World Is Alright…”, url: “http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/2005/11/25/the-world-is-alright/” });

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Link - A little KML to CSV converter
I wrote a quick and dirty XSLT-hack to convert a KML-file to a very basic CSV-structure, which I could later import as X/Y coordinates to ArcGIS.
OK, its not really a KML to ArcGIS converter, but it will allow any ArcGIS Desktop user to import KML point files into [...]

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Link - KML Home Companion 3.0.4
KML Home Companion is out of beta and has some bug fixes. Eveyone will probably want to download the latest version. KML Home Companion has really come together as a great tool to get your GIS datasets out of ArcGIS and into Google Earth.
Fixes in 3.0.4
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Fixed points with [...]

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The part after you stuff yourself full of turkey and stuffing and then plop yourself on the couch to watch some football. Of course there still is some pumpkin pie to come, but we’ll cross that bridge when it happens.
Enjoy the holiday folks, and to those not in the USA, I’ll eat plenty of [...]

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Link - Mapdex ArcMap Toolbar
Asif Iqbal, in my group, just finished developing an ArcMap toolbar plugin for Mapdex. This ArcMap extension will allow you to search Mapdex directly from within ArcMap. I think it is pretty powerful. It makes use of the soon to be released Mapdex REST interface.
Looks interesting to me. [...]

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Link - Back to non-GYM, happy Thanksgiving
Scoble links to Spatially Adjusted in a non-GYM post, maybe Public ArcWeb Services 2006 is timed just right to take advantage of this Google Mapping rut people seem to be in. Heck, I bet Scoble doesn’t even know about ArcGIS Explorer, all the fun of Google Earth, but [...]

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Link - “Proprietary” Formats: KML and GML
It would appear that the only salient difference in proprietary-ness is that KML was developed by a single company (albeit with input from others), whereas GML was developed by a standards committee. The salient difference in the marketplace is that KML is usable and hand-editable, whereas GML is rather [...]

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I’ve added a couple new feeds to Planet Geospatial and in doing so I think I hit the limit of what the python script and my server could handle as the script started to time out. A quick look at the feed list showed many sites that aren’t updated anymore or aren’t really blogs. [...]

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I know ArcWeb is working, but when I try and use the account I set up for Public ArcWeb Services I get the following error. Probably user error, but still very frustrating
Update - Andrea Rosso in the comments says as I suspected, user error.

[tags]esri, arcweb[/tags]
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Public ArcWeb Services Error?”, url: “http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/2005/11/22/public-arcweb-services-error/” [...]

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Link - ArcNews
A perfect example to why quarterly publications aren’t valuable anymore is the latest ArcNews. The ESRI rss feed sums it up perfectly, “User Conference highlights and Image Server news among the top stories“. Both topics are important, but quite dated. If ArcNews was more relevant to current news the top [...]

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There has been some problems with Planet Geospatial over the last month both on the html page and with the feeds. I finally gave up trying to handle all the html and are now stripping it out (except for link tags). I’ve also decided to use FeedBurner as it seems to do better [...]

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