James Fee GIS Blog

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OK, this isn’t the product that we saw at the User Conference, at least as far as I can tell (I left my laptop at work so I don’t have a copy of ArcGIS to test it on). Rather than being built on MSN Messenger, GeoChat supports Jabber allowing you to use any Jabber [...]

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I’ve been sitting on this email from Kevin Martin about an update to the popular Export to KML extension for ArcGIS Desktop.
just wanted to let you know that there is a new version of ExporttoKML available that corrects the problem of displaying extruded polygons in the newest version of Google Earth. The were not displaying [...]

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Update - GeoChat has been released.

GeoChat is one of those programs that ESRI has talked about in the past, but then went silent about. The thought among most of us is ESRI abandoned it, but it appears it might be released really soon.
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If you’ve missed ESRI’s announcement at the 2005 UC [...]

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The GIS CAD Interoperability blog by Don Kuehne has part one in a series of articles on how to build geoprocessing tools. If you are an ArcGIS user (and I assume most of you are) you’ll want to learn how to build these tools as they can simplify your workflows and improve your productivity. [...]

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I was catching up on my RSS feeds and I caught a link to this book in my .NET Technorati page. The book seems to cover MapPoint 2004, MapPoint Web Service, MapPoint Location Server and MSN Virtual Earth (aka Live Local). I wish I saw this book before today as I’ve pretty much [...]

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OK, it doesn’t exist yet, but I want it. For those who don’t know about Mapdex, it is a huge index of web mapping services you can search to find datasets from around the world. Part of ArcGIS Explorer includes is a section that allows you to program tasks. I’d love to [...]

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Boy was that exhausting?!?!?!
I’m sleeping well tonight.

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I’m taking this week off to just enjoy the holiday with my family. I’ll be back on Monday so until then check out Planet Geospatial.

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Hope everyone had a great Christmas and enjoyed their holiday. We actually had to turn on our air conditioner today here in Arizona so we definitely were dreaming of a white Christmas. We are going to be heading out for the Insight Bowl to watch my alma mater Arizona State play Rutgers (I [...]

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Good news for ArcIMS developers like us. ArcIMS 9.1 Service Pack 1 is out and we can finally upgrade both our ArcIMS and ArcSDE. Looks like some of the issues with the Metadata Server are fixed according to the “Issues Addressed” document. I saw the patch on the revised ESRI Support pages [...]

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The Mobile ADF at ESRI has started up a blog in preparation for the Developer Summit. With all the big changes with the Mobile ADF, it will hopefully be a great resource for any Mobile GIS developers. I like the team aspect of it and hopefully we’ll learn some more about what to [...]

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Just in case you don’t subscribe to his blog feed or saw it on Planet Geospatial, David does have the best looking ArcGIS Explorer screen shot to date (look close and you might learn something about the program ).
I’m going down into the basement for the next week so expect light posting. I [...]

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Via Dave Bouwman
ESRI has posted the technical session agenda on the Dev Summit website. I’m looking forward to the descriptions of these sessions, but I agree with Dave in that they look like they will be of great value to me and my staff. I can tell you that there is one session [...]

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Link - PostGIS 1.1.0 Released
PostGIS 1.1 has been released. The more I play with PostGIS, the more I see its power. Being able to run a spatial open source database is really beginning to appeal to me given the high price of Oracle Spatial or Oracle and ArcSDE. ArcSDE is already expensive [...]

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Link - Autodesk product naming poll
The Mapserver Foundation is running a poll to try and determine what the new name of Mapserver Enterprise (MapGuide) should be. You’ll need to either login or register to vote, but if you do please make sure to comment with any ideas. You can view [...]

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Link - ESRI Support Center Home
Well how about that? I was just going write a post wondering why the announcement of ArcGIS 9.1 SP1 wasn’t on the front page of ESRI Support but to my surprise ESRI reorganized the front page and the service pack is front and center.

Not only do you get the [...]

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Link - ArcGIS 9.1 Service Pack 1
ESRI recommends that all ArcGIS 9.1 customers download and install this Service Pack, at their earliest convenience, to ensure the highest quality experience when working with ArcGIS 9.1.
Click here to read the issues addressed with ArcGIS 9.1 Service Pack 1. SP1 is available for ArcGIS Desktop, ArcGIS Engine [...]

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I just got a letter today in regards to our MapObjects development. Basically the letter gives MapObjects users a free complimentary EDN subscription. I’m sure this is to get more of us to develop with ArcGIS Engine and better exposure to some of the new tools for ArcGIS development. I’ll probably take [...]

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We’ve been talking much about ESRI and their support over the past few days and most people seem to like the layout and organization of MSDN. We’ll MSDN has announced they are now previewing a beta MSDN homepage. There really isn’t too much new I can tell for U.S. customers, but it seems [...]

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