James Fee GIS Blog

I’m sure everyone has seen the news about the new Streetlevel view in Virtual Earth (aka Live Local). Channel 9 has a great behind the scenes movie up so it you want to see how they did it, go ahead and view the move. I’m a much better drive in real life than [...]

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Tim Beermann, a blogger working for CH2MHill at the US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs writes about how he’s using Google Earth to as a viewer during emergencies. He’s taken an existing application and enabled it to send information to Google Earth clients.
My first test on the system used CH2M HILL’s iCIT emergency [...]

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Looks like ESRI is trying to get a handle on the ArcScripts disaster.
ArcScripts is intended for the free exchange of scripts and tools related to ESRI software products. Please alert the moderator if this script is a demo, trial-version, or an advertisement for a retail product.
Get cracking and remove all those commercial ArcScripts.
Update - [...]

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Slowly but surely ArcWeb is beginning to filter out into the world. Check out this web developer for Crossroads Community Church plotting addresses on an ArcWeb map using the REST API.
It is good to see people starting to blog about using Public ArcWeb Services.

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I’ve been letting Planet Geospatial (PGS) sit for the past month just to see how its doing. There was an issue with some Wordpress blogs not showing up, but that seems to have passed and everything is smooth. One issue I’ve started to notice is that there are way too many blogs in [...]

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Shaan Hurley points to a new geospatial IT blog over at Autodesk. Between the Poles is written by Autodesk’s Geoff Zeiss.
Subscribed and added to Planet Geospatial.

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Most of our work in my office is related to facility planning for the U.S. Navy. Years ago, one of the first things we’d try and get when we started a project was General Development Maps (GDM) for the installation which were usually in CAD and usually tiled. We’d usually have to develop [...]

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Now that USB flash memory drives are so large and so cheap, we can start running programs off of them. We’ve seen that you can run Firefox and Thunderbird (among many others) on these drives, but many don’t know you can also run desktop GIS software on it. Head over to QGIS, download [...]

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Looks like the Where 2.0 Conference is open for registration. The early bird price is quite a discount over the “normal” price so you probably won’t want to procrastinate too much if you want to go. If you look at the graphic on the left side of the page, you can just make [...]

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It wouldn’t be February in Tempe unless we knew Spring Training and the Cactus League was starting up. In the spirit of the season, I walked down to the local Borders bookstore to take a look at the new Baseball Hacks book from O’Reilly. I just can’t get enough baseball stats and this [...]

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SharpMap 0.9 beta 1 is out and available to download. The SharpMap engine is written in C# on the .NET 2.0 framework and is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License. I’ve looked at SharpMap before, but I’ve never really had any opportunity to really play with it as I wasn’t running .NET [...]

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OK, here is the scoop on the ArcGIS Explorer domain name. It is a test to if it is blocked by your firewall because of the work “sex” in the url. I’m guessing that if they are testing it, it probably is being block and we can probably assume that it won’t be [...]

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Has anyone looked at trying IronPython with the ArcGIS Server .NET Framework yet? I’m guessing it should work in theory, but I guess you just never know. Aaron Marten has a good post on getting IronPython integrated into VS 2005 IDE. With IronPython in Visual Studio, it is intriguing to think of [...]

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Not sure if anyone else noticed this, but the ESRI RSS feed had an interesting item last night.
In preparation for the ArcGIS Explorer community portal, we would like you to test www.arcgisexplorer.com by clicking on the link. If it doesn’t work from behind your organization’s firewall, please e-mail info@esri.com with ‘Test Failed’ in the subject. [...]

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Brian points to a podcast with Mansour Raad, Andy Gup, and James Killick. The podcast is only about 15 minutes so it is a quick listen as to what ESRI is doing with Flash. We knew a little about the what ESRI was going to let us do with Flash from the ArcWeb [...]

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I’ve got to take a short break from the blog.

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Brian’s posted again and he’s thinking about the new Developer’s Summit next month in Palm Springs. “In some ways we’re breaking the mold from our traditional events. In essence conferences are about people and therefore a key focus is to provide a community environment where we can all share experiences and ideas. I think [...]

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Update - looks like ESRI posted the incorrect document. The link has been updated.
ESRI has posted the SOAP Object Model for AWS 2006 on their support site. It is on the last page of the brochure.

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Tobin Bradley has posted about the speed difference between ArcIMS and Mapserver. “Although I can’t rerun their test to validate the results, I can anecdotally support them - I have certainly found MapServer to perform significantly faster than ArcIMS, and that experience has been echoed to me by other parties. The study found MapServer to [...]

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The news out of Yahoo! this morning is that they have released their User Interface Library which inluces a set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript under a BSD license and their Design Pattern Library under a Creative Commons license. On top of that, they also have started up the Yahoo! User Interface [...]

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