James Fee GIS Blog

OK, I watched the video and it is impressive. The navigation seems much better than I would have thought, though the examples he showed I can already do on my wife’s Acura TL GPS navigation (well all except the satellite photos). But that brings me to a big stumbling block that I can’t [...]

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I just wrote a small .NET application to display some database queries and I didn’t write one bit of code while doing it. I’m wondering how far we are from the “code behind” being hidden from the developer. Of course my little app didn’t do much so I was able to “avoid” having [...]

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Looks like some ESRI developers aren’t sure where they fit within the new ESRI developer community.
…but those of us who are straight ArcObjects programmers for in-house applications didn’t have much choice. There were very few sessions geared to helping us RIGHT NOW, and I think that ESRI needs to understand that.
I’m sure not everyone has [...]

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A friend of mine just said that rooms are filling up near the convention center so if you want to make sure you aren’t walking over 2 miles, you might want to get on the ball and reserve some rooms. Last year I stayed up in Solana Beach and took the Coaster right into [...]

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Declan Butler has updated his avian flu map and made some changes. First he’s changed the KML to a network link so you don’t have to download any new files to see the weekly updates, second he’s refined the datasets to help better understand the outbreak (Human cases, Outbreaks in poultry, Gridded poultry density [...]

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OK, you can now try out the ArcWEB SVG viewer yourself. At least for me, the performance is quite snappy using Internet Explorer and the SVG plug-in (that seems to have been installed by default probably thanks to some Adobe product on my laptop). Quite the busy day for the ArcWeb team, guess [...]

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An astute reader pointed out that the version of ArcWeb Explorer we saw demoed at the Dev Summit has made it into the wild. AWX2, as it is being called, has some pretty detailed imagery and a new navigation tool. (at least for me the “share” map link doesn’t seem to keep the satellite [...]

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We’ve been struggling to figure out how to handle an AJAX application when one of its web services becomes unavailable. The problem at least for me was how to check with JavaScript to see if a web service is down. After hitting a roadblock with JavaScript, I found this post today on using [...]

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Want to see what the new MapGuide Open Source AJAX and DWF viewers look like? The Open Source Geospatial Foundation has a webpage with a couple examples for you to check out. Maybe Digg or Slashdot have linked to them because at least on my end they are pretty slow. I was [...]

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I didn’t think we’d be seeing it this soon, but it appears that ArcWeb Labs at least has a webpage. I tried to get into the SVG Viewer, but I’m getting a java error on access. At least this is something to add to your bookmarks or del.icio.us.

SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “ArcWeb Labs Live?”, url: [...]

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A friend of mine has been in Spain, checking out all the sites. Well when I heard there was a Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, I had to learn more. Well Google did get me to their website, but that didn’t help me at all because I had no idea where Bilbao was. [...]

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On the heals of my Atlas post, I got an IM from a developer asking of the new .NET Web ADF will work with the Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition. I believe this question was asked in some sessions (though for the life of me I can’t remember nor did I write it [...]

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So you might have heard a little about Atlas at the ESRI Dev Summit or just in general in some blogs, but you don’t have a clue about what it is or how it might help you? Scott Guthrie delivered a presentation on Atlas a couple weeks ago in Europe and posted up his [...]

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OK, its over. The BPC has ended and I’m heading back to Tempe tomorrow. Had a great time meeting up with everyone here and I’m glad we get to do this at least once a year. The Dev Summit was by far the highlight, but seeing all the new stuff planned (the [...]

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I missed it. I guess Jack said ESRI was looking at ArcGIS Server for Workgroups (or some similar named product). The cost would be about half the price with limitations on the license. I really hope to learn more tomorrow. Anything that reduces the cost of AGS is good news to [...]

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I was thinking about what I saw over the past 2 days and figured I’d write up a blog post trying to organize my thoughts. So what should developers and GIS professionals take away from all the Technical Sessions, SIGs and Birds of a Feather sessions.
1. The Web ADF - Yea, I [...]

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I just got an email asking “WHAT ABOUT THE BPC?” (caps were hers, not mime).
I actually wasn’t planning to blog the Business Partner Conference so you’ll have to read about it in ArcNews. I will post about any new announcements, but given that we just got finished with the Dev Summit, I’m guessing that [...]

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Day two was even more crowded than day one. I’m not sure if more people registered or not, but it appeared to me that they did. Anyway, I missed the first part of the Keynote because I was watching Brian Flood and Jithen Singh play around on the 9.2 workstations. By the [...]

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I poked my head into the Java SIG to see how it went and I was surprised to see so many Java developers as I was beginning to think there weren’t any. Anyway I was very happy to see how the SIG was run. Pretty much all Q&A, no demos. [...]

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Standing room only at the Building Web Applications with ArcGIS Server and .NET

Yea, if you don’t get into the sessons early, you aren’t going to see or hear anything. Too much of a good thing I guess. All sessions are packed and every .NET one is standing [...]

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