James Fee GIS Blog

There are some comments of my previous post about ArcView and Geoprocessing that would seem that people aren’t very happy with the limitations of ArcView. I’m wondering why people feel this way. I’m not surprised in the least bit that ArcEditor is required for the new cartographic features given that the geodatabase is [...]

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I just spent the last hour trying to help someone over instant messenger perform some GIS analysis using ArcView. Lets just say the hoops you have to jump through to get ArcView to accomplish tasks that are actually simple in ArcInfo is aggravating. I know many people have ArcView and try and use [...]

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I was fooling around with the feedparser and I seem to have added the img tag as acceptable by mistake. I’ve fixed that and next time PlanetGS builds, there will be no more images to clutter up the aggregator.
I’ve been having tons of trouble with Blogger feeds and I was tweaking the python script [...]

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It has been a crazy week so far and I apologize for the lack of posts. I hope to be back on track tomorrow.
We are working on a regional master plan and I had to create a map using some GIS data that was given to us by various governmental agencies. In the [...]

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Looks like ESRI has totally revamped their beta website to make it more like a community and with forums that are much easier to navigate and search. If you haven’t logged into the beta site, you should probably do so and check it out. Heck they even have blogs on there and you [...]

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Brian Flood says a trial version of Arc2Earth is available for those who want to test it out. Now you have no excuse not to try out the most impressive ArcGIS to KML “converter” out there.

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Hmm, yea I used Geographic Exploration System again in one of my posts. Once you start using the term you can’t stop (kinda like “consume web services”).
Well beyond all that I saw that Arizona State University has a Java program called JMARS (Java Mission-planning and Analysis for Remote Sensing) which “provides easy access to [...]

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I know everyone can’t bear to read another Yahoo!/Google Local/Live Local/Ask.com/Mapquest review but here is one.

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I’ll be honest, I haven’t even taken a quick look at this shapefile to KML converter Shape2Earth by Tim Beermann, but some might want to check it out. Unlike many of the GIS to KML products I’m familiar with, this one doesn’t seem to need ArcGIS to get its data into Google Earth making [...]

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In contrast to my post yesterday about the ArcGIS Explorer public beta (this snapshot release is a closed beta), a new “snapshot 1″ beta is available for download from the ESRI beta site to those in the 9.2 beta program. I don’t see any release notes, but it appears to be similar to the [...]

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I noticed in my aggregator this morning there was a post about Mapdex and how it has done a wonderful job of indexing web map servers on O’Reilly Radar. Jeremy has noted similar problems with the web map servers on his blog before.
Of course the O’Reilly self promotion is really in full force getting [...]

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For those of you interested in the public beta of ArcGIS Explorer you’ll want to take note of the updated ArcGIS Explorer product page:
A public beta of ArcGIS Explorer will be available for download later this year.
Yikes!

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One of my favorite sites using mapping is Zillow. Not everyone has been on board with the concept, but I really do think this site could be huge in a few years. Now we find out that at least in certain areas where the birds eye view is available, you can view a [...]

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I finally found a wiki page with some info on the 1.3.4 beta. I’m not sure why this isn’t linked on the front page of the World Wind Central community portal. I want to find some time to play around with using World Wind with shapefiles and see how well it works as [...]

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About time! I actually use Yahoo! maps more than probably all the rest because I like the interface. Now I can at least take a look at imagery from areas I’m traveling to. The imagery isn’t as detailed as Google’s or ESRI’s in urban areas, but it does seem better in rural [...]

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I’m not sure why but I’ve gotten a couple emails asking me about running ArcSDE on PostgreSQL or MySQL. I’m sure it is because any Google search for ArcSDE with PostgreSQL or MySQL gives you my blog as a reference. Our clients almost always have an Oracle or SQL Server licenses so its [...]

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Yea its been out a couple of days but it is news to me. You can now download the new 1.3.4 Beta from NASA’s servers. I don’t see a change log, but I’m sure there is one somewhere.
Tell me now, which looks better? Google Earth or NASA World Wind?
Google Earth

NASA World Wind

Yea, [...]

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Not a geospatial site per say, but an interesting community site from Microsoft. According to Bill Hilf, Port 25 “will be the place we not only blog, but also where we put analysis from our OSS labs and also where we discuss and show other parts of Microsoft that we think are just plain [...]

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I’ve been getting a couple of people saying I don’t blog about NASA World Wind. Well you are wrong, I did have one post back in July ‘05. *cough*
Anyway, since I did get an email from a WorldWind fan about this new VirtualEarth plug-in for World Wind I’ll go ahead and [...]

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There are some things that just make you smile when you read them and this is one of those posts. Everyone who was interested in Unit Testing with ArcObjects needs to hoof it over to ArcDeveloper.net and get involved. Dave will be posting the VB.NET code soon so if you want [...]

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