James Fee GIS Blog

Update - Thanks to Daanish for posting a Yahoo! News story updating us on the status of the products. It looks like at least for now both are safe, but you have to wonder for how long. So for now, no worries.
My first computer based cartography work was done on [...]

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The other theme was so hacked up it was driving me nuts. This one supports the latest features of Wordpress 2.0 so it should be easier to handle. Plus I wanted something a little wider than the 768px width of the old theme.
Oh and yes that old blog header was from ArcGIS Explorer [...]

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I hadn’t tried AGX in a couple weeks (been really busy) but I loaded the latest build on my computer this weekend. It is still closed beta so I can’t go into details but I’m very impressed with the progress over the last month. One of the new features really makes me wonder [...]

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Apparently Arizona State University has a new online campus map in beta that was designed by Google. It is unsure if ASU paid Google to create this map or if it was part of a partnership with Google considering that Google is moving onto the ASU campus. It is a pretty slick Google [...]

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A MapObjects 2.4 update arrived today (smelling of clove cigarettes, not sure if that happened at ESRI or in route). I don’t see anything that screams out in the “What’s New in MapObjects 2.4“, but I’m glad that they are still supporting it.

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Microsoft has really started pushing out these community sites (Channel9, On10, Port25, GotDotNet) and now they have one for IIS. Since I’d wager most of the implementations of ESRI’s server products are done with IIS, this might be a good site to bookmark/subscribe via RSS.
IIS.net
Heck I see you can even give IIS 7 a [...]

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I’ve gotten a couple emails from people insisting that I’m wrong and Virtual Earth is the most impressive online mapping service available. My point was not that the update wasn’t good for some people, just that you have to take these updates with a grain of salt. I mean who cares that you [...]

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I’ve been building a Mosaic inside SDE from over 300 individual rasters which of course takes some time. When I came in this morning I saw that ArcCatalog had crashed (no surprise) while running the Mosaic command. I kinda figured it was just trying to do too much at one time so I [...]

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I’ve seen a whole lot of spin in the blogs about how great the “new” Live Local release is. Oh BTW, would Microsoft please buy http://live.local.com as I can’t seem to type it the other way around. Anyway, Tempe is still having to use this horrible B&W imagery rather than the nice color [...]

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I love support websites where you can see a link to drivers right on the front page. You don’t have to dig through links to find what you are looking for. Usually 2 clicks and you are downloading your file. That brings me to ESRI…
I had installed ArcGIS 9.2 Beta 2 on [...]

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I’ve been playing around with the new ArcWeb Explorer API and I’m starting to get a handle on all the functionality. My son liked this one the best. I’d like to grab geotagged photos from flicker and plot them on a map. I’ve got loads to do before that becomes a reality [...]

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Looks like over the weekend ESRI pushed the ArcWeb Explorer Javascript API out and integrated it into the ArcWeb Labs section. Once you register you’ll get access to the best “Quick-Start Guide” that ESRI has ever produced. This new Flash Javascript API should make it much easier for people to take advantage of [...]

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I noticed that CH2M Hill has a “blog” for their ESS team.
http://www.enterprisespatialsolutions.com/
They even have an RSS feed, but it seems to be much more of a marketing effort than what most of us would call a real blog. Maybe in time we’ll hear more from the developers and team members and less from the [...]

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Remember when I made a big fuss about all these fancy 3D models not being important to GIS professionals? Well I still believe that, but I’m sitting here right now working on getting fancier looking models of buildings for a couple of our 3D GIS marketing demonstrations I’ll be doing next month. I’ll [...]

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I’ve finally decided that the most important feature of ArcGIS 9.2 Desktop will be the ability to calculate area from right inside the table view (forget all that dumb VBA code). I was playing with 9.2 a couple weeks ago and used that feature all the time, but now that I’ve moved back to [...]

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Did anyone else notice this last week?
Looks like ESRI has posted the ArcWeb Explorer Javascript API but not linked to it from other parts of the ArcWeb website. I’m sure this isn’t the official release, but I guess it can’t hurt to take a look. It was pretty easy to create some simple [...]

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We all survived my son’s first trip to Disneyland. He had a great time and that made it all worth it. I’ll try and go through me emails and get back to everyone as soon as possible so please be patient.

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I’ll be on vacation until May 13th. Make sure you check out Planet Geospatial while I’m gone.

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ArcGIS 9.2 Beta 2 Phase 2 showed up today despite UPS’ best efforts. It didn’t come out in the photo, but the footprint is a nice touch.

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OK, Adena Schutzberg has confirmation in my comments that ESRI will release a ArcGIS Explorer public beta in late June.

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