James Fee GIS Blog

I’ve been getting quite a bit of email and IM traffic over what I like and what I don’t like. Mostly it is in regards to what I post on this blog. As a public service message I thought I’d like to list what I don’t like. Feel free to print this [...]

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Paul Ramsey responded to some of the comments about his paper on open source GIS.

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OK, thanks to GeoMullah the UC geoblogger meetup is all set.
Place: Mister Tiki Mai Tai Lounge
801 5th Ave, San Diego, CA
(619) 233-1183
Time: 8pm, 9 August
Just let GeoMullah know that you are coming either by posting here or on his blog. If you geoblog or read geoblogs come by and hang out with other geogeeks. [...]

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Looks like a new survey has been posted on EDN. ESRI lives for these surveys, but I do know they read them so if you want to talk back about EDN, this is your chance.

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I see that ESRI has posted a “virtual tour” of their Redlands campus. I’m left wondering why ESRI didn’t use their own ArcWeb Explorer and some of those cool demos that they showed at the Dev Summit (you know with the videos playing right inside the flash viewer). I swear if ESRI [...]

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Morten Nielsen read Refractions Research’s “The State of Open Source GIS” white paper and wondered why Paul Ramsey categorized open source GIS as either C or Java. I think Paul only wrote about the open source GIS clique that revolves around Refractions and OSGeo rather than the state of open source GIS as a [...]

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Tim Martin let me know that he’s blogging GeoWeb 2006 also.

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Says my wife as we are sitting reading the paper tonight. (I was reading the Fry’s Electronics ad so I thought she was talking about that). She throws the local section to me and points to the lead story, “Mapmaker’s work outdated by time it’s printed“. I said I’m a Geographer, I [...]

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The pause that refreshes, I guess….

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For those who haven’t seen, Zillow has outlined their upcoming open API. They will be distribute Zestimates, Zindex info, charts, comparable sales , beds/baths and other data via their open API for you to integrate into your own applications. They are interesting in what people might use this API for and you can [...]

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GeoMullah is working through getting the blogger meetup organized.
Right now this is the status:
Time: 9 August, 8pm (I’ll be there earlier)
Where: I don’t know?
He’s working on getting some more details out so when I learn more I’ll post back here. Hope many of you can come so I can put some faces with names.

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No not me, but Stefan Lorimer came through with a great detailed post from GeoWeb 2006. Stefan details some Google Earth and Google Maps sessions and has some thoughts at the end of his post about what we should be paying attention to (or at least what makes sense from a Google perspective). [...]

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ESRI’s ArcGIS Server is a very powerful product, also very expensive. I’ve heard for a couple years they had plans to address this and thanks to a reader who didn’t want to be named they have finally decided what do to. Say hello to ArcGIS Server Basic Edition, ArcGIS Server Standard Edition, and [...]

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Looks like Zillow secured even more financing, $25 million to be exact. That coupled to the $57 million $32 Million from earlier sources means that they have been bringing in over $4 million $3 million a month in financing according to my rough estimate. Very, very impressive.
Update - Just a little problem [...]

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I was cleaning out my desk preparing for a move downstairs (doesn’t sound too positive does it, but we are turning my office into a conference room) and I saw a disk for ArcVoyager. Bet some of you might remember that name, I sure had forgotten about it though. Take a look at [...]

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Peter’s blogging about desktop GIS choices on the Macintosh. He’s taking QGIS, uDig and Thuban for a spin. Many associate only the old ArcView 3.0 on Classic MacOS as the only desktop GIS choice, but as you can see there are even better choices than ArcView on the Macintosh. I’m interesting in [...]

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I’ve got 3 Vox invites for anyone who wants them. For those who don’t know, Vox is Six Apart’s new “personal blogging service; sort of an adult MySpace/LiveJournal/Typepad combo (if that makes any sense). Just post in this thread and make sure the email field is correct (the email field is hidden to [...]

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I haven’t seen any mention, but maybe I’m not paying attention in the right places.
Wow, take a look at that sponsor list. I haven’t been to the website in quite some time as I’ve never had plans to go (though give how hot it has been this summer maybe that would have been a [...]

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I’ve a little behind in my reading, so I was happy to catch this news from Jeffrey Friedl’s blog:
“I’ve finally finished the writing and production of the Third Edition of my book, Mastering Regular Expressions (published by O’Reilly Media). I’d been working on it since the early fall, and finished the day before my travels [...]

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Many times we all see people using GIS in a way to make a point. We all know maps lie so that is why special interest groups take to maps more than any other format. I happened to see a link on Ogle Earth showing the worst gerrymandered districts in the U.S. Congress. [...]

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