James Fee GIS Blog

Well we did it again!
Thursday marked the 100th day of 100-degree temperatures, and there are likely more on the horizon.
Friday’s forecast calls for sunny skies and a high of 102, with Saturday’s the same except for a high of 101.
The National Weather Service reported that the 100th day of 100 degree days puts Phoenix ahead [...]

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I’ve been checking out the update to Virtual Earth Bird’s Eye View and was taking a look at Camelback Mountain. One interesting feature that I’ve always loved is Praying Monk. In Google Earth you don’t get the resolution you’d like, but maybe there are ways around that.

But in Virtual Earth Bird’s Eye, you [...]

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Yes as of today, the ArcGIS 9.2 beta is closed. All the beta forums are now read only (actually not all, but most) and beta users are supposed to use normal ESRI support methods. ESRI has created a new website, ArcGIS 9.2 Prerelease (login with your existing ESRI account), where you can still [...]

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Slashgeo has written up on a user “Redlands” contributing to articles on ESRI and GIS in general. The ethical issues aside, you just can’t tell if this really is someone from ESRI or not because there is no IP to verify. Even then, just because it says that the IP came from the [...]

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Yea, thanks for all the emails. I’m not sure what Google is up to, but whatever they did caused every Blogger blog to spam Planet Geospatial. It should pass eventually. Right now it doesn’t matter if you use FeedBurner or not as every Blogger feed has been reset for some reason.
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We all know the benefits to using clients such as Google Earth over traditional web based mapping systems, but that doesn’t seem to matter much in the real world. I’ve been running up against an IT wall at many companies and organizations to getting Google Earth or even NASA World Wind installed (let along [...]

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The family took a Sunday drive over to the “west side” of Phoenix to look at some artwork that the wife was really interesting in buying. Of course it was in a new area of town that her Acura DVD navigation didn’t have yet. When we got home I logged on to Acura’s [...]

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I guess since the previous version just didn’t work, Manifold has released an updated version of their beta toolbar.
There is a new beta release of the Manifold toolbar. See
http://www.manifold.net/toolbar
for the download. Please remember to uninstall the previous version using the Windows Control Panel’s Add/Remove Programs applet before installing the new version.
The new version supports the [...]

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I’ve noticed that whatever Google is doing, they are screwing up the Planet GS feeds. Even using FeedBurner, the issues still rear their ugly head and the new beta Blogger doesn’t seem to matter at all. Even non Blogger feeds such as The Earth is Square and Ed Parson’s blog are being screwed [...]

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Are you kidding me? What is this 1999? Oh but of course as The Earth is Square points out, it all has to do with giving Google the middle finger.
manifold.net recommends use of Microsoft Virtual Earth (the default installation) instead of Google servers for several reasons:
* Virtual Earth has a more [...]

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Rob Elkins writes that he’s liking the sound of these new fancy processors, but I have to ask when is ESRI going to start supporting them with ArcGIS?
Of course the big rumor at the UC was that ESRI was totally rewriting ArcGIS at version 10.0 so maybe this new architecture takes advantage of [...]

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A note from Jared on the status of the migration to the Internet Archive:
I spoke with the guy at the Internet Archive who is supposed to get the data moved over. He unfortunately has been caught up on their September 11th archive project.
When I pushed for a time frame of when he could get [...]

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We use both, but only because our Creative Studio licenses include GoLive (though I used GoLive Cyberstudio years ago). Well now we can stop paying for that Dreamweaver license. GoLive will still be available as a separate product, but those who have relied on GoLive being part of Creative Studio will need to [...]

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Since I don’t want to get kicked out of the beta program, this is the best I can do to satisfy everyone’s need to see latest AGX beta.
World Streets 3D Globe View of Hollywood and Vine

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Jei is all over the AGX 9.2 rc1 being released. Those in the beta program can download the latest version from the beta site.

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Brian Flood was kind enough to give me a sneak peak at his latest Arc2Earth extension for ArcGIS that takes advantage of Google Earth’s new time-based KML tags. The Arc2Earth implementation of time is pretty slick and you can wait for Brian to post about it as he’s a better showman than I am. [...]

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I visited this over a year ago and I still feel the same way. For someone to invest their time and effort using these online mapping APIs and not have access to the metadata really hurts. Take this example; in jest the Virtual Earth team posted on keeping an eye on their competitors [...]

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I can’t bring myself to say Live Local so I’m sticking with Virtual Earth. Anyway I was talking to Brian Flood today about using Arc2Earth to export KML and share those KMLs using Google Maps. My only disappointment was in Google Maps support of KML at this point (though I’m sure it will [...]

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OK, so I whined and moaned about Arizona not have any good coverage in Virtual Earth (or any service for that matter). Well check this out!
Not only is there coverage, but it is quite recent. You can see the light rail construction at the base of “A Mountain” just north of our building. [...]

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Looks like it might get out this week, so patience.
The UC release is very nice, but if there is a show stopper, best get it right especially since this is the release candidate.
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