James Fee GIS Blog

As Kirk noticed yesterday and Rob posted about today, the docs are now online at EDN for 9.2.
Also only 109 days left until the 2007 ESRI Developer Summit in Palm Springs. I’ll be there.

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I’m not sure what to say. Maybe an effective use of the ESRI Support Forums?
Looking for Female dates to Business Dinner…
We are 4 young GIS/ engineering professionals looking for female dates. The event is a company dinner with an expected attendance of 60 people. This is a formal dinner at a very nice restaurant [...]

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Because ArcGIS Online (AGO) is still beta, there are tons of plans to continue adding and fixing datasets. ArcGIS Explorer “piggybacks” AGO so AGX users will want to keep an eye out for the following improvements.

high-resolution 1 meter imagery for the USA

detailed street maps for North America and Europe

USGS Topo Quads

provincial level political map [...]

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I’ve seen quite a few people comparing AGX to GE and I think many are missing the point. ESRI has been saying that they view the mission of AGX as quite different as that of Google Earth or Virtual Earth 3D. From the ArcGIS Explorer “homepage”:
ArcGIS Explorer is a lightweight desktop client for [...]

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A couple people have noted that ESRI used raster labels with the globe services offered today. A post on the ArcGIS Online forums outlines the thinking as to why they decided to do this and a work around for ArcGIS Online users.
One of the the things you’ll notice when using the globes and maps [...]

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One of the biggest “errors” one gets when trying to view ArcIMS services in AGX is the dreaded “Unknown spatial reference” when adding them. This occurs because the projection has not been set for the service and logically AGX cannot display them. The 9.2 ArcDoc should explain how to set the projection withe [...]

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ArcGIS Explorer, a first impression
As mentioned in a few discussions earlier this year, ArcGIS Explorer won’t be a mass market product and is not supposed to compete with Google Earth. So I expected a product that would fit my needs as ArcGIS user and offer new possibilities for data and result dissemination for instance.
Basically it [...]

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A couple people IM’d (is that a word?) me asking how ArcGIS Online worked in ArcCatalog. For the ArcGIS user, this is probably the easiest way to use AGO. Follow the directions here and you get the result below.

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I think the big news of the night is ArcGIS Online. I commented a while back about the sorry state of the default ArcGlobe and how ESRI should offer up some nice looking globes for users to use. Well now you have it. On ArcGIS Online, ESRI is offering up MXDs, ArcGlobe [...]

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Stefan likes to use the Matterhorn as a test for the terrain of 3D globes. He’s looked at the Matterhorn in Google Earth and Virtual Earth 3D. Here is the “standard” view in ArcGIS Explorer.

Anyone in Europe have a nice detailed globe service they’d like to share? Because of the back [...]

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Everyone with current maintenance should be getting an email telling you that ArcGIS Explorer 9.2 Final is available for download. Looks like they are only allowing those with current maintenance to download it and those in the beta. The link is here, but you’ll need an ESRI Global Account and I assume they [...]

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I have one of those classic programmers working for me. He doesn’t want to try anything new unless he figures it out first on his own. So I’ve been trying to get him to look at the ADF during the beta, but he just wouldn’t bite. He, rightly so, wanted to make [...]

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I’ve been getting more and more .NET developers talking to me about my MapGuide Open Source move over the holiday. Seems like many ArcIMS developers are downloading and checking out MapGuide, trying to get away from the ArcGIS Server/Desktop conflict (they have to develop on 9.1, but their IT department wants to roll out [...]

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Stefan was lucky enough to review the new 3DConnexion SpaceNavigator and likes what he sees:
But does it work? Oh yeah. After about 2 minutes my left hand disappeared and I began to mind-meld with Earth. Think Rotate and that’s what Earth does. Push in and you zoom in. It’s a completely new level of control, [...]

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Just as I was leaving one the the cameras showed up. Here are some pictures of the EDN packaging. (compare to EDN 9.1)

The EDN DVD Case (as I said, you can travel with this now compared to the huge binder of 9.1)

The tabs still have intro information like EDN 9.1

EDN 9.2 has ArcGIS Desktop [...]

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With people getting ArcGIS 9.2, this issue has come up again. You cannot check out a license of ArcGIS Desktop 9.2 from the license manager and take it into the field.

Question
Does the ArcGIS or ESRI License Manager support the ability to check out or borrow concurrent use licenses, such as to a laptop?
Answer
No, neither [...]

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Well I still haven’t received my ArcGIS Server production disks, but EDN 9.2 arrived this afternoon (it is on the right in the black binder).

As you can see it is much smaller and you can even take it on the road. The insets are still there, but smaller (sorry no pictures right now as [...]

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The ESRI news RSS feed says that ESRI Developer Network 9.2 is now shipping. Good news for us because we still haven’t received our ESRI Server disks yet. Of course that could mean that our EDN shipment is quite a ways away. Of course the good news is EDN now includes ArcView, [...]

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The TerraServer Download extension has been updated for ArcGIS 9.2. I’ll be honest, I use this thing almost every day (the dumb luck of working in the middle of nowhere with no budget for color satellite imagery). The improvements listed are:
- Improved download in layout mode.
- Support for file geodatabases.
- Automatic proxy server [...]

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