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Jeff Harrison of The Carbon Project emailed me and some other folks that CarbonArc Lite is now free. CarbonArc Lite used to cost $495 per seat so this is major shift for The Carbon Project. Simply put, you can use CarbonArc Lite to connect to WMS and WFS services using ArcMap as well [...]

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The ESRI Support Center News blog has a screen shot up with the draft look for the new support pages. I’m hopeful the search will be better than it currently is, but I see one change that hasn’t been made yet.

The 3 latest knowledge base entries are nice, but how about instead [...]

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I know, I’ve been claiming that I’ve been working on a better Planet Geospatial than the one that currently exists for quite some time now. Well the good news is that its done and the DNS should be updating as we speak. The older Planet software was dated and couldn’t handle Atom feeds [...]

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Haven’t had a chance to try it out yet, but those with the SpaceNavigator and ArcMap 9.2 might want to take a look at the work Jiro Shirota has done.
From the comments:
Demo movie:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8574975852358744167
Driver (dll / tlb)
http://www.simplespatial.net/Downloads/ArcMap3DconnexionDriver.zip
You will need .NET 2.0 runtime.

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I went ahead and downloaded the trial for MapDotNet Server 2007 and installed it. The install went well after I installed VS2005 and IIS on my laptop (not sure how that happened). Anyway after opening VS2005, all I had to do was open up one of the templates and run the code. [...]

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I’ve been reading the MapDotNet Server Blog this morning and it’s an interesting read. One quote that makes you stop and think from the “Do Recent ESRI Survey Results Forecast Trouble?” entry:
We’re tracking the latest development in web based mapping from Microsoft: Virtual Earth. VE makes it too easy for all of these [...]

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As was announced at the Dev Summit, here are the results for the ArcGIS Server Code Challenge.

First Place - Hussein AlSayegh won a Trimble Recon GPS XB Edition bundled with ArcPad software for his AJAX TOC sample
Second Place - a Microsoft Xbox 360 went to Ranjit Menon for his sample of persisting and retrieving data [...]

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I got the final 8 right too. As you can imagine I’m dominating my pool.
And no, it never turns out this way. I’m usually last because I think I know NCAA basketball.

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At the .NET SIG, I asked the question about the cost of the licensing and the burden it places on developers. The response from ESRI was expected as we all know their reasons for charging the price, but a couple of people asked me what they can do about it. Well the best [...]

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The Live Maps / Virtual Earth Blog points out that the MapDotNet Server 2007 is available for download.
The basic principal is very straight forward - server based GIS with access to enterprise data, dynamically rendered for use in Web applications. You have data in Oracle Spatial, PostGIS, or ESRI shape files that you want to [...]

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Despite the fact that the whole Developer Summit is pretty much a .NET SIG, Art Haddad and the rest of the .NET team at ESRI hosted a .NET SIG during lunch today. Dave Bouwman was definitely the highlight with his talk about the Agile process. Steve’s got a great writeup of the SIG [...]

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The dinner tonight was pretty good, Mexican food is always welcome. The weird part was the music. They had these two ladies singing lounge music seemed WAY out of place for a developer summit. Some of the folks that were eating at the table seemed to think these should have been for [...]

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Rob Elkins and Dave Bouwman have some great posts on the morning sessions. Rather than repeat what they’ve written I’ll point you in their direction.
Rob Elkins - 2nd Annual ESRI Developer Summit
Rob Elkins - ArcGIS Server takes the Stage (Author - Server - Use)
Rob Elkins - Plenary Session continues..
Rob Elkins - Online GIS
Dave Bouwman [...]

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Just something that I noticed at the ESRI Business Partner Conference. Group 1 is an ESRI Business Partner and a Gold Sponsor of the 2007 ESRI Business Partner Conference. Now that Group 1 will acquire MapInfo, will that make MapInfo an ESRI Business Patner?

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There really wasn’t much for ESRI to announce at the Plenary Session but Jack did hit on some things coming down the road in ArcGIS 9.3 and ArcGIS 10. ArcGIS 9.2 SP2 should be out in a “couple weeks” and SP3 will be out in Summer. ArcGIS 9.3 will be available (I’m assuming [...]

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Well I’m all arrived and checked into the business partner conference. I think my NCAA bracket is still doing well, but I’m probably going to head down to the bar to see what is happening. I’m just a tad worried about Georgetown.

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Well I’ll be heading out on a turboprop from Phoenix Sky Harbor to Palm Springs International Airport tomorrow morning for the Business Partner Conference and the Developer Summit. I’m hoping to run into a few of you that have emailed me over the course of the week. Remember that there will be a [...]

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The ESRI Support Center News Blog has an entry detailing some changes coming and some things that have already changed. I wonder if they’ll finally update their search engine to recognize ArcSDE?

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Care to take a look at the questions that attendees to the Dev Summit asked and ESRI answered? Some questions/answers of note:
Q: What are the plans for supporting the PostgreSQL database with ArcGIS Server (ArcSDE technology) and when will this functionality be available?
ArcGIS Server (ArcSDE technology) will support the PostgreSQL database at the ArcGIS [...]

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