James Fee GIS Blog

Richie Carmichael has updated his ArcGIS Diagrammer 9.2 Beta to improve performance and better handle UNICODE characters in the XML.

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You guys are worse than a sewing circle. I can’t go out and enjoy a movie with my son for a couple hours and you bloggers have me taking a “dirt nap”. Look I appreciate the emails, text messages, instant messages and such but this is ridiculous. I made a bad changed [...]

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Update - The service pack 3 has been pulled. Updates will be up later on Friday.
As promised by ESRI, the Service Packs are out.
ArcGIS 9.2 Service Pack 3
ArcIMS 9.2 Service Pack 3
ArcSDE 9.2 Service Pack 3

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The one person who I should have contacted about the previous post wasn’t consulted before blogging. A bounced back email isn’t a confirmation no matter how many people say he’s leaving. I should have waited for an “official” email from him before posting that he was leaving. I apologize to David and [...]

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The word is out and David Maguire is leaving ESRI. I emailed David asking him about the rumor, but he email bounced back so I assumed he was gone. David emailed me letting me know that he is not leaving ESRI.
I was surprised as anyone to be honest, but at least [...]

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I saw the news that Adobe announced the shipping of ColdFusion 8 today. I remember when ArcIMS 3 arrived, ColdFusion was the way that almost everyone developed ArcIMS sites. I recall at one of the sessions at the UC I was the only person who asked about the ActiveX controls and no one [...]

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ArcView was available as an option for EDN, but now ArcInfo and ArcEditor are now available (at added cost) to the EDN subscriber. I’m not sure at all why they never offered ArcInfo and ArcEditor as how the heck could a developer load data into ArcSDE without either license (beyond the command line tools).
What [...]

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Richie Carmichael released ArcGIS Diagrammer 9.2 (beta) and it is very impressive. I’ve used Geodatabase Diagrammer in the past with Visio to create such graphics, but this new ArcGIS Diagrammer will simplify the process. ArcGIS Diagrammer is a visual editor for ESRI’s Xml Workspace Document that is created out of ArcCatalog. You [...]

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Those still a little confused about the whole ArcGIS Online product (including me) might want to join the live training seminar about ArcGIS Online.
Introduction to ArcGIS Online
ArcGIS Online is a new family of Web mapping services from ESRI that provides map and globe layers, such as high resolution imagery, streets, topographic maps, and more that [...]

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As most of you already have heard via either the new RSS feeds or the support email, ArcGIS 9.3 9.2 Service Pack 3 is ready to be released by the end of the month. Jack’s Q&A from before the UC said that it would be released in July and it appears that they have [...]

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Apologies to Mark Twain, but reports of SlashGeo’s death have been greatly exaggerated.
Thanks to the OSGeo mailing list, several people have already expressed their intentions to contribute regularly to feeding Slashgeo! I’m not claiming victory yet, but if we gather a new team of 5 to 10 people, it will make involvement fun and [...]

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I got a bizarre email from Zillow last week:
Hello ,
Since you claimed your home at , you might like to know you’re part of the DISC neighborhood on Zillow. This is a brand-new feature — literally, we just rolled it out — and we would like to ask your help in getting it started. [...]

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There has been an upswing in Manifold comments and it appears that people need to get it out of their system. So rather than every post become Manifold v. XXXXX, post it here.

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ArcGIS Online (and since ArcGIS Explorer uses ArcGIS Online as its source) has begun to add better imagery for Europe.
[S]atellite imagery for part of Europe has now been added to ArcGIS Online. This imagery has a resolution of 2.5 meters per pixel and covers most of France and parts of adjacent countries. Look for additional [...]

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I didn’t see much about this out of the 2007 User Conference, but an updated Technical Article spells it out.
ArcGIS 9.2 Desktop and ArcGIS 9.2 Engine are currently undergoing certification on the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system with the 9.2 SP4 release targeted for October/November, 2007. Please note that this certification will not include any [...]

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Jeff, one of my coworkers, is working on a rendering in ArcScene for a client. Using ArcGIS with Google SketchUp makes our lives easier, but so does the 3D Warehouse. Jeff found the perfect model to put on our Navy Air Installations renderings.
Godzilla

The search at the 3D Warehouse has become hard to navigate [...]

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Here are the new blogs I’ve added this week:

Mapperz (technically not new as I had removed it by mistake)
GeoWeb Blog
Making Maps: DIY Cartography
GeoMusings (added back in)
Thinking in GIS - Paolo Corti (again dropped for no reason)

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There are quite a few ESRI blogs hosted at ESRI.com but there seems to be no easy way to keep track of them. I would have thought that they would be aggregated with the ESRI Blogs page, but that is even more confusing. Three blogs are list on the right, but none of [...]

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I’ve been trying to update my RSS feeds today (while the wife is outside doing yardwork) to make sure they are all still active. In turn I’ve updated my GIS Links page with the blogs that I am subscribed to. You can also grab the OPML files there if you wish.

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It seems like there is almost one a month to me. I was looking at mapping all the 4th of July fireworks displays in the valley to see which one we want to go to this year (we’ll probably go to Tempe’s) though where might be the least of our problems. As I [...]

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