James Fee GIS Blog

I know I packed my GPS unit when I moved to the new house, but for the life of me I can’t find it anywhere. The family is going out camping this weekend for Labor Day near Jerome, AZ and I really need it. Guess I’m heading out tonight to buy a new [...]

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All U.S. Americans took it on the chin when Miss South Carolina tried to answer a question about U.S. American’s mapping abilities, but a new website has stepped in to being U.S. American’s children the maps they need.
The children of the US America are in deep trouble. Because some people out there don’t have maps. [...]

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I know everyone has seen the video of Miss South Carolina and her take on us Americans not finding where we live on maps, but I’ve never seen it outlined this well. This should help you follow her thought process while answering the question.

via The Morning Toast

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Wondering how OpenGL changes things with ArcGIS Explorer? Take a look at this YouTube video of that draws wind vectors on top of the globe that the ArcGIS Explorer blog demonstrated:

You can see how some folks are quite excited about the possibilities.

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ESRI has a web page set up where users of ArcGIS can request a 2007 update to Data & Maps and StreetMap USA. The update DVDs include updates to more than 80 datasets and all of the U.S. Tele Atlas and European basemap data. Also included is StreetMap Pro which provides 2003 Tele Atlas [...]

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I had a reader email me asking about SharpMap asking how “viable” it is? Well that is always a hard question to answer, but if you look over on CodePlex, SharpMap is the third most popular project. I know a few people who are developing with SharpMap and many more that are actively [...]

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Keith Fraley says:
I really think there are two notable points with this release, that aren’t prehaps getting that much attention in the blogosphere
You know what, he’s got a great point. Subsurface navigation is a huge deal because that is one of the biggest complaints I’ve heard about Google Earth from some clients. Of [...]

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ESRI has updated the ArcGIS Explorer Resource Center. Looks nice and I see they have a new Share tab (at least new to me). There is your GIS ESRI community right there folks.

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We’ve implemented more ArcIMS sites than I can recall over the past few years. The chief developer on my team has probably as much AXL experience as anyone I know. But times change and clients have different expectations than they did in 1999 or even 2006.

“Because you didn’t come here to [...]

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Since everyone is blogging about REST I was feeling left out, so here is my post.
Think about this as ordering a Domino’s Pizza.

You make a call and you get something in return. If you do it while lying down on the recliner, that is very RESTful.

If Howard Dean is screaming for a pizza, [...]

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ArcGIS Explorer Build 410 is now available for download. There are quite a bit of new “enhancements” at build 410 including a new “Find Address Task” that is much easier to use.
Go get the download.
You can also download an ArcGIS Explorer Wikipedia Task that will allow you to explorer Wikipedia entries within ArcGIS Explorer.

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Bill Dollins is talking about how SharpMap is giving him back his “old MO vibe again”. What caught me eye was:
The open source nature of SharpMap was a huge plus and I’m having fun doing things that I always wanted to do in MO.
I can’t think of another ESRI “product” that has generated more [...]

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I’m probably only one of a few people who actually use the CAD Client, but I’m very happy to see that it was released today. AutoCad 2007 support is not there (2006 and earlier) so it isn’t the perfect solution, but at least now we can work with data inside our ArcSDE with our [...]

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Here are some of the latest blogs I’ve added to Planet Geospatial:

http://jeffhobbs.net/ - Jeff Hobbs’ Intergraph and GIS Technology Blog
http://slashgeo.org/ - SlashGeo (added back in)
http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/ - Henri Bergius
http://www.bostongis.com/blog/ - Boston GIS Blog
http://geochalkboard.wordpress.com/ - GeoChalkboard
http://idvux.spaces.live.com/ - Designing Composite Applications

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ESRI has posted a notice saying that there will be some updates to the ArcGIS Online services:
On August 9-10, 2007, the ArcGIS Online system will be updated to improve the network routing for service requests. We do not expect this to affect the availability of the ArcGIS Online services but you may experience some performance [...]

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I’ve been lucky enough to see some of the new features that Brian has been working on for Arc2Earth. The KML region stuff is simply amazing (check out some of the demos on his blog).
It’s best you go over to his blog and check out all the great information he’s posted on [...]

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Jim Cser has updated his wonderfully simple and easy to use (and free) ArcMap to KML tool.
Fixes in 3.2.0
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Removed the extra commas between line segments. KMLs now have compatibility with Google Maps.
As always it is so simple to use. Just add the toolbar to your ArcMap session. Get your data layers set [...]

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I had a recent opportunity to try out Weatherbug Professional’s GIS Data Services. I had seen the Weatherbug booth at the 2007 Developer Summit and hear a little bit about it back then, but I never had an opportunity to stop by and see what was going on. Most people know who Weatherbug [...]

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Damian has the best news possible for everyone:
All,
After further investigation, it’s been determined that SP3 is OK as is and the initial files will be reposted this evening without any changes. Anyone who may have already downloaded SP3 should use what they have downloaded already as we have not changed the setups and what [...]

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