James Fee GIS Blog

What they heck is legacy anyway? Look if it ain’t running on VMS, it isn’t legacy in my opinion. Most people use “legacy GIS” when referring to ESRI, I get that because it is just another buzz word. Rather than tell me why I should use their product they just focus on [...]

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OK, so I’m going to use my own IMS server to handle the pole projection issue but that brings up a couple issues that I’ve got to figure out.

How to handle data that was not created in polar projections. Martin linked to a paper by Waldo Tobler that hits on some of the issues. [...]

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So how the heck are you guys doing it? Google Maps and Virtual Earth have so much distortion up there (or down there as the case may be) that mapping is very difficult. Plus what happens when they navigate off the edge of the map? Anyway the closest thing I’ve found [...]

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The ArcGIS Explorer team has released the update to build 440 that addresses some of the issues that cropped up:

Fixes problems on startup that have occurred with certain graphics cards and drivers.

Fixes symbol display issues that have occurred with certain graphics cards and drivers.

Resolves a problem with vector lines flickering when the globe is tilted.

The [...]

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Doron Yaacoby writes that he’s absolutely frustrated with ESRI’s Web ADF.
As I’ve said before, this is one horrific development platform. I’ve started to seriously think about coding a replacement that will work against ArcObjects (at least something that will satisfy my team’s needs), but it would take a lot of time which we currently do [...]

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Peter Batty says he’ll be demoing the social networking application that Spatial Networking has been building over the last few months/weeks at the Boulder Denver New Technology Meetup Group next week. I’m interested in seeing what his group has come up with as I have yet to see a good spatial social networking application [...]

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I have to congratulate both Paul and Aerials Express on this news.
How do you make a geospatial exchange a reality? You find great content providers to bring their wares to the market. Aerials Express (AEX) is one of those great content providers. With 420,000 square miles of high resolution aerial imagery over major metropolitan areas [...]

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I just love the Technical Article title: “Problem: ArcMap crashes periodically every half hour”
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I’ve put a jar on my desk that I must put money in every time I say either “consume” or “rich client”. I can’t stand either term and people use it so often it gets slammed in my head. I feel dirty every time I say consume in a presentation.
People just come up [...]

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via thevacationeers
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I think most of those who have been involved with ArcGIS Server, the Developer Summit is really were we get detailed discussions. The podcast talks about what the session will be which is pretty much what Art has been saying for the past few years. More Microsoft AJAX, .NET and other MS web [...]

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It appears that there are now rooms available at the Hilton for the $185 rate. If you missed out earlier and now want to stay closer to the Dev Summit take advantage of this opportunity. Quite a few of us are staying at Hotel Zoso just down the street from the convention center [...]

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Don’t forget, those who are planning to attend the FME Worldwide User Conference in March need to get their registration by January 24th. Alas I’m not going (believe me not by choice), but looking at the Agenda and Breakout sessions it will be quite the learning experience for any who go.
Jason Birch’s [...]

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ESRI is about to release an update to ArcGIS Explorer. Build 450 will add no new features, but will resolve a number of graphics card related issues that we inadvertently picked up at 440 (via ArcGlobe apparently). There has been some discussion in the ESRI forums about this issue:
This problem was introduced by [...]

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I had a great time at the WUSMUC and meeting lots of Manifold users. It was interesting to learn that the user conference is not sponsored by Manifold (well technically Manifold is a sponsor but of the user created conference), but a user driven event. Users of Manifold came from all over the [...]

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I’m sitting down right now at the Manifold User Conference. I’m under a NDA so I can’t really report much on the future of Manifold, but I’ll let you know some examples of what people are doing with Manifold.
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How about this news? Zillow has released their neighborhood boundaries in ESRI Shapefile format for everyone to use.
Determining boundary data was quite a feat, as currently this information isn’t readily available through a single public source. Thus, we determined these on our own through various tactics, including calling individual chambers of commerce, tourism and [...]

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Dave Bouwman just wrote up his findings on bringing ArcGIS Server web service (using the WMS service and SOAP API) into Virtual Earth. Another great example of using a hosted web service with your existing GIS projects.
I’m pretty sure the ESRI Developer Summit will be full of folks wanting to know about [...]

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If you are lucky enough to be running ArcGIS 9.x, you’ll be able to use the latest extension for ArcGIS Desktop ArcCow from ArcScripts from here. The source code is included so if I were you I’d port the thing to to the ArcGIS Server Task Framework and enjoy the $15,000 grand prize.
Bored? Try [...]

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Three people today have told me that the conference rate at Hilton Hotel is sold out (rooms are available, but they run about $300/night) and the Wyndam hotel is essentially sold out (only single nights are available) for both the Business Partner Conference and the Developer Summit. So if you want to attend either, [...]

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