James Fee GIS Blog

Honestly I would just like them to make up their minds. MapInfo has a huge meaning to most of us in the professional GIS world even if we don’t currently or ever used the software, but you can bet my 98 year old Grandmother knows Pitney Bowes.
Hey, don’t take chances, take Pitney Bowes.

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The best time of the year is when baseball starts up again.
Opening Day 2008

Recommended reading: Baseball Hacks
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For all those who can’t resist installing the latest service pack for ArcGIS, here it is:
ArcGIS 9.2 Service Pack 5
ArcSDE 9.2 Service Pack 5
ArcIMS 9.2 Service Pack 5
ArcGIS Image Server Service Pack 5
In case you can’t remember if you care or not, check out the Service Pack 5 announcement.

Freakin’ sweet!
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I had REST on my mind when this happened, but thanks to a valued contributer I was reminded about this event.
Robert Burkhardt, director of the Engineer Research and Development Center’s Topographic Engineering Center, was recently appointed as the Army’s first Geospatial Information Officer (GIO) by Headquarters, Department of the Army’s Geospatial-Enterprise Governance Board. As GIO, [...]

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Yikes - I just saw this draft from yesterday that I didn’t get posted so pardon the untimeliness of it.
The closing Q&A session was over lunch and was pretty calm. A couple issues were raised that I thought I would mention.
VB6 will not be supported at ArcGIS 9.4 and you should really move to [...]

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While the buzz at the DevSummit was for the REST API and the JavaScript API, the Flex API sure got noticed. Folks seemed disappointed that they missed the session on the Flex API. Well some bloggers have already been posting their thoughts on the Flex API and it is well received.

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Well I think most would agree, the 2008 DevSummit was one of the best.  There was tons of new stuff to learn about, much more attendees, more ESRI staff, better layout of the conference (the Community Center was particularly good) and better session (and more of them).  So what did I take away from the [...]

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I don’t think there is anything wrong swinging by the office on the way home from the Developer Summit to pick up the 9.3 Beta disks to install tonight while I watch UCLA destroy Mississippi Valley State. My wife just doesn’t understand me but I’m happy with who I am.

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My laptop seems to have died and I can’t get it to boot up at all. I’ll try and get my notes figured out when I get back to the office, but you can read some blog posts from Day 2 of the Developer Summit. I’m sure we’ll see more come online tomorrow [...]

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Jeremy Bartley and Keyur Shah (of http goodness fame) presented the first ArcGIS Server REST API session.  ArcGIS Server can work with practically any client moving forward.  To use the REST API, you publish your ArcGIS Server service like you’ve been doing (or reading about) for years.  This means you can serve up simple maps [...]

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Jim McKinney opened the Plenary by introducing Jack Dangermond to welcome everyone to the DevSummit. The DevSummit has gotten much bigger over the last 3 years. It had more than doubled since the first DevSummit. The conference has changed from previous years. It is a longer a conference than before (pre-conference [...]

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How about this choice at the ESRI Store at the Developer Summit?

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There really wasn’t that much going on yesterday other than a couple points Jack made on stage that will probably be built upon during the Dev Summit:
1. Jack says Microsoft and Google are the key to collaborative GIS using ArcGIS Server as the back-end. The hope is ArcGIS will integrate with everything moving [...]

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I’ll be driving out from Tempe early tomorrow morning to the 2008 ESRI Business Partner Conference. I’m looking forward to meeting and talking with everyone. Feel free to email me if you want to hook up and get drinks or food (I’m staying at Hotel Zoso down the street). I’ll of course [...]

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What a horrible way to end your season and possibly cost you a NCAA tournament birth. If you aren’t UCLA or USC in the Pac-10, nothing goes your way. To make that call at that point in the game is atrocious.

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If you want to see some of the topics that people came up with to ask ESRI before the DevSummit next week, ESRI has posted them on their website. Here are some of the ones that caught my eye.
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Look I believe in the concept, but I’m so sick and tired of these freaking terms. Personally I think folks use the term VGI to segregate themselves from the community at large. I mean look at this list of participants at a workshop late last year.
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I wish I was able to go but if you are like me, you can live the experience through others.
Peter Batty’s FME User Conference Report
Jason Birch on KML Goodness
Matt Ball on 3D and FME
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I like that ESRI has started to focus on getting ArcIMS developers ready for their eventual move to ArcGIS Server. There is a podcast up describing the “ArcGIS Server for ArcIMS Developers” session at the Developer Summit.
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We’ve hit on this discussion before and with the Developer Summit coming up maybe it is a good time to think about the direction processors and their movement to multi-cores and 64-bit processors.
At 9.3, ArcGIS Server Enterprise (or whatever ArcSDE is called these days) will move to 64-bit. This is a huge improvement as [...]

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