James Fee GIS Blog

So it has finally happened.
Today, I’m happy to announce the release of the new Google Earth Browser Plug-in, which brings the full power of Google Earth to the web, embeddable within your own web site. Driven by an extensive JavaScript API, you can control the camera; create lines, markers, and polygons; import 3D models from [...]

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My policy on Planet Geospatial has been if you want in, just ask, and you’ll be added. I’m not sure this can continue as the noise is just too much to make Planet Geospatial of any value. So I’m in the process of cleaning out the feeds and reducing it from the 144 [...]

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The Friday before a holiday weekend is always nice. Traffic is light as folks cheat on leaving early for vacation, the office is excited about heading to the mountains for camping/boating/fishing and knowing you have an extra day for the weekend to get things done (or just sit in front of the TV) and [...]

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So Google and ESRI will allow indexing of ArcGIS Server services by Google (and anyone who crawls the web).  So what does that mean moving forward.  It really isn’t big news if you think about it because this “feature” (service description) is already enabled in ArcGIS Server 9.3.  The problem with this is no one has [...]

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So after almost a year of “hard work”, my son has graduated Pre-Kindergarten.  

I’ve told him he’s got 3 choices:

Go to Kindergarten
Get a job
Enlist in the Army

He’s not freeloading on old Dad anymore.
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Pre-K Graduation”, url: “http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/2008/05/16/pre-k-graduation/” });

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The delivery guy just dropped off the package.  I think we are looking at a final version in 4 weeks, just like Jack Dangermond said at Where 2.0.   Remember, 9.3 is going to be a game changer for ESRI users with Javascript APIs, Google Maps/Virtual Earth support, KML support, the list just keeps getting [...]

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John Hanke and Jack Dangermond on the evolution of the GeoWeb.

SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Google/ESRI Keynote From Where 2.0 2008″, url: “http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/2008/05/13/googleesri-keynote-from-where-20-2008/” });

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I guess interesting stuff does come out of Where 2.0. Simply put, the Yahoo! Internet Location Platform creates an ID called WOEID (Where On Earth ID) for every location on earth and has an API to geocode back and forth from that WOEID.
In simple terms, the Service allows you to look up the unique [...]

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Dave Bouwman has some thoughts on using PostgreSQL as a RDBMS for ArcSDE (or ArcGIS Server Enterprise as we should be calling it).
Thus far I’ve simply come to realize that I have a lot to learn. I need to grok a lot more about Postgresql and PostGIS to start, and then add ArcSDE into the [...]

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I’ve asked the question on Twitter, but I’d like to get a more broad idea of what people think about developing applications inside a virtual environment. Results were pretty much on both extremes, either people love it, or people told me I need to get a new IT staff. We do have [...]

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All too often we have to request people resend datasets to each other because they get blocked by email, one important file gets left off or systems just don’t recognize a file type. I’ve run into a problem today where a company FTP site is rejecting a shapefile because it doesn’t recognize the .shp, [...]

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