I guess the “big” news today was the Acrobat 9 “maps” feature. All Points Blog and Fantom Planet both cover the news in their own unique style. Since ArcGIS 9.3 will support the new PDF maps (with a patch of course) I suspect that this will be very popular, at least in our circles. Just last week I was watching someone take a ruler and put it up to their computer screen to measure distance. Hopefully with Acrobat 9 we won’t have to see this anymore. The bonus part of Adobe putting this in is that the free Adobe Reader supports the mapping features and will hopefully mean that it will be adopted quicker than GeoPDF has.
Now I wonder if this goes with the rumor that I’ve heard that ArcGIS Desktop will support reading of PDF files in the near future.
Also, as many of you know my first day at RSP Architects was today. The best way to get a hold of me via email moving forward will be at this email address.
james.fee@rsparch.com
Lastly, I’m going to be going to the GeoWeb 2008 Conference in July and be on a Spark Panel Session moderated by Geoff Zeiss called “National Critical Infrastructure Data Models: Implications for Local Government and Utilities”. Now if that title doesn’t get you excited, I’m not sure you are alive. Seriously though, I’m looking forward to GeoWeb 2008 as the CAD-BIM papers are right up my alley these days.
We’ll be running up to Vancouver for GeoWeb 2008 this summer.
2 responses so far ↓
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Adam Estrada
// Jun 3, 2008 at 6:24 am
I think that there are folks out there that might be missing the point of the Geospatially-enabled PDF! This is a cartographic representation of real world data that anyone/anywhere can view. TerraGo Technologies has been specializing in this format for almost a decade and it’s just now catching on? This is great advancement for this industry! Acrobat Pro. Extended 9.0 has a lot of really cool new features that I hope a lot of users take advantage of…Geospatial PDF is just one of them!
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Lefty
// Jun 3, 2008 at 9:36 am
Adam: I don’t think anyone is missing the point of Geo type PDFs. We don’t like having to install software to use them. I personally will jump all over this.
Congrads on the new job James, hope you have a great time there. The work RSP does looks impressive.
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