Arc2Earth 2.1 Update
Brian Flood comes up from the basement to give a glimpse of what has been happening in Arc2Earth land. Arc2Earth Cloud Services is looking really amazing and it is clear Brian has put much effort into it.
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James:
I think there’s much more going on here than a mere version update. (Note: I haven’t seen anything besides what I’ve read on Brian’s blog).
First, cracking the nut of storing spatial data in a non-relational database with full CRUD functions?
Optimizing spatial indexing in a non-relational environment?
+ E-Z web publishing capability?
And all of this available from the most widespread desktop GIS.
Attending a regional data summit yesterday in Denver with 100+ GIS folks (mostly public sector), I concluded (yet again) that the traditional vendors don’t fully appreciate the degree to which their customers are fed up with the IT/Sys Admin burdens that running even a modest GIS shop entails. And in the current budget climate, they will be looking beyond their sales rep’s quote sheet for alternatives.
In short, looking at the directions the Arc2Earths, WeoGeos, et al are taking, and I for one see some legacy licensing models not long for our industry.
BT
I certainly hope so. I’ve been complaining about the “legacy licensing models” for awhile and hope it will change. The company I work for recently put our own GIS product out into the federal market and I was very disappointed that they decided to use an ESRI-like pricing structure (against my recommendation) simply because the market would bear it. Typical licensing and pricing models put these types of products out of the range of most customers. I think the theory of marketing towards fewer but larger priced sales is bass-ackwards thinking.
Bill
Principal GIS Engineer
Well you’ve hit it on the head Brian. The idea that one needs complex server software to “enable GIS” is a thing of the past. I’ve been on a kick lately playing with SQLite and SpatiaLite, both which do all I need from a database without all the overhead of Oracle/MSSQL.
What a country!
hey all-
I added some quick videos here. Shows a sample layer upload and then some live editing
cheers
brian