An interesting Webinar takes place this Wednesday at 10am PDT. The AdobeUsers.com GeospatialPDF Webinar covers:
- How GIS professionals can create full-featured map layouts with attributes, labels and layers in ESRI’s ArcMap and use TerraGo Publisher to export them to a geo-registered, portable PDF
- How to use PDF maps in the field, including querying the spatial data (e.g., find coordinates of a location or accurately measure distance, perimeter and area) and creating spatially intelligent markup using the tools in Acrobat 9
- How GIS staff in the office can roll field markups within a PDF map back into the enterprise quickly and efficiently
It sounds like a good overview of using PDF to share spatial data and maps. Definitely worth the time.
Even Ben Franklin was interested in getting the message out to the old world about geospatial PDFs.
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Considering that the people at the Adobe booth at the ESRI UC couldn’t have seemed any less interested in GeoPDF I find this development amusing. They just kept wanting to pass off the questions to TerraGo.
The ability to export out to KML or a shapefile from a GeoPDF should be built in Adobe 10 functionality, but it looks like I’ll have to keep using TerraGo.
Well the whole Geospatial PDF vs GeoPDF vs TerraGo vs Adobe dynamic is of course interesting. PDF is a great format for sharing data despite the possible need for GeoPDF.
The TerraGo folks have this annoying thing called ‘a patent’ on their technology, which was of little interest to Adobe and ESRI when it was granted some years ago.
It now appears ESRI and Adobe are working together to hobble TerraGo and GeoPDF through in-domain marketing and cross-selling a less-capable native PDF as an export format from ESRI products.
Embrace to destroy. TerraGO really oughta assign the rights to ESRI and exit, stage left. Not likely to occur, given the egos in TerraGO offices…and in Redlands.