ESRI Sends Geography Network to Pasture
I know there are two groups of people out there right now. Those who can’t believe the Geography Network is still running and those who forgot it existed. Well now both sets of you can now know that it is going to be retired at the end of this year.
With lots of changes over time to online GIS and geographic information and the technologies used to serve them, the Geography Network has been replaced by better alternatives to publish and find data (like ArcGIS Online). Much of the same exact content, and much more content that has been updated, can now be found and used in easier and better ways. So ESRI is planning to retire the Geography Network in late December 2009.
Can you believe it has been almost 10 years? Let’s have Steely Dan play it out…
I wouldn’t say it went to pasture so much as it was composted…
Anyone know what the new GIS server address will be to access the content within ArcMAP?
I was part of the ArcGISOnline Beta over the past (2 years?) and the address I was using was: http://services.arcgisonline.com/v92
Is it the same address for updated content or is there something else? I cannot find information on that anywhere. Everything is web based.
Just go to http://www.arcgisonline.com and access it there. You can grab the lyr files there.
As for the server address to add directly to ArcCatalog, I’m not sure they are doing that anymore. Someone else would have to answer that.
You can use the 2D and Globe services in ArcGIS Desktop and AGX 900 by using the following address as an ArcGIS Server connection:
http://server.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/services/
Wow. Here’s a geospatial factoid for you – check the guitarist on the left, with the heavy fu-man ‘stache.
That’s Jeff ‘Skunk’ Baxter, who went on to play with the Doobie Brothers, and quite a few sessions since. Here’s a link to one of his latest gigs: http://www.gotgeoint.com/archives/exclusive-geoint-2009-video-opening-ceremony-and-jeff-skunk-baxter-performance/
Yes, that’s Skunk in the midst of the military-industrial complex. He’s a player, in more ways than one.
Yep, saw that performance at the GEOINT Symposium in San Antonio this October. Someone I knew at the conference mentioned that Skunk Baxter has a hobbyist sort of interest in geospatial intelligence (GEOINT); hence this performance.