James Fee GIS Blog

UPDATE: I have no idea why ESRI doesn’t believe in permalinks so all those links below do nothing special. Sorry.
I’m not going and probably most of you aren’t either so this might be your best bet as to getting an idea what might or might not be said Monday morning.
ESRI International User Conference 2007 [...]

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Brian Timoney brings up a great question in the comments to my last post.
James: I’d love a show of hands of folks that never made the switch to 8.x or 9.x because of common everyday tasks that a 3.x workflow still carries out quiet satisfactorily….
I use ArcView 3.2a almost every day myself, though I’ll be [...]

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Peter’s blogging about desktop GIS choices on the Macintosh. He’s taking QGIS, uDig and Thuban for a spin. Many associate only the old ArcView 3.0 on Classic MacOS as the only desktop GIS choice, but as you can see there are even better choices than ArcView on the Macintosh. I’m interesting in [...]

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Well that might be a big title for this post, but I was talking with some folks over the weekend about software you’ve used or software that has really influenced your life. I think many people say Google Earth has changed how they view data, but for me it really wasn’t that impressive since [...]

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A couple of you have emailed me asking how the heck to they figure out if they have Service Pack 2 installed. Most people seem to make a quick check of the program “About Box” to see what version they have:

Well anyone who has ever taken a look knows that ESRI software doesn’t report [...]

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Atanas Entchev is but I don’t understand why. I too remember ArcView 1 and at least what I remember wasn’t very positive. That said, he’s got a good point, but doesn’t come to the same conclusion that I would have (I’m skipping ArcCAD because I don’t want to even touch that can of [...]

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I was looking though some old marketing materials and found a video of an ArcView project we did back in 1999-2000. I’m laughing as I look at it, partly because we’ve come such a long way and partly because I remember all the hacks we had to perform (making those tabs appear was an [...]

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I just felt like posting Bex. He’s so part of ESRI that I can’t believe he hadn’t been on my blog yet.

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I’ve been getting a ton of email (thanks) and rather than answer them all, I’ll just post here:
1. Do you work for ESRI?
Nope
2. Can I have a copy of ArcGIS Explorer?
Nope
3. Can you add my blog into Planet Geospatial?
Sure, if it is related to GIS, just email it to me.
4. You [...]

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Link - Do Google Earth
Displays shape data on top of Google Earth:
- Launches Google Earth from Arcview
- Displays selected features of active theme
- If no features are selected, all those in the active view are shown
Sigh, I wish I still had Arcview 3.2a installed or I would give this a try. I’ve got the [...]

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