James Fee GIS Blog

So how the heck are you guys doing it? Google Maps and Virtual Earth have so much distortion up there (or down there as the case may be) that mapping is very difficult. Plus what happens when they navigate off the edge of the map? Anyway the closest thing I’ve found [...]

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Alex Barnett of Bungee Labs took a look at 8 Trends in Software as a Service Platform which highlights some of the movement toward web services moving forward. This ties in nicely with what I was saying last week and what Paul Bissett also hit on.
The ProgrammableWeb blog also looked at all the [...]

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I spent most of the afternoon talking with folks about web mapping systems and how to choose a direction to go. What is painfully obvious when you start laying out the different frameworks, APIs and servers is that there is just no clear answer as to what system to pick. When it comes [...]

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I’ve been working on a little ArcWeb Explorer application and noticed what ESRI thinks of my office.

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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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Well I wasn’t very surprised when I read the following article on AllPointsBlog:
New features include a new mapping platform that uses Microsoft’s Virtual Earth
Many will remember almost a year ago, ESRI was pointing out that Realtor.com used ArcWeb Services and a customized ArcWeb Explorer client for their mapping. Well no more, ArcWeb is out [...]

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A reader sent this to me and its interesting. When you click on a lat/long location in Wikipedia you are sent to a page listing all the different options to view this place. Most people probably click on the Google Maps or Google Earth choices, but apparently down lower there is a “GIS-related [...]

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Rob Elkins and Dave Bouwman have some great posts on the morning sessions. Rather than repeat what they’ve written I’ll point you in their direction.
Rob Elkins - 2nd Annual ESRI Developer Summit
Rob Elkins - ArcGIS Server takes the Stage (Author - Server - Use)
Rob Elkins - Plenary Session continues..
Rob Elkins - Online GIS
Dave Bouwman [...]

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I’ve said before this Arc”Whatever” stuff is more confusing than helpful. From an email I received yesterday:
James, hello!
I got spoiled with Google Earth! When I downloaded ArcExplorer today, I expected something similar to Google Earth, but instead I got this!

FYM (for my information), does ArcGIS have something like Google Earth?
I’m amazed any of [...]

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It should.
I’m not sure why 9.1 made it into this FAQ though…

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Thanks to Joel for the heads up via email!
The first ArcGIS 9.2 service pack, ArcGIS 9.2 SP1 is planned to be available as a download to the public late the week of December 18, 2006. This service pack is to help address issues users have encountered in the ArcGIS 9.2 release. CD media will also [...]

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OK before I get into the podcast, will someone over at ESRI put the podcast directory out of its misery? You’d think ESRI would prefer one to permalink to the podcast page, but they use some wacky javascript front end that makes it impossible. Anyway, here is the direct link to the podcast. [...]

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Just as I was leaving one the the cameras showed up. Here are some pictures of the EDN packaging. (compare to EDN 9.1)

The EDN DVD Case (as I said, you can travel with this now compared to the huge binder of 9.1)

The tabs still have intro information like EDN 9.1

EDN 9.2 has ArcGIS Desktop [...]

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Well I still haven’t received my ArcGIS Server production disks, but EDN 9.2 arrived this afternoon (it is on the right in the black binder).

As you can see it is much smaller and you can even take it on the road. The insets are still there, but smaller (sorry no pictures right now as [...]

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The ESRI news RSS feed says that ESRI Developer Network 9.2 is now shipping. Good news for us because we still haven’t received our ESRI Server disks yet. Of course that could mean that our EDN shipment is quite a ways away. Of course the good news is EDN now includes ArcView, [...]

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Just as I was trying to show a client how well ArcWeb Explorer works, I’m greeted with this error on the ArcWeb website.

To which my client says “You want me to use this?”. Guess not.

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Yes as of today, the ArcGIS 9.2 beta is closed. All the beta forums are now read only (actually not all, but most) and beta users are supposed to use normal ESRI support methods. ESRI has created a new website, ArcGIS 9.2 Prerelease (login with your existing ESRI account), where you can still [...]

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I’ve got family in Charleston, SC so I figured I’d fire up the ESRI Hurricane Disaster Viewer and see what is going on. I’m shocked (well I guess I kinda expected this) that ESRI hasn’t updated this viewer with the new ArcWeb 2006 stuff. It is still stuck behind that retro HTML viewer. [...]

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I just noticed that ESRI now has a REST API Lab over at the ArcWeb Services webpage. New features include turning vector layers on and off and the ability to request raster tile maps. Most people are probably better suited to use the ArcWeb Explorer JavaScript API over this, but those who want to [...]

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I’ve gotten this question from a couple of people (mostly probably because they want to see me say Google Earth Killer).
Lets get this out there right now. ArcGIS Explorer (AGX) isn’t ESRI’s answer to Google Earth. The reasons for AGX are tied very closely with ArcGIS Server (AGS). AGS needed a client [...]

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