James Fee GIS Blog

I don’t like the term “ESRI Shop”. Both open source developers and ESRI developers use it as an excuse one way or another. Just because you are running ArcMap or ArcGIS Server, doesn’t mean that you can’t explore open source GIS software and in fact you might be surprised how it makes your [...]

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OK here is the other part of the ArcGIS Server 9.3 release that most of us will be interested in; the Javascript API. Jeremy Bartley and Jayant Sai talk a little about the Javascript API in their podcast. Much like the RESTful API Podcast, there isn’t much meat here, but at least you [...]

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I’m sure this is just a coincidence, but ESRI actually posted a discussion of the REST API for ArcGIS Server. In addition they hit on the three Javascript APIs that they will also release with the REST API; ESRI Javascript API using Dojo, Extender Javascript Library for Google Maps and Extender Javascript Library for [...]

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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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SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Google Maps Street View Gets Close and Personal”, url: “http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/2008/01/27/google-maps-street-view-gets-close-and-personal/” });

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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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MapGameDay.com has a new section called the Travel Map. The section contains conference and team road game data collected for regular season games from the 1998 through the 2007 NCAA Football schedule. As you might guess, any conference with a team in Hawaii would probably lead the rankings in miles traveled and the WAC [...]

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Looks like the Google Van was driving around the Valley of the Sun taking pictures because Phoenix/Tempe now has Google Street View images.

Google took plenty of pictures of my sons pre-school which somewhat freaked my wife out, but they didn’t make it into our neighborhood. We’ll see how the Phoenix press reacts to the [...]

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The day I can spend an hour fighting Google Maps to get a route that covers all lower 48 states is the day I’m finally a Google Maps convert. Typing in city name is for wimps. Dragging that blue line all over the country, now that is GIS baby!

Sure it isn’t efficient, but [...]

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re: Google Street View”

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SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Stopping the Google Van From Crawling Your House”, url: “http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/2007/05/30/stopping-the-google-van-from-crawling-your-house/” });

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Mark Laudon is keeping track of all the interesting Google Street Views. My personal favorite is here. What happens in Vegas doesn’t stay in Vegas if Google takes your picture.

SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Google Street View Sightseeing”, url: “http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/2007/05/30/google-street-view-sightseeing/” });

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This has been a pet peeve of mine and its not just a problem with ESRI ArcGIS Explorer. Google has the search figured out just about perfectly. Give the user one text box to enter in their search query and return results. Microsoft’s Virtual Earth has not gotten this right yet.

I don’t [...]

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I had a problem. I sold my house about a month ago (which is good in this market) but hadn’t found a place to buy. Taking the raw MLS results and using online mapping tools to see relationships between houses/schools/roads/airports/railroads/etc is harder than it should be.
First off I figured I’d just do it [...]

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I’ve been beta testing A2E publisher for the past week and I have to say I’m in love with it. The ability to take ANY ArcMap view or layout and publish it to Google Maps, Virtual Earth (3D Included), OpenLayers and of course KML. Just publish and A2E creates a webpage to send [...]

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I will admit the implementation that Apple and Google came up with for the iPhone and Google Maps is quite impressive, but my wife’s Blackberry has had Google Maps access for just about a year now (the scroll wheel actually works pretty well if you ask me). Heck no need to wait until June [...]

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As many can attest, mining is big business in the west. Right in Arizona, we have some of the largest copper mines in the world and one of the largest copper mining companies headquartered here. School children learn about the “5 C’s” of Arizona (Climate, Citrus, Cotton, Cattle and Copper) and it is [...]

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Looks like Google has rolled out some improvements with the Google Maps support of KML. Some of the improvements are support for exported photo sets out of Picasa (meh), view KML overlays (wonderful) and customized marker icons. Google has posted some examples of the KML overlay and the customized marker icons, but I’m [...]

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Brian Flood has a very interesting post on the new big feature of Arc2Earth. The ability to create map tiles of maps that you’ve created in ArcMap and publish them to the web. Brian has figured out a way to simply do this using Amazon S3 for storage and either the Google Maps, [...]

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What happens to the imagery when Google (or Microsoft for that matter) updates their image database? Does Google allow people to access this data or does it disappear off into the digital wastebasket?
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Image History in Google Earth/Maps”, url: “http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/2006/10/11/image-history-in-google-earthmaps/” });

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Remember when I was complaining about cloud coverage over my house? Well the latest update to the Google imagery removes the clouds, but reverts back to an older image. The freeway on this new image is no longer finished. I guess someone thinks that a less relevant image is better than having [...]

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