http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com Geospatial Technology, Web Mapping and Spatial Services Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:11:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So ESRI has a new product arriving: Another major/joint effort involves the development of a new ESRI product called MapIt. This technology provides simple geocoding and mapping capability for the Microsoft environment. MapIt enables developers to create maps of their enterprise data stored SQL Server 2008 and Excel. MapIt is designed ... http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/2009/07/01/implications-of-esri-mapit/ Every year ESRI sends out a questionnaire to attendees of the UC and they've just posted the results from this year.  Some of the questions are C-level and probably not interesting to this crowd, but it does get into some of the 9.4 (as was seen at the DevSummit), map ... http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/2009/06/30/esri-uc-response-to-questions/ Safe was nice enough to let me post the video from my keynote on my blog. I really enjoyed the opportunity to speak at FME UC and had a wonderful time meeting everyone there. http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/2009/06/29/safe-fme-user-conference-keynote-video/ The wait is over, OpenLayers 2.8 has been released.  Some of the highlights I think are important: Add support for multi-layer feature selection when using vector features Added support for "XYZ" layers to interact with standard caches of tiles; includes OSM support built in Add support for drawing text on vector layers Support ... http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/2009/06/22/openlayers-2-8-released/ I just finished reading a new book by Gretchen Peterson called GIS Cartography: A Guide to Effective Map Design and I really enjoyed it.  Gretchen wrote this book independent of any GIS tools so that you can apply it anywhere, from ESRI and Autodesk to PowerPoint and Web Mapping.  So ... http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/2009/06/19/gis-cartography-a-guide-to-effective-map-design/ As you can imagine, Adobe John Dowdell responded to the HTML 5 "flash killer" talk in a way only Adobe could. It's hard for Adobe to have an official opinion on whatever this consortium of minority browser vendors chooses to do... seeing what the final agreement turns out to ... http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/2009/06/18/adobes-views-on-html-5/ [caption id="" align="alignright" width="200" caption="IronPythonMan to the rescue!"][/caption] I'm surprised that IronPython doesn't get more love in the ESRI development world.  Beyond Matthew's blog posts I can't recall seeing anything really being done.  Considering how important .NET is to ESRI, it wouldn't hurt to see a little embrace of IronPython. ArcObjects is ... http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/2009/06/17/ironpython-and-esri-arcgis/ Remember this post?  Count that as the most popular post ever on my blog (so much for a positive post being my watermark).  Anyway Doron Yaacoby has followed up almost a year and a half later with another look at where ESRI has taken the Web ADF since then. Almost none ... http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/2009/06/16/the-esri-web-adf-9-3/ A great article has appeared about how HTML 5 really should finally kill off the proprietary Flash and Silverlight browser add-ons. HTML 5, a groundbreaking upgrade to the prominent Web presentation specification, could become a game-changer in Web application development, one that might even make obsolete such plug-in-based rich Internet application ... http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/2009/06/16/html-5-should-kill-flash-and-silverlight/ Yes, I'm back from almost a week in Canada visiting my friends in Vancouver and the FME UC at Whistler.  First I'd like to thank Safe for the honor of giving the keynote.  I enjoyed it thoroughly and meeting everyone there was an absolute blast. Both Don and Dale did a ... http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/2009/06/15/back-from-the-2009-safe-fme-user-conference/ Well I'm off to Whistler, BC and the 2009 FME User Conference.  It should be a blast and if you are going as well lets meet up for some drinks. They still play hockey up there don't they? http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/2009/06/09/off-to-the-fme-user-conference/ A reader wanted to know the following question, I figured rather than answer it myself, you guys could help a fellow out. "Please list all the pros and cons of ArcView 3.1" I'm sure whatever insight you could give the person asking the question would be greatly appreciated. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Looks ... http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/2009/06/08/from-the-mailbag/ I'm sure most of you have seen the news of Amazon hosting TIGER shapefiles in S3 and now in EBS.  Sure I like TIGER being available for EC2 instances, but the real amazing stuff happens when you can work with OpenStreetMap XML data.  That mounted up to either FME Server ... http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/2009/06/05/amazon-hosting-tiger-is-nice-openstreetmap-would-be-interesting/ While waiting for ArcGIS Server to cut my tile cache, I thought I'd look at who is exhibiting at the 2009 ESRI User Conference.  A couple caught my eye. BlackBerry - If only they were going to demo a real ESRI API on their phone. DeLorme - I'm really interested in seeing ... http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/2009/06/03/a-quick-look-at-2009-esri-international-user-conference-exhibitors/ Looks like ESRI got out JSAP v1.4 just before the weekend.  Some items of note: Enhancements to the ESRI JavaScript API (this is inside the JSAPI, not the ESRI ArcGIS Server JavaScript API Bing Maps for Enterprise Extender) include a new BingTiledLayer and support for the Bing Maps for Enterprise Geocoder.  ... http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/2009/05/29/esri-releases-javascript-api-v14/ No way, no how will I ever refer to Virtual Earth as Bing Maps for Enterprise.  I'm putting my foot down on this. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty-headed animal food trough water! I fart in your general direction! Your mother was ... http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/2009/05/28/bing-maps-for-enterprise/ OpenGeo has released their OpenGeo Suite to the public.  Most people already know about the part of OpenGeo Suite, so take a look at the Version Matrix with pricing and features and the big reason why you'd look at this suite. http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/2009/05/28/opengeo-releases-opengeo-suite-puts-price-on-open-source-gis/ I suppose there is some sort of Google event going on this week and what do you know, we've got some GoogleGeo news: Google Maps API v3 - The new Google Maps API v3 enables support on mobile browsers (such as Mobile Safari), dropping the need for keys (hurray!), now MVC-based ... http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/2009/05/27/google-io-news/ The video from our Where 2.0 presentation is available. If you haven't been following what the GNOCDC is doing down in New Orleans, this is a great introduction. You can download the presentation here. http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/2009/05/24/direct-from-where-20-2009-junk-mail-and-the-geoweb-shine-light-on-new-orleans-recovery/ As Steve pointed out, this is does deserve two exclamation points!! Just like CSS for styling web pages, GSS is a specification for designing maps. Adapted for dynamic data sources, GSS can define changing geographic elements, display multiple datasets, and even respond to contextual tags like "condition:poor". Very tasty!  Just look at this simple ... http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/2009/05/22/gss-style-your-web-maps-with-css-client-side/