Gis Blogroll

The list has grown quite long over the last few months and this doesn’t even include the ESRI blogs I have in a separate folder.. It is interesting that if you blog begins with the letter G” (and this is true for ESRI blogs too), you have a good chance of being on Blogger. I’m looking forward to the next release of FeedDemon which will allow me to get reports on how often many of these blogs actually publish. Should be interesting reading, then again maybe not.

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November 7, 2005 Thoughts






Blogging From the Esri New Zealand User Conference

Link - scrappad

J has been posting on the ESRI New Zealand User Conference. He says the theme is South Pacific” which seems redundant since they are in the South Pacific, but I guess maybe its more of a Hawaiian thing than a M’ori theme. Anyway J, when do we get to see the photos? You did such a great job at the International UC, that I was hoping to see you wearing your matching shirt.

November 7, 2005 Thoughts






Create Your Own Mapping Mashup Without Any Programming

Link - Mapbuilder.net

MapBuilder.net is an Web2.0 service that is used to build custom Google and Yahoo maps without any knowledge of the Google/Yahoo Maps API and JavaScript. MapBuilder provides a decent visual interface for the map building process, which includes geocoding features. Also MapBuilder lets users tag locations on their maps, and then publish the map either on MapBuilder.net or their own website.

This is pretty neat and very simple. I think may bloggers will want to bookmark this site to add some functionality to their websites.

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November 6, 2005 Thoughts






ArcWeb 2005 Is Now ArcWeb 2006

Link - 2005 Nordic Developers Conference

I presented on ArcWeb, showing some highlights from ArcWeb 2006 (yes, it’s now called 2006 even if we are releasing it in 2005). I did not get too much feedback, I presume this is mostly because the model of web services and SOA in GIS is still not widely used/accepted there yet but I’m very hopeful.

I have an idea. Go find Brian and his camera and create a video of the new features of ArcWeb 2006. Post it and I’m sure you’ll get some good feedback.

Anyway, glad to hear it will be out soon.

November 6, 2005 Thoughts






Using the Yahoo Geocoding Api With Php

Link - GeoCool!

Web 2.0 and the programmable web that I and others have been talking about for a while has mostly been vapourware so far. There are a few generic components that are useful, but it is somewhat limited what you can do with them. And yes, you may consider this a somewhat biased view, but I think Yahoo!’s new geocoding platform is a huge step in the right direction.

Geocoding is the hook that could get the Yahoo! Maps API more popularity. Rasmus has a great tutorial written on how to create a map with Y!Map API and PHP. He even shows you how to use the Flash or AJAX front end. I’m amazed at how easy it is to use and Rasmus even has a demo showing all the earthquakes (what else would a California programmer do) that have occurred over the past 7 days.

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November 4, 2005 Thoughts






Esri Posts ArcGIS Visual Studio .Net Integration Framework on Edn

Link - ArcGIS Visual Studio .NET Integration Framework

This framework provides a number of commands, wizards and templates which are available through the Visual Studio .NET IDE to help you create solutions, projects and classes for ArcGIS customizations more efficiently.

This is the type of integration that makes any Visual Studio user happy. Anything to simplify workflows gets a gold star from me. Everyone who was involved with this should be proud, I know Art and Brian worked hard to get it up, but I’m sure there are tons more who helped. I’m really looking forward toward the 9.2 release. Check out some screen shots below in VS.NET 2003. Wizard1

New ArcGIS Project

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Add references wizard

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License checking wizard

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Integrated Help

November 4, 2005 .net arcgis Thoughts visual studio