James Fee GIS Blog

So what does it actually mean?  Adding Virtual Earth tiles to ArcGIS Desktop/Explorer?  First off, this isn’t a free service.  The ArcGIS Online Premium Service: Virtual Earth Maps Collection will cost you.  How much?  Not a clue.  I’m sure it will be at a price point that will make some jaws drop and others will [...]

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I’m normally not a big blogger of press releases, but I know the crowd that reads this blog will be very interested.  I’ll follow up more later today with some thoughts about what this might mean for all of us.
Microsoft Virtual Earth to Be Offered With ESRI’s ArcGIS Online Services

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ESRI has released ArcGIS 9.2 SP6. All those who are unlucky enough to be working though the weekend can get ahead of the rest of us who will spend out Monday morning downloading and installing SP6 on our our workstations.
Me?  I’ll be on the couch all weekend watching the British Open.

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One of the more interesting features ESRI has rolled out lately is the ability to connect to geodatabases that aren’t the same release. Now ArcGIS 9.2 SP5 or SP6 clients can make connections to ArcSDE 9.3 geodatabases and for ArcGIS 9.3 clients can make direct connections to any ArcSDE 9.x geodatabase.
Direct connections to ArcSDE [...]

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Those who aren’t jumping on the 9.3 upgrade bandwagon can grab the latest ArcGIS 9.2 SP6 release available later this month. I’m personally very happy to see continued improvements to 9.2 even though 9.3 is released. Many organizations don’t upgrade immediately and making sure 9.2 is still improved allows those who aren’t ready [...]

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It looks like ESRI finally put the 9.3 help publicly and you no longer need a password to access it (HT Jithen & Mapperz).
Welcome to ArcGIS Desktop Help 9.3
The ESRI Resource Center is available as well. Unlike the disorganized ArcGIS Support pages, these are focused on the ESRI product you are working with. [...]

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GISUser.com has a news release posted that probably was meant to go out tomorrow, but “today” ArcGIS 9.3 ships. (HT Bill Dollins)
So now go bug your local ESRI rep asking them when it will show up.

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This is clear to me:
FeatureServer + ArcSDE Data Store = Holy Grail
Being able to store data in ArcSDE, but still access it freely across any and all platforms. ArcGIS clients can hit ArcSDE and everyone else can enjoy data served by FeatureServer. But deep down this is even bigger than FeatureServer because really [...]

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