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Marten Hogeweg says that the ArcGIS Editor for OpenStreetMap is available on CodePlex as an open source add-in. Adds Marten: If you want to contribute to documentation, best practices, or code, send your codeplex account to mhogeweg at esri dot com and I can add you to the list of contributors. You Wichita lineman can [...]

A quick push out the door before the UC. ArcGIS (Desktop, Engine, Server) 9.3.1 Service Pack 2 ArcSDE 9.3.1 Service Pack 2 ArcIMS 9.3.1 Service Pack 2 ArcGIS Image Server 9.3.1 Service Pack 2 You can also see a list of the issues addressed with this Service Pack.

A fun website to explore on a Friday (not that you need my help on being distracted) is this project put together by Jonah M. Adkins, GISP of Newport News, Virginia. Geography of LOST: Retrospective is a project by Jonah where he mapped the island from the TV show LOST using ArcGIS Desktop. The maps [...]

Marten Hogeweg has a great overview on the new ArcGIS Editor for OpenStreetMap. For a while, ArcGIS users have been able to use the OpenStreetMap (OSM) content as a basemap in ArcGIS Desktop or in web applications thanks to a republishing of this content through ArcGIS Online. After the earthquakes, we have received many requests [...]

One of the best insights into ESRI and their direction is the UC Q&A. ESRI has posted the latest one here and some highlights are below: Q: What has ESRI done in the area of map books? A: At ArcGIS 10, functionality has been added to allow you to create map books using a feature [...]

I read Tobin Bradley’s post this morning on the hardware requirements of ArcGIS 10: The laptop I’m typing this on, my only work machine, is a C2D 2.0 GHz. I don’t meet the minimumrequirements for ArcGIS 10. And of course minimum requirements in software vendor parlance is a delicate balance between the software engineers, who would be [...]

Cloud Ready Well I’m sure you’ve all heard the news. ESRI is now an Amazon Independent Software Vendor. This means of course that we’ll see some ArcGIS Server in the Amazon Cloud very soon. In fact if you are an ESRI ELA user, you can take advantage of this right now using one of the [...]

Well I’m leaving warm sunny Arizona for some crazy reason to head off to the 2010 ESRI Federal User Conference in “balmy” Washington D.C. I haven’t been to the FedUC in more years than I care to share, but I’m excited to go this year. I’ll of course be hanging at the WeoGeo booth most [...]

ArcGIS 9.4 is now going to be ArcGIS 10. Jack announced this in a podcast today.  I didn’t hear much new than we’ve hard before about 9.4 so it appears it is a name change right now.  I’m wondering if there isn’t more out there we don’t know about yet that will make it into the ArcGIS [...]

Yep, the service pack to the .1 release is here: ArcGIS (Desktop, Engine, Server) 9.3.1 Service Pack 1 ArcSDE 9.3.1 Service Pack 1 ArcIMS 9.3.1 Service Pack 1 ArcGIS Image Server 9.3.1 Service Pack 1 UPDATE: Yikes, I left off ArcGIS Military Analyst 9.3.1 Service Pack 1 You can learn more on the “Issues addressed [...]

So the news at the DevSummit was that you could install both ArcGIS 9.4 alongside ArcGIS 9.3.1.  I’m not part of the beta for 9.4, but reports are that ESRI has not enabled this yet for the latest 9.4 beta release.  If you want to install 9.4 on a computer running ArcGIS 9.3.1, you are [...]

So the news that ESRI ArcGIS 9.4 will be the last version that includes VBA support has really stirred up some emotions.  So sum up a couple comments in that post, “I can’t believe they are dropping VBA, I use it all the time”.  Many of us have moved beyond VBA to other languages, but [...]

ESRI has an updated FAQ which outlines depreciation plans for the 9.3.1 release and what is coming at 9.4.  Some key highlights: ArcGIS Desktop 9.3.1 ArcGIS 9.3.1 contains the last release of the Crystal Report Wizard in ArcGIS Desktop; we will no longer provide this technology in ArcGIS 9.4.  Much more here (http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/2009/07/15/esri-arcgis-9-4-reports-updates/). ArcGIS 9.3.1 [...]

So we’ve got a service pack on top of a service pack dot one release headed our way.  I suppose this fixes everything that 9.3.1 was supposed to fix.  Sure why not?

The Plenary the other day didn’t get too deep into new features of 9.4, but I was lucky enough to learn more about report creation in the ArcGIS 9.4 release: 1. There is no Crystal Report Wizard in ArcGIS, the only means for creating a report is based on our new reporting engine. 2. The [...]

Map Templates Resource Center Something ESRI should have done when 8.x arrived.

One of the best new features of ArcGIS 9.3.1 is the Map Service Publishing toolbar in ArcMap.  This tool helps you analyze your maps to see what is slowing the map down.  No longer are you having to look for the needle in the haystack.  You just activate the toolbar and hit analyze.  Then ArcMap [...]

Remember TOPO! Pro for ArcGIS?  Don’t bother using the Google if you don’t recall, because it is gone. If you’ve invested tons of money in the state series then you’ll be happy to know that there is a tool that allows you to convert the TPQ files to JPEG with a world file.  TPQ Converter [...]

Well got my copy late last week and others are reporting that they’ve received it as well.  9.3.1 isn’t revolutionary, more evolutionary in nature so there isn’t that, “I MUST HAVE IT” feeling with it.  And you know what?  That is exactly what we need at this point, a nice solid release. Some blog posts [...]

If you are looking for a really simple way to move datasets from ArcGIS Desktop to Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Vish has you covered.  ArcToSQL2008 is an ArcCatalog command to export FeatureClasses to SQL Server 2008.