James Fee GIS Blog

So what was the story on the Thursday night party being in a parking lot? I’m looking at some uploaded photos in Flickr and it looks bizzare compared to previous years. Did the “American Road Trip” theme result in putting the party in a parking lot or did the theme come about because [...]

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I’ve gotten a couple people emailing me complaining about the lack of info coming out of the 2007 UC. I’m not sure what I can do about it as I’m not there. Thus if you’ve seen something interesting at the UC and think the folks back in the home office should know about [...]

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Great IM conversation:
gretch: afternoon james
James Fee: how are you doing?
gretch: great, im at the uc
James Fee: having a good time?
gretch: sure, people here are a little excited
James Fee: yea, people enjoy hanging around with fellow geo-geeks
gretch: esri guys excited too
gretch: howard dean excited
James Fee: lmao, really?
gretch: i swear he looked like his head would explode
gretch: [...]

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By far the best thing I have read on Planet Geospatial in months.
Welcome to ESRI User Conference 2007: Amateurs Go Home!
…the plenary was quite disappointing. While some of the usual suspects have round-ups that make it look like a lot is being added, I find little to be energized about. They are integrating Image Server [...]

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If you want to talk live about what you’ve seen, drop by the Planet Geospatial IRC channel.
Planet Geospatial IRC
Server: irc.freenode.net
Channel: #planetgeospatial
The convention center blocks IRC, but you can use the web based client here:
http://crschmidt.net/irc/irc.cgi

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There was some talk about the OSG-SD not happening, but it looks like its a go.
From the OSG-SD mailing list:
Hi All
Well its on !
Tim Foresman has agreed to be our speaker again ! Fresh from the ISDE5 conference in Berkeley.
http://www.isde5.org/
We had a Great time and made lots of new friends. Lots of good [...]

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UPDATE: I have no idea why ESRI doesn’t believe in permalinks so all those links below do nothing special. Sorry.
I’m not going and probably most of you aren’t either so this might be your best bet as to getting an idea what might or might not be said Monday morning.
ESRI International User Conference 2007 [...]

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A couple folks asked if I was going to the UC this year so I figured I’d post my plans.
I’m not planning on going; I’ve got my complementary pass, but I’m June is the worst time for me between workload and moving into the new house (not to mention a wedding I [...]

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GeoMullah has been coordinating the Blogger Meetup for the UC. Last year it got hurt by the .NET SIG, but this year it shouldn’t be a problem. Any GIS blogger who will be at the UC should stop by. Last year Google was there handing out swag, so you’ll probably not want [...]

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Well it looks like the Open Source GIS Gathering that happened last year at the ESRI 2006 User Conference will occur again.
Folks, save the datum… We’re tentatively planning a 2nd Annual Open Source GIS Gathering to be held on Monday, June 18th - probably starting early afternoon, ending late in the evening. The same Monday [...]

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On Jack’s Presentation:
Jack Dangermond as usual did a great job. He actually admitted that ESRI makes mistakes and apologized for them. He really got into ArcGIS Server which seems to be the big push this year as well as some of the new cartographic tools in ArcGIS Desktop. ArcGIS Explorer got some [...]

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I’m sitting at the airport right now (the security checking wasn’t bad at all) waiting for my plane back to Phoenix. I had a great time hanging out with everyone and seeing people I hadn’t seen in quite some time. Back to work on Friday and then the weekend is here.

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I’m shifting my gears this morning and going to a session on ArcMap. I got a little ArcGIS Server overload yesterday so I’m going to see how much ArcGIS Desktop I can absorb today. You can always visit ESRI.com and view the “What’s Coming in ArcGIS 9.2” for more detailed info.
ArcMap 9.2 tries [...]

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I had quite a bit of business realated matters to get to today so I didn’t get much time to go to any sessions or walk the floor. I hope to get back on track tomorrow. Still Planet Geospatial has done a kick-ass job of keeping me up to date even though I’m [...]

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The default web mapping client looks great (AJAX, caching). You can work with multiple services at once. WMS, ArcIMS, ArcGIS Server can all be integrated (projection the fly and transparency) as well as ArcWeb Services. Publishing maps with ArcGIS Server is really easy to do. From inside ArcCatalog all you have [...]

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Keyboard shortcuts for tools (hit “z” for the zoom function)

Better mouse roller wheel support

Better context menus

Customize Map Scale list (1” to 200’, etc)

Limit Zoom to full extent (stops you from zooming out to the whole world rather than your focus area)

Right click and identify any feature

Sort the identify results (or hide fields you don’t want [...]

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It is somewhat hard to blog about Jack’s talks. I’ll just focus on some big points he made and leave some of the details for the rest of the week. First off Jack reiterated that 9.2 is the biggest release since 8.0 and apologized for problems with their software in the past. [...]

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Well I’m sitting at the plenary ready to hear what Jack has to say. The setup seems the same as last year, widescreens everywhere.

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I haven’t been part of a presentation at ESRI since probably 1998 so I’m not really full of any hints. My suggestion to those who have asked is bring lots of donuts.

I guess though there are better resources than that, but I can’t think of anything better than donuts to go with my morning [...]

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OK, thanks to GeoMullah the UC geoblogger meetup is all set.
Place: Mister Tiki Mai Tai Lounge
801 5th Ave, San Diego, CA
(619) 233-1183
Time: 8pm, 9 August
Just let GeoMullah know that you are coming either by posting here or on his blog. If you geoblog or read geoblogs come by and hang out with other geogeeks. [...]

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