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The GIS Interchange File

May 5th, 2008 · 36 Comments · GIS

All too often we have to request people resend datasets to each other because they get blocked by email, one important file gets left off or systems just don’t recognize a file type. I’ve run into a problem today where a company FTP site is rejecting a shapefile because it doesn’t recognize the .shp, [...]

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ArcGIS Server and ArcSDE (and even Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Spatial)

December 17th, 2007 · 47 Comments · ArcGIS Server, ArcSDE, ESRI

OK, so here is what is happening at 9.3 with ArcSDE.

ArcSDE finally rides into the sunset. Even though technically ArcSDE has been replaced at 9.2, it was still a separate product. Now at 9.3 it will become fully integrated into ArcGIS Server. ArcGIS Server Enterprise will be the “traditional” ArcSDE level where [...]

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Geodatabase Replication

November 20th, 2007 · 10 Comments · ArcGIS Desktop, ArcSDE, ESRI, GIS

I get a ton of emails asking me exactly how ESRI’s geodatabase replication works. It is pretty slick to be honest so I think everyone who has SDE should probably learn more about it. ESRI has posted a podcast titled “Geodatabase Replication: Working with Replication that explains in more detail what geodatabase replication [...]

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