James Fee GIS Blog

I reviewed ArcGIS for iOS a couple weeks back and liked what I saw.  One of my biggest disappointments was the lack of OGC support.  ESRI says it is coming, but in the meantime I took it upon myself to try out other iOS mapping clients.  One that has caught my eye is iExtMap.  You [...]

Over the holiday weekend, ESRI’s new ArcGIS for iOS went live on the Apple iTunes Store. ESRI lists the following as “features”: Navigate map galleries in just a few taps Use maps authored in ArcGIS.com Access your own GIS data Display and zoom to current location Perform linear and area measurements based on your current [...]

ESRI has been pushing their iPhone SDK quite a bit this year and everyone finally has access to it. I personally still think that web apps are the better choice on mobile devices, but for those who want to jump into Objective-C, check out James Richards blog post on developing with the new SDK. All [...]

One thing that has become crystal clear is the preferred method of having a mapping application on the iPhone and by extension the new iPad is to create a native iPhone/iPad app.  That said, the noise sometimes causes people to miss some great web mapping app (as native web apps).  I’ve looked into using SVG [...]

Here are 5 predictions for Twenty Ten. The shapefile dies: SpatiaLite + ESRI’s File Geodatabase API finally put a dagger in the shapefile. GIS on iPhone/iSlate (Apple Tablet) and Android/Chrome OS: With Apple and Google owning the mobile space, we’ll see more proprietary and open source projects being ported to these platforms.  Microsoft Tablet PCs and [...]

United  Maps has a video up on YouTube showcasing their upcoming Walk & Ride app for the iPhone. What I find interesting is that United Maps is rendering vectors directly on the iPhone. I’ve always though rasterizing vectors causes you to lose the power of vector datasets. All I can say is those lucky Euros [...]

Bill Dollins likes SpatiaLite and he’s been blogging about it and he isn’t the only one either.   How long to someone gets this running on Android or the iPhone (which both already run SQLite)?

Jack Dangermond was interviewed on CRBonline this week and there was one comment that caught my eye.  When Jack commented on ArcLogistics on mobile, the interviewer asked him this: Q. Does it run on the iPhone/BlackBerry Storm/Windows Mobile/Google Android? If not, when will it? A. We’ve standardised on Windows Mobile as a platform that gives us [...]

I was out last week in New Orleans and of course had no time to block so I’m going to try and catch up this week.   Alexander Karnstedt shares his thoughts on Dave Bouwman’s presentation at the Texas GIS Forum. “I strongly agree with Dave Bouwman’s assumption that this is the result of a long lasting [...]

whit has written a blog post on what he’s been working on getting OpenLayers to work with Mobile Safari on the iPhone (and iTouch). A major part of my recent investigations for mobile and opengeo have focused on getting OpenLayers to do a basic version of it’s thing on the iphone.   I’ve had limited success, [...]

So you can’t have Silverlight, Java or Flash to develop interactive mapping on the iPhone and have to “resort” to using JavaScript. Well maybe not, could SVG be the way forward to creating mapping websites on the iPhone?  My 2G iPhone seems to support SVG fairly well, but many SVG sites aren’t optimized for the [...]