System Design Strategies on wiki.GIS.com
April 9, 2010 3 Comments
One of the more valuable books/whitepapers to come out of ESRI is Dave Peter’s System Design Strategies. I think it is natural for this whitepaper to evolve into wiki format and ESRI clearly agrees.
One really valuable outcome from this is that the content now has a Creative Commons license that means that you can leverage the work as long as you attribute and share alike. I know planning GIS is a tough nut to crack, but a collaborative effort to improve the design process will improve all implementations no matter if they are ESRI, PBBI or OSGeo.
Without good system design strategies, your island might tip over.
About James Fee
Great glorious crap, this video is making me scratch my eyes out with my ears. Wow. A whole 70 seconds spent saying what could be said in about 3 (and which deserves 0). Not only that, but he makes those 70 seconds feel like 20 minutes. That’s some kind of magic.
Good on ya matey, Dave Peters resources are the best, and the wiki is a great enhancement – cannot wait to see that in CC, thanks for pushing us all along, Jimbo.
speaking of system design … ah 1996 – what a year ….”the big rumor at the UC was that ESRI was totally rewriting ArcGIS at version 10.0 so maybe this new architecture takes advantage of multi-core and 64-bit. Don’t bother contacting your ESRI rep as I’m sure this is probably 2 years away.
http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/2006/09/19/esri-multi-core-and-64-bit-processors/