Missed the Geospatial PDF eSeminar?
July 27, 2009 4 Comments
Well lucky you, you can still watch it here.
GEOMONKEY LOVEZ TEH GEOSPATIAL PDF
Geospatial and Mapping eSeminar
July 20, 2009 3 Comments
An interesting Webinar takes place this Wednesday at 10am PDT. The AdobeUsers.com GeospatialPDF Webinar covers:
- How GIS professionals can create full-featured map layouts with attributes, labels and layers in ESRI’s ArcMap and use TerraGo Publisher to export them to a geo-registered, portable PDF
- How to use PDF maps in the field, including querying the spatial data (e.g., find coordinates of a location or accurately measure distance, perimeter and area) and creating spatially intelligent markup using the tools in Acrobat 9
- How GIS staff in the office can roll field markups within a PDF map back into the enterprise quickly and efficiently
It sounds like a good overview of using PDF to share spatial data and maps. Definitely worth the time.
Even Ben Franklin was interested in getting the message out to the old world about geospatial PDFs.
Patch ArcGIS 9.3 to support Adobe Acrobat 9 PDF
July 8, 2008 7 Comments
Because of a NDA of some sort, the Acrobat 9 support was never in the 9.3 beta program and even missed the 9.3 release. But never fear, you can download the patch to enable Acrobat 9 support:
Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader version 9 support a new version of PDF that allows for encoding of map coordinate system and georeference information inside the PDF file. This patch enables ArcGIS Desktop, Engine, and Server applications to export georeferenced PDF files.
There also appears to be some sort of agreement where Adobe will support GeoPDF in their Arcobat releases. My head hurts a little after reading those press releases (note to everyone, stop using the word “consume”). Hopefully TerraGo will use their blog to actually tell us in English what this agreement means.
Acrobat Maps, Email and GeoWeb 2008 Conference
June 2, 2008 2 Comments
I guess the “big” news today was the Acrobat 9 “maps” feature. All Points Blog and Fantom Planet both cover the news in their own unique style. Since ArcGIS 9.3 will support the new PDF maps (with a patch of course) I suspect that this will be very popular, at least in our circles. Just last week I was watching someone take a ruler and put it up to their computer screen to measure distance. Hopefully with Acrobat 9 we won’t have to see this anymore. The bonus part of Adobe putting this in is that the free Adobe Reader supports the mapping features and will hopefully mean that it will be adopted quicker than GeoPDF has.
Now I wonder if this goes with the rumor that I’ve heard that ArcGIS Desktop will support reading of PDF files in the near future.
Also, as many of you know my first day at RSP Architects was today. The best way to get a hold of me via email moving forward will be at this email address.
james.fee@rsparch.com
Lastly, I’m going to be going to the GeoWeb 2008 Conference in July and be on a Spark Panel Session moderated by Geoff Zeiss called “National Critical Infrastructure Data Models: Implications for Local Government and Utilities”. Now if that title doesn’t get you excited, I’m not sure you are alive. Seriously though, I’m looking forward to GeoWeb 2008 as the CAD-BIM papers are right up my alley these days.
We’ll be running up to Vancouver for GeoWeb 2008 this summer.
