He’s only running for president, close enough I say… Connecticut clearly wants to be close to Canada. And lets be honest, Massachusetts was too large anyway. It’s more manageable now.
I made a story map today. The process is a bit rough on the edges but I worked through it. I’ve used more Esri in the past month than the past 5 years.
Interesting times…
I’ve been playing with ArcGIS for Server 10.3.1 at Matrix and we’re all about running things with hosted services. So rather than spec out some hardware and install ArcGIS for Server on local legacy machines, we’re doing it all in the cloud. Because I’m new here there wasn’t any legacy AWS use so I was able to pick Azure for deployment. My logic:
So logical, no? Well late yesterday this tweet went out by me.
I was stuck here:
You can literally hear the sad trombone sound. Now Sam Libby was helping troubleshoot but things were still a bit weird. Basically as you can see in the error above, I needed to accept an EULA. Now of course I went into the the Azure Marketplace and followed the instructions to allow the Esri VM to be deployed programmatically which is what Cloud Builder requires. But each time it errored out the same way.
Sam offered this:
Basically he hit upon it. Microsoft did something with the marketplace and for whatever reason the Cloud Builder app won’t install an Esri ArcGIS for Server VM until you actually install it first yourself.
The workaround to get the Cloud Builder app to run is actually just create a VM using the Azure Portal then delete it.
After that, the Esri Cloud Builder app runs perfectly without trouble.
Philip Heede basically confirms everything.
So the ArcGIS for Server Cloud Builder2 works great. While I don’t like wizards in general, it automates the processes that take time and let’s you focus on the settings for ArcGIS for Server you want to change. I honestly haven’t installed ArcGIS for Server since it was ArcGIS Server (without the for) 9.3.1 and it was interesting to see how things have changed and how little has actually changed.
Over the weekend Apple apparently pushed out an indoor positioning app ‘Indoor Survey’ into the iOS App Store.
“By dropping ‘points’ on a map within the Survey App, you indicate your position within the venue as you walk through,” reads the app description. “As you do so, the indoor Survey App measures the radio frequency (RF) signal data and combines it with an iPhone’s sensor data. The end result is indoor positioning without the need to install special hardware.”
Interesting in the sense it appears to be an app that stores can use to map their interiors with iOS devices. It’s not a crowd sourced indoor mapping application. This dovetails nicely with the other announcement this morning about their new Maps Indoor service.
For now, Apple is focusing its efforts on a handful of venues that meet specific criteria. These requirements include:
- The venue must be accessible to the general public
- Only locations that draw more than a million visitors per year
- Apple requires “complete, accurate, and scaled reference maps” for consideration
- The venue must have Wi-Fi throughout, and an official app available on the App Store
The groundwork is set for Apple to start mapping interiors of these large open venues. But with an app and an iPhone, clearly Apple is planning to scale this out to just about every indoor location. I suspect we’ll see stadiums, amusement parks and other entertainment venues appear first over the next year.
