Arizona State again takes care of Arizona. Nice to keep that Territorial Cup, the Cup is the oldest (1899 – Arizona became a state in 1912) trophy for a rivalry game in NCAA football, from going down to Tucson again. Plus ASU basketball beat Iowa. What a night!
Well I’m about ready to head out for the Thanksgiving Day weekend, but I thought I’d grab something to play with. After following the simple directions here and double checking them here, I got the following when I try and login:
This could be as fun as getting the servlet working with ArcIMS.
As with most updates to ArcGIS, new versions geodatabases do not work with older versions of ArcGIS. The only work around is to use a blank geodatabase from that version of ArcGIS. For those who have already upgraded and need older versions of ArcGIS 8.3, 9.x and 10.x geodatabases, feel free to grab one from below.
Newer versions of ArcGIS can can’t write older geodatabases. Each of these has been created by that version of the Esri ArcGIS Desktop ensuring you have the native geodatabase for each version.
I updated my GIS links list today. Not all of these links are in Planet Geospatial, but they are all in my RSS Aggregator. OPML files are available also for those who want to import the feeds into their aggregator. The links list is available at the upper right portion of my blog homepage sidebar.
Just felt like doing something not ArcGIS Server ADF related today.
Looks like Google has rolled out some improvements with the Google Maps support of KML. Some of the improvements are support for exported photo sets out of Picasa (meh), view KML overlays (wonderful) and customized marker icons. Google has posted some examples of the KML overlay and the customized marker icons, but I’m sure you can find many more examples out there. Look how much better my Chandler, AZ zoning signs KML looks now in Google Maps. Rather than push pins, you see the actual Chandler Zoning signs. Sweet!
I think all Arc2Earth users are going to be very happy about this as Google Earth is not required to view KML/KMZ and you don’t have to worry about installation or licensing.
I’ve been playing with Adobe’s Flash based color pallet generator – Kuler. It requires the latest version of Flash so you might want to go to Flash.com and pick it up. I’m as color blind as one can be (which is why I go for this black on white blog theme) so I usually ask some of my graphic designer friends for color theme suggestions. I also like that you can browse other people’s color themes to get some idea’s of your own. For both web design and cartography I can see using this.
Dave Bouwman points out something that will probably make every ESRI Server developer cringe.
If you want to design a system the way you have it running today – you’re looking a 3 times the base pricing for server – this will get you ArcSDE running as a service on a separate DBMS (assuming 2 sockets) and the web ADF running on it’s own server (also 2 sockets).
I know we set up our installations this way and I’m sure most of you do to. The extra cost for SDE on a second server didn’t surprise me (I’m a little disappointed, but I guess it makes sense). The web ADF is a totally different story.
At this point it is very safe to say that ESRI has developed the most expensive web ADF in the history of the internet. I’d heard rumors about this, but I kept laughing them off because it just didn’t make any sense. We better not trash that old .NET 1.1 website framework we developed just yet.
I’m just at a loss for words right now.
I guess Microsoft has been busy the last week. Not only is Virtual Earth 3D now up to version 1.1, MapCruncher 3.0 has also been released. Rather than list all the changes in 3.0, you can view the changelog yourself here. The biggest change that addresses some of the issues I had is transparency. And of course it now supports VE 3D so I can’t imagine how cool these mashups are going to be now with 3D support. I wish I wasn’t heading out for the day so I can play with MapCruncher. If you don’t feel like creating your own mashups, you can view some in the MapCruncher demo gallery. Non appear to be 3D, but I’m sure that will change by next week. Until then check out this interesting MapCruncher site called 3D Geology Maps.
Looks like Virtual Earth 3D has been updated to 1.1. I’ve seen a couple of posts in Technorati, but none seem to identify what exactly has changed. I wonder if this release fixes the problem installing Virtual Earth 3D in non-english locales. It looks like performance has been improved, but that could just be Saturday morning light traffic on Microsoft’s servers. I’m heading out to take my son to the Arizona Science Center which I think was pretty interesting to find directions for now that Virtual Earth supports both Bird’s Eye View and 3D View.
UPDATE 1 – The Virtual Earth blog says that the 1.1 update fixes the international issue. What is even better news is that you don’t even need to download the 1.1 version. It automatically updates which is much nicer than the Google Earth method of having to check daily for updates (or just let Frank do that for you). I was talking to someone over MSN Messenger and they were wondering how you know what version of Virtual Earth 3D you are running. I’m not sure it is an issue. I think it is always the latest version running.
Haven’t had one of these in a couple weeks. I guess some people might have comments about ArcGIS 9.2 huh?
