ArcGIS 10 Service Pack 1
That fun time we all wait for with releases, the Esri Service Pack. ArcGIS 10 SP1 is out and available for those who want to be cutting edge. The long list of what is fixed is here (but we all know you aren’t reading that and you’ll install anyway). Plus how many ArcIMS service packs will you ever be able to download in the future?
GeoDesign Friday
Looking for something besides damnyouautocorrect.com for your Friday distraction? A couple of interesting GeoDesign links are below for distraction.
First up is a new e-book from Esri called, “Changing Geography by Design: Selected Readings in GeoDesign”. As expensive as that title is, it is available as a free PDF from ESRI. And don’t worry, Carl Steinitz’s work is way back in the Bibliography, so you can ignore his complicated University-think GeoDesign ideas (yea, works well at Harvard, but us mere mortals live in the real world).
The other is a video demonstrating some GeoDesign workflows to perform a suitability analysis. Cool stuff (though clearly an Esri exercise)…
Oh, and Go Giants!
GeoDesign Friday
Looking for something besides damnyouautocorrect.com for your Friday distraction? A couple of interesting GeoDesign links are below for distraction.
First up is a new e-book from Esri called, “Changing Geography by Design: Selected Readings in GeoDesign”. As expensive as that title is, it is available as a free PDF from ESRI. And don’t worry, Carl Steinitz’s work is way back in the Bibliography, so you can ignore his complicated University-think GeoDesign ideas (yea, works well at Harvard, but us mere mortals live in the real world).
The other is a video demonstrating some GeoDesign workflows to perform a suitability analysis. Cool stuff (though clearly an Esri exercise)…
Oh, and Go Giants!
First PHXGeo Meetup this Wednesday at 7pm
Yea it is about time us Phoenix Metro folk get off our butts and start up an open geo group. We’ve got our first meetup this Wednesday in downtown Phoenix at the Turf Accountant Pub at 7:00 PM. I’ll be there and so will many of the GeoNinjas in the Valley of the Sun. It’s just off the Metro Light Rail so it will be easy to get to for all.
Find out more at phxgeo.org and on the event page.
First PHXGeo Meetup this Wednesday at 7pm
Yea it is about time us Phoenix Metro folk get off our butts and start up an open geo group. We’ve got our first meetup this Wednesday in downtown Phoenix at the Turf Accountant Pub at 7:00 PM. I’ll be there and so will many of the GeoNinjas in the Valley of the Sun. It’s just off the Metro Light Rail so it will be easy to get to for all.
Find out more at phxgeo.org and on the event page.
ExtMap Touch — Mobile Browser Geo Framework
Alper Dincer is one busy guy. Seems like just a couple weeks ago he release iExtMap for iOS. Well if you follow me on Twitter, you’ll know I’m always complaining about apps and app stores holding back real mobile development. I mean shouldn’t it be simple to just have one web app that covers iOS, Android and Blackberry? Ah, but no. It just isn’t that easy, until now…
Alper though has a new framework that looks very promising. Says Alper:
Writing a multi-platform viewer is also quite hard due to different code bases on different platforms. Mobile Web is developing very fast due to usage of WebKit on different platforms. Today; iOS, Android, WebOS, Bada, BlackBerry, Symbian and other platforms are using WebKit implementations on their browsers and this lead to a dream of web developer : One browser to rule them all?
Anyway, I have the idea to write a mobile version of ExtMap, but there is a need for a motivation to start the project. The motivation was Sencha Touch Developer Contest and Sencha Touch Framework and I started working ExtMap Touch on Sencha Touch Framework and Google Maps JavaScript API v3.
Yahtzee! I’ve been playing with the demo this morning at the GITA Oil and Gas conference (where WeoGeo is exhibiting) and I love what I see. I can’t wait to get back home and start playing around with this thing. Check out the live demo and the ExtMap project home for more information.