The least surprising news of the week - ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight (Coming Soon)
The word leaked out last week from the Developer Summit agenda and now ESRI has a webpage posted with the latest info on their latest API. Yep, Silverlight. The ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight??is probably compelling for some .NET developers and we’ve seen some interesting work from IDV Solutions. What is interesting is that it allows developers to leverage Microsoft Virtual Earth in addition to the ESRI ArcGIS Online data which is much more than the Flex API can do. The current information page from ESRI is very light on details (could ESRI have chosen a less compelling example screen shot?), but given some of the immersive user interfaces I’ve seen built with Silverlight, I can only expect we’ll get our socks knocked off at the Dev Summit. So in the course of about a year, we’ve got ESRI Server APIs for .NET, Java, JavaScript, Flex and now Silverlight. So what is left, Rails?
Are you sitting down? ESRI just announced they are going to release a Silverlight API.
Are you sitting down? ESRI just announced they are going to release a Silverlight API.
GeoServer 1.7.2 continues improvements to Cartography
As with GeoServer 1.7.1, the latest release improves some cartographic rendering capabilities of the Open Source server product. 1.7.2 brings wrapped labels and hatching to render some impressive maps. Other new additions include HTML image mapping, OGR extension to output WFS as any supported OGR output formats (I get chills thinking of the possibilities), and improvements to GeoExt Styler. If that still doesn’t get you interested, this little tidbit at the end of the post should catch your eye:
Stay tuned for the 1.7.3 release, slated for release in the next month, which will include improvements to?Geo Search, and the official release of the REST configuration API.
GeoServer 1.7.2 continues improvements to Cartography
As with GeoServer 1.7.1, the latest release improves some cartographic rendering capabilities of the Open Source server product. 1.7.2 brings wrapped labels and hatching to render some impressive maps. Other new additions include HTML image mapping, OGR extension to output WFS as any supported OGR output formats (I get chills thinking of the possibilities), and improvements to GeoExt Styler. If that still doesn’t get you interested, this little tidbit at the end of the post should catch your eye:
Stay tuned for the 1.7.3 release, slated for release in the next month, which will include improvements to?Geo Search, and the official release of the REST configuration API.
ArcGIS API for Flex 1.1
Like it or not, Flash is here to stay. ESRI continues to improve their APIs (and not on on the Service Pack schedule) regularly so it might be a good idea to use the feedback channels to get features you want in the next release. So check out ArcGIS API for Flex 1.1 and see what eye candy you can add to your maps.
Flex Gordon to the rescue!
Flex Gordon to the rescue…
ArcGIS API for Flex 1.1
Like it or not, Flash is here to stay. ESRI continues to improve their APIs (and not on on the Service Pack schedule) regularly so it might be a good idea to use the feedback channels to get features you want in the next release. So check out ArcGIS API for Flex 1.1 and see what eye candy you can add to your maps.
Flex Gordon to the rescue!
Flex Gordon to the rescue…
What is new in ArcGIS 9.3.1
So the ESRI Business Partner Conference and the Developer Summit is coming up and that means that ESRI will be showing the latest releases of their software. In preparation of the DevSummit, ESRI has published new features of ArcGIS 9.3.1. I’m interested to see the faster rendering and map optimization. One thing that did catch my eye:
Upgrading to ArcGIS 9.3.1 does not require uninstalling ArcGIS 9.3.
That should speed the upgrade times up from hours to minutes. Expect 9.1.1?9.3.1 second quarter (April, May, June) 2009.