ArcGIS 9.2 SP6 Released
ESRI has released ArcGIS 9.2 SP6. All those who are unlucky enough to be working though the weekend can get ahead of the rest of us who will spend out Monday morning downloading and installing SP6 on our our workstations.
Me? I’ll be on the couch all weekend watching the British Open.
Some wear their ESRI T-Shirt while climbing mountains, I wear it while watching golf.”
Esri EDN Tshirt
WeoGeo Helps Safe Software into the Cloud
Paul Bissett has some great news on Safe Software entering a partnership with WeoGeo. This is great for users who have looked at the superb FME Server and wondered how the heck could they actually use it. WeoGeo gets that into the cloud using Amazon Web Services (AWS) and users benefit by being able to pay for what they use.
Details in the press release. Paul was hinting he had some news for GeoWeb and apparently he wasn’t kidding around. This could be a game changer for sure.
WeoGeo Helps Safe Software into the Cloud
Paul Bissett has some great news on Safe Software entering a partnership with WeoGeo. This is great for users who have looked at the superb FME Server and wondered how the heck could they actually use it. WeoGeo gets that into the cloud using Amazon Web Services (AWS) and users benefit by being able to pay for what they use.
Details in the press release. Paul was hinting he had some news for GeoWeb and apparently he wasn’t kidding around. This could be a game changer for sure.
Microsoft Whitepaper - Introduction to Spatial Coordinate Systems — Flat Maps for a Round Planet
Isaac Kunen blog’s about the first spatial whitepaper Microsoft has released.
Introduction to Spatial Coordinate Systems: Flat Maps for a Round Planet
Says Isaac: “This paper is a bit of an odd duck: it isn’t SQL Server, or even Microsoft specific in any way. It’s just a little introduction to the use of spatial data.” Yea so it isn’t exactly new material for spatial folks, but hey it might come in handy one day and it is very well written. Definitely worth bookmarking.
Microsoft is new to the spatial world, so maybe they didnt get everything right.
Bill gates
Microsoft Whitepaper - Introduction to Spatial Coordinate Systems — Flat Maps for a Round Planet
Isaac Kunen blog’s about the first spatial whitepaper Microsoft has released.
Introduction to Spatial Coordinate Systems: Flat Maps for a Round Planet
Says Isaac: “This paper is a bit of an odd duck: it isn’t SQL Server, or even Microsoft specific in any way. It’s just a little introduction to the use of spatial data.” Yea so it isn’t exactly new material for spatial folks, but hey it might come in handy one day and it is very well written. Definitely worth bookmarking.
Microsoft is new to the spatial world, so maybe they didnt get everything right.
Bill gates
ESRI’s EDN Site’s “Purpose”
I was wondering just this week the purpose of ESRI’s EDN site now that they’ve got the Resource Centers online. The ArcObjects Development Blog has some of the thinking behind why EDN is just a placeholder now:
Feedback from the user community, as well as our own technology development goals indicate that developers need information about product installation, architecture, administration, and functional usage as much as any other user, and end-users more and more often are making use of information for product customization, components, scripting, programming, and other resources typically associated with application developers. As our technology continues to grow along with the maturity of information technology, the lines between “user” and “developer” continue to blur and overlap. It makes less and less sense to maintain two sites and have users decide which one to use.
I do like the Resource Centers very much, but the more I think about this move, the more it seems like the same old ESRI response; launch a website and then let it languish until it becomes useless. The support site is stuck in 1999, EDN seems like it was stuck in 2005 and now we’ve got the Resource Centers. I can only hope they don’t fall to the same fate as those before it.
ESRI, I’m just a caveman. I fell on some ice and later got thawed out by some of your scientists. Your methods frighten and confuse me!
Esri Caveman