“Big Player” give free helpings of ArcGIS Online to Kids
via APB
I can’t help but laugh at this news a bit. I’m not educator but read up.
The dominant player in the world of geographic information systems is making free accounts to its advanced mapping software available to an estimated 100,000 K-12 schools in the U.S.
So free accounts of something that adults can’t even figure out how to use. I’m sure that will work out great. My son already thinks GIS is too complicated, now he might have to figure out how to manage Esri credits with ArcGIS Online? I admit though, I’ve been really busy lately so I haven’t kept up on the cost of AGOL:
In its release, Esri says the value of an account for the software is $10,000, leading to the $1 billion valuation for the entire donation ($10,000 X 100,000 U.S. K-12 schools.)
AGOL costs $10,000? Oh, well played Esri! You’re a “big player”!
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Come Work With Us
I could drop a link to weather.gov1 and say living in Phoenix is simply wonderful. I could mention that we’re hiring developers with PostGIS experience2. I could mention we’re working in Node.js3. I could mention we’re working only in Leaflet.js4. Actually I could mention a lot of things but the bottom line is if you want to work with PostGIS/Node.js/Leaflet on projects around the world and enjoy 85 degree days in February, apply here.
I’m looking for entry level developers and those with more experience. Apply away if you want to work in Phoenix with PostGIS/Node.js/Leaflet.
Hangouts with James Fee:: Here is to a Safe New Year
Thanks to Dale and Don of Safe Software for joining me to talk about all the great new features of FME 2014, Safe’s new FME Cloud, and the general state of file formats. The archived hangout is below.
Hangouts with James Fee:: Here is to a Safe New Year
Thanks to Dale and Don of Safe Software for joining me to talk about all the great new features of FME 2014, Safe’s new FME Cloud, and the general state of file formats. The archived hangout is below.
LAS, LAZ, LasZip, zLAS and You
Paul Ramsey sums up the situation very well:
Rather than avoiding a lengthy LIDAR format war, we are now entering one. In some respects, this will be healthy: the open LAS community now has to come up to feature parity faster than it might otherwise. But in most ways, it’s unhealthy: users will have data interchange issues, they’ll have to understand and install format translation software, and add extra steps to their processing chains.
Yuck right? LAS is still niche so it isn’t like FGDB where you have to convert it to old shapefiles to make it useful but working outside the community is not good for users. I’m glad I don’t work for a data marketplace anymore, these file formats are springing up like weeds1.
As a user, I don’t leave LIDAR data in LAS but convert it into other formats to use it. But it’s that interchange issue that keeps us stuck with old formats such as the shapefile. Sharing LAS is difficult to to huge file sizes. Binary point clouds with some sort of compression makes complete sense. Now you’ve got multiple file types to deal with. Enjoy…
- Hard to keep track of them all ↩︎