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Brian Flood comes up from the basement to give a glimpse of what has been happening in Arc2Earth land. Arc2Earth Cloud Services is looking really amazing and it is clear Brian has put much effort into it.

I’ve not seen much Google Earth API plugin use that makes me think it is anything more than a way to put 3D pushpins on a webpage, but the latest MapFish demo looks interesting.

There’s a full real-time interaction between MapFish and GE. Translation and rotation of special MapFish tool moves GE camera. Panning and camera tilting on GE side moves MapFish tool.

Just working a little with the JavaScript API and you can do some really neat things. Nothing unique about MapFish in this example, but if you haven’t been following MapFish lately, you need to put it on your radar.

MapFish on the left, Google Earth API on the right.

author: cageyjames
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date: 2009-01-06 07:00:00+00:00
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slug: the-esri-enterprise-license-agreement-enterprise-license-agreement-is-it-working
title: The ESRI Enterprise License Agreement Enterprise License Agreement – Is it
working?
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The ESRI salesman hits the road to sell the ELA

Google is littered with press releases announcing customers signing up for ESRI Enterprise License Agreements. Most of these seem to be larger government organizations and corporations. But what about the Small Municipal and County Government Enterprise License Agreement Program we heard so much about last year? I’ve heard from a couple people that they’ve had difficulty with the ELA because they don’t “fit” into the program. As a ESRI Business Partner I am hopeful that this program would allow ESRI customers to get out of antiquated ArcIMS and ArcView 3.x applications and into the more modern ArcGIS 9.3 stuff. It would appear at least on the surface that it hasn’t been successful but maybe Google isn’t telling the whole story.

Anyone care to comment on the ELA program and its success/failures?

I hope everyone is having a happy New Year’s day. I personally can’t wait for the year to unfold. Considering how great 2008 was for geospatial technology, 2009 is sure to amaze us all.

Bill Dollins likes SpatiaLite and he’s been blogging about it and he isn’t the only one either. How long to someone gets this running on Android or the iPhone (which both already run SQLite)?

I remember years ago having ArcInfo Workstation send emails when it was finished processing and I’ve always thought the next logical step was having it send a text message to my cell phone. Rafa Gutierrez looked at Twitter for alerts and posted instructions as to how to get your ArcMap Model to send you a tweet when it is finished running. I’d probably set up a separate private Twitter account so that people can’t see what I’m doing or that I’d spam followers with my overlay analysis.

Letting ArcMap send you tweets

So reading the MapDotNet Blog and how UX Studio can load shapefiles (and SDE) into SQL Server 2008 I thought I give it a spin. You have to download the whole UX platform to get UX Studio so make sure that you do a custom install so that you only get UX Studio (rather than the whole SDK and Web Services). To load data into SQL Server 2008 is very simple, all you need to do is start up UX Studio and add a shapefile to the project. Then right click on the shapefile in the data sources panel and select “Export Data”. You’ll get a dialog that looks like this:

When you click start the file is converted from shapefile to SQL Server 2008 table. A quick look at the table in Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio shows the whole file uploaded perfectly. What a quick and easy way to convert your shapefiles (and SDE layers) to SQL Server 2008.

Success!

So there you go, loading data into SQL Server 2008 requires only the free UX Studio. Nice!

Connor is counting the presents under the tree and I’m getting ready to watch the Hawaii Bowl. It looks like we are going to have a wet Christmas (our version of a white Christmas) so maybe we’ll all hop in the car and drive up to the mountains to enjoy the snow.

I hope everyone who has read my blog this year has a truly Merry Christmas.

There is more going on with OpenLayers and the ESRI REST API than you probably know (I keep finding more and more that I didn’t know about every day). As more people start using OpenLayers with the ESRI ArcGIS Server we’ll hopefully get it integrated into the OpenLayer code. For now you can grab some of the code from the OpenLayer Wiki and start using OpenLayers with your ArcGIS Server applications. People are doing amazing things with OpenLayers including this example with ArcGIS Server?(which doesn’t use the REST API, but it is still wonderful) from the Long Island Index.

Wouldn’t the ESRI JavaScript API page look better with OpenLayers?

**Update **(12-24-2008): OpenLayers now has some case studies online as well.

Looks like user presentations are a go at the 2009 ESRI Dev Summit.

At this point, it looks like we’re going to have about 10-15 scheduled slots. The capacity of the room will be between 50 and 70, so it should end up being a more interactive experience if you want it to be. This room will be part of the “Showcase” area, which is the central hub of the event. Then in the weeks leading up to the DevSummit, registered attendees will be able to vote so that particularly popular sessions can be moved into larger capacity rooms.

So get your presentation figured out and submit it. You have until February 9th to get it in.