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  • Want to Learn More about Metadata? ESRI Offers Free Virtual Live Training Seminar

    Link – Metadata: Tips & Tricks

    I was just browsing around the ESRI Virtual Campus and I saw they have an upcoming Metadata Live Seminar that will be streamed over the Internet, times and date are below. Seems like a great opportunity for everyone wanting to learn more about how to use metadata.

    _Thursday, August 25, 2005

    Times: 9 AM, 11 AM, & 3 PM Pacific (Los Angeles)
    12 PM, 2 PM, & 6 PM Eastern (New York) _

    These live virtual seminars are actually pretty good and you can learn more about them here.

  • Esri In The Blogosphere

    Its been a little over a month since I made my post about ESRI and the blog PR battle and I wanted to take another look to see how far they have progressed since then. The previous blog post looked at how often the keyword “esri” was mentioned in blog posts vs “google earth” so I again visited Blogpulse. The previous graph looking at ESRI and Google Earth is below.

    Esri google blogpulse

    Compare that with the latest graph showing just ESRI and Google Earth:

    Esri google blogpulse1

    You still see that spike that Google Earth had right after its release, but now it has leveled off. ESRI has actually risen since then, still below Google Earth but at a much higher level than before Google Earth was released. If we narrow the time down to the last month, you see a better look without that spike.

    Esri google last blogpulse

    What about ESRI on its own? Well, lets look at the last 6 months:

    Esri blogpulse

    Even if you take out that spike right after the User Conference, you can see that there are many more people talking about ESRI. You can’t really compare ESRI with companies such as Google and Microsoft, but let’s take a quick look at Intergraph and MapInfo.

    Esri intergraph mapinfo blogpulse

    I’ll revisit this again at the end of the year and we’ll see if there has been any more progress. One month isn’t that long to determine trends so we’ll want to check back to get a better read on the ESRI blog state.

    In researching this again, I stumbled across a very interesting blog called Data Mining which is sort of a GIS/Mapping/Statistics/Search/Blog Blog. Very good reading if you ask me. I’ve subscribed and I can’t believe I didn’t know about it sooner because there was some love for my previous post. Just goes to show, you’ll never know where you’ll see GIS these days.

  • ArcIMS Talking Points Really is a Blog

    Link – ArcIMS Talking Points and Blogs

    What is a blog? There are tons of definitions, but I would think every one of them would classify the ArcIMS Talking Points as a blog. The only problem I have with it is there isn’t a RSS feed, that would be great and probably give everyone more value. I’d even take an email alert to remind me to check back for a new talking point.

    Still if you use ArcIMS you really should bookmark the site.

  • Looking for ArcExplorer 9.2

    I was just checking out my server logs and it seems I’ve been getting tons of Google and Technorati hits for searches about ArcExplorer 9.2. It seems that people really want to know more about this product, but there aren’t even any good screen shots to show it off. Anyone seen anything good on ArcExplorer since the User Conference, seems people want to know more?

  • David Maguire Announces ArcPad 7 Beta

    Link – ArcPad 7 Beta

    David lets us know that ArcPad 7 beta is out and he’s got some details on his blog. Honestly I don’t really see the point of ArcPad anymore, this kind of stuff should be done on the server, rather than on PDA’s (and this is from someone that used to be an admin on a very large PDA site). I’m sure there is still demand from existing customers, but PDA’s are such a small market and their growth has slowed to the point that I don’t see anyone wanting to get into the marketplace. Smartphones are the future and the better choice for ESRI would be to migrate ArcPad support into ArcGIS Engine so anyone can develop applications for both PDA’s and Smartphones. ArcPad is on an island by itself and I don’t see ArcPad 7 changing that.

    update – fixed a sentence to make more sense

  • Creating your first ArcWeb mashup

    Link – Making an ArcWeb Mashup

    Andrea’s been really busy over the past few days posting tons of code on how to use ArcWeb Services with Perl, PHP and now he’s posted some code on how to create a simple ArcWeb mashup. He used Perl as most hosting companies support it by default, and you can check out the result here. Don’t forget the online help for ArcWeb is available so you can learn more about what data sources you can use with Public ArcWeb Services.

  • ArcMap 9.2 and GeoChat

    Link – GeoChat (Integration of GIS and IM)

    What is a GeoChat Layer?
    A geochat layer can be created by any ArcMap user. The layer creator can add one or more MSN contacts to the layer. When the layer creator sends a text/geometry/imagery message to the layer all recipients (that are running ArcMap + geochat) will be “pushed” the layer and the associated message. All contacts are then free to send messages. Note that all geochat communication is peer to peer (P2P). One nice feature of geochat layers is that they can be used in the geoprocessing environment!

    GoeChat was mentioned a little bit at the ESRI User Conference, but unfortunately I was never really able to find anything more in detail. Well Richie has a great post about how the product works as well as some nice screen shots of it in action.

  • You should post more about ArcMap!

    I got an interesting email from a reader who wants me to post more about ArcMap (I assume more about ArcGIS Desktop rather than the server products).

    James, how come you don’t talk more about ArcMap? I’m no programmer so all this mapserver stuff is way over my head. How about posting some ArcMap templates or geoprocessing models that you find? Keep up the excellent work,
    Derek

    We’ll I’d love to, but there isn’t really that much info out there beyond what is posted on the ESRI Support Forums. I don’t know of any ESRI bloggers who are part of the Desktop team so I can’t really link to any of them either.

    Derek brings up an interesting idea about posting templates and models. The ESRI site doesn’t really have a section for people to upload their templates or share models (beyond the one’s that ESRI posts). I won’t go into my rant about the ArcScripts page, but why not add a section for templates and models? There are a ton of products in the ArcScripts that aren’t really scripts or programming code so you might want to look there for things, but a separate section for templates or models would be interesting. Jack Dangermond was up on the User Conference stage a couple years ago saying how we should share out models with each other, so how about a way to do so?

    I’ll keep my eye out Derek for some more ArcGIS desktop news, but beyond PR emails and RSS feeds there isn’t much out there.

  • Using ArcWeb Services with PHP

    Link – Using ArcWeb with PHP

    Andrea Rosso has posted a quickstart guide to using ArcWeb Services with PHP. He goes into great detail about how to accomplish this so if you have been in interested in getting started with Public ArcWeb Services, but aren’t a Java, JSP or .NET fan, now you’ve go no excuse. Of course as with everything PHP it isn’t quite as easy as it sounds, but anyone with intermediate knowledge of web servers and programming should be able to follow the instructions.

  • Keeping up to date with ArcWeb Services

    There has been a couple times where I’ve wondered what has been added to ArcWeb Services and/or what changes have been made. Well inside the online help is a “What’s new page” with all that information. It hasn’t been updated since May, but maybe that is because the focus right now is upon AWS 2005.