ArcGIS 9.2 Seminar
An overflow crowd of over 200 people spent the day atWisconsin ArcGIS 9.2 Seminar.
Much of the content was not earth-shattering new. If you've been reading ArcNews and ArcUser, or went to the User Conference, you've at least heard or read about the new features and offerings. All of which is described in the What's New in 9.2 document.
The main benefit was to actually see it in action (except for one cartographic toolbar glitch). The main theme the ESRI folks was "cool is out, value is in". Or, as I would say it, playing with maps is one thing, working with maps is another.
What's your thoughts on the seminar?
posted by EWUG @ 8:36 PM
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I just got back from the Indianapolis seminar, and if you set aside the requisite and possibly-misleading bragging ("We have the most registered OGC-compliant standards," "we're committed to open formats and interoperability"), I am very impressed with what I saw on screen. For quite a while ESRI has been carefully positioning their ArcGIS Explorer very far from Google Earth. The official line was something about it never being intended as a Google Earth killer as was the common wisdom, but it seemed like the subtext was something like "Google Earth is a mere toy; our globe will be science." And to be quite frank, after seeing it today, that might be perfectly true. It seems to integrate very well with Server and the mere fact that one can publish geoprocessing tools and read them straight into ArcGIS Explorer for immediate use was a nice, uh, killer touch.
Of course, a lot of this "new" stuff seems like common functionality that should never have been left out in the first place if they really cared about user experience ("Printable tables? Really?"). And it remains to be seen if all of this stuff will work as well when you don't have a $22,000 server right there on your desktop, casting that cool blue glow right on your face. But still, Explorer looks truly great, and the new licensing scheme is going to work out well for me (personalSDE right there on my machine? Okay. Replicated to/from a central SDE? Okay.)
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