ArcGIS 9.2 Help

Online help for ArcGIS 9.2 is now online
If you're wondering how 9.2 works, here's the place to look.

WLIA 2006 Presentations

Presentations from the 2006 WLIA conference in the Dells has been posted on ESRI-Minnepolis's website. The webpage has abstracts from all presentations. May PowerPoint presentations are also available.

The GeoWeb 2.0 Whitepaper

You may have seen David Maguire's recent blog about the 'GeoWeb 2.0'. But did you know this looks like it is based on an ESRI Whitepaper from April?

On a side-note, I think it is interesting that the blog posting has created more buzz in the other various GIS-blogs than the whitepaper itself. But that's why we're now in the Web 2.0 phase.

If you're not sure what Web 2.0 is, be sure to check out O'Reilly's posting (he's the guy that publishes the programming books with the animal sketches).

If you've never heard of David Maguire, he's one of the top guy's at ESRI. His presentations in San Diego are second only to Jack's. I believe his official title is Director of Products, Solutions and International.

RSS Feeds added to Links & Info page

The Links & Info page has been updated. There are too many Wisconsin ArcIMS sites to keep track of, I'd rather just refer to the Wisconsin Dept. of Administration's list.

Most importantly I've added a number of GIS oriented RSS/Atom news feeds. These are some of my favorite links that I check regularly. If you have some favorites that are not listed, let me know.

ArcWeb Explorer API

You may have not heard that ESRI has released an (beta) API for ArcWeb Explorer. A simple demonstration of this is shown for the location of this year's conference. Feel free to look at the source for this site. The code is very, very short considering the capabilities of the interfaces (seamless pan, nationwide geocoding, orthos, routing, etc.)

There is no cost for public services (which most of the existing mash-up out there are) , and unlike Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and the other's 'free' APIs there are no future advertising plans. For commercial or governmental, the standard 'credit' charges for ArcWeb would apply.

ESRI Data Update 2006

There is now a ESRI Data Update (2006 version) available. This is an update to the data the came with the ArcGIS CDROM's. To get your update go to: http://gis.esri.com/software/forms/dataUpdate/index.cfm

Mash-Ups

Does ESRI stand a chance again Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft in the web mapping API battle?

ArcWeb Services has an API now, in addition to SOAP. Yet I don't see in the various trade publications and blogs anything about how ESRI is develping the killer web service. Is it cause there is just too much buzz around Google Map/Earth? Google wants to create the PDF's for online-mapping (KML). Is this going to happen, or is ESRI's ArcReader, or ArcWeb Explorer something different? Or is ESRI waiting for when Google really kicks in the advertising model on and upset a lot of the mash-ups people, and everyone gets down to serious GIS applications?

How do you feel about ArcGIS 9.2?

How do you feel about ArcGIS 9.2?

ESRI has had several articles on it:
http://www.esri.com/news/arcnews/spring06articles/highlights-of-whats.html
http://www.esri.com/news/arcnews/summer05articles/managing-spatial-data.html

Does it have the functionality you want, or is it just another deployment headache?

EWUG 2006

What's you're thoughts on Appleton and the Paper Valley conference center for this year's conference? This is a first-class hotel/conference center. Yet, "It's not Madison".

Is that good, bad, or doesn't matter?

My take: Sure, a good chunk of ESRI-Wisconsin users are in the Madison / Milwaukee area. There are also lot of other users elsewhere in the state. Both Madison (especially) and Milwaukee don't have very good facilities for our size at a price you can afford. Once you get outside the Madison/Milwaukee, facilities become very reasonable. This makes for cheap conference rates (what other GIS conference do you have 1 and 1/2 days of sessions, two lunches and free beer for $75 bucks?). EWUG is simply the best place for ESRI information for Wisconsin users without traveling to San Diego.

Welcome

Welcome!

This is EWUG's new blog.

I am trying the Blogger format. I hope it will be more successful than the bulletin board format - less spam & more information. In addition you should be able to get it via RSS.

I will try to post some topics from time-to-time. Whether its EWUG conference related, or ESRI software in general. Please feel free to leave comments!If you have something you would like posted, just email me ( dhaines@ewug.org ) and I will post it.

This is meant to be discussion, and not a broadcast.