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.