The Week's News

Some random news from the past week or so:

Presentation slides from the ESRI Developer's Summit are posted online

ESRI has a new book about and using GIS for land use analysis (of note since GIS and land-use planning seem are so interlinked here in Wisconsin)

An April Fools Day version of the Constitution (aka Constitution 2.0) if it was written as a software license (Click Here to Agree)

I haven't seen it, but would like to - A book on the maps that Congress have used to help make decisions. I'm sure many working in the public sector would like to compile a similar list of maps that were used by County Supervisors and Alderman to make big decisions.

A review of the differences between 9.1 and 9.2

A brief description of two free tools to use with ArcGIS, I also recommend checking out all of the postings on this blog from time to time. All problems can be solved with time and money, at this blog helps to take the money out of the equation.

If you haven't noticed already ESRI updated their support site, but it looks like the layout was rearranged and no additional functionality added (am I wrong? or there more to come?)

Creating something useful for Google Earth got easier with the release of Arc2Earth Publisher.

It looks like Google, not to be outdone my Microsoft's Bird's Eye, just added 2.5D buildings to Google Maps.