Almost As Good

Didn't make it to the Developer's Summit? Don't feel too bad, its (relatively) cool there.

You can at least check out (some of) the PowerPoints from the technical presentations. This is a lot better than trying to get the CDROM from the guy in your office that went six months ago.

What's the Future of ArcIMS?

Many people may be wondering what's the future of ArcIMS?

While it probably won't go away anytime soon, its probably a safe to bet that it has reached the end of development. The not so subtle hint from ESRI was spoken at this year's Developer's Summit: There are no ArcIMS sessions other than how to migrate from ArcIMS to ArcGIS Server. It shouldn't come as too much of a surprise, nearly a year ago, ArcIMS was declared a dead product by a blogger.

Why does this matter to Wisconsin? Of Wisconsin's 72 counties, 61 have ArcIMS-based web mapping sites, 5 are on other platforms, and only 1 is ArcGIS Server.

ArcGIS 9.3

ESRI has summarized the new functionality coming out in 9.3 concerning Desktop, Server and the Geodatabase.

Also, you can submit your questions about 9.3. The most common questions will likely be hit upon first at the Dev Summit, or perhaps even a Question&Answers page like the UC.

via APB

Update: The Developer Summit Q&A has been posted already. via Mandown

ArcGIS 9.2 SP 5

Look for it later this month. ESRI's is listing the fixes for Desktop, with Server fixes to follow. http://support.esri.com/index.cfm?fa=downloads.patchesServicePacks.viewPatch&PID=66&MetaID=1381

How to script geoprocessing functions

There is a very good series on learning how to script geoprocessing (ArcToolbox) functions using Python.

Right now it is a five part Series.

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3
• Part 4
• Part 5

If desired/needed I'll post updated links.

100th Post

We've been not blogging for a few months. Way to many other (work) things to keep up on. Now that the annual WLIA conference is over - excellent conference this year! - EWUG is gearing up.

Look for a few changes to the blogging and website this year.

Microsoft Virtual Earth and ESRI Connection

The connection between ESRI and Microsoft seems to be growing by the quarter. Recently at the ESRI FedUC, Jack showed a great 'mashup' of the ArcGIS Server and Virtual Earth. Here's the link to the demo.

Could this be the future - ESRI for the nuts&bolts with MS for the eye-candy? (BTW recently EPA condoned this marriage)