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What’s a GIS Developer To Do @ UC??

2009-05-22T12:21:00.001-07:00

Are you a GIS Developer (or hope to be one when you grow up?)? Are you going to be at the User Conference this year? Are you looking at the ginormous UC agenda and getting eye strain? Not sure what to search for in the Online Agenda? Fear no more – your friends at the ArcGIS Developer Blog have done the heavy lifting for you! They...

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Map Templates Resource Center

2009-05-22T11:57:00.001-07:00

You might be interested in reviewing what is now available at the ESRI Resource Centers Map Template Gallery. As described in this blog post on the Mapping Center blog, these templates are not simply an MXT as you might expect. These templates are ZIP files that include an example map (.MXD) so you can see how a map was made, some sample data...

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Tweet Tweet

2009-05-19T23:02:00.001-07:00

Been using Twitter now for a few months. “Micro-Blogging” yet so very different from a blog. Been through a few desktop applications to better my Twitter experience, but was still using http://twitter.com when out and about on my Windows Mobile device. I knew there had to be something better. Where to turn? To Twitter of course! I had seen...

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Jack Interview-O-Rama

2009-05-01T15:43:00.001-07:00

Lots of interviews with Jack Dangermond, Founder and President of ESRI this week. Government Technology (GovTech) - http://www.govtech.com/gt/articles/652976 O’Reilly radar had a three-part interview: Part 1 of 3: Web Mapping Part 2 of 3: Sharing Government GIS Data Part 3 of 3: The GeoWeb

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GIS in the Survey World

2009-04-13T16:14:00.001-07:00

Brent Jones from ESRI delivering the keynote address “Why GIS Needs Land Surveyors” at the 2nd annual Carlson User Conference (2009).

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Tips for Mapping Shorelines

2009-03-31T20:23:00.001-07:00

A recent “Ask a Cartographer” question dealt with mapping shorelines to look like the styles found in old-time maps like the example below. This Mapping Center post covers multiple ways to symbolize vector and raster data. Good details and lots of graphics. See the full post here.

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What’s the Story on VB6 & VBA ESRI?

2009-03-31T18:35:00.001-07:00

I’m glad you asked! We have been talking about Microsoft dropping support for VB and VBA for some time, but it looks like this was still new news to a lot of folks at the #devsummit. So here’s some updated information, specifically looking at the 9.3.1 and 9.4 releases and beyond.

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ESRI Developer Summit – Lots of News

2009-03-29T21:34:00.001-07:00

The ESRI Developer Summit took place last week in Palm Springs, following right on the heels of the Business Partner Conference. Like many of you, I was not there. But sometimes I felt like I was just from following all the action on Twitter. Folks were sending a fair number of tweets during the BPC. But it was during the Developer Summit that...

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Mapping the Seven Sins

2009-03-29T20:34:00.001-07:00

Thought you might find this article interesting. It is about the “spatial distribution of the Seven Deadly Sins”. And what an interesting choice of states to focus on for this topic – Nevada! Take a look HERE for the full article and graphics.

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ESRI / Microsoft Virtual Earth Partnership Announced

2009-03-26T16:57:00.001-07:00

This week during the Environmental Systems Research Institute Developer Conference in Palm Springs, CA, ESRI announced their extended partnership with Microsoft’s Virtual Earth business unit granting native access to Virtual Earth’s imagery and road network map data within ArcGIS Desktop and Server. How’s that for a footprint? At the very least it...

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Ever Loose Your Data? And Then Your Symbology?

2009-03-10T01:22:00.001-07:00

Symbolizing data with lost data links Post on the Mapping Center blog about fixing broken symbology after dealing with a lost data link. http://blogs.esri.com/Support/blogs/mappingcenter/archive/2009/02/25/Symbolising-data-with-lost-data-links.aspx

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Symbolizing Trees – ESRI Mapping Center

2009-03-04T19:45:00.001-08:00

[ This is a little bit different – how to symbolize a stand of trees in ArcMap and have a gradation of colors going through the stand. The result is pretty interesting. ] http://tinyurl.com/cqttyy We recently got this in an email from an ESRI colleague: "I went to TOSCA's (The Oxford Seminars in Cartography) Field Trip last night...

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Map Use, the Quintessential Book on How to Read and Analyze Maps – ESRI Press

2009-02-27T21:50:00.001-08:00

New book from ESRI Press. "Map Use was written for people who want to use maps to better understand not only the physical environment but the human, social, political, and economic environments as well," says A. Jon Kimerling, the book's co-author and interim chairman of the Department of Geosciences at Oregon State University in...

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Tip on Curved Annotation Editing

2009-02-27T10:48:00.001-08:00

Tip from Charlie Frye on a shortcut to editing curved annotation in ArcMap: http://blogs.esri.com/Support/blogs/mappingcenter/archive/2009/01/30/tip-for-editing-curved-annotation.aspx

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What I wish I had known about ModelBuilder before I started using it – ESRI Mapping Center

2009-02-24T13:54:00.001-08:00

[ This is a nice list of things (13 of them) you might not know about ModelBuilder that will make your life easier when using it. Always nice to have Tip & Tricks in one place to find! - full post at:...

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ArcGIS for Situational Awareness

2009-02-12T08:48:00.001-08:00

In case you haven’t seen this new page on the ESRI website: http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/situational-awareness/index.html

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Opening the Landsat Archive

2009-02-11T23:03:00.001-08:00

[ I thought some folks out there might find this of interest in case they weren’t notified ] Electronic access to the entire USGS Landsat 7 archive, enabling users to download standard-format scenes at no charge, has been an amazing success, with over 225,000 scenes downloaded since October 1, 2008. Previously acquired imagery from Landsat 1...

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ArcGIS Mobile Videos

2009-02-09T22:26:00.001-08:00

ArcGIS 9.3: Improve mobility using ArcGIS Mobile ArcGIS 9.3: See an example of how an Insurance Claims Manager uses ArcGIS and a mobile solution ArcGIS 9.3: Disseminate Information To The Field Using ArcGIS Mobile ArcGIS Mobile Questions and Answers ArcGIS Mobile Users Conference Demo

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Do You Know Your Training ROI?

2009-02-09T22:24:00.001-08:00

By Suzanne Boden, Program Coordinator, ESRI Educational Services Faced with daily media reports of grim economic news, many organizations have cut or eliminated nonessential spending. Often, staff training becomes one of the first casualties. The reasoning may be that training, like a store-bought latte, is considered a luxury that can be done...

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ArcGIS Explorer 900 preview

2009-02-05T15:25:00.001-08:00

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ArcGIS Server / ArcGIS Mobile Code Challenge

2009-02-05T15:22:00.001-08:00

ESRI Offers $16,000 in Cash Prizes for the 2009 ArcGIS Server Mashup and ArcGIS Mobile Code Challenges Redlands, California—ESRI invites developers to share their creativity and expertise with the geographic information system (GIS) developer community by submitting original code samples to the ArcGIS Server Mashup and ArcGIS Mobile Code...

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“GIS is a Green Technology” – new white paper available

2009-01-30T18:09:00.001-08:00

GIS Supports Global Green Initiatives With the growing unease and awareness among large segments of the population that remedial action must be taken to resolve the many environmental crises we now face, GIS solutions are currently being implemented around the world that provide the technological and scientifi c support necessary to...

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GIS for Decision Support and Public Policy Making

2009-01-30T01:45:00.001-08:00

Elected officials and department heads are increasingly relying on geographic information system (GIS) technology to make efficient and accurate decisions when and where it counts. GIS for Decision Support and Public Policy Making presents twenty-seven case studies and eight exercises that demonstrate the positive impact of incorporating GIS...

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Funny, Sad and Interesting – all at the same time…

2009-01-29T19:30:00.001-08:00

You have got to take a look at this blog posting on GIZMODO – it is…interesting… Google Maps Car Hits a Deer, Records Entire Ordeal on Google Maps Maybe not “real time” data – but certainly real!

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What's Coming in ArcGIS 9.3.1?

2009-01-29T01:07:00.001-08:00

[ ESRI has posted some info about what’s is coming at the 9.3.1 release. For those of you that haven’t heard, 9.3.1 will be released around mid-year 2009. 9.4 is sometime the following year – don’t ask for a more specific date, we don’t have one yet! Here are the major topic areas – hit the link at the end for more details. ] High-Performance...

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