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San Diego Fire – FY 2011 Incidents & Response Times

2012-01-26T09:11:00.001-08:00

Here’s a quick web map I made from data available for the San Diego Apps Challenge. There is a ton a data available – especially spatial data – for the City of San Diego. This challenge is a great way to win a little cash and create some nice geospatial apps! View Larger Map Map built from CSV file on ArcGIS.com.

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Looking for a Park in the City of Poway?

2011-11-17T14:56:00.001-08:00

There are quite a few parks within the City of Poway. Here’s a map of them to aid you in locating where to go for a walk, or party, or dog walk, or whatever. Want to make a map with your topic of interest on it, and use it in your web site? It’s easy! Esri continues to update and expand ArcGIS.com with new features and functionality....

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City of Carlsbad Libraries

2011-11-16T13:10:00.001-08:00

Here’s a quick example of a simple locations map showing the libraries in the City of Carlsbad. And this blog post serves as an example of embedding a live map from ArcGIS Online into a web page, and I will also register this on ArcGIS.com as yet another example. View Larger Map The HTML code for this embedded map was auto-generated by...

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Locations for Sandbag pickup in San Diego County

2011-11-04T12:16:00.000-07:00

The County of San Diego is nice enough to provide free sandbags to folks that live in the unincorporated areas. Great on days like today when we get the first real rain of the season - or for people that still have fire scares on their property, etc. The County website has additional information here:...

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GIS Managers' Open Summit - Esri UC 2011

2011-05-05T07:28:00.000-07:00

Did you attend the Esri User Conference (UC) last year? Did you make it to the GIS Managers' Open Summit? It was an interesting day, and our first time having an unconference as part of the UC. Most of the folks there were not really familiar with the idea of an unconference or how it works, but they all survived and I think most got a lot out of...

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Metadata in ArcGIS 10

2011-01-11T12:58:00.001-08:00

I have had some clients asking about the changes in the way Esri is handling Metadata in ArcGIS 10. If you missed the session at the 2010 User Conference then you will be extra interested in this new series of blog posts related to the topic. A new approach to Metadata with ArcGIS 10 (part 1) A new approach to Metadata with ArcGIS 10 (part...

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Developer Code Challenges – Light It Up!

2010-12-22T21:46:00.001-08:00

Sent this note out to some clients, and thought others might be interested as well, so thought I’d share… There are two developer coding contests happening that you may be interested in. The “Flex-A-Widget Challenge” – build a widget for the Flex viewer, share it on ArcGIS.com and submit your entry. Winners announced at DevSummit. ...

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testing..

2010-12-08T14:20:00.001-08:00

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Get rid of it!

2010-09-08T16:57:00.001-07:00

Been seeing this abandoned truck on the side of the road for about 3 months. Doors off, a real mess – who knows how long it has been sitting there. Looked like a real long time. I finally had a chance to pull over and make a CitySourced report about it on Sept 5th. Here is my report with photo to CitySourced:...

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WhereCamp SoCal starts tomorrow

2010-07-16T18:26:00.001-07:00

See you at 8 AM at the Adams Humanities building, room 2108! View Larger Map

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Esri User Conference – UC 2010

2010-07-12T13:36:00.001-07:00

The first day of the 30th annual Esri International User Conference is about 1/2 over now. It has been a great morning of user stories, product demos and vision discussion. Keep up-to-date on all the happening on the Esri UC Insider page: http://blogs.esri.com/Info/blogs/ucinsider/default.aspx Looks like they are doing a great job...

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WhereCamp SoCal is on! July 17/18 2010

2010-06-07T18:47:00.001-07:00

In case you missed the multiple Tweets and a few blogs posts about it today, the WhereCamp SoCal event is now set for date and location: July 17 & 18, 2010 (this is the Sat/Sun) directly after the ESRI User Conference at San Diego State University (SDSU) in the Adams Humanities building. Specific details to come. This is right next to the...

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WhereCamp SoCal – where? when?

2010-04-22T16:36:00.001-07:00

You may have heard Twitter (@ortelius / @geoTC / @wherecampsocal) about a Geo WhereCamp in the southern California area. Well, you heard right. Debate is still open about date & location. We are going to pick a location and date soon – so if you have any input let us know now. Pop us a Tweet at @geoTC & @ortelius with your ideas!!

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Some ArcGIS 10 Tips from Crystal Dorn

2010-03-22T23:25:00.001-07:00

Not everyone gets to spend time in Palm Springs at the ESRI Developer Summit (on Twitter @ESRIDevSummit and follow Hashtag #devsummit). Included in that group with you and me is Crystal Dorn from the CA/HI/NV Regional Office (on Twitter @CrystalDorn). One thing we have seen year after year is that clients love to see Crystal’s Usability Tips...

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ESRI Tools & Resources for Haiti (& other) Response Efforts

2010-01-21T17:03:00.000-08:00

Updated: Jan 21, 2010: TwitterSearch Flex viewer Widget: http://resources.esri.com/arcgisserver/apis/flex/index.cfm?fa=codeGalleryDetails&scriptID=16782 The idea for this widget came about at the Random Hacks of Kindness event in CA back in Nov 2009. The BarCamp discussions had a lot of talk about crowd-sourced information, especially...

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This One’s a 10

2010-01-11T20:43:00.001-08:00

ESRI made an announcement late today, and word has spread fast. 9.4 has been renamed to be version 10. Here is the official announcement as a podcast from Jack, where he describes why this decision was made and he discusses some of the features included in 10 and why it justified a full version number....

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Bye Bye Geography Network

2009-12-09T17:10:00.001-08:00

After a nine-year run, the Geography Network will be closing up shop at the end of 2009. With so much data on ArcGIS Online with multiple ways to access it and so many other web services available, ESRI has decided the time has come to shut it down. Here’s the blog post about it:...

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DEPRECATION PLAN FOR ARCGIS 9.3.1 AND ARCGIS 9.4

2009-08-20T22:48:00.001-07:00

It is time to start thinking about your back-end systems and development environments and OS’s and… New document just released to the ESRI Support pages that discusses platform changes at the current 9.3.1 release, and the next release – 9.4. It will be interesting to see what parts of the changes at 9.4 get the most interest (Noise? Worry?...

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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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