Esri announced late today that Service Pack 2 for ArcGIS 10 is available. It looks like a fairly sizable list of issues was addressed with this service pack. Who knows, we could be witnessing history as this could potentially be the last service pack to address ArcIMS. (Well, I can dream, can’t I?) Anyway, if…
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Using ArcSDE 9.3 with PostgreSQL, Part 3.5
I thought I was done with the series a while back but I’ve been getting a steady stream of questions through other channels so I thought I’d wrap up a lot of the common stuff in another post. Most of the inquiries come from people trying to integrate ArcSDE for PostgreSQL with open-source tools in…
SQL Server SIG at the UC
My blogging has been slower this time around because I’ve been doing a lot of booth duty. This is my thrid conference this year and some of our other staff are getting to go to the sessions. I did, however, go to the SQL Server SIG a little while ago. Ed Katibah had a few…
A Good PostGIS Overview…
Steven Citron-Pousty gave a talk on PostGIS and has helpfully posted his slides here. It’s a good introductory overview and provides some good examples of basic spatial SQL in PostGIS. With ArcGIS Server now supporting PostgreSQL as a back end RDBMS and also supporting the use of PostGIS geometries, a lot of new users may…
ArcSDE Geocoding Services Deprecated at 9.3
This isn’t a huge surprise but this announcement made it official a couple of days ago. Basically, you’ll need to use ArcGIS Server’s server-side geocoding because the next release of ArcSDE won’t include it. The PDF attached to the announcement gives more detail. I know we had moved away from ArcSDE geocoding some time ago…
Using ArcSDE 9.3 with PostgreSQL, Part 2
In my previous post, I discussed some approaches to configuring PostgreSQL databases and accessing the data in them with ArcSDE 9.3. For this post, I will describe some of my ongoing experiences with getting data into ArcSDE 9.3. There are two main ways that I am investigating of loading/making available your spatial data in ArcSDE…
Using ArcSDE 9.3 with PostgreSQL, Part 1
First part in a series documenting my experiences with PostgreSQL and ArcSDE 9.3.
PostgreSQL Support in ArcGIS
I just sat through a session titled “Working With the Geodatabase Effectively Using SQL.” It was heavily focused on ST_GEOMETRY. That’s pretty much what they want us to use. Interestingly, though, there won’t be ST_GEOMETRY in SQL Server 2008. They’ve added it to PostgreSQL (more on that later) but not SQL Server. Seems a little…
ArcSDE: Time For a Change
Thoughts on where ArcSDE should go.
Bringing It All Together…
These are pretty fun times to be working in GIS. There’s an explosion of new technologies across the whole spectrum and integration possibilities are seemingly boundless. Back when I got started, ESRI and Intergaph were duking it out and others, like MapInfo, were out there on the periphery also. GRASS was flying the OS banner…