A while back, I posted about county-level GIS data available in the State of Maryland. I was very happy to see an announcement on LinkedIn that Anne Arundel County, Maryland has rolled out a new data download page that makes their GIS data freely available.
Anne Arundel County is home to Annapolis, the capital of Maryland and my favorite place on earth.
Kudos to Eric Wilson and everyone else in the Anne Arundel County GIS group for making this happen. Here’s hoping more follow suit.
Atanas tweeted this last night:
Out on day 65. Thank you all for everything. Details later on tenthcave.com. #freeatanas—
atanas entchev (@atanas) December 09, 2011
This is the best news possible. I, like many others, will await details on his blog. I couldn’t be happier for Atanas and his family.
It’s good to have you back, my friend.
UPDATE: Here’s a little more information from Atanas himself: http://www.tenthcave.com/2011/12/out-on-day-65.html
Over on Google+ (and also on Twitter), Brian Flood announced the impending availability of Arc2Earth Sync Beta to existing Arc2Earth users. This has been brewing for for a while and Brian says it best:
“What makes Sync really cool is the live edit synchronization and the ability to publish online to different formats. It’s a great way to provide integration between ArcGIS desktops/online and the other Cloud database providers like Google.”
I just got word from Anthony Quartararo that the dates for WhereCampTampaBay have been set for February 10-11, 2012. That seems like a pretty sweet time of year for a weekend in Florida.
By February, you'll be ready for this.
The 10th will feature an IgniteSpatial lightning talk session with the actual unconference happening on the 11th. I had a great time at WhereCampDC back in May and I know Florida has a very active spatial community that deals with a diverse problem set. I think this has the potential to very a very good event.
To register for IgniteSpatial: http://wherecamptbignite-auto.eventbrite.com/
To register for WhereCampTampaBay: http://wherecamptbunconference-auto.eventbrite.com/
Klout is a service that purports to measure your influence across social media channels. The purpose of this post is not to render judgement on that concept but rather to show how to opt out. It was not a terribly intuitive process so I thought others might be interested in how to go about it.
On November 11, 2011, I gave a lightning talk at the ESRI Dev Meetup in Silver Spring, MD. My talk was titled “If I Were Jack For a Day.” Despite the infinite comedic potential of that title, it was a tongue-in-cheek look at some items on my wish list for the ArcGIS platform.
An increasing portion of my consulting work deals with helping users integrate their established ArcGIS infrastructures with other spatial technologies. So my talk was a semi-selfish look at things that would make my life as a consultant and integrator easier.
Nick Furness will post the slides but they aren’t designed to stand on their own so I thought I’d address them here to provide context. I’ll take them one or two per post in no particular order. With that, first up on the docket:
