Well, 9.3 is now shipping so the sun is setting on my time with the release candidate. One update from my first post: I posted the problem I was having with sdelayer -o register not calculate a default extent on the Beta forum and I got a reply that it shouldn’t work that way and…
Category: arcgis desktop
ArcGIS 9.3 is Shipping
According to this press release, ArcGIS 9.3 started shipping today. ESRI has pretty much stuck to the aggressive schedule that they announced at the Dev Summit. My experiences thus far with the beta and the release candidate have been pretty positive so it’ll be good to get the final product. Who’s starting the pool on…
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…
zigGIS 2.0 To Be Released on May 21st
Today was the original target for releasing zigGIS 2.0. There is a flurry of activity at Obtuse to get the web site and the online store ready. May 21st is the definite release date as all of the loose ends are tying up nicely. A lot of work has been put into improving performance, especially…
zigGIS Updates
For those that are interested, Abe has been posting screencasts of the the improvements to zigGIS at the Obtuse site. The zigGIS 2.0 beta will be out soon. The performance of the direct connect to PostGIS has been greatly improved and full editing has been implemented using native ArcGIS tools. There is also a Google…
DDJ on “The Return of the Desktop”
Okay, I swear I’m not on the DDJ payroll, but this article caught my eye immediately. Michael Swaine has been on a roll lately but I think this one just drips with significance for the GIS community. Over the past 10 years, as everyone has run screaming from the desktop, I’ve been a little mystified…
Way Ahead for zigGIS
Abe, Paolo and I had a chat session yesterday to coordinate efforts on zigGIS. It was good session and we’re all on the same page with getting zigGIS solidified. The general theme of the outcome from yesterday is that we want to make zigGIS a solid experience for PostGIS users first. We have discussed other…
ZigGIS Catalog Objects
Things have been REALLY slow on zigGIS for a while. All of us (Paolo, Abe, me) have all been up to our eyeballs with work, leaving little time to work on the zig. Now that Abe is out on his own, the three of us have been trying to coordinate a chat session to lay…
Consuming GeoRSS in ArcMap With InMemoryWorkspaceFactory
This will be my last post for a couple of weeks. I’m heading out to Florida tomorrow to spend time with my family and the Mouse. But before I head out, I thought I’d share a little something I’ve been working on. I’ve been playing the last few days with the InMemoryWorkspaceFactory class in ArcObjects….
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…