In support of some of our ongoing PIM work, we’ve been integrating the Esri File Geodatabase (FGDB) API into some tools. Without going into a level of detail that would hijack this post, one of the many functions performed by some of the tools is to validate physical spatial databases against established data models to…
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Using GeoIQ Analytics in .Net Applications
A few weeks ago, I posted about some .Net wrappers I created for the GeoIQ API. Due to ongoing project work, I have continued to extend them by adding methods to wrap GeoIQ analytical capabilities. Despite the recent acquistion of GeoIQ by Esri, it’s my understanding that GeoCommons and existing GeoIQ installations will continue for…
GeoIQ API Wrappers for .Net
A while back, I built a small interface between GeoIQ/GeoCommons and ArcGIS Desktop. From there, it became more of a full-fledged toolbar for ArcGIS. During that effort, I began developing some .Net classes to wrap the GeoIQ RESTful API. As we progressed with the toolbar, my colleague Hugo Estrada also contributed to the library. The…
MapWindow Open-Source Conference Coming Up
Thanks to Twitter, I see that the 3rd annual MapWindow Open-Source GIS Conference is coming up at the end of June. It is being held in Velp, The Netherlands. I call this conference out because it has a strong, but not exclusive, concentration on open-source GIS tools for the .Net environment, such as DotSpatial, SharpMap,…
A Couple of Updates
Shortly after my previous post, about browsing and downloading data from GeoCommons, hit the wires, I got quite a few back-channel requests for the code. I sent it out via e-mail to a number of people and then posted it via DropBox. I have finally gotten around to posting it up on Google Code, making…
Importing Data From GeoCommons Into ArcMap
UPDATE: The code for this post is available at the bottom of the page. I have been doing a lot of development with the ESRI Silverlight API recently. One of the requirements of my project is to be able to dynamically add KML data at runtime. The incorporation of KML was handled for us through…
Integrating ASP.NET with Drupal in the Acquia Stack
A while back, I posted this about running SharpMap on Apache. At the time, the ability to run ASP.NET on Apache was mainly a curiosity to me but had little practical value. Recently, I had the need to revisit this technique for a project. I used the same post I had used previously as a…
Browsing WeoGeo Market Using the ESRI Silverlight API
Updated: This demo application now running here. I will update this demo periodically, as time permits, so keep checking back. At the 2010 ESRI Federal User Conference, WeoGeo announced the availability of a toolbar for interacting with WeoGeo Market and private libraries from within ArcMap. This, combined with Dan Dye’s series of posts showing how…
SilverLight and ArcGIS Server 9.3
Al Pascual has posted about a sample app he Richie developed using SilverLight 2.0. For those who have been wondering about this (like me), I highly encourage checking this out. The SilverLight Deep Zoom technology is pretty impressive and it works well in IE, FireFox and Safari (on Windows anyway). See below. Links to the…
Microsoft Certifying Open-Source
I got a link to this article on SlashDot. It discusses Microsoft’s effort to begin actively certifying open-source applications for Windows Server 2008. I see this as a positive move. I use a lot of open-source apps on Windows myself. Many of my customers are still downright suspicious of open-source (I know) and achieving Windows…