Things have been a little quiet (publicly) with zigGIS, owing mainly to outside workload. For those of you who may be wondering, Abe Gillespie, the original author of zigGIS is now more fully engaged on it and making some updates. He should have some announcements in the coming weeks but I just wanted to float…
ArcSDE: Time For a Change
Thoughts on where ArcSDE should go.
Up On the Soapbox
This one caught my eye when it came across Planet GS so I listened to the referenced piece. Suffice it so say that I’ve been kind of close to this issue (more so in the past than I am now) and this kind of thing just really burns my arse. I am less inclined to…
Google Earth: Say wha…?
I was researching the Google Earth COM API and came upon this little gem in its documentation regarding backward compatibility: Note About Backwards Compatibility In all likelihood, future versions of the Google Earth COM API will be fully backwards compatible with the current version. I am now sufficiently inspired to continue. 🙂
Exporting ArcObjects Feature Class to PGSQL
The same project that has me working with WPF has me busy on a few fronts. I’ve been spending the last few days writing a tool to export data out of an ArcObjects feature class and dump it to a pgsql .sql file. ArcGIS acts as a serviceable generic data accessor to many vector data…
The Death of ESRI…
…has (most likely) been greatly exaggerated. I have no specific inside information but I do a lot of DoD work and I’m not seeing any massive shift away from ESRI. Sure, there’s been a few instances of Google Earth appliances and individual projects using open-source tools but there’s been no dramatic sea-change that would drive…
StatCounter Recent Visitor Map
Overview of StatCounter.com “Recent Visitor Map” feature.
Is SharpMap Viable?
It seems there’s been a little more buzz about SharpMap lately and some folks have been doing some fact-checking with James offline. He deftly spun the question of “viability” into “popularity” by citing CodePlex statistics. Can’t say I blame him. The question of viability when it comes to open-source, especially smaller projects, can be tough…
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…
SharpMap and WPF
A few weeks ago, I blogged about the end of the line for MapObjects. I waxed nostalgic about how fun it was to develop with MO and how, although I haven’t used it in a while, I’ll still be sad to see it go. Well, I’m glad I’m over that! I been working with SharpMap…