A geospatial career journey
Well, it’s been a while since I’ve posted anything technical. Work has been a little crazy and I’m not willing to carve into time with the family to keep other stuff moving. As a result a few things have been sitting for a while but I’ve been able to get around to two things. First, … Continue reading Moving Forward On A Couple of Fronts
I’m off with the family for a week of sun, sand and frothy umbrella drinks. I’ve spent the last couple of days working on a WCF web service wrapping some PostGIS calls. I hope to be able to write about it not long after I get back. I’m also continuing with the ArcCatalog objects for … Continue reading Outta Here…
Updating my earlier post: I completed my upgrade to 9.2 yesterday with the installation of the last service pack. The first thing I did was upgrade zigGIS to ensure that there wouldn’t be problems. I have to say that the first thing I noticed was all of the tools ESRI has integrated with VS2005. I … Continue reading PostGIS and ArcGIS 9.2
The last couple of days have shown some traffic being driven to my blog from search terms such as “opening zig file” so I thought I’d offer up a discussion of the format. Abe Gillespie, the original developer of zigGIS, developed the zig file as a means of persisting PostGIS connection information used to access … Continue reading Working with .zig files
Steve has blogged about Clint Brown’s talk at the CA/HI/NV/Guam RUG meeting. There’s nothing particularly suprprising but we’re starting to get dates and features tied to version numbers. I am encouraged that 9.3 will be in beta soon. ESRI’s odd-numbered releases are always more stable. The support for PostgreSQL with ArcSDE is not a surprise. … Continue reading ArcGIS.Next (+)
With apologies to the great Robert Frost. I’ll admit that over the last few months I’ve become something of an open-source convert. I’ve been in the consulting business for about 15 years now and I’ve made it through the “holy wars” relatively unscathed (Microsoft/Linux, IE/Netscape/Firefox, Oracle/Everyone else, ad nauseum). I’ve said it before that it’s … Continue reading Two Roads Diverged in a Yellow Wood…
A long time ago, on a blog-hosting site far far away, there was a blog called ArcDeveloper (not to be confused with ArcDeveloper.Net, which came later and did more). That was my first blog. It went in a few different directions. I wasn’t happy with it, so I killed it. There’s nothing to link to … Continue reading Derived Geometry Redux
…in for a dollar. I’ve been blogging about zigGIS a lot (more than I had planned to, really). So, today, I joined the project. If you go to the site, you’ll see “bill” listed as one of the project owners. That’s me. I had a long IM session with Paolo today and there’s a lot … Continue reading In For a Dime…
I’ve been intrigued for some time by an open-source (GPL) project out there called zigGIS. It is a C# project that enables a direct read of PostGIS by ArcGIS. It is intriguing for a couple of reasons. First is the promise of reading directly from PostGIS and working with your data in ArcMap without the … Continue reading PostGIS and ArcGIS 9.1