State of TN Now Offering Statewide Imagery for Purchase or Download

The State of TN Office for Information Resources (OIR), GIS Services Division are now making statewide imagery available for purchase or download. Anyone can now purchase the raw .TIF digital orthophotos and digital terrain models (DTMs) developed from the Tennessee Basemapping Program on a per sheet basis. More details about the nature, format and cost of [...]

The wait is over… ArcGIS 9.3 Now Shipping!

The wait is over! ESRI, in a press release yesterday, announced that ArcGIS 9.3 is now shipping. If you are current on your maintenance, you should be getting the software within the next week or so. With the release of 9.3 comes new intructor-led courses such as ArcGIS Desktop I, ArcGIS Desktop II and ArcGIS Desktop [...]

ArcGIS Tips & Tricks

I have been working with ArcMap for about 5 years now. I figured out how to create a circular data frame 2 weeks ago and the multicolored multi-layered labels last month. I’m always learning new things and would like to share some of the fun tricks I’ve learned with other GISers. I hope they help. [...]

Census TIGER shapefiles - a primer

Earlier this year the Census Bureau released its TIGER/Line files in shapefile format for the first time. I was just taking a look at the TIGER website to see how the data would work as basemap for some simple projects we are working on. Keep in mind, I know there are other free [...]

LizardTech releases GeoExpress 7 SDK for developers

This should be of interest to those of you that work with GeoExpress 7 in your applications. Just released free SDK from LizardTech for GeoExpress 7.
SEATTLE, Wash. - June 2, 2008 - LizardTech, a division of Celartem, Inc., and a leading provider of software solutions for managing and distributing digital content, announced today the [...]