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‘ESRI’ Archives
What’s Up with Facebook Places?
Facebook Places was launched last week in an effort to connect history with geography. According to an article in CNET news, “Facebook Places will not just collect location check-ins, it’ll allow for messages and comments and pictures to be aggregated around them, creating a sort of ‘collective memory’ that places a layer of [...]
“Are you Ian? No I’m Pablo… No, are you Ian?!”
The title is a reference to Pablo Fransisco's standup check it out on youtube if you have some time to play on this wonderful Friday! We are very excited to welcome our newest staff and the work he will be performing for Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport! Ian comes to us from West Monroe, LA now residing in Baton Rouge. While attending LSU, [...]
Nashville Flood
Recent infrared aerial photographs of the Nashville area flooding were taken by TN Department of Transportation. Generally TDOT charges for their imagery, however, according to folks at TDOT, these photos may soon become available to state and local governments for free. TDOT flew Monday, May 3rd - Saturday, May 7th over major flood [...]
Better Ways to Design and Share Maps
After attending this meeting, I felt compelled to go out and create maps to share with the world! The FREE ESRI Seminar was held in Phoenix, AZ about three weeks ago, give or take two weeks... The Seminar showed how ESRI can help create easier and faster maps using their tools and sharing information ("But it's mine!"-my son's and wife's [...]
ESRI Development Summit 2010 Summary
So I get to write a blog entry about the 2010 ESRI Development Summit in Palm Springs California! Do I tell you about the 86 degree sunshine, the college kids on spring break, the street party, the beautiful women by the pool (gotcha!), the breath taking mountains or the serene desert? Okay! Well, no, I did not get to see any of that. [...]
Mobile ArcGIS Training Classroom Travels to Owensboro, KY
Texas Gas is an interstate pipeline that moves natural gas from Gulf Coast and Fayetteville Shale supply areas to more distant on-system markets in the Midwest and to off-system markets in the Northeast via interconnections with third-party pipelines. It originates in the Louisiana Gulf Coast area and in East Texas and runs north and east [...]
ArcGIS 10 – Top 10 New Features
Shared from the All Points Blog. ArcGIS 10 - Top 10 New Features #feduc Here are the top 10 features of ArcGIS 10 as described by ESRI Tables and windows can hide; the user can pin a window open; as windows appear or hide the map does not redraw; and some common operations have been tagged to a single pull down menu List layers [...]
Sign Management Program – Minimum Reflectivity Standards
Agencies must have a sign management program in place to insure that signs along roadways meet certain minimum retro-reflectivity standards. In 2008, the FHWA required that state and local agencies must assess and develop a sign replacement plan by January 2012. Non-compliant warning and regulatory signs must be in compliance by 2015 and [...]
Mobile Classrooms
Do you have a group that needs to learn ArcGIS? GEO-Jobe recently held an ArcGIS Desktop I training class for several airport personnel at Gulfport-Biloxi International Airport. The training classes are instructed by GEO-Jobe's Senior VP, Neill Jobe. GEO-Jobe offers ArcGIS Desktop I, ArcGIS Desktop II, and ArcGIS Desktop III training [...]
Significantly increase your accuracy without upgrading your hardware!
Trimble recently announced the new software releases of TerraSync, GPScorrect (w/ArcPad), Pathfinder Office, and GPS Analyst increase your accuracy regardless of the model year of your Trimble unit (Geo3 and forward). Whether you are a forester working under canopy or a city engineer working in an urban environment, the accuracy improvements will [...]
