2008 ESRI UC - Day 2

Day 2, and for the rest of the conference there are technical sessions. Many, many technical sessions. From getting started with ArcMap to Building Models with Python. There is almost too much to choose from. The key is planning out your day.
The exhibit area opened up this morning and it is amazing. There are hundreds [...]

2008 ESRI UC - Day 1

14,000 GIS users converge on San Diego, California’s Convention Center. This event is massive! One Plenary Session today led by the president of ESRI, Jack Dangermond. The topic of today’s talks - GIS: Geography in Action. Jack began this morning with a welcome and proceeded with some yearly awards. Next, began the showcase of technical [...]

Congratulations to new CMS designees

The International Association of Assessing Officers (IAAO) is the internationally recognized leader and preeminent source for innovation, education, and research in property appraisal, assessment administration, and property tax policy. The body of members represents assessment offices around the world and the vendors supporting those offices.
It is a great privilege to share some news about [...]

ESRI Releases a ‘How to Understand the ELA’ White Paper

ESRI just released a guide to help us understand the ESRI Enterprise License Agreement (ELA). As many of you know, ESRI released the Small Municipal and County Government ELA which at the outset looked really good. As the details were released it became apparent that it wasn’t going to be a good fit [...]

ArcGIS 9.3 to ship in July

Just got a little bit more of an official word that ArcGIS 9.3 will begin shipping in mid-July. That means you can expect to see it in your mailbox during the last half of the month. For more info on what’s coming up in the new release, ESRI has a page dedicated to [...]

Google and ESRI Announcement at Where 2.0 Conference

Picked up portions of this from All Points Blog today. Where 2.0 is a conference dedicated to “neographers”, that new breed of mappers that are using free and open source map technology to develop some fairly advanced and easy to use maps (for the most part).  No longer a fringe group, neogeographers are [...]

Southeast Watershed Forum Announces New Online Mapping Service

From the Southeast Wathershed Forum Newsletter

This month the Southeast Watershed Forum launches a new and valuable resource for land and water protection. The Community Resource Mapper provides a free, user-friendly, on-line mapping service that will help communities integrate natural resource protection into their land use planning efforts.
Visitors to the site can create maps at [...]

TNGIC Releases Draft of 2008 Conference Agenda

On Tuesday, the Tennessee Geographic Information Council (TNGIC)Conference Committee released a draft of the upcoming 2008 TNGIC Conference to be held in Chattanooga, TN. The conference is only 5 weeks away, so check out the (draft) agenda and start making your reservations today. Early bird registration ends on March 1st so to receive the savings [...]

GEO-Jobe ArcGIS Training Schedule Published

The 2008 training schedule for ArcGIS training is now available for viewing. Need a little brush up on your skills? Interested in learning about the latest in ArcGIS products? Register for a class now by visiting the GEO-Jobe GIS training page for more info. Or if you would like to learn more about on-site training [...]

ArcGIS Server & ArcSDE at the 9.3 Release

We found a great article, from Spatially Adjusted, explaining the future of ArcSDE at the ArcGIS Server 9.3 release. There is also great information on how ArcGIS Server will integrate with new Spatial Databases as well as connect to and create older versions of the GEOdatabase. Here are the bullet points listed below.

ArcSDE at 9.3 will become fully [...]