Improving Your Entire GIS Workflow Seminar (Franklin, TN)

Join ESRI for a no-cost seminar designed to help improve your entire GIS workflow. This one-of-a-kind opportunity will help you quickly gain the key benefits of ArcGIS 9.3. From map production and data sharing to modeling and increased mobility, you will see how the newest GIS tools can enhance your operations. GIS professionals and GIS [...]

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 [...]

San Diego, Here I Come!

The countdown has begun…In less than 1 week I will be in Sunny (hopefully) San Diego, California for the 2008 ESRI Users Conference. I shall do my best to document the entire ordeal for those that cannot be there. I plan to include as many pictures as I can to completely capture the enormity of [...]

A new choice for President

We don’t usually do political stuff here.  But if you’re like me, you are probably as tired as I am of this current political campaign season? Are you ready to get a really good candidate in office? I think you’ll agree that we all know the perfect candidate. Click the video below [...]

Video your GIS in Action

Picked this up from Glenn’s Blog.
ESRI is looking for videos of your GIS in action (that’s In Action, not Inaction).  I know many of you are still wondering if there is an actual end goal of GIS.  You’re hoping that you’re not just throwing your money away hoping to actually analyze something someday.  Well, for [...]

Tour de France gets Google Street View

The Tour de France is on and so is street view for the course. This year you can see the course using Google’s Street View technology. This LINK connects you to the traditional Google Maps site showing where street view is available over the course. The tour website is HERE. And [...]

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 [...]

ESRI Training at Columbia State

Today is the last day to sign up for ESRI Training at Columbia State in Columbia TN. The class is next week, May 5-6 and the course is Intro to ArcGIS I. Cost is $750.  Sign up at our website.

Knoxville gets SmartFIX40 next week

Approximately two miles of Interstate 40 in Knoxville will be closed to all traffic for 14 months as TDOT’s SmartFIX40 program gets going. SmartFIX is TDOT’s accelerated repair program which requires a portion of a highway or interstate to be fully closed. This provides a faster turnaround time by maximizing the construction window [...]

SERUG Underway

SERUG is well underway here in Jacksonville. Wakeup temps are cooler than normal for this part of the country. Ate lunch in the Landing yesterday. About 650 people are here. Had a great opening social here in the conference exhibit area last night. Today is packed with sessions of all [...]