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 [...]

New Poll - GIS news sources

Where do you get your news from in the world of GIS?  Let us know by answering the poll on the left.

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 [...]

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. [...]

Take our quick poll - how are you managing high gas prices?

On the left is a quick survey. How are you managing the high prices of gas? Here are a couple of handy links to help.
Gas Buddy
Gas Price Temperature Map
Gas Prices at Mapquest
Gas Price Watch
Department of Energy - Average Prices across the US

Google releases API for browser-based Google Earth

This is pretty cool stuff. Now get Google Earth inside your browser. There is a full API and SDK for developers.

Get the plugin here.

Turns out seplinlg is not vrey ipormatnt atfer all

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