‘Maps’ Archives
Google Earth Buildings just got Smarter!
You can now find information about buildings in Google Earth's 3-D view. Simply click on the building and you will find links, text, and pictures about the building.
ArcGIS Online Map Improvements
ESRI recently enhanced the ArcGIS Online map service! The World Imagery Map has blended together USA Prime Imagery, World IKONOS Cities Imagery, and World Imagery with new high-resolution imagery for various countries providing the most optimal vintage, resolution, and coverage available. The World Street Map contains improved [...]
GEO-Jobe Trimble Roadshow visits Knoxville today
GEO-Jobe GIS visits the Knoxville area today for our Trimble Roadshow. Great turnout and lots of good questions. Tomorrow we visit Chattanooga and Friday its off to Jackson. Still room at both locations. Visit www.geo-jobe.com for more info or to register.
2009 GPS Technology Roadshow Scheduled
You are cordially invited to attend the 2009 GEO-Jobe GIS Consulting Technology Showcase and Roadshow coming to your area. We are featuring the latest Trimble® GPS gear, ESRI ArcGIS integration, GEO-Jobe GIS Mobile Mapping solutions, and accessories to make GPS data collection easier. In particular we are spotlighting our robust GIS/GPS [...]
Putnam County, TN goes live with GEOpowered
GEO-Jobe GIS is pleased to call Putnam County, TN our newest GEOpowered interactive mapping client. Rhonda Chaffin, Putnam County Assessor of Property, and her staff provided us with their requirements and data and the development team at GEO-Jobe went to work. The result is a very fast and efficient web-based alternative to calling or [...]
Leveraging Google Earth to Find Your Way in ArcMap
One difficult task for me in ArcMap is finding an intersection of two roads. Much of my work is in the state of New Jersey and often times I’m asked to map a new site location from as little as an address or intersection. The NJDOT has a terrific roads layer, however it is difficult to search the entire data set. Many roads throughout [...]
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 [...]
Microsoft Virtual Earth coming to ArcGIS 9.3
Coming soon to ArcGIS 9.3 as a subscription based service that will allow you to add the Microsoft Virtual Earth imagery and base maps. The real benefit of using this service is that it removes the responsibility of finding and sometimes purchasing the latest base mapping files. Also, it frees you to map beyond your normal "home territory", [...]
WunderMap – Interactive Radar and Weather Stations
Weather Underground has a map that shows the output of thousands of weather stations around the world. As well as NEXRAD radar of current precipitation! The weather stations report temperature, wind speed and direction. This site is a wonderful mashup of mapping all things weather. You can even track current hurricanes by clicking on the tabs at [...]
ArcMap 9.3 Enhanced PDF Options
After upgrading to ArcMap 9.3 and exploring its many new features, one is worth noting; 9.3 has enhanced the options when exporting a map to PDF. In order to utilize this new function go to File > Export (Alt + FE) and in the Save as type: select PDF. If it isn't expanded by default click on the options button on the bottom left of the dialog [...]












