http://www.geo-jobe.com/blog The lighter side of GIS... Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:42:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.geo-jobe.com/blog/2008/08/19/improving-your-entire-gis-workflow-seminar-franklin-tn/ I have been waiting for this ever since I started using ArcGIS 5 years ago! The ability of the mouse scroll zoom to zoom to the cursor location (yes, just like CAD)! I stumbled onto this little gem while working on a coworkers computer, who had the zoom in/out reversed. ... http://www.geo-jobe.com/blog/2008/08/13/hidden-never-mentioned-best-feature-of-arcgis-93/ 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 ... http://www.geo-jobe.com/blog/2008/08/06/2008-esri-uc-day-2/ I heard from an ESRI representative that the subscription for the imagery and base maps from VE will cost $200/person/year. Incredibly affordable! One catch is that for now it will only be available as streaming information so you'll have to be connected online to use it for now. They are ... http://www.geo-jobe.com/blog/2008/08/06/update-to-microsoft-virtual-earth/ 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, ... http://www.geo-jobe.com/blog/2008/08/04/2008-esri-uc-day-1/ 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 ... http://www.geo-jobe.com/blog/2008/07/31/microsoft-virtual-earth-coming-to-arcgis-93/ 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 ... http://www.geo-jobe.com/blog/2008/07/30/wundermap-interactive-radar-and-weather-stations/ 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 ... http://www.geo-jobe.com/blog/2008/07/28/san-diego-here-i-come/ USGS has a new trick up its sleeve. Almost realtime satellite imagery from LandSat 5 & 7! Landsat 5 was launched in 1984 as a backup for Landsat 4 and scans the earth once every 16 days. Landsat 7 was launched in 1999 and circles the Earth at an altitude ... http://www.geo-jobe.com/blog/2008/07/23/earthnow-landsat-image-viewer/ If you have not yet installed ArcGIS 9.3, then Service Pack 6 has been released for your ArcGIS 9.2 installation.  I am assuming this will be the last Service Pack for 9.2 since the release came after ArcGIS 9.3 started shipping last month. Click Here to go straight to the download page. For ... http://www.geo-jobe.com/blog/2008/07/23/arcgis-92-service-pack-6-now-available/