March 9th, 2010 by Darin
You’ll read it here first: registration is now open for the 5th Annual Geocortex User Conference, scheduled to take place June 8-9th, 2010.
Same great content, delivered online.
Due in large part to feedback we’ve received from clients, we’ve moved your event online. With so many organizations straining to justify travel costs for conferences and training, we felt it was appropriate to alter our 2010 conference to cater to these very needs.
As in years past, we’ll open the conference with a plenary session Tuesday morning (PST). From there, the conference splits into technical and business tracks, combining live and pre-recorded content, with live Q&A throughout. The conference concludes Wednesday afternoon with a wrap-up session and panel Q&A. Feedback from previous years tells us you derive significant value from user presentations, and these are certainly included.
If you’re thinking about a tranistion from ArcIMS to ArcGIS Server or considering the implications of ArcGIS Server version 10, join us for a pragmatic look at the present and future of Geocortex technology, as it relates to your own organization’s needs.
Hope you can make it!
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March 2nd, 2010 by Michael Marek
One of the neat new capabilities of Geocortex Essentials is the ability to integrate oblique imagery generated by Pictometry’s Image Navigator alongside 2-D map data delivered via ArcGIS Server. This can be a powerful tool for planners, emergency responders, assessors, public works and others.
Latitude Geographics has just launched a marketing campaign in conjunction with Pictometry International to develop awareness of this new capability. We recently sent an email inviting customers and prospects to an upcoming live webinar on this topic. The webinar will include the following presenters:
- Darin Herle from Latitude Geographics speaking about Geocortex Essentials
- Scott Sherwood from Pictometry speaking about Pictometry Image Navigator
- Bill Shaw from Milwaukee County speaking about how they have delivered this integration via ArcGIS Server, complete with a live demonstration of a real world application
We encourage anyone interested to sign up for this webinar to learn more about this capability. You can view the message we sent, and sign up for the webinar, at http://www.geocortex.com/ENews.
If you have any questions or comments about this, please contact Michael Marek at mmarek@latitudegeo.com.
We hope you can attend!
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February 27th, 2010 by Darin
If you’re an ESRI Business Partner attending ESRI’s Business Partner Conference in Palm Springs next month, we’ll be co-presenting with ESRI to share best practices and what we’ve learned working alongside ESRI and ESRI distributors around the world.
Hope to see you there!
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February 25th, 2010 by Steven
Although the sound quality isn’t ideal, Directions Magazine has posted a video of an interesting interview with Jack Dangermond at ESRI’s Federal User Conference in Washington, DC last week.
Jack’s a guy who knows what’s up, so I was keen to hear his thoughts. The video includes Jack’s perspective on how economic conditions have been impacting organizations that use GIS and the vendors who serve them.
At the five minute mark he notes a trend around big custom one-off implementations done by integrators getting questioned these days, with COTS (Commercial Off the Shelf) solutions that do 90% of what folks want right out of the box being put in their place. Though we’ve observed it at a much smaller scale than what Jack is referring to, as a company that offers COTS solutions on top of ESRI’s COTS technology, this is a trend from which we’ve certainly been benefiting.
From global to sector-specific trends, the interview covers considerable ground. Definitely a worthwhile ten minutes.
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February 25th, 2010 by S Woods
Are you developing an application in SharePoint 2007? It might be time to reconsider and to move on to 2010. Rumored to be released in June, it’s looking pretty sweet.
I watched a webinar today demonstrating some of the pieces and their treatment of workflows is revolutionary. You can design your workflows using Visio 2010, then import them to SharePoint Designer for fine tuning and out they go. If that’s not enough, you can then add some custom code in Visual Studio. I love the level of integration this involves – and the standardization. You have to have good modular design in order to put things in a box and move them between applications.
The workflows themselves are much more modular now; they’ve added the ability to associate a generic workflow with a particular content type – or even with a site. They’ve also added nested workflows – I’m not even sure when I might use this but I like the thinking behind it!
If you’re curious to read more, here’s a link to the main SharePoint 2010 website. If you want to get right into the product, you can go here to download the SharePoint 2010 Developer Training Kit and here to download a VM fully loaded with the Beta.
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February 16th, 2010 by Stephanie
I regularly use data from different sources (SDE connections, network drives, over a VPN, etc). In the past, I often found that if I closed out of ArcMap, the next time I opened it and tried to add data it would have to spend time trying to re-connect to a folder that was no longer accessible. Sometimes this could take ages.
I used to get around this by trying to remember to add some local data to ArcMap before I closed it (not a very reliable work-around, as more often than not I would forget to do this).
The more reliable solution is a quick Options setting in ArcMap. Under Tools > Options > General Tab, uncheck “Return to last used location when Add Data dialog first used”.
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February 15th, 2010 by Steven
Here’s something that’ll likely pique the interest of many of our state, county, and municipal customers in the United States.
What would people do with ridiculously fast Internet? Google has put out a Request for Information (RFI) to identify communities interested in being part of their plans to build and test ultra high-speed broadband networks (1 gigabit per second, which is 20-100 times faster than what most people currently have) in a handful of trial locations in the United States to explore this very question (among others).
The RFI response deadline is March 26.
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February 9th, 2010 by Drew
To finish the series on my favorite features included in Geocortex Essentials 2.2, this installment will describe the Media Player Integration.
Media Player Integration is actually more of a category, than a single feature. In fact there are a number of features which together describe the integration. At its core, media player integration provides a set of tools allowing users to select one or more features on a “media-enabled” layer and display the associated media (audio, video or imagery).
Now, media integration in any GIS wouldn’t be complete if it didn’t have a spatial component. That’s why we’ve added a “temporal geocoder” (a term coined by Jeff Siemens, the developer who wrote it). The temporal geocoder associates points in time with XY coordinates on the map. This allows us to animate a cursor, “following” the feature along the map while the associated movie is playing. As the cursor moves along a line feature (for example), the associated video displays what was captured at that location.
Video can be captured of pipelines, power transmission lines, highways or a sewer pipeline, along with the XY coordinates at snapshots in time along the video. By hooking up the video files with a layer in Geocortex Essentials, you can skip along various points of the video by clicking on points which intersect the associated feature, then watch the video play out from any point of interest. Of course, if the media is not spatially enabled, Geocortex Essentials will simply display the media associated with the features on the map.
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February 4th, 2010 by Steven
I got an iPod Touch a few weeks ago, and made extensive use of it during a recent overseas business trip to check and respond to emails as I encountered available Wi-Fi (even when I had my laptop, I often didn’t feel like booting it up).
The primary disadvantage for me is typing with my thumbs using the on-screen keyboard, which I find not unlike typing with my elbows on a standard keyboard. Consequently, my in-transit emails became increasingly minimalistic. Like telegrams, actually.
I’ve never liked the standard Sent from my iPhone/iPod/Blackberry message because the purpose of this statement seems unclear (could be construed as advertising, bragging, or simply providing totally irrelevant information in the spirit of social networking).
Today I got a brief email response from someone that contained the following disclaimer:
– This email is from my handheld and may have been brief. ~
I like it. Problem solved.
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January 29th, 2010 by Stephanie
I found a solution for an irritating problem – some of the symbol colors in my ArcMap layer list were different than those in my map:
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