Geocortex Blog

Well, we’re all back in the office after the ESRI Business Partner Conference and Developer Summit in Palm Springs last week. There has been lots of follow-up and I haven’t had time to recap.

At these events, ESRI announced their new ESRI Partner Network, which will classify ESRI’s business partners into three levels (Silver, Gold, and Platinum). Of about two thousand partners, approximately 10% will be Gold Partners and not more than 1% will be Platinum Partners.

In recent months, we were grateful to be invited to be one of the ten inaugural/guinea pig partners (I think there are five Gold and five Platinum) for the roll-out of the program. We’re now pleased to announce:

Latitude Geographics has been recognized as an inaugural Platinum ESRI Partner.

I’m very proud of this, and of the people with whom I have the honor of working. This recognition reflects the talent of my colleagues here at Latitude, our partners and resellers around the world, and our long-time and visionary customers. The day-to-day hard work of these folks to build and implement our technology ultimately defines who we are. So to all who helped make this possible… thank you.

I’ll pop up another post about the BPC/Dev Summit in the next day or two, but I wanted to share this news.

For the last few months the Geocortex Optimizer team has been working hard on Optimizer version 1.4. One of the new features that we’re excited about is a new interactive heat map reportlet. For those of you new to heat maps, a heat map is a 2 dimensional representation of data where larger values are seen as hot and smaller values are cold. Values are displayed graphically on a map using a hot to cold color scale such as red to blue. Optimizer uses heat maps to show areas that people are looking at based on the number of times a tile is requested for a particular area.  All sorts of planning decisions can be made on the basis of Optimizer’s heat maps such as whether or not to purchase new imagery for a particular area or what tiles to regenerate when edits are made to underlying map data. As an aside, we used ESRI’s Silverlight client side API to implement this feature which was a real joy to work with. 

If you have a copy of Geocortex Essentials, take a look at the release notes for the 2.2.2 maintenance release we packaged up today.  On our Support Center downloads page, you will find the release along with accompanying documentation.

2.2.2 contains some bug fixes, and also includes all of the bug fixes included in the recent 2.2.1 maintenance release.

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!