Monthly Archives: November 2005

GIS Web Developer Position (.NET + AJAX)

We’re looking for a motivated person to join our cutting edge geospatial development team. Located in Fort Collins, this tight knit team is focused on building cutting edge GIS application using both ESRI and OGC technologies. This position is focused … Continue reading

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Upgrading an Enterprise GIS System: Migrating data into the new schema

The next step in the ongoing upgrade saga was to load an existing feature class into a subtype of one of the new featureclasses. Of course, the new schema has fields which are not in the original featureclass, or which … Continue reading

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Theme Update

I’ve done a little more tweaking with my dasBlog theme. The idea was to avoid Jakob Nielsen’s Weblog Usability: Top 10 Design Mistakes. A quick review of the lists says I’m still missing an #1 – an Author Biography, #5 … Continue reading

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Upgrading an Enterprise GIS System: Geodatabase Schema Changes

Problem: We have a geodatabase which was originally modeled in UML, but the UML is out of synch with the geodatabase, and we don’t have the time to update the model to match the geodatabase. But, we need to add … Continue reading

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Upgrading an Enterprise GIS System: Comparing Geodatabase Schemas…

Next item in the upgrade is addressing some schema changes. When we started development, we designed a large geodatabase using Visio & UML. Nice. Over the following years, we wrote the ArcMap tools and other applications which use this geodatabase. … Continue reading

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Upgrading an Enterprise GIS System: The Code

Over the last 3 years we’ve been building a state-wide enterprise forest managment system for Michigan. During the main development and stabilization phases, we locked the application at ArcGIS 8.3. However, with the upcoming release of ArcGIS 9.2, version 8.3 … Continue reading

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Upgrading An Enterprise GIS System The CodeOver The Last 3 Years Weve Been Building A Statewide Enterprise For

Over the last 3 years we’ve been building a state-wide enterprise forest managment system for Michigan. During the main development and stabilization phases, we locked the application at ArcGIS 8.3. However, with the upcoming release of ArcGIS 9.2, version 8.3 … Continue reading

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Arc2Earth & Vacation

While I did not really beat up on it, I must say that Brian Flood‘s Arc2Earth tool is amazing. It was super simple to use, and really fast. I think that I was lucky in that the data I had, … Continue reading

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My Flickr + Earth Mashup

No big secret that I’m a bit of a geek. While putting together my presentation on Google Maps/Earth, I found a network link from Geobloggers.com that loads in the last 50 Flickr geotagged photos within your view area. While this … Continue reading

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It’s ALIVE

My “labs” have opened! My plan in setting up this site was to have a place to fiddle with various things not work related. After a year, I’ve finally gotten around to it. Woot! I hope to add more projects … Continue reading

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