Yearly Archives: 2005

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

The talks at CSU went pretty well. The slide decks are here: Enterprise GIS: The Future is Embedded (2Mb) The Google Effect: How mapping became the “killer app” of 2005 (9Mb) Disclaimer: Of course you all know that everything in these presentations … Continue reading →