Category Archives: ArcGIS

My ArcGIS 10.1 Wishlist

ArcGIS 10.1 will be released soon and according to Esri, ArcGIS 10.1 will be the company’s biggest release ever.  Plenty has been published by Esri about the 10.1 release, including an overview of  10.1 from the Resource Center, a number of … Continue reading

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Problem of the Day – ArcGIS Basemaps in ArcMap

I’ve been a big fan of the Esri basemaps for a while now.  I use them in web applications all the time.  Within web-apps they are fast, and when used correctly, they are an effective reference layer. Lately I’ve been running … Continue reading

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ArcGIS Viewer for Silverlight – That was easy

This past Wednesday, on the ArcGIS Server Blog, Esri informed the geo-nerd world that their ArcGIS Viewer for Silverlight v1.0 is now available for download to the world.  The viewer is essentially a wizard for creating Silverlight based ArcGIS mapping sites … Continue reading

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You Stay Classy, San Diego

I was very fortunate to have spent the past week in San Diego at the 2011 Esri User Conference.  I have been to many local, regional, and national GIS and geography conferences but this was my first Esri UC and this … Continue reading

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I like ArcGIS 10

A large number of the hits on my website come from keywords that aren’t the most flattering to Esri.  But, today, for the first time in the brief history of my little blog I had a very unique keyword that … Continue reading

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CONFIRMED – I really got an email from Jack Dangermond

In my last post I wrote about how I received an email from “Jack Dangermond”, the president and founder of Esri.  I was skeptical that he would actually email me based on my response to the Esri User Conference pre-conference survey. … Continue reading

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Is this email really from Jack Dangermond?

I am very fortunate to be attending the Esri User conference in mid-July.  At my job I use Esri software in a significant portion of my everyday workflow.  At the conference I am looking forward to meeting up with 10,000 … Continue reading

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Spring NEArc, Tuesday May 17th!

The annual spring NEArc meeting is tomorrow, May 17th at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.  This is a great one day conference, bringing a variety of talks from education, public, and private sector GIS users.  I’ve spoken at a couple … Continue reading

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Keyboard Shortcuts in ArcGIS 10

I’m always looking for ways to make my workflow more efficient, from creating scripts to automate a process or trying to simplify models so that they are both effective and efficient. What about making the day-to-day use of ArcGIS faster?  Many of us create … Continue reading

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I love models

GIS models, that is…   I get to do fun things with GIS, like develop models that handle and process millions of records.  This model is used to clean a number of spatial variables for input into another analytical model. … Continue reading

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