Well, almost. It’s a technology preview release. But according to Mark Brown’s Virtual Earth Blog, it’s here, and it’s pretty good. You can now drop a Virtual Earth .NET control right into your .NET project without havin
This year I finally made it out to the O’Reilly Open Source Convention in Portland. Just for the Wednesday to Friday session portion, mind you; I couldn’t bring myself to leave this guy for a whole week: All of the conf
I recently came across a need to display a little Virtual Earth map in one of my sites. Specifically, a group of users needed to see some oblique photography. With OpenLayers you can dump the standard VE or Google Maps t
ESRI has officially released its JavaScript APIs. You can read about them and see code samples here.Essentially the Javascript API’s are client-side Javascript libraries that connect to ArcGIS Server REST web services. O
In the oh-finally-thank-you department, ESRI has released a patch that allows 9.2 clients (ArcGIS Desktop, ArcIMS, etc.) to direct connect to a 9.3 SDE server. Yes, the mythical upwards compatibility. You can’t see me ri
ArcGIS Explorer is not what it used to be. And that’s a good thing. The 480 build has been released (I first heard it on SlashGeo). This is a major update with a lot of new features, tweaks, and bug fixes, but the bigges
I’ve been known to harsh on Microsoft from time to time, but I haven’t written anything to compare to this email fired off by Bill Gates himself. Apparently Bill wanted to install MS Movie Maker, cataloged his experience
Oh, Internet Explorer. I dream one day you will be given corporeal existence, so that I may kill you. In the mean time, however, sites still have to be designed to meet web standards and then hacked for IE. Refusal to do
I recently ran into a little problem with a Windows service. Apache Tomcat, about once every two weeks or so, simply croaks on one of our servers. When I say croaks, I mean croaks: a hit to :8080 gives a fast no-server-l
In the GIS-in-my-pocket department, Portable GIS 1.2 has been released. Much like other Portable Apps, Portable GIS is a self-contained stack of open source GIS software for Windows, including GRASS, QGIS, FWTools, Postg