ArcGIS 9.2 Service Pack 1 Out
In the dang-I-should-have-waited-on-installing-that department, ESRI has released service pack 1 for ArcGIS 9.2. This includes service packs for pretty much everything - ArcView, ArcInfo, ArcEditor, ArcIMS, ArcSDE, ArcG
A Quote to Start the New Year
Often one of the biggest challenges in GIS is getting people to understand what exactly GIS is and what it can do for them. To highlight that theme (and because I can’t help myself) here’s a quote about GIS to begin the
Thanks, and Happy Holidays!
As the PC Newsletter ends its second year of publication and begins to creep up on 100 (!) articles, I wanted to take a moment to thank everyone for all their ideas, encouragement, and support. I’ve been quite astonishe
Enabling Transparent PNG’s in IE 6
Internet Explorer 7 is here at last! After abandoning their browser project for five long years, Microsoft has stepped up to the plate and delivered lucky #7. And, and….Well, it still basically sucks.While their CSS st
Google Maps Adds Multiple Destination Support
Google Maps has added support for multiple destinations! No more limitation to point-to-point routing. If you want to see the World’s Largest Ball of Twine on the way to the Grand Canyon, Google Maps can point the way.
ArcGIS Server Image Caching
As luck would have it, I made my way to the ESRI User Conference this year out in San Diego (I wrote a piece about it - check around August ‘06). One of the interesting things they were showing was the new default web
The Uber-Flexible Schedule
This is a bit off topic for this blog, but this article fascinates me.At the Best Buy corporate headquarters, there are no schedules and no mandatory meetings. Come and go at whatever times are best for you. Feel free
Visual Basic - On The Outs
It’s hard not to like Visual Basic. For most developers it’s like a good old hat - comfortable, undemanding, it does what you want it to do and is filled with memories of many of our very first “Hello World!”‘s (or, if
Geocoding with the Google Maps API Geocoder
When Google first released the highly popular Google Maps API, no geocoder was available. That was a major bummer, as giving customers the ability to find themselves on the map via address is probably the #1 most commo
MapServer 4.10 Available
MapServer 4.10 has been released! This is a fairly significant release with a lot of new features and fixes. You can see a list of all the changes on the 4.10 change log. One of the most useful ones for me is adding