ArcGIS Service Pack 4 Is Out
Yes, that’s right. Another one. ESRI has released service pack #4 for it’s core suite of products - ArcGIS, ArcIMS, ArcSDE, et. al. The release notes say: ArcGIS 9.2 SP4 contains critical fixes and new functionality. It
Microsoft and Zend Release FastCGI for IIS
A long while back I mentioned Microsoft and Zend had entered into a collaboration agreement to create a native FastCGI interface for IIS. That project has finally begun to show some fruit. Microsoft and Zend have release
Knowing the Cost of Meetings
As a general statement, I don’t particularly care for meetings. Part of that is my own personal bias. Like a lot of tech/programmer types, I’m mildly autistic (somewhere in the asperger spectrum), and I don’t function te
GIMP 2.4 Released
Several years in the making, the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) 2.4 has been released. The list of new features and updates is a mile long, with some of the highlights here, but the first thing you’ll notice when
GE-Census Explorer
I picked up this tidbit on Free Geography Tools.GE-Census Explorer is a small Windows application that streams Census data to Google Earth. It shows base Census 2000 data, from the state level all the way down to the blo
MapServer 5 Released
From slashgeo: MapServer 5.0.0 has been released.MapServer is “an open source development environment for building spatially-enabled internet applications.” We’ve released a number of sites with MapServer, and it’s a fan
The ReDistricting Game
I saw this one quite a while back, sent it to some friends at Mecklenburg County’s Board of Elections, and then promptly forgot about it. I just ran across it again, however, and I thought some of you might find it fun a
NC GICC Recomendation for Geospatial Data Sharing
I recently finished a Carolina URISA/GITA conference. I use the term “finished” rather than “returned from” because the conference was held about a mile from my office and about two blocks from my bus stop. Not that I th
Google Earth Adds Sky And Hidden Bonus
Those crazy Google Kids. Not content with our little blue planet, Google Earth 4.2 added a “sky” feature. It allows you to shift your gaze from Earth to the heavens, including about a hundred million stars and two hundr
A Note On Standards + Some Harshing
Standardization, in the context related to technologies and industries, is the process of establishing a technical specification, called a standard, among competing entities in a market, where this will bring benefits wi