Tag Archives: ESRI

Twitter and the Map

The microblogging site Twitter has emerged from a nice service to one to the biggest players for social networks. With only 140 employees and an estimated revenue of $400,000 in Q3 2009 the Californian company is on rank 12 of … Continue reading

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Map Mashups can tell a story

ESRI recently announched the 2010map  mashup challenge and invites developers to present a map mashup and tell the story behind their mashup. One interesting and creative example is the mapshup by Dave Bouwman – Visualizing Executive Compensation. The story behind … Continue reading

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New Topographic Map-Resource in Google/Microsoft tiling schema

ArcGIS Online has migrated map tiling scheme of their map services to Google Maps and Microsoft Bing Maps well known tiling scheme. All ESRI Map resources can now overlayed and mashed-up with Google Map layers and Bing Map layers, because … Continue reading

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How to make some extra money with WebGIS development?

Update (06.02.2010): Motivational Video by ESRI, if you don’t know what a mashup or a mapping mashup is or how you can create one. Important is that your mashup has to tell a story: This video was embedded using the … Continue reading

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ArcGIS 9.4 transformed to ArcGIS X (10) – What is ESRI secret?

Recently ESRI (Jack Dangermond) announced to change the name for the next release from 9.4 to 10.0. In my opinion there has to be more than already promoted features for this release there have to be another joker which is … Continue reading

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The GIS Market Leader and Mobile GIS

ESRI is well known for providing professional GIS solutions from desktop to server. But they always struggling with mobile GIS. For a long time ArcPad was ESRI’s reference application when it comes to mobile GIS. ArcPAD tries to be the … Continue reading

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ArcGIS Explorer with Ribbon Interface

A quick preview of the upcoming ArcGIS Explorer 900 release from ESRI. This version will include the ribbon interface, which is known from Office 2007. On the ESRI homepage ist can be read that this version will be available Q2 … Continue reading

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Some infos on the ESRI DevSummit 2009

In 2009 ESRI holds their 4th developer summit in Palm Springs, CA. Between March 23-26 various sessions covering the whole product line of ArcGIS will be covered. Of course news about the version 9.3.1 will be demonstrated and an outlook … Continue reading

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GIS Day 2008 Song

Maybe you can rember the G-I-Yes! song. This song was released on the GIS day 2007. Also this year there is a GIS day song is called: Map Of The World As We Know It: You need to a flashplayer … Continue reading

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Open Street Maps as Shapefile for your GIS

The German company Geofabrik is specialized to neogeography and open geospatial data. Now they provide the download of OpenStreetMaps as daily updated shapefiles.  The data on their server are regional hierarchical structured. All shapefiles are based on OpenStreetmap-raw data. This … Continue reading

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