The ESRI Developer Summit 2010 is fast approaching and for those that arn’t aware, David Chappell will be the keynote speaker. As part of the ESRI Speaker Series a new podcast has been posted where David talks about his upcoming keynote. David Chappell, Principal of Chappell and Associates and keynote speaker at the upcoming 2010 ESRI Developer Summit, gives a preview of his keynote address on cloud platforms. This is a very interesting podcast and definitely worth a listen to. Check out the podcast here:...

ArcGIS 9.3.1 Service Pack 2 is scheduled to be released in June! This is an announcement for ArcGIS 9.3.1 SP2, planned to be available in June 2010, and contains a list of issues targeted for this upcoming release. While ArcGIS 9.3.1 Service Pack 1 addressed hundreds of issues across the products, ArcGIS 9.3.1 Service Pack 2 addresses a few key issues while we wait for ArcGIS 10 to be released later this year. The current count of issues are as follows: ArcGIS Desktop ~ 18 ArcGIS Engine ~ 2 ArcGIS Server ~5 ArcSDE ~ 16 .NET ADF ~ 2 Other ~ 1 The list issues being address with SP2 is being...

ArcGIS Explorer Build 1200 has been released and is now available for download. Detailed information on this latest build can be found here: http://geo.geek.nz/esri/… As part of this release a press release has been published. The new release of ESRI ArcGIS Explorer builds on its intuitive design, improving access to geoprocessing services and expanding available maps in the Basemap Gallery. ArcGIS Explorer is a free, downloadable globe viewer with geographic information system (GIS) functionality. The release features a new Analysis Gallery that allows users to directly connect to and use...

The latest version of ArcGIS Explorer has been released and is now available for download! ArcGIS Explorer is a free virtual globe that is much more than just a fun and easy way to explore the world in 2D and 3D. You can use it to add your own data to your maps and combine it with free data from ESRI. You can also customize your maps by adding photos, reports, videos, and other information. This latest version, ArcGIS Explorer Build 1200 comes packed with a bundle of updates and new features! These features are: Updated Basemap Gallery The ArcGIS Explorer basemap gallery has been updated with new...

If you are using ArcGIS Server 9.3.1 for Java then please read the following alert. Description In ArcGIS Server, failover and round-robin are two methods for configuring multiple server object manager (SOM) machines. After applying Service Pack 1 to ArcGIS Server 9.3.1 for the Java Platform, unexpected behavior has been experienced with round-robin and/or failover in the server environment. With round-robin, the request is always sent to the secondary host. With failover, if a failure occurs with the primary host SOM machine, the initial failover from the primary host machine to a secondary SOM...

A bundle of updated GIS newsletters are now available for your viewing. These are: Business GeoInfo, Fall 2009 This newsletter focuses on GIS for business solutions. Articles include Ivan Smith Furniture and GIS Puts Chicago on the Map. Government Matters, Winter 2009/2010 This newsletter focuses on GIS in federal government. Articles include Pueblo County, Colorado, Grows Economy with GIS and Geospatial Capital Program Management Is the Future of Planning. HealthyGIS, Winter 2009/2010  This newsletter focuses on GIS for health and human services. Articles include GIS Supports Strategic...

Later this morning will see the kick off our annual GIS Senior Executive Summit 2010. This invitation only event brings together industry leaders and executives from a number of our client base and around New Zealand. There is a great line up of speakers for this years summit including the president of ESRI, Jack Dangermond. Other speakers include LINZ (Land Information New Zealand) and EQC (Earthquake Commission). Added to the speakers I have been spending the last week preparing some great demonstrations for the summit. This is around the concept of SDI (Spatial Data Infrastructure). Some wonder...

Next week ESRI will be hosting a seminar which will explain how to use map templates and other resources. ESRI will host a free, live training seminar to demonstrate how to use these valuable templates and other resources. Best Practices for Working with Map Templates will air at www.esri.com/lts on Thursday, March 4, at 9:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m., and 3:00 p.m. Pacific standard time. Cartographers, geographic information system (GIS) professionals, and ArcGIS Desktop users of all experience levels are encouraged to attend. Some familiarity with ArcGIS Desktop is recommended. Using the cartography,...

The ArcGIS API for JavaScript 1.6 is now available. This is currently live and can be referenced. Concepts, samples and reference documentation for the ArcGIS API for JavaScript has been updated as well. There are a few bug fixes along with a some new features. Some of the highlights of what’s new in this latest release include: Support for Dojo 1.4.1 Ability to rename Dojo namespaces Web Mercator Auxiliary Sphere (102100) In addition to the enhancements above this latest version contains various bug fixes to improve the stability and performance. There have also been some updates to the extensions...

Last week as part of the ESRI Federal User Conference 2010, ESRI announced a new and existing relationship with Amazon Web Services. Information on this announcement can be found here: http://geo.geek.nz/esri/… There were a few other notes that those interested should be aware of. Very soon we’ll see ArcGIS Server running in the cloud I think this is a significant development and a great move forward from ESRI. Initially ESRI will offer ArcGIS Server Enterprise Advanced v10, along with a few extensions, on AWS. “The ArcGIS Server Amazon Machine Images, hosted in the AWS cloud, will not be...