ESRI has just posted a new patch that resolves a number of issues in working with raster data.Full information about the issues fixed and download link can be found on the ESRI Support Site: http://support.esri.com/index.cfm?fa=downloads.patchesServicePacks.viewPatch&PID=26&MetaID=1056

I see ESRI has just released new documentation outlining the Product Life Cycle of various products.Server Products:ArcGIS Server Product Life Cycle – ArcGIS Server Product Life Cycle Developer Products:ArcGIS Engine Developer Kit Product Life Cycle – ArcGIS Engine Developer Kit Product Life Cycle ArcGIS Engine Runtime Product Life Cycle – ArcGIS Engine Runtime Product Life Cycle I see support for ArcGIS Server 9.0 and 9.01 has been moved into the Extended Support catergory. By 9.2 this should then be moved into Mature Support. Most developers nowadays should really be using 9.1 due...

James raised this a couple days ago, mentioning that ESRI should implement one of these, be it as part of EDN or som other means. They has started a nice discussion from the lads at ESRI. Brian has been talking about this and asking about the differnet resources out there that could maybe be used in getting this to work.In my comment to Brian: http://www.spatiallyenabled.com/2005/09/james_help_me_s.html#comment-9255383, I mentioned that GotDotNet workspace was a really nice workspace enviroment. I also wanted to talk about Sharepoint a bit more, I think this a great workspace enviroment, but not for...

Its good to hear that ESRI will be making a presence at PDC this year.Brian has posted some details about this. Brian will be there, along with Art and Rob. Brians write up can be found here: http://www.spatiallyenabled.com/2005/09/visit_esri_at_t.html Extract from EDN: Join ESRI at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles, California at the Los Angeles Convention Center—September 13-16. We will be showcasing our development and deployment tools for software developers who are looking for an effective way to bring geography and mapping technology into their...

Microsoft Tech-Ed 2005 this year was a great success! There were many of new products shown off by Microsoft, and alot of furture technologies coming. Was good to hear about the talks around .NET 2.0 and Vistual Studio Team System. As you can imagine, there were a number of people blogging about Tech-Ed. Since I have been extremerly busy and havent had time to write up about it, ive found some really good writeups. Here are some great summary posts: Peter Jones Tech-Ed Day 1, Tech-Ed Day 2, Tech-Ed Day 3 Rod DruryTech-Ed Day 1, Tech-Ed Day 2 And 3 Betsy AokiStudent Day 1, Student Day 2Tech-Ed Day 1,...

ESRI are providing assistance to response agencies and journalists and have a site for hurricane Katrina that has been hammering the US the last day or two, with amazing wind speeds and flood surge: http://www.esri.com/news/pressroom/hurricanemaps.html If you look at the bottom of the page you can get to a live storm tracker which shows the storm currently spread across half a dozen states around Ohio and a likely path north all the way to Canada.And on that note, I am off on a ski holiday and wont be back till Monday. Im heading down south to Queenstown ...

Check out the write up about GIS Day 2005 (http://www.gisuser.co.nz/html/events/?get=gis_day.htm) that took place on Wednesday 10th August 2005. It was hosted by us, Eagle Technology Group Ltd. It was great to see such a different number of organisations getting involved as well, and this turned out to be a success. For those wondering, why did those guys in New Zealand hold their own GIS Day? Its due to the fact that the International ESRI GIS Day falls at a bad time for schools in New Zealand, as this is during final exams! Theres a good write up and pictures as well!Thanks to everyone for...

I started working with the OverviewMapControl property yesterday. I cant say that I have actively worked with this control before as part of the ArcGIS Server web controls. I thought it should be pretty easy to get it going although I started to run into a few problems very quickly. The MXD contains elements for the PageLayout which gets used by other parts of the application. Since a requirement was that the PageLayout contains a overview map, the guys created a new data frame and added a layer for this index map. Coming back to the application, the ArcGIS Server is setup to use the active dataframe,...

The details for the ESRI New Zealand User Conference are now online and updated. Full information regarding the UC, can be found here: http://www.gisuser.co.nz/html/events/?get=nz_esri_uc.htm Registration is not active as yet, but should commence very soon. There is a lot of useful information on the site, including information about accomdation. Certain hotels are offering discounted rates. Its always good to get in early as accomdation in Wellington fills up pretty quickly Currently Playing: Moby – Look Back...

As mentioned before with the ESRI New Zealand User Conference, just around the corner from us, we just launched the new updated and cleaner version of http://www.gisuser.co.nz website. For those still getting the older site, the DNS cache’s should resolve themselves over time. Normally 24 hours at a max.This should be updated alot more often and we are hoping for this to become the central portal for GIS in New Zealand Check it out and we would also like some feedback regarding the site and updates. Currently Playing: Moby – Extreme...