There have been a number of queries from users asking if is possible to install the ArcGIS 9.3 JavaScript API locally within your own environment. If you have been using the ArcGIS 9.3 JavaScript API then you will be familiar with this line of code. This allows you to connect and download the hosted ArcGIS 9.3 JavaScript API’s. <script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://serverapi.arcgisonline.com/jsapi/arcgis/?v=1″></script> What happens if you are in a restricted environment and have no access to the internet? ESRI has now made available the ArcGIS 9.3...

Late last month ESRI announced that ArcGIS 9.3 Service Pack 1 will be available for download later this year in November. They original announcement feature bug fixtures for ArcGIS Desktop, ArcGIS Engine, ArcGIS Server and ArcIMS. Today ESRI released an updated document of changes. This has now been extended to ArcGIS Image Server and ArcSDE. The issue/fix count as from my previous posting: Product Issue Count ArcGIS Desktop ~ 70 ArcGIS Engine 1 ArcGIS Server ~ 80 ArcIMS 1 The updates issue/fix count as of now: Product Issue Count ArcGIS Desktop ~ 250 ArcGIS Engine 7 ArcGIS...

Something that slipped past was the announcement of ArcPad 7.2 and the beta program which is now open. ArcPad 7.2 beta program is now accepting applications. So what’s some of the new features coming in ArcPad 7.2?   Well it sounds like the ArcPad Development Team has been very busy making some great changes. A Fresh new Look! – new modern icons are used in ArcPad 7.2, which allows ArcPad to take advantage of different screen resolutions New Open Map Dialog – the open map dialog has been enhanced for easier navigation of map documents ArcPad Toolbar Manager – a new...

One of the great new features of ArcGIS 9.3 is the error reporting system that has been introduced. Whenever a crash is encountered ArcGIS 9.3 will give you the ability to to send an error report to ESRI. We have seen this feature introduced in a number of other software products out there and it’s nice to see ESRI has included it in the ArcGIS 9.3 release. So why are these error reports important? We think that error reporting can result in significant improvements in our support to you. To help us with this effort, at 9.3 all the ArcGIS Desktop applications as well as ArcGIS Explorer have an...

Earlier this year ESRI Press announced a new book/methodology that has been publish. The Business Benefits Of GIS, An ROI Approach talks about how the return on investment can be calculated in the GIS space. AS part of the ESRI Speaker Series a new podcast has been posted which interviews the authors of this new book. David Maguire, Victoria Kouyoumjian, and Ross Smith, discuss their new ESRI Press book, The Business Benefits of GIS: An ROI Approach, which details a return on investment (ROI) methodology that explains how the implementation of a GIS can create business value for an organization. We do...

This is a very common question that a number users ask. The Geodatabase Development Team has an excellent post on this. There are two ways to go about connecting to ArcSDE. One is to connect via the application server connection and the other is to make a direct connection. Essentially these are the same, the difference is where the work is being done. I think the picture below sums it up nicely. This highlights how each connection method works. So what is really happening here: As you can see, the type of connection really just dictates where the spatial processing is being done (the gsrvr process...

ESRI will be hosting a live training seminar this month that will focus on ArcGIS Server 9.3 security methods. This seminar will touch on some of the new security features that have been introduced in ArcGIS Server 9.3. The live training seminar Implementing Security for ArcGIS Server .NET Solutions will air on ESRI’s Training and Education Web site at www.esri.com/lts on September 4, 2008, at 9:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m., and 3:00 p.m. (Pacific daylight time). Be sure to bookmark the above date. What will the presenters discuss? The seminar’s presenters will outline the new methods of...

Earlier this month ESRI announced that ArcGIS Online would feature a new premium service. The first addition to this premium service was the introduction of Microsoft Virtual Earth. A few weeks ago ESRI followed up this announcement with a patch for ArcGIS 9.3. This allowed ArcGIS 9.3 users to consume ArcGIS Online Premium Services. ESRI have now made available the ArcGIS Online Premium Services. ArcGIS Online Services Premium subscriptions are now available:  Microsoft Virtual Earth map services for use in ArcGIS Desktop and ArcGIS Explorer can be previewed in the content showcase on the ArcGIS...

ESRI has announced that ArcGIS 9.3 Service Pack 1 will be available for download later this year in November. There are a bundle of fixes for ArcGIS Desktop, ArcGIS Engine, ArcGIS Server and ArcIMS. The issue/fix count as of now for each of the products is as follows: Product Issue Count ArcGIS Desktop ~ 70 ArcGIS Engine 1 ArcGIS Server ~ 80 ArcIMS 1 Some of the issues being address that I find interesting: ArcGIS Desktop NIM006247 – Saving shape file edits more the eight times in ArcMap leads to slower and slower performance. NIM008646 – If the Geographic Transformation is...

A number of users find that ArcMap takes a long time to start and has poor performance. ESRI has had a technical how you can increase the performance of ArcMap by making some changes to several system settings for a while now. They have updated this for Microsoft Windows Vista. There are several system settings, hardware upgrades, and maintenance routines that need to be performed to increase the performance of ArcMap. The four main areas to have a look at include: Change the virtual memory setting to have a maximum size of 4095MB for Windows 2000 and 4096MB for Windows XP. Change the TMP and TEMP...