Ben Riga has recorded a great episode of Lesson Learned where he chats with Rex Hansen. In this episode of Lessons Learned I chat with Rex Hansen of ESRI.  Rex works on MapIt; a product for visualizing enterprise data on maps.  This was recently released as a on-premises product that enables developers to work with the tabular and spatial data in SQL Server 2008 and integrate that data with maps on ArcGIS online and Bing Maps. ESRI MapIt was announced at the Microsoft Worldwide Business Partner Conference 2009. This latest product offering from ESRI is a combination of software and online...

For those wanting to get started with ESRI MapIt 1.1, there is now a step-by-step guide available. This guide comes bundled with everything you need including detailed instructions and screenshots. I wrote up post when MapIt was released around installation. You can find this here: http://geo.geek.nz/development/… This guide is meant to help new users become familiar with MapIt by understanding some of the common workflows associated with viewing your business data on a map.  The guide is split into four sections: Importing your business data to SQL Server 2008 Spatially enabling SQL Server...

The ArcGIS Web Mapping API’s Product Life Cycle has been released and is now available. The ArcGIS Web Mapping API’s consists of the following: ArcGIS API for JavaScript ArcGIS API for Flex ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/Flex To the effect of their Product Release Cycle, the release date for the ArcGIS Web Mapping APIs matches that of ArcGIS. For example, the release date of version 1.x of the ArcGIS Web Mapping APIs is June 2008 (coinciding with 9.3). The release date of version 2.x of the ArcGIS Web Mapping APIs will coincide with ArcGIS 9.4. Something to note as we head closer...

With the release of the ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/WPF 1.1 and ESRI MapIt 1.1, ESRI Parts for Microsoft SharePoint 1.1 was made available for download. ESRI Parts for Microsoft SharePoint 1.1 is a new product offering for those that want to integrate rich mapping functionality into their SharePoint sites. The ESRI Parts leverage the framework SharePoint provides to offer interactive and configurable mapping components that give you a geospatial view of your organization’s data. The ability to visualize data geographically can be extraordinarily beneficial, as it has the power to reveal...

ESRI MapIt was announced at the Microsoft Worldwide Business Partner Conference 2009 earlier this year. This latest product offering from ESRI is a combination of software and online services that enable you to create simple maps from your enterprise data. I had a full write up on MapIt here: http://geo.geek.nz/esri/… With Microsoft PDC 2009 kicking off today, ESRI MapIt 1.1 was made available for download. Over the last four months, the MapIt product has been refined and optimized, and includes a multitude of enhancements. MapIt 1.1 comes packed with a bundle of new features. These new...

I get asked this question loads and as such I have been meaning to get around to writing a post providing some pointers on how to go about choosing one of the Web Mapping API’s. The good thing is Sterling has saved me the time in doing so and has responded to this question with some questions of his own. So the Web Mapping API’s available at the moment include: ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/WPF ArcGIS API for Flex ArcGIS API for JavaScript Note that these are different to the ADF’s that ship with ArcGIS Server 9.3.1. The ADF’s are available in .NET and Java. Some of the...

Many users wonder how to go about creating web mapping applications. Powerful web mapping applications! Well now you will be able to tune into an ESRI Live Training Seminar and get started using the ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/WPF. Public demand is increasing for Web maps that can tell interesting stories and communicate important information quickly. ESRI will host a live training seminar this month that will teach Web application developers the fundamentals of designing fast, rich, and interactive mapping applications using the ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/WPF. As part of a press...

Now that the MapIt blog is up and running we are starting to see some content flowing. In the first series of posts, Rex talks about MapIt and answers a number of questions that have been asked since it’s release. Questions ranging from functionality through to packaging through to price. I get asked a lot of the similar questions so this is a nice series of posts to answer these. So what do you get with MapIt? Well there are four key components that make up MapIt. Spatial Data Assistant Spatial Data Service ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/WPF WebPart for Microsoft SharePoint Rex has...

  A number of users have been asking this question. To answer this clearly. Here are the limitations: Upon the first use of the Spatial Data Assistant or the Spatial Data Service, both are activated for a 60-day trial period. After 60 days, neither the Spatial Data Assistant or the Spatial Data Service will function. The Spatial Data Assistant only imports 100 records from a shapefile into SQL Server or only geocodes 100 records in a SQL Server table. The Spatial Data Service only returns 100 records for a single query. These limitations are removed when MapIt is fully licensed....

The ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/WPF was officially released at the ESRI User Conference 2009. Through the beta stage there has been a few applications come up, internally we have been working on a number of client applications as well as learning applications to get up to speed with things. Until now I haven’t seen an application that showcases some of the key capabilities of the ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/WPF. To showcase some of the capabilities of the ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/WPF, Morten along with a few of the guys from the .NET Team at ESRI has built a nice...