A newly announced web seminar Seminar from ESRI Explains How to Use This Free Web Service… from ESRI… ArcGIS Online offers basemap foundations that can be easily used in ArcGIS Desktop applications including ArcGIS Explorer. ArcGIS Desktop users can connect to ArcGIS Online and access a wide variety of content at no cost including imagery, streets, shaded relief, and topographic maps. ArcGIS Online makes available seamless, high-resolution imagery at approximately 1-meter resolution for the contiguous United States and 2.5- to 15-meter resolution for the world. Visit www.esri.com/arcgisonline to learn more and register. Introduction to ArcGIS Online will air on ESRI’s Training and Education Web site at www.esri.com/training on July 19 at 9:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m., and 3:00 p.m. Pacific daylight time. This is a great opportunity to help those users who are still naively buying free data from online data stores!
Archives for July 12, 2007
ESRI Webinar next week – Access Imagery, Obtain Maps, and Add Data using ArcGIS Online
A newly announced web seminar Seminar from ESRI Explains How to Use This Free Web Service… from ESRI… ArcGIS Online offers basemap foundations that can be easily used in ArcGIS Desktop applications including ArcGIS Explorer. ArcGIS Desktop users can connect to ArcGIS Online and access a wide variety of content at no cost including imagery, streets, shaded relief, and topographic maps. ArcGIS Online makes available seamless, high-resolution imagery at approximately 1-meter resolution for the contiguous United States and 2.5- to 15-meter resolution for the world. Visit www.esri.com/arcgisonline to learn more and register. Introduction to ArcGIS Online will air on ESRI’s Training and Education Web site at www.esri.com/training on July 19 at 9:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m., and 3:00 p.m. Pacific daylight time. This is a great opportunity to help those users who are still naively buying free data from online data stores!
The Zillow DISC neighborhood message
I see I’m not alone and wasn’t the only one confused by the message from Zillow last week – see James’ post on this.
From Zillow… the appology
We sent you an e-mail last week by mistake. Have you ever hit “send” when you didn’t mean to – or copied the wrong person? That’s pretty much what happened to us, and we apologize.
We’re very sorry that this happened. We respect your privacy and we’re taking every step possible to ensure that this doesn’t happen again.
This was in reference to the following message:
Since you claimed your home at , you might like to know you’re part of the DISC neighborhood on Zillow. This is a brand-new feature — literally, we just rolled it out — and we would like to ask your help in getting it started.
By taking part in your Neighborhood Page on Zillow, you can help make Zillow a useful resource for other people like you.
Visit your DEMO Neighborhood Page now!
Oracle rolls out 11g – the pitch – Innovate Faster
Real Application Testing Helps Reduce Time, Risk and Cost of Change
Increase Return On Investment for Disaster Recovery Solutions
Enhanced Information Lifecycle Management and Storage Management
Total Recall of Data Changes
Maximum Availability of Information
Oracle Fast Files
Faster XML
Transparent Encryption
Embedded OLAP Cubes
Connection Pooling and Query Result Caches
Oracle Database 11g offers developers a choice of development tools, and a streamlined application development process that takes full advantage of key Oracle Database 11g features. These include new features such as Client Side Caching, Binary XML for faster application performance, XML processing, and the storing and retrieving of files. In addition, Oracle Database 11g also includes a new Java just-in-time Compiler to execute database Java procedures faster without the need for a third party compiler; native integration with Visual Studio 2005 for developing .NET applications on Oracle; Access migration tools with Oracle Application Express; and SQL Developer easy query building feature for fast coding of SQL and PL/SQL routines.
Oracle Spatial enhancements include support for
• Richer, more-interactive map application development
• Web services application programming interfaces (APIs) for spatial operations
• Business intelligence tools integration
• Dynamic input for routing applications
• 3-D support for terrain and city models and virtual worlds
Twitter Does iPhone with PocketTweets
Nokia launches competition to find rulers of the mobile world
Looking for a way to “springboard” your mobile applications? Nokia, together with a number of high-profile sponsors today announced the launch of its second annual competition for developers and entrepreneurs working in the mobile space. The mobile rules competition was formerly known as the web2mobile competition. The competition is divided into two ‘tracks’. The first is for qualified developers working on mobile applications for Nokia platforms in four categories: ‘multiplayer and connected games’, ‘multimedia’, ‘enterprise’ and ‘infotainment’. The second is aimed at entrepreneurs, small businesses, start-ups and academic institutions and is for business plans in the mobile space, both those designed specifically for mobile devices and those that make existing static businesses mobile. See www.mobilerules.org or for more details jump to http://www.lbszone.com/content/view/2056/2/
Google Earth Build your campus in 3D competition finalists announced
Factle maps and a discount till end of July
Factle Maps produces high quality neighborhood maps. From members of the team that won the 2006 MapInfo Meridian Award, we have put together a comprehensive dataset of neighborhood boundaries for all U.S. cities with populations of 150,000 and greater, as well as their demographic data. As leading experts on neighborhood mapping, we are constantly improving our datasets, continually mapping out neighborhoods for most U.S. cities with the goal to expand our neighborhood collection to other nations.
Until July 28, 2007, Factle Maps will be offering GISUser users neighborhood data at a reduced price that is often substantially lower than comparable datasets. This license comes with names and boundaries for over 11,000 neighborhoods and sub-neighborhoods, that includes elements of the dataset used by HomeGain and Trulia. The reason for this offer is that after this month, the rights — to the original neighborhood data that we helped create – reverts to another company. As a result, we will lose our license to sell this specific dataset directly and we want to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to purchase our data at a reasonable price. We typically sell our neighborhood data at 50% of what others have been charging and we do not require an annual licensing fee. You also have the option of upgrading your purchase to include corresponding demographic data to as many as 500 different parameters. Your neighborhood purchase will be credited toward future Factle dataset purchases. See www.factle.com
Note: Since the time of this original post, Maponics (www.maponics.com ) has sued Factle Maps over copyright infringement in federal court (see http://dockets.justia.com/docket/court-candce/case_no-3:2007cv05777/case_id-197808/ ). Maponics is the legitimate owner of this data – please contact Maponics at 800-762-5158 for more information on licensing neighborhood boundaries.