There has been a lot of talk about Esri’s new technical certifications on various listservs, boards and blogs. While certification is nothing new to many of the disciplines GIS specialist/professionals work with such as IT, Planning, Project Management, Surveying, Tax Assessment, and so on, it is relatively new to the GIS field. The GISP certification from
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Many organizations have invested in Flex/Flash based web applications. Announcements from Adobe that they are dropping future development of Flex (Flash), on top of Apples decision not to support Flex, has left many organizations who have invested in Flex-based GIS applications scratching their heads. What should they do now? Should they move to HTML 5?
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If you are like me, you often use Esri’s online Base Maps as a starting point for many maps and projects. These base maps have included online services provided by Esri and Microsoft BING. Access to these services have provided a time and cost saving method to get new projects started by provide foundational data
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Microsoft Excel is an amazing tool that allows users to store information, perform calculations, link data, and a more. This tool is used by multiple professions and practices in support of day to day tasks to store critical and useful information. As a result GIS users often need to make use of data stored in
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Recently, I saw a question come across one of the many GIS email lists I am on asking about whether or not the spelling sensitivity setting in an Address Locator also worked with addresses located using names and a Place Name Alias table in ArcGIS. This question intrigued me because though I have done my
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Esri recently announced that it will release service pack 1 for ArcGIS 10.1 in October. It will address many issues that have been reported since it was released this past summer. Here are just a few of the issues Esri plans for this service pack to address: When selecting an option in the Interactive Selection
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I, like many of you, have used the old DS Mapbooklet Plotting sample code for many years. It has been a wonderful tool and one I cannot do without. ArcGIS 10 introduced Data Driven Pages which basically incorporated much of the DS Mapbook code directly into the core ArcGIS Desktop products. The one thing that
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So your are using ArcGIS for Desktop and only have access to a Basic License (formerly known as ArcView). You have a large dataset with a Date field and you wish to select all the dates which fall on a specific day or days of the week. How would use do this only using the tools in ArcGIS?
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This week at the Esri Federal Users Conference, Jack Dangermond talked about the pending release of ArcGIS 10.1. During his presentation he shared that parts of this new release would start hitting the streets sometime in March. With the release of any new software version, you have to make a determination about whether or not
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