The first day of the 30th annual Esri International User Conference is about 1/2 over now. It has been a great morning of user stories, product demos and vision discussion.
Keep up-to-date on all the happening on the Esri UC Insider page: http://blogs.esri.com/Info/blogs/ucinsider/default.aspx
Looks like they are doing a great job keeping this in sync with all the activities as they happen!
Watch all the action on Twitter for minute-to-minute updates! #EsriUC
You may have heard Twitter (@ortelius / @geoTC / @wherecampsocal) about a Geo WhereCamp in the southern California area. Well, you heard right.
Debate is still open about date & location. We are going to pick a location and date soon – so if you have any input let us know now. Pop us a Tweet at @geoTC & @ortelius with your ideas!!
ESRI made an announcement late today, and word has spread fast. 9.4 has been renamed to be version 10.
Here is the official announcement as a podcast from Jack, where he describes why this decision was made and he discusses some of the features included in 10 and why it justified a full version number. http://www.esri.com/news/podcasts/audio/speaker/dangermond_arcgis10.mp3
Listen to the podcast, and also view the What’s Coming page for ArcGIS 10: http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/whats-new/whats-coming.html
From the traffic I’ve seen on Twitter a number of folks have blogged on this topic already, and it seems that no one is shocked or too questioning this version number change. Lots of good stuff in version 10.
The beta program is still open – talk to your ESRI representative for more information.
Some other blogs posts to review (I’m sure there will be many more tomorrow):
http://blog.gisuser.com/?p=5891&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/2010/01/11/arcgis-9-4-is-now-arcgis-10/
After a nine-year run, the Geography Network will be closing up shop at the end of 2009.
With so much data on ArcGIS Online with multiple ways to access it and so many other web services available, ESRI has decided the time has come to shut it down.
Here’s the blog post about it: http://blogs.esri.com/Support/blogs/arcgisonline/archive/2009/12/09/geography-network-to-retire.aspx
It is time to start thinking about your back-end systems and development environments and OS’s and…
New document just released to the ESRI Support pages that discusses platform changes at the current 9.3.1 release, and the next release – 9.4.
It will be interesting to see what parts of the changes at 9.4 get the most interest (Noise? Worry? Joy?) from clients, and also in the social networking realm – especially Twitter.
See Technical Article 37113 for more details.
Lots of interviews with Jack Dangermond, Founder and President of ESRI this week.
Government Technology (GovTech) - http://www.govtech.com/gt/articles/652976
O’Reilly radar had a three-part interview:
Part 1 of 3: Web Mapping
Part 2 of 3: Sharing Government GIS Data
Part 3 of 3: The GeoWeb
[ ESRI has posted some info about what’s is coming at the 9.3.1 release. For those of you that haven’t heard, 9.3.1 will be released around mid-year 2009. 9.4 is sometime the following year – don’t ask for a more specific date, we don’t have one yet!
Here are the major topic areas – hit the link at the end for more details. ]
There is also a FAQ.
http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/whats-new/whats-coming.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,464246,00.html
An Indian court has been called to ban Google Earth amid suggestions the online satellite-imaging service was used to help plan the terror attacks that killed more than 170 people in Mumbai last month.
A petition entered at the Mumbai High Court alleges that the Google Earth service "aids terrorists in plotting attacks."
Advocate Amit Karkhanis has urged the court to direct Google to blur images of sensitive areas in the country until the case is decided.
There are indications that the gunmen who stormed Mumbai on Nov. 26, and the people who trained them, were technically skilled.
The group appears to have used complex GPS systems to navigate their way to Mumbai by sea. They communicated by satellite phone, used mobile phones with several different SIM cards and may have monitored events as the siege unfolded via BlackBerry Web browsers.
Police in Mumbai have said the terrorists familiarized themselves with the streets of Mumbai's financial capital using satellite images, according to the sole gunman to be captured alive.
The commandos who stormed the Taj Mahal Palace hotel in Mumbai said the militants had made a beeline for the building's closed-circuit security-camera control room.
The legal petition also follows unconfirmed reports that Faheem Ahmed Ansari, a suspected militant who was arrested in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh in February, said he was shown maps of Indian locations on Google Earth by members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Pakistan-based terrorist faction that Indian officials are convinced was behind the Mumbai attacks.
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