ArcGIS 9.3 is Shipping

According to this press release, ArcGIS 9.3 started shipping today. ESRI has pretty much stuck to the aggressive schedule that they announced at the Dev Summit.
My experiences thus far with the beta and the release candidate have been pretty positive so it’ll be good to get the final product.
Who’s starting the pool on the when [...]

AGX Build 480 is Corny

Or maybe it’s just this post.
It’s always fun in tools such as ArcGIS Explorer and Google Earth to browse around your local area and check out the familiar sites, especially when there is an update. In my case, that means browsing around Southern Maryland. The imagery in build 480 for my area was apparently captured [...]

DMS to Decimal Degrees Function for PostgreSQL

For another project, I had to work with a PostgreSQL table that was storing locations in Degrees/Minutes/Seconds. We had to create an event layer in ArcGIS so they had to be converted to decimal degrees. The server was not using PostGIS and I really had no control over the configuration (although the admins would let [...]

Oregon PostgreSQL Conference

This came through my inbox. I thought it may be of interest to PostgreSQL/PostGIS/ArcGIS 9.3 users in the Pacific Northwest.

Request for proposals: PDXPUG PgDay, due by June 20,2008
PDXPUG PgDay will be on July 20, 2008. This is a one-day conference happening the day before OSCON at the Oregon Convention Center.
We are inviting anyone who [...]

Using ArcSDE 9.3 with PostgreSQL, Part 2

In my previous post, I discussed some approaches to configuring PostgreSQL databases and accessing the data in them with ArcSDE 9.3. For this post, I will describe some of my ongoing experiences with getting data into ArcSDE 9.3.
There are two main ways that I am investigating of loading/making available your spatial data in ArcSDE 9.3 [...]