Latest Contributions by MiguelMartinez2

‎05-11-2020

So I started working in the Puerto Rico Planning Board in 1998. In 1999 I attended my first ESRI UC. Before the conference, I used to go into the ESRI website for different reason, but the main reason was to download additional tools not available in the regular versions. They used to have that in the ESRI website, developer tools for users to download, don't know if that is still available. Anyway, in the ESRI website, they used to have a link to the History of ESRI and the chronology since 1969. And in that chronology, for my surprise, it stated that in "1696, the Puerto Rico Planning Board was the first ESRI customer". ESRI doesn't have that timeline in their website anymore. So now, when I attended my first ESRI UC in 1999, walking trough the lobby of the San Diego Convention Center, I cross path with Jack! And when I said hello to him, he read my batch, and he said, "You work for the Puerto Rico Planning Board, my first customers!". So I guess that confirms what I read in the website. Apparently at that moment ESRI was more like an Environmental Consulting firm, and I don't know the story behind the PR Planning Board contracting ESRI back in 1969. But you know what the coolest thing is? That the PR Planning Board is still an ESRI customer after 51 years!!! I mean, how many companies can said that their fist customer from 51 years ago is still their customer! Any, ask around to see of you can validate this.

‎05-02-2020

Usually when you sell or distribute a software, and you offer a customer a "Pro" version, is usually the same version but with added tools, not an entirely different interface. So ESRI just did that with ArcGIS Pro, they are marketing the software as the "Pro" version of ArcMap, when in reality they are two completely different interlaces, and, how can a "Pro" version lack tools from a "Non-Pro" version like ArcMap? If ESRI already used the "Pro" in this new interface, what will they call the next one or an advanced version of this one, the Pro Pro??? Its like saying that ArcMap was the "Pro" version of ArcView. And everybody knows that when ArcMap came in December 1999, it has new tools, but it was missing a lot of ArcView tools. So, is the software name "ArcGIS Pro" going to exists forever? Have we using a "Non-Pro" software for the past 20 years? And when ArcMap disappears, ArcGIS Pro will be the "Pro" version of what?

‎05-02-2020

What is your opinion on this question: if a person has or is doing a Masters in GIS, should he or she also pursue the URISA GIS Certification??? I have seen a lot of professionals with much higher degrees in GIS than a certification, but in their profiles, they only present themselves as GISP. I think that this certification is becoming more like a trend and is not really making the correct used of the term Professional. In most disciplines, you add the suffix “Professional” when you achieve an official license after passing an exam validated by a Department of State. So, when URISA came at the beginning with the GISP, it was nice because at that moment, there weren’t many certifications nor degrees. But nowadays, I feel that URISA has taken ownership of the term, and a lot of GIS people, thinks that a GISP is like the ultimate GIS goal. And you see a lot of job posts adding the GISP requirements. How can you require something that was created by an association? I mean, let’s say that the US finally comes with a Professional License in GIS, what will the suffix after your last name??? And if a person has a professional license in GIS and the URISA GIS certification, will they put GISP, GISP after their names? I think that URISA should start renaming the acronym of their certification to a more accurate term like GISCERT or GISCIT or some term that really reflect that the acronym is a certification and not a professional degree. Now, this is just an opinion, I might be wrong, what are your thoughts about this?

‎04-22-2020

When ArcMap was release back on 1999, half of the ArcView tools were missing. And then year after year ESRI made these big announcements of the new things coming to ArcMap and most of the new things were tolls already available in ArcView. The same thing happens with the release of ArcGIS Pro, half of the ArcMap tolls were missing and then for the past years they have been incorporated to Pro as a new thing. That’s why users like me are still saying, “what were they thinking???”. Of course, to be fair, there were new tools in ArcMap that did not exist in ArcView, and there are tools in ArcGIS Pro that never existed in ArcMap. But the point is, you don’t release a new version of anything taking away past functionalities just to say you have a new software. You keep adding up and keep having your customers happy. So, what can we expect in the future when ArcGIS Pro is replaced by a new software, that we are going to have, again, half the tools missing? And now that ESRI used the “Pro” suffix in this latest version, what would they called the next software, Super Pro, Mega Pro, Pro Pro??? The answer to all this is very simple, talk to your customers before and find out what they really want to see in a new installment. Do focal groups, do beta testing, do surveys, and most of all, be users of your own products so that you can really understand what we as users want in future releases.

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Latest Contributions by MiguelMartinez2

Re: Scrolling the attribute table in ArcGIS Pro

Why did ESRI used the suffix "Pro" in ArcGIS Pro???

Is URISA using the "P" in GISP correctly?

Re: Is there any way to view .accdb data in Pro?