Latest Contributions by EricDaniel

Mike, What version of ArcGIS Desktop will be needed to be able to publish maps to ArcGIS online for Organzations?  Will the Standard version (ArcEditor) be needed or could editable feature server maps be publishing using the ArcGIS Basic (Arcview) license level?  The Share As option will be available with ArcGIS Desktop 10.1. You will be able to publish to your own ArcGIS Server, and to ArcGIS Online if you purchase an organizational subscription. Here's a link for more information http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/arcgisonline/index.html thanks, Mike ... View more

I've noticed some other Cloud/Web based web mapping offerings have started to offer this ability.  This would be a great addition even if this was only part of the paid subscription of ArcGIS online.   ... View more

Thanks Deane!  That is great to hear you are planning to make more frequent updates and often monthly updates to the World Imagery map.  Also great to hear this will be blogged about.  I have seen previous blogs on this but I don't remember it saying much about US updates.  Below is a link to a pdf that shows the states that were skipped for the 2010 NAIP imagery now have the 2011 imagery available.  So hopefully those states get added along with the 2010 states.  http://www.fsa.usda.gov/Internet/FSA_File/naip0311-covermap.pdf Lastly, I noticed that Esri tracks the date, source, resolution, etc in the metadata of the imagery posted to the World Imagery service and it seems only natural to add some kind of time slider feature so users could slide/go back to older sources of imagery.  In the US, this could be earlier years of NAIP imagery.  I searched on the Ideas site and someone has already suggested this as a feature to add.  The link is below.  Please promote this for those if you wanting to see this excellent feature idea added.  http://ideas.arcgis.com/ideaView?id=087300000008KQQ The last update to the World Imagery map was published in October 2011.  Esri has normally been doing semi-annual updates to the World Imagery map. Beginning this year, however, Esri will be doing more frequent updates of the World Imagery map, similar or our World Topographic Map.  There is an update to the World Imagery map planned in the next couple weeks that will include a very large set of NAIP 2010 imagery, along with a few other updates.  We'll post the details in the World Imagery description and ArcGIS Online Blog, including a map of the updated areas, right after this update is released. Going forward, we'll be making more frequent updates to the World Imagery map (often monthly) as we add more international imagery and update our U.S. imagery.  As always, keep an eye on the ArcGIS Online Blog for the latest updates .... Deane K. ArcGIS Online Team ... View more

I don't think it's ActiveReports.  It think it just Esri own's reporting engine which seems pretty limited at this point.   ... View more

Looks like this is still not being updated to even 2010 NAIP imagery and the 2011 imagery is already out.  I wish Esri would be more transparent about when they plan to update this to the latest NAIP imagery if they even plan to keep this up to date. ... View more

Thanks everyone for the comments.  Excellent points!... In summary, embrace the JavaScript library that make sense for your situation.  The tough part for beginners will be direction on when to use a given library over another. ... View more

I promise this is my last post on this topic since I completely agree that our time is better spent making cool stuff rather than these holy wars.  Yes, popularity should not determine what framework to use, but what is it about jQuery that makes it so popular?  Is it for technical reasons, probably so.  Is dojo better for GIS, maybe, sounds like it is for Esri but not for the opensource GIS community it seems.  I think you nailed it when you said those opensource frameworks don't use a framework.  And that is my main point with all of this and that's why I think you see the negative comments with Esri leveraging dojo heavily.  That would be great if someone could write up something on comparing dojo to jQuery rather than the bashing with no legitimate argument.  I definitely don't have enough background in either to do that.  Maybe Jeff could put something like that in a blog post or something? ... View more

Hi Derek, Thanks again for the info and your candor on this, it is much appreciated.  I definitely understand the reasoning but I think many in the community don't or just don't agree.  I imagine you get this kind of negative feedback on using dojo alot.  As seen in that blog post comments I listed above alone, about everyone is negative towards dojo.  The open source community seems to embrace jQuery over dojo as well.  I get that you are hesitant to lean on the jQuery plug-in community but many of these efforts are probably bigger than dojo community all together. So that is being traded for relying on the dojo framework.  The same argument against relying on jQuery plugins could be used against relying on a framework at all such as dojo or even jQuery.  As I said before, I just see this as problem today and is only going to get bigger as time goes on due the popularity of jQuery. ... View more

Thanks for reply and great insight Derek.  I just expressed this on the Ideas site but I wanted to do that as well here in case you won't see that.  My concern here is as we all know jQuery is very popular , and very likely to become increasingly popular and likely increasing the gap between expericiend jQuery developers vs. experience with dojo.  I see the same thing happening with JS API as HTML5/JS/CSS will begin to pull more people away from the browser plug-ins within the Esri ecosystem and beyond.  So regardless of technical reasons, I think you will see continue press to support jQuery in favor of lesser known dojo framework.  As a possibly gauge in how much more popular jQuery is, if you go to the popular Stackoverflow forum you will see dojo has been tagged in 2310 posts (595 followers) vs. 135,995 posts (20,100 followers) for jQuery, nearly 60 to 1.  As for technical reasons, does the HTML 5 Canvas not reduce a little bit of the need for the dojox.gfx?  Also, I imagine there are many jQuery plugins that would help here like jQuery SVG which some might argue work much better than the dojo implementation.  And what if jQuery adds vector graphics support in it's core library and most believe it works much better than the dojo version?  Just seems like a matter of time if we all agree jQuery is much more popular that is going to greatly surpass dojo.  I may be completely wrong, but I just see a huge surge likely coming to GIS with jQuery experience over the next year and with many open source options going that direction in the GIS arena I see this becoming a problem for Esri JS API long-term. Also, although an older post now, if you read through the comments section you will see the large number of well known in the GIS space that would like to see more effort put into jQuery over dojo.  http://spatiallyadjusted.com/2010/09/20/arcgis-api-for-javascript-2-1-now-with-legends/ ... View more

Daniel, Thanks for the reply.  I realize the world file is giving the coordinates of the top left pixel location, and then the number in the first and fourth are giving the size of each pixel.  However, how would could I get any of the other locations besides that top left?  In the live sample given that dbroux linked to, it gives the coordinates of the bottom left and top right locations of that video image.  Maybe there is some kind of equation I could use to get coordinates of another corner?  Seems like I would need to know how many pixels there are in height and width and not sure how I can get that info without special software.  Also, looks like I need the bottom left(southwest corner) and top right (northeast corner) based on the Silverlight example. ... View more

I did see that sample but what's different about that is the lat/log geo-referenced coordinate info was added directly in the xaml code.  With a geo-referenced image, that information is typically in a world file or the image file itself.  So the key will be passing the coordinate information within the text world file to the Xaml code I guess to position the image correctly.  I imagine that should be possible but I don't know where to start.  He additional direction would be appreciated. ... View more