shrug-l: Review of ESRI User Conference

[wh pollock]

WOW. Thanks Chris. 

After reading that, i feel like 
i attended the Conference myself. 

Seriously though, thanks for sharing! 

Ciao, bill 


--- Christopher McGarry
<ChristopherMcGarry@WilsonMiller.com> wrote:
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>  
> 
> Below is my review of the 2003 ESRI User Conference
> in San Diego. I have
> mainly focused on the technology aspects (my
> background) of what I saw at
> the user conference.  This however does not mean
> that all of the information
> presented below will necessarily be released or
> implemented, as the products
> are still being developed and tested.  Additionally,
> this information is for
> general interest purposes only and should not be
> referenced in any official
> capacity.  
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks
> 
>  
> 
> Chris McGarry
> 
>  
> 
> --------------------------------------------- 
> Chris McGarry 
> Sr. GIS Specialist 
> WilsonMiller Inc. 
> 
> 1311 Executive Center Dr. Suite 100 
> Tallahassee FL 32301 
> (850) 878-5001 
> http://www.floridagis.com
> <http://www.floridagis.com/>  
> --------------------------------------------- 
> 
>  
> 
> ***Keynote:
> 
>  
> 
> The theme of this year's conference was "GIS -
> Serving Our World," which has
> two different but related meanings for GIS
> professionals.  One meaning
> refers to the way GIS professionals are serving
> their community; the other
> refers to the way GIS (and much of technology in
> general) is moving towards
> integrating data on ever-increasing scales.  
> 
>  
> 
> For more on the Keynote please see:
> 
>  
> 
>
http://www.esri.com/events/uc/openingday.html#jacks_presentation
>
<http://www.esri.com/events/uc/openingday.html#jacks_presentation>
> 
> 
>  
> 
> ***Plenary Session:
> 
>  
> 
> Several Products and enhancements were shown during
> the plenary session and
> are detailed below.
> 
>  
> 
> --ArcGIS 9:
> 
>  
> 
> According to David Maguire, director of products,
> users of ArcGIS 9.x should
> notice improvements in reliability, scalability, and
> interoperability.  The
> user interface is not much different than ArcGIS
> 8.x, and existing tools and
> extensions for 8.x should work in 9.x.  I will
> discuss each aspect of ArcGIS
> in detail later.
> 
>  
> 
> --ArcGlobe:
> 
>  
> 
> ArcGlobe was the best wiz-bang demo of the whole
> conference and certainly is
> the best realization of an all-encompassing global
> GIS data viewer thus far.
> Imagine looking at the entire globe (these data come
> with the software) and
> clicking a bookmark that says "Tallahassee - Monroe
> St." and instantly the
> viewer starts to "fly" into the Northwest Florida
> area, then into the
> Tallahassee Metro Area and then right into Monroe
> St. right in front of the
> Capital Building with imagery so detailed that you
> can see a taxi waiting to
> turn onto Apalachee Parkway.  Now imagine this whole
> scene flipping on its
> side to reveal a 3-D view of downtown including
> photo-based renderings of
> buildings, and CAD models of streetlights and cars
> (think ArcScene).  
> 
>  
> 
> ArcGlobe only loads the necessary data at the
> necessary resolution to show
> what is needed at that moment, thus allowing the
> computer to actually draw
> the information in an animated fashion. All of this
> is of course dependent
> on what information has been added, which brings up
> the next part of the
> demo.  Jack added a live ArcWeb data service, which
> I believe was provided
> by the NOAA National Center for Atmospheric
> Research, of an animated raster
> image showing the global vapor stream.  The result
> was a rotating globe with
> an animated raster dataset of the global air stream.
>  
> 
>  
> 
> So here, in my opinion, we begin to see the
> beginning of Jack's ultimate GIS
> viewer.  Imagine being able to plug in a multitude
> of ArcWeb services
> (ArcIMS and ArcGIS Server), which were created from
> globally integrated
> geodatabases (ArcSDE) based on Geodatabase data
> models (CASE Tools and
> ArcCatalog) created from data collected in the field
> (ArcPad and Tablet PC),
> into this global data viewer and you can begin to
> fully appreciate, or at
> least understand, the way ESRI is transforming their
> product line to attain
> the ultimate goal of global GIS.  
> 
>  
> 
> According to one of the product reps I spoke with,
> ArcGlobe should be able
> to run on most desktops.  However, a 3D acceleration
> card is recommended as
> well as ample RAM (I would recommend about 15
> terabytes).  
> 
>  
> 
> For additional information see:
>
http://www.esri.com/news/arcnews/summer03articles/introducing-arcglobe.html
>
<http://www.esri.com/news/arcnews/summer03articles/introducing-arcglobe.html
> > 
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> --ArcPublisher:  See below
> 
> --ArcToolbox and Modeling:  See below
> 
> --Network Analyst:  See below
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> ***Keynote and Notable Awards
> 
>  
> 
> Peter Hillary, son of Sir Edmund Hillary, who with
> Tenzing Norgay was the
> first to climb Mt. Everest 50 years ago, gave the
> audience a multimedia
> presentation that included a 3-D fly-by of Mt.
> Everest itself using
> ArcScene.  Since I could not even begin to give
> justice to this presentation
> please see:
> http://www.esri.com/events/uc/openingday.html
> 
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