The new ArcGIS.com from ESRI is officially online as a public Beta version. We have successfully moved from a dark background to white, as can be seen on the right.
ArcGIS Online Beta Screenshot
Executive Compensation Mashup by Dave Bouman, winner of the 2010 ESRI Mashup Challenge
ESRI announced the winners of their 2010 Mashup Challenge. 1st place goes to Dave Bouwman and his executive compensation mashup available here.
Second place winner was a social media mapper, that presents real time results from social media websites to a map (see it live here), which seems like a great time killer to me.
Congratulations to all the winners and applicants, and many thanks to ESRI for running this challenge and allowing people to be creative with their products.
I have been lucky enough to organize a GIS Day ’09 career event at the university of Washington, joined by Harvey Arnone of city of Seattle, Marty Balikov of ESRI Olympia and Dane Springmeyer, freelance geospatial developer. The discussion was titled “What are the essential skills to succeed as a GIS Analyst”, and I have compiled some notes to help with all aspiring GIS Professionals out there. Feel free to add more details in the comments section as you see fit.
Coming from various discussions I have had in the GIS and ESRI Users groups in LinkedIn, I decided I should write a log entry describing the three technologies that people discuss frequently, without differentiation between them: the geoweb, web mapping and web GIS. While there are multiple definitions of the three, mine defines the three based on their functionality, differentiating them and drawing clear distinctions. Continue reading »
