Geospatial World

Well here we are at Thursday and I'm finally getting to a post. It's been a whirlwind 4 days.  The plenary session on Monday was another good start to the UC.  This year's theme is: Applying Geography Everywhere.  Jack Dangermond kicked off the day with some highlights and trends in GIS.  A number of presentations followed and the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport is doing some cool stuff on the 3D stove of things.  The upcoming mobile apps: WorkForce and Navigator, look impressive. The highlights for me in the afternoon were Dr. Bruce Aylward from the World Health Organization who gave another very compelling talk.  Last year he talked on the work being done to eradicate polio globally.  This year his talk was on the recent ebola outbreak, and it was an amazing talk.  I was also surprised at Governor Martin O’Malley's talk.  He provided some interesting insights into his time as the mayor of Baltimore and Governor of Marylan...

A _very_ early start this morning as I'm enroute to San Diego to take in the annual worldwide gathering of gis/geo geeks, more commonly known as the ESRI User Conference.  It's always fun to take in the event, along with over 10k other attendees, to see what's new and usually more accurately, what is 'coming'.  The content of the conference is extremely varied with hundreds of sessions and talks in a plethora of tracks and topics. Things for me will kick off with the Mining group social on Sunday evening followed by the Plenary session on Monday. In addition to the conference itself, it will be nice to catch up with other GIS folks from other SRK global offices. I'm not promosing anything, but I am going to try to make some updates on the goings on at the conference so stay tuned. Photo 1 : The North Saskatchewan river on takeoff just out of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan . The smoke has cleared from the many forest fires in the north and a beautiful morning is shap...

A new record!  Almost a year and a half between posts! I didn't say it was a good record... At any rate, here's a little tip I just stumbled across for working more efficiently with ArcGIS Collector .  We have put together a few Collector apps for some clients as of late, and in many cases the data collection is happening offline, and without accurate GPS location information. The new and improved offline collection features, including the ability to collect related data while offline, is incredibly slick.  For example, it is now possible to take 'instrument readings' in a disconnected environment, like say when you're 1 km underground where a GPS signal is a little hard to come by... Sorry, got a little sidetracked, back to the issue at hand.  Something that has annoyed me with the data collection is that Collector is always trying to use your GPS location to help you with the data collection.  But when you're in these disconnected environments this fea...