Geospatial World

Over the last couple of years, spatial database technologies have become easier to acquire, implement and configure.  Whether it's Microsoft's foray into spatial databases with the release of SQL Server 2008 , the numerous Open Source spatial database options, or Oracle , organizations are starting to see the value applying a geographic context to their corporate data. To make things even easier and more appealing to get into a spatial database, are the ‘free’ of the Open Source communities and the following offerings by Microsoft & Oracle: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express Oracle Express Both of these RDBMS are “Free to develop, deploy, and distribute”.   This means that anybody can download, and start building a ‘GIS’ warehouse with very minimal costs. Obviously, there are some limitations with these free offerings and they are not going to provide base for a large enterprise solution, but they are a great way to get into the technology. ESRI has been

Well, it has certainly been a while... Between work, family, and extracurricular commitments, as well as trying to complete the final course for my GIS degree, let's just say there aren't many hours (minutes) left in the day. But, that's no excuse, and I'm going to try hard to maintain at least a bi-weekly post. So it's been a few months now at my new position with SRK Consulting and it's been going really well. I've learned a great deal about the mining industry, and there is much more to learn, and all-in-all this has been an exciting time. The mining industry uses many different, niche, applications for very specific tasks, and I'm looking forward to learning more about these applications. In my new role I'm working closer with the Arc* family of products and having spent a good portion of my career on the Autodesk side of things, it's nice to dive a little deeper into the Arc products. Specifically, I've been working with the ArcSDE

If you are running MGE 2011, you might want to have a look in your installation’s Logs folder: C:\Program Files\Autodesk\MapGuideEnterprise2011\Server\Logs If you see a LicenseError.log file you might want to read on. It seems that some installs are writing to a log file named LicenseError.log.  Now writing to a log file isn’t typically a bad thing, but in many instances, it is writing to this file many times a second anytime MGE is being accessed.  As such, this file can rapidly grow in size, and in all likelihood, could be affecting the performance of your MGE. At this time Autodesk is aware of the issue, however, it will require changes to the code to resolve this so there is no ‘fix’ for the issue. One solution I implemented as soon as I encountered this was to create a batch file to delete the LicenseError.log file, and scheduled the batch file to run once a day. Until next time, Take care Warren

Hello everyone, It’s been a while, but I am back!  I’ve recently left my position at IMAGINiT Technologies, and will be moving onto a new opportunity next week. I hope to resurrect this blog and continue to write and report on ‘all things geospatial’. Before I mention the company I am going to, I feel I should verify the companies corporate policies on blogging, so for now, all I can say is that I am going to a company that provides consulting services to the mining industry and my role will be a Senior GIS Consultant.  I am extremely excited about this new opportunity, and looking forward to the challenges ahead. What about some content you say? Alright…  Here is something I’ve found with MapGuide Enterprise & the Fusion Viewer over the last few weeks: I was implementing the Fusion Viewer within a frame based layout and found that there were many instances where the app couldn’t ”find” Fusion when calling out-of-the-box functions.  By that I mean, that the applicatio