Primeras novedades de ArcGIS 9.4 por James Fee

1. There is no Crystal Report Wizard in ArcGIS, the only means for creating a report is based on our new reporting engine.
2. The Wizard is entirely new and includes options for the layout (default positioning of groups, summary stats, records, header, footer) and style of the report.
3. Styles (templates as you call them) are new at 9.4, and you have the ability to create custom styles. Much easier to create a professional looking report.
4. There is a Report Designer, where you can easily and interactively design the look and feel of the report layout; easily place graphics and other elements on the report.
5. You can export the report out to more formats, including html, xls, pdf to name a few.
6. The new reporting tools are a complete upgrade in terms of performance and usability. They are simply easy to work with; as one would expect.
7. The biggest improvement in functionality is the ability to load/run a report. At 9.3.1 every report you created was static, you could not open it up to edit it or generate the same report with updated attributes or selections. At 9.4, you can load or run an existing report to make changes or see the changes within your data without having to start from scratch.

3D para la API for Flax de Google Maps

La mejor forma de simular un 3D, desde un 2D en Google Maps, con el API para Flax.

Google Maps API for FLash añade un modo 3D

Google ha lanzado un nuevo modo de perspectiva 3D para aplicaciones creadas con Google Maps API for Flash. Con el, los usuarios podrán moverse en los mapas 2D pero como si estos realmente tuvieran 3D.

Así, al estilo de Google Earth, se podrá rotar el mapa y volar en el. También podemos hacer zoom contínuo si mantenemos pulsado el botón de “+”, y podemos ver un gran avance aquí puesto que el movimiento que han logrado es bien suave.

Aunque no tan poderoso como utilizar el plugin de Google Earth para navegadores, Google Maps API for Flash tiene una ventaja indiscutida y es el hecho de que Flash es una tecnología hoy día casi omnipresente. En el artículo de la fuente, los desarrolladores explican como hacer uso de estas nuevas posibilidades, junto con varios ejemplos que las demuestran

MapIt - La unión entre el software y los servicios Online, en los SIG de ESRI

July 13, 2009

ESRI MapIt Correlates Your Business Data with Maps
Mapping Application Combines Software and Services to Unlock the Spatial Component in Enterprise Data


Redlands, California—Businesses have an exciting new tool to gain insight into their business operations with ESRI MapIt. A new software product from ESRI, the market leader in geographic information systems (GIS), MapIt combines software with services to enable businesses to create maps displaying their enterprise data. MapIt software transforms the static spreadsheet and tabular data that managers typically view into dynamic information displayed on vibrant maps.

MapIt is designed to work on the Microsoft application platform, which enables organizations to create visually rich mapping applications using the skills and infrastructure they already possess. It includes all components needed to quickly begin mapping enterprise data from Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and Microsoft Office Excel. Maps can be displayed in rich, interactive applications using Microsoft Silverlight or Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) or in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007.

Since MapIt is developed by ESRI, users have access to a wealth of online services to extend and enhance their maps. These services encompass street and imagery basemaps from Bing Maps for Enterprise and ArcGIS Online; geocoding and optimized routing services; demographic and customer segmentation data; and much more.

"MapIt is the result of a close collaboration with Microsoft," says Jack Dangermond, ESRI president. "It is a new mapping product for business intelligence that fits well with the IT infrastructure. We believe it will change the analytic environment for enterprise data by adding a spatial dimension in a highly visual framework."

Organizations using MapIt can answer questions about their data to improve their business decisions, such as, Where are my most profitable customers located? and How can my salespeople maximize their efforts while in a targeted region? These are questions that can be quickly answered when analyzing the information on a map. The MapIt built-in geocoder transforms addresses, ZIP Codes, provinces, and any other information that refers to a place into geographic coordinates.

Microsoft business partners, like E•SPONDER, LLC, are already adopting and developing solutions with MapIt. E•SPONDER is a market leader in creating software solutions for managing emergency situations and is using MapIt to dynamically display this critical information on a map for its customers. "Using MapIt and Microsoft technology, we reduced our development costs and delivered a new product in record time," says Mark Seward, vice president of software development, E•SPONDER.

ESRI and Microsoft presented MapIt during the keynote at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana. In addition, E•SPONDER will be presenting its solution built using MapIt in another keynote on Wednesday, July 15, 2009.

MapIt is now available for purchase. An evaluation version is also available as a free download. For more information or to evaluate MapIt, visit www.esri.com/mapit.