Category Archives for esri

Gulf of Mexico – BP Oilspill tracking application

Last weekend, I’ve created a web application, that monitors the BP oilspill in the Gulf of Mexico. http://giswhat.be/oilspill2010/oilspill.html The application is completely based on HTML & JavaScipt, JQuery and OpenLayers to be precise. The data is comming from 2 different … Continue reading

17. June 2010 by wouter
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ESRI 2010 DEV Summit: ArcGIS Server workshops

2 months ago, there was the ESRI Development summit in Palm Spring. Unfortunately I wasn’t there, but they’ve put everything online! I’ve taken a look, to see if there was anything interesting in the workshops for ArcGIS Server, and this … Continue reading

25. May 2010 by wouter
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update: WMS Performance Shootout at FOSS4G 2009

As you previously could read on this blog, there’s a WMS performance shootout at FOSS4G 2009. Participants where three of the major WMS server providers: UMN MapServer, GeoServer and – finally- ESRI with ArcGIS Server. But yesterday, the announcement was … Continue reading

16. October 2009 by wouter
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WMS Performance Shootout at FOSS4G 2009

I’ve just received this in my mailbox from Cameron Shorter: GeoServer, MapServer, and ArcGIS Server will be competing for the title of “Fastest Web Map Server (WMS)” at the FOSS4G 2009 conference at the end of October. The Web Mapping … Continue reading

06. October 2009 by wouter
Categories: esri, foss4g, gis, mapserver, open source, standards, WMS | Tags: , , , , | 1 comment

ArcGIS Server REST Frustrations

Apparently ESRI has a hard time understanding how a cache works… In my experience, when you add a service (or application, or whatever) for the first time, there’s no cache of that service, right? It wasn’t there before, so there … Continue reading

14. August 2009 by wouter
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crossdomain requests with flex and arcgis server

Today, a colleague had a problem with setting up a demo of the flex api of ESRI. There was a certain layer (hosted on another ArcGIS Server), that wouldn’t want to show up. The same layer did show up in … Continue reading

13. August 2009 by wouter
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process explorer

As a long time Linux user (SuSE – OpenSuse), I’ve never thought I would ever need this windows application: Process ExplorerThis application shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded. So you can see wich … Continue reading

10. August 2009 by wouter
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ArcGIS Server Manager Service doesn’t start

When you find yourself with a ArcGIS Server Manager Service that doesn’t want to start, and you find nothing in the logfiles (mine said something like this: The description for Event ID ( 4098 ) in Source ( ArcGIS Server … Continue reading

27. July 2009 by wouter
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ESRI Entreprise GIS Portal

Esri launched a new portal, specifically for the enterprise GIS users: http://resources.esri.com/enterprisegis/ The site says the following: This resource center is a technology-focused website providing unified access to Enterprise-related content. It is intended primarily to help IT Professionals implement a … Continue reading

16. July 2009 by wouter
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thoughts about ESRI Licensing

Mhhh, just going through the ESRI Licensing policy, where I found this: ” Staging Server License” In addition to the Development Server License Rights, Licensee may use and install the Software for the following purposes: user acceptance testing, performance testing, … Continue reading

15. July 2009 by wouter
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