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The press release says it all: "Part of ESRI's Commitment to Open Standards and IT Interoperability [ESRI] announced support for the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) data format on top of the upcoming ArcGIS 9.2 software platform. [...] The power of open software and data is the ability to quickly and easily exchange, share, and distribute information to anyone and in any format."

Spatially Adjusted describes many new features in ArcMap 9.2. From the entry: "ArcMap 9.2 tries to improve the desktop platform (quality, documentation, productivity) and add some new things as well (graphing, animations, intelligent symbology). The team fixed over 600 “issues” and worked toward consistency to make sure that everything is the same among Map, Globe, Scene and Reader."

Directions Mag offers an informative short summary of recent ArcGIS 9.2 seminar. From the summary's introduction: "ESRI is providing a wealth of in-person and online introductions, along with white papers, articles and other documents about ArcGIS 9.2 so there's no need for me to repeat that material here. What I do want to share are some themes, key questions and software features covered in the seminar."

GIS Matters, ESRI's David Maguire, offers an interesting list of features in ArcGIS 9.2, which has just been released to manufacturing. From the blog: "Quality – 9.2 is the most tested release ever to leave Redlands. We have had a very extensive Alpha, Beta, and Pre-release program with both in house and external unit level and holistic testing. Literally thousands of software issues have been addressed in 9.2. [...] Standards and interoperability – although we have always been strong advocates for open systems, at 9.2 we have made a much more conscious effort to support key standards. This includes the internal use of the ISO 191** family (e.g. spatial schemas, simple feature access and coordinate references) [...]"

The ESRI User Conference is coming fast. Very Spatial will cover the event with their great podcasts. They're also celebrating their first year, congratulations! (I personaly listen to every episode and even like their music selection :-) Meanwhile, Spatially Adjusted details the split up of ArcGIS in 3 versions. Slashgeo now has a new poll on the User Conference. The previous poll related to this story tells us 80% visit slashgeo for the news it aggregates and the RSS feed, while the remaining 20% come mainly for its potential future or the user comments. I also updated the slashboxes to show PlanetGS RSS feed on Slashgeo's main page.