Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

In+ersec+ion for Spatial People

ArcGIS 9.2 Released - What's In There for You

posted by Satri on Wednesday November 08, @05:28PM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the can-you-send-me-a-copy-with-a-Windows-computer? dept.
ESRI Software GIS
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) [...]"

Related Stories

What's New in ArcGIS 9.2 1 comment [+]
With the ESRI User Conference next week, don't be surprise to see numerous related announcements. The Rise and Shout blog links to a "what's new in ArcGIS 9.2 brochure" [pdf] while the Cartography blog tells us ArcGIS 9.2 web help is online. You'll find there several animations showcasing new ArcGIS 9.2 features. ArcGIS might be seen as the geospatial's Microsoft, but they sure offer features not available yet on other GIS software packages.
ArcGIS 9.2 Seminar Summary [+]
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."
ArcGIS Server 9.2 News and Licensing 2 comments [+]
There's been a lot of very interesting discussing regarding ArcGIS Server 9.2 lately. You can start with the ArcGIS Server Functionality Matrix [pdf] (via Spatially Adjusted) see also this previous story). Then it is worthed to read Dave Bouwman's entry on the fine print of ArcGIS Server licensing, also discussed by Spatially Adjusted. If ArcGIS Server is your daily tool, see the Manager Video about it. From Dave Bouwman's entry: "So - where are we. If you want to design a system the way you have it running today - you're looking a 3 times the base pricing for server - this will get you ArcSDE running as a service on a separate DBMS (assuming 2 sockets) and the web ADF running on it's own server (also 2 sockets). [...] Creating a tile cache is not magic that can only be done by ESRI. Brian Flood has implemented this in the next version of Arc2Earth (pro edition costs $299). Slap OpenLayers (free) in front of that, and you've got the same thing running for a tiny fraction of the cost."
ArcGIS 9.2 Service Pack 1 Released [+]
Spatially Adjusted tells us the ArcGIS 9.2 Service Pack 1 has been released. In a previous entry, Spatially Adjusted links to the list of what's fixed by the service pack. This isn't exactly pertinent but from the white paper: "This Service Pack contains performance improvements and maintenance fixes. Please download and install this required Service Pack at your earliest convenience."
Upgrading from ArcGIS 9.1 to 9.2 [+]
The scrappad blog links to an account of an upgrade from ArcGIS 9.1 to ArcGIS 9.2. The account's introduction: "I had that happy feeling of anticipating something big when I received the package from Redlands, California in the middle of January 2007. It contained the brand new ArcGIS 9.2 release which I was to review during the next few weeks. After installing it I took my first look at the desktop and, to my surprise, almost nothing seemed to have changed. But appearances were deceptive and in fact the jump from release 9.1 to 9.2 is significant. It is definitely worth looking at!"
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
ArcGIS 9.2 Released - What's In There for You | Log In/Create an Account | Top | 3 comments | Search Discussion
Display Options Threshold:
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.