Spatially Adjusted - Latest Comments

Re: What's a Title? - Spatially Adjusted

James Fee — Thu, 16 May 2013 01:31:53 -0000

They don't give those out to just anyone!

Re: What's a Title? - Spatially Adjusted

NoTimeToLose — Wed, 15 May 2013 21:09:40 -0000

You looking for one of these James?

Re: Esri and an OGC Standard - Spatially Adjusted

Chad Burt — Thu, 09 May 2013 15:28:52 -0000

What I don't like about this is that the Geoservices REST API will be foisted upon more projects as a requirement if it becomes part of the OGC family. I've had numerous occasions where I've had to talk clients out of requiring a website to "support WFS" in the name of OGC compliance, even though they had no understanding of what that would mean in terms of cost and difficulty... let alone benefits. If these standards truly don't make our jobs easier and our products better, we all should start making that very clear to those in decision making roles.

Re: MapBox's OpenStreetMap editor - Spatially Adjusted

Nixta — Thu, 09 May 2013 13:07:15 -0000

When Pete Batty first told me to add some data in OSM a few years ago, I nearly puked. I just couldn't see how so much data had actually already been added by people. Kind of made me sad about all the wasted man-hours - must be up there with Angry Birds and Simpsons Tapped Out.

Was also a bit skeptical but this looks phenomenal.

Re: MapBox's OpenStreetMap editor - Spatially Adjusted

Matt Malone — Tue, 07 May 2013 14:21:29 -0000

I've made a couple of OSM edits in the past (haven't used Potlatch), but the ease of use and intutitiveness of the iD editor is quite impressive. Loaded almost instantly in Chrome and allowed me to drop a few road name changes in only a few seconds.

Re: ArcGIS Cloud is in Your Future - Spatially Adjusted

ian — Mon, 06 May 2013 22:06:05 -0000

Is esri spelled Esri if it is the first word of a sentence?

Re: What's a Title? - Spatially Adjusted

gisn8 — Mon, 06 May 2013 09:38:01 -0000

Unless you're targeting specialized companies, it's likely that the person screening your resume wouldn't know Mercator from Dymaxion and is only going by what other people tell them: "GIS-something-or-other". I wouldn't sweat it.

Re: What's a Title? - Spatially Adjusted

James Fee — Sun, 05 May 2013 12:08:39 -0000

I still think I'd be an awesome VP of Awesome.

Re: What's a Title? - Spatially Adjusted

Don Barker — Sun, 05 May 2013 07:47:19 -0000

My new title: Gis Roi

Re: What's a Title? - Spatially Adjusted

Jacob Blair — Fri, 03 May 2013 21:56:14 -0000

Poor Silverlight; it does everything Flash does minus the horrible parts, but it came after everyone decided to abandon proprietary plugins, and even Microsoft abandoned it.

Re: What's a Title? - Spatially Adjusted

Chris Andrews — Fri, 03 May 2013 17:58:07 -0000

I agree with you, James, and even pointed out to a friend last night that although the title might seem to be important to the individual... I've ignored emails from plenty of people with CEO or VP in their title. The content and character of your interaction tends to be more important than the packaging.

However, one place that title (grade?) can affect you is in corporate hierarchies where people with higher titles get to influence the careers and compensation of those with lesser titles. In some cases where the people are interacting through arbitrary org changes, the title ends up becoming a defining characteristic.

I'd say this... if you don't want to do something that is conveyed by a given title if you change jobs, then seek to get a different title. Otherwise, if things are going great, don't worry about it too much.

Re: Book Review: Programming ArcGIS 10.1 with Python Cookbook - Spatially Adjusted

James Fee — Wed, 01 May 2013 11:22:48 -0000

I'd say your best bet is a combination of Esri documentation and GIS Stack Exchange.

Re: Book Review: Programming ArcGIS 10.1 with Python Cookbook - Spatially Adjusted

Bishrant — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 05:52:25 -0000

nice review. anyways which book/website do you recommend for some advanced python programming for arcgis 9.3/10 ? Any suggestions??

Re: Hangouts with James Fee:: Making Developers out of GIS Analysts - Spatially Adjusted

James Fee — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 19:51:51 -0000

Probably not as surveyor conferences aren't exactly up on the technology. I might blog about the results though next week.

Actually, what the heck, I need to blog anyway! ;)

Re: Hangouts with James Fee:: Making Developers out of GIS Analysts - Spatially Adjusted

Chris MacWhorter — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:11:40 -0000

James: that was an interesting hangout. But will there video of crowd sourcing for surveyors... or at least a blog follow-up? Getting a surveyor’s license always seemed somewhat like getting on ‘The Voice’ -Chris

Re: OGCJSON aims to get your axis in order - Spatially Adjusted

mapbaker — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:11:10 -0000

fantastic animated gif!!!

Re: OGCJSON aims to get your axis in order - Spatially Adjusted

sn — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 14:25:29 -0000

The reason you wouldn't use something else is that you have been using that something from the start :D over the years a lot of people will get to that point. They will then hope a layer of indirection had always been there.

You can say that instead of expanding a standard the "standard" should be the set of multiple of standards, but that is clearly far more complex than a simple incremental change. Especially if you are expanding to a platform that doesn't have the groundwork laid for handling some or any of those (sub?) standards.

What I'm saying it's a little short-sighted to exclude a good bunch of real world use cases from being even partially compatible with your own solutions. But it's probably not such a big thing for any of the people involved that anything gets changed.

Re: Hangouts with James Fee:: Open as in Government - Spatially Adjusted

Greg — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 20:29:39 -0000

Minor issues...It is great seeing the use of OpenStreetMap data for the basemap. However, I did not see a credit for map source data after poking around on the site. It would also be great if they used more recent data from OpenStreetMap.

Re: Hangouts with James Fee:: Open as in Government - Spatially Adjusted

Lea Shanley — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 20:50:13 -0000

Check out Mike Byrne's great case study on crowdsourcing for the National Broadband Map, published by the Wilson Center: http://www.scribd.com/doc/1099...

Re: This Week's Hangout with Michael Byrne - Spatially Adjusted

Kenny Miller — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 14:30:07 -0000

Hope this is not an April Fools prank. Mike Byrne is a very bright and energetic thinker. He and his team have created some amazing products with open source tools and levered assets from state partners. Looking forward to Hangout
Kenny Miller

Re: Hangouts with James Fee:: MoLoCoTechdotCom - Spatially Adjusted

TheSteve0 — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 22:46:36 -0000

Oh and btw, the car companies get it - but just giving you the code makes you go into the shop - the classic upsell. Why tell people they need a new gas cap when you can force them to come in and get a guaranteed $100 at least for the visit. There is no incentive for you to self-serve

Re: Hangouts with James Fee:: MoLoCoTechdotCom - Spatially Adjusted

TheSteve0 — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 22:18:44 -0000

It is amazing how much Marc knows and background information he has. It is always great to hear him shoot the straight news - no hype and plenty of good info.

Re: This Week's Hangout with Marc Prioleau - Spatially Adjusted

Brett Lord-Castillo — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 11:17:22 -0000

Not sure I will be able to make this, but I would be really interested in hearing where Marc thinks aisle411 fits among the heavyweights.

Re: Use Esri GIS and Your Data Becomes Inexorably Entwined

Edea Krammer — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 09:57:17 -0000

Had the same thoughts!
DCLand.info

Re: MAPPS Proposes Geospatial User Fee

Brett Lord-Castillo — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 10:00:50 -0000

The updates get checked, but not really in a QC manner. Update accuracy relies on QA in the workflow; otherwise the errors stay in the dataset unless they are discovered through use (i.e. a dispatcher gets a bad geocode on an active call).

QA is not so easy with crowdsourcing. Waze is probably the best example of crowdsourcing QA with their points and levels system (and we -are- in the early stages of partnering with them right now). The QC elements of crowdsourcing are its strength. Getting a lot of eyes on existing product, but without a defined process to prevent the introduction of those errors in the first place. But hey, you are the person brave enough to present this to surveyors! :) I hope it goes better than the time I tried to convince cloud hosting engineers that 911 should be cloud hosted.