En større nyhed var at hele deres renderingsmotor er redesignet hvilket har medført en væsentlig forbedring i performance.
Og så kom ArcGIS Explorer 600. I klædt Microsoft ribbons ... Flot og mere tidsvarende. Men intet som rigtig fik en til at tabe pusten. Dog er der ingen tvivl om at den bliver en fornøjelse af arbejde med.
GIS indenfor uddanelse er et anden fast punkt på en plenary session hos ESRI. Jack præsenterede en ung pige, Molly Paterson, som viste hvorledes hun havde lavet sit eget GIS projekt i hvilket hun havde undersøgt og vist sammenhængen imellem race, indkomst og uddannelsesniveau i hendes by op igennem årene. Flot og et af de der amerikanske øjeblikke man ikke kan lade være med at blive grebet af.
Endelig var det tid til hovedtaleren. I år var det Dr. Peter Raven fra Missouri Botaniske have. En ældre herre som til at begynde med virkede noget tung men som sluttede af med dunder og torden. 'Jorden er en have - og vi er allesammen gartnere'. Uventet, for mig, sluttede han af med at revse den amerikanske måde at leve på og kritisere hvorledes hans land brugte så uhæmmede mange ressourcer. Dette bør og skal laves om ... NU!
This last part started with something new. New in the sense that this was something ESRI never had done before. ESRI showed how and what the next 9.4 release would be like and what may come in further out in the future. To infinity and beyond ;-) They demoed the coming ArcMap in it's new look - the Microsoft look. The basic UI elements were all seen before if you are familiar with Visual Studio or the alike. It presented well but I felt like ... and?
Some bigger news were the fact that the core rendering engine has been totally redesignet which has led to dramatic performance changes.
After that came ArcGIS Explorer 600 dressed in Microsoft ribbons. Nice and more up to date but again nothing you would make you loose breath. Excitment tamed but I am sure though I will enjoy using it once it is here.
GIS in education is also a returning event at an ESRI conference. Jack presented a young girl, Molly Paterson, who had made her own personal GIS project. She has collected data and shown how race, income and educational status are tied together using GIS. She had used her own home town and the time span of her own parents to shown the changes over the years. It looked nice it was one of those American moments you cant help being touched by.
Finally key note speaker, Dr. Peter Raven, was on. An older gentleman who started slow but ended up speaking bolt and lightning. 'The earth is a garden - and we are all gartners'. Uexpectedly, for me, he used his last part of the speech beating the American way of living citisizing the way in which his country unashamedly used 25% of all earth ressources used every year. It is time to act it is time to think about other than our selves!
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