Building Rich Internet Applications with ArcGIS API for Flex

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60 minutes  

Web developers can now create powerful and engaging GIS Web applications using the ArcGIS API for Flex. This free API hosted by ESRI allows you to leverage the GIS capabilities of ArcGIS Server services with the rich user experience capabilities of the Adobe Flex framework.

This seminar provides an overview of the tools and concepts needed to create your first Web mapping application using the ArcGIS API for Flex. The presenter introduces the concepts of Rich Internet Applications and capabilities of the Adobe Flex framework, and shows how to quickly create a rich Web mapping application using the ArcGIS API for Flex and free sample services available on the ESRI Resource Center.

The seminar also shows how to use existing Flex components with the ArcGIS API for Flex, presents considerations for authoring and deploying applications in a Web server, and points you to additional resources for building Web applications using the ArcGIS API for Flex.

This seminar was developed to support the following software products:

ArcGIS Server	Version
ArcGIS Server Standard Edition	9.3 or 9.3.1
ArcGIS Server Advanced Edition	9.3 or 9.3.1

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Read more: http://training.esri.com/acb2000/showdetl.cfm?&DID=6&Product_id=940

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Our World Level 1 lessons now available for ArcGIS

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FYI
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In summer 2008, ESRI Press introduced the Our World GIS Education series. This series of books is considered the “next generation” of GIS lessons that update and extend the popular curriculum presented in Mapping Our World: GIS Lessons for Educators.

Educators from elementary school teachers to college and university instructors have responded enthusiastically to the introductory GIS lessons presented in Thinking Spatially Using GIS, Level 1 of Our World GIS Education. Unique to the series, the lessons inThinking Spatially Using GIS utilize ArcExplorer Java Edition for Education (AEJEE) software to provide an entry into the exploration of spatial problems with GIS. [...]

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Read more: http://blogs.esri.com/Info/blogs/gisedcom/archive/2009/02/25/our-world-level-1-lessons-now-available-for-arcgis.aspx

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GeoLife 2.0: A Location-Based Social Network

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Google Latitude som gør det muligt for dine venner at holde øje med dig døgnet rundt er på grænsen til det skræmmende, men en service som baserer sig på det som ER sket er nok mere spiselig. Udfra de bevægelsesmønstre man har vil det give mening at følge og se andre som kommer de samme steder og der igennem opbygge en social dimmension ...
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Google Latitude makes it possible for your friends to track your every move 24x7 and that makes the hair rise but a service tracking what HAS happened makes better sense. By analyzing territory  patterns it becomes easy to see and find friends and foes moving ariund within the same circles and through that create the basis for a social experience ...
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What is GeoLife? GeoLife is a GPS-data-driven social network on Microsoft Virtual Earth. It is not only a Website where individuals can manage, visualize, and understand their life experience using their own GPS trajectories; it’s also a social networking service that enables people to build connections with each other based on location histories.

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Read more: http://blogs.msdn.com/virtualearth/archive/2009/02/25/geolife-2-0-a-location-based-social-network.aspx

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GIS =

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Jeg søgte efter GIS på Google og den spurgte om ikke jeg mente 'Gris' ...
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I searched Google for the word GIS and it asked if I meant 'Gris' meaning pig i Danish ...
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By Adena Schutzberg , Directions Magazine 
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How is GIS most often misrepresented? I mostly see global information system, though on occasion I see geographic imaging system or graphic imaging system. My guess is that these errors creep in because the interviewee/speaker either defines GIS only once, or not all, in the course of the discussion. That leaves the blogger or reporter to remember as best he or she can or to search the Web for "GIS."

The good news is that if you search the Web using Google, a query of "GIS" returns, as I write this, General Mills (GIS is its stock symbol), then GIS.com and other ESRI sites, USGS, Wikipedia's entry for GIS and some GIS publications. The only other outlier is the Golf Industry Show, but I think that would be easily identified as irrelevant. Engaging Google to "define: GIS" (that's one of my favorite Google shortcuts; I use it all the time!), results in a page 95% full of quite acceptable definitions of geographic information system. [...]

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Read more: http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_id=3050&trv=1

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SAP buys cloud computing startup Coghead

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Fjern skyerne og køb dig til godt vejr ...
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Remove the clouds and buy youself a sunny day ...
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Yesterday morning, Network Computing reported that SAP is in the process of buying Coghead, a startup in the niche field of cloud computing. This indeed is a bad news for cloud computing: Coghead- a venture-backed, online application developmentplatform - is closing, leaving customers with a problem to solve.

However, there is a silver lining to this bad omen: SAP bought Coghead's intellectual property and hired its engineering team in an acquisition that closed last week. SAP will not continue selling the service, opting to use Coghead only as an internal tool for now (Coghead currently runs on Amazon Web Services), but the move marks the latest chapter in software company's on-and-off interest in the cloud. [...]

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Read more: http://technology-nuggets.blogspot.com/2009/02/sap-buys-cloud-computing-startup.html

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'Ghost peaks' mapped under ice

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De nedfrosne alper ...
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Mountain range right ahead ...
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By Jonathan Amos 
Science reporter, BBC News

Scientists have completed their mission to map one of the most extraordinary mountain ranges on Earth.

The Gamburtsevs are a set of peaks equal in size to the European Alps, but they are hidden deep under the ice in the middle of the Antarctic continent. [...]

EXPLORING THE SUBGLACIAL GAMBURTSEV MOUNTAINS

1. Aircraft used radar to detect ice thickness and layering, and mapped the shape of the deeply buried bedrock

2. The planes also conducted gravity and magnetic surveys to glean more information about the mountains' structure

3. By listening to seismic waves passing through the range, scientists could probe rock properties deep in the Earth

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Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7908824.stm

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Google Earth 5 Cool Tip: Flight Simulator in Ocean or Mars

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Kun engelsk ;-)
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Fly me to the moon
Let me sing among those stars
Let me see what spring is like
On jupiter and mars 
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Google Earth Blog

I've been meaning to say something about this ever since Google Earth 5 was released earlier this month. Lots of people have discovered it on their own. The new Ocean and Mars features in GE 5 are really amazing. But, some people may find it a bit hard to navigate into the 3D world under the Ocean, or to fly around the surface of Mars. You could learn some of the cool mouse and keyboard tricks for Google Earth. Or, you could just turn on the built-in flight simulator and "fly" under the ocean or on the surface of Mars: [...]

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Read more: http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2009/02/google_earth_5_cool_tip_flight_simu.html

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Monkey see, monkey do

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Posted by Jez Fletcher, Maps API team

Ever wanted to be someone else? No, we're not offering a Being John Malkovich service, but we are offering Maps API developers the default look-and-feel of maps.google.com, all with one simple function call.

Now, you can get the standard UI elements you'd see on Google Maps (including the newer style "3D" map and zoom controls), along with other standard behaviour such as keyboard and mouse handling, just by adding one line of code.

  // Create a map.   var map = new GMap2(myMapDiv);   // Give it the maps.google.com experience.   map.setUIToDefault(); 

What's more, this function will ensure that if the UI of maps.google.com changes, these changes will also be reflected in your site without you having to update anything.

The function will automatically adjust what controls the map gets based on the size of the map. For maps larger than 300 x 400, the default controls are:

• GLargeMapControl3D
• GMapTypeControl
• GScaleControl

For maps 300 x 400 or smaller, the default controls are:

• GSmallZoomControl3D
• GMenuMapTypeControl

Both will also enable scroll wheel zoom, double click zoom and add a GKeyboardHandler to the map.

You can also tweak the appearance to your liking. If you mostly want the standard behaviour, but, for example, don't want scroll wheel zoom enabled, you can get an instance of the default GMapUIOptions object, and adjust the fields to your liking.

  // Get the default GMapUIOptions.   var uiOptions = map.getDefaultUI();   // Disable scroll wheel zoom.   uiOptions.zoom.scrollwheel = false;   // Now set the map's UI with the tweaked options.   map.setUI(uiOptions); 

Along with this change, you can now also get direct access to the new 3D controls used on maps.google.com:

• GLargeMapControl3D, and
• GSmallZoomControl3D

A full reference of the functions, the GMapUIOptions class and all the defaults are available on the Google Maps API Reference. As always, head over to the forum if you have any questions.

Sorry that puppeteering of John M is not included, but at least now your site can easily look and act like Google Maps!

One more thing: if you want to meet the Maps API team and hear about other exciting things we're working on, come to Google I/O in May.

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Read more: http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com/2009/02/posted-by-jez-fletcher-maps-api-team.html

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Ballmer: Azure ready for release by end of year

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Microsoft soon will announce pricing for Azure, which it claims will cost less than the price companies pay to run a server on premise

By Elizabeth Montalbano
February 24, 2009 

Microsoft plans to release its Windows Azure cloud computing platform before the end of the year, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Tuesday.

In comments made to members of the financial community, Ballmer said Microsoft will have "the ability to go to market" with Azure by the end of this year at its Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in November."[Azure] will reach fruition with the PDC this year," he said. Ballmer spoke to Wall Street analysts Tuesday to give them an update on Microsoft's financial status and what they can expect from the company for the remainder of the fiscal and calendar year. Microsoft's fiscal year ends on June 30.

Azure competes with Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) as a scalable hosting environment on which developers can build and host their applications. The service fills an emerging market need for hosted infrastructure that allows companies to cut IT costs by building and deploying applications on the Web rather than spending money to build IT infrastructure on premise. [...]

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Read more: http://www.infoworld.com/archives/emailPrint.jsp?R=printThis&A=/article/09/02/24/Ballmer_Azure_ready_for_release_by_end_of_year_1.html

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The Amazing Race

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Hvor vildt skørt ... jeg havde lige lavet forrige indlæg vedr. truede sprog i hele verden og kort tid efter popper denne artikel op i min reader ... Se at få de optagelser på et kort!
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How weird ... I had just finished my previous post about endangered languages around the world when this article was sucked up in my reader ... What can I say? Get those recording on a map ...
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The Linguists depicts a round-the-world race to make audio recordings of dying languages, giving us a glimpse of how technology can promote language diversity.

by ANTHONY KAUFMAN • Posted February 24, 2009 10:40 AM

Courtesy: Ironbound Films, Inc.

Of the world's 7,000 languages, 40 percent are on their way to extinction, with the last fluent speaker of a language dying once every two weeks. The Linguists, airing on PBS on February 26 at 10 p.m ET, traces two insatiable researchers, K. David Harrison and Greg Anderson, on a journey to the ends of the Earth to meet the speakers of some very remote languages — Chulym in Siberia, Sora in eastern India, Kallawaya in Bolivia, and Chemehuevi in Arizona — and to document them with audio recordings. The Indiana Jones-like adventures of Harrison and Anderson, whether avoiding Maoist guerillas in India or trekking through the Andes, often dominate the film, yet The Linguists also brings to light the role of technology in preserving language diversity and the knowledge contained within them. [...]

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Read more: http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2009/02/the_amazing_race.php

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