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Bob Hazelton, ArcGIS Business Analyst Product Manager, gives an overview of this new product and how organizations benefit from using it. —Published April 24, 2008
Christian Carlson, Regional Manager of ESRI’s Charlotte, NC office talks about how small municipal and county governments can leverage ESRI’s Enterprise License Agreement that has been specifically designed for them. —Published March 26, 2008
ESRI Dallas product manager Jay Hoffman discusses the various uses of RouteMAP IMS for the retail and health care industries. —Published March 13, 2008
Sathya Prasad shares what developers can expect to learn from the "ArcGIS Server for ArcIMS Developers" session at the upcoming Developer Summit in Palm Springs, California, March 17-20. The presentation will include the philosophy behind ArcGIS Server, as well as issues a developer faces when moving from ArcIMS to ArcGIS Server. —Published March 11, 2008
David Cardella and Antony Jayaprakash share what attendees can expect to learn at the "Developing Advanced Java Web Applications" session geared toward advanced Java users. —Published March 6, 2008
Jay Chen and Mike Shaw discuss what developers can expect to learn by attending the "Programming and Design Patterns for the ArcGIS Mobile SDK" session, including how to build applications with mobile SDK, taking architecture into consideration. —Published February 28, 2008
Erik Hoel and Mike Muller share what developers can expect to learn at the “Effective Geodatabase Programming” session. As the geodatabase development leads, Hoel and Muller are uniquely qualified to guide programmers in implementing effective applications using the geodatabase API. —Published February 21, 2008
Bill Meehan, ESRI Director of Worldwide Utility Industry Solutions and author of Empowering Electric and Gas Utilities with GIS, draws on his experience in GIS and the utilities industry to discuss how the adoption of an enterprise GIS by electric and gas utilities can positively impact their financial and customer service performance. Employing the case study of a fictional utility, Meehan demonstrates concepts and applications that provide clear examples of the overall benefits of enterprise GIS in the utilities industry. —Published February 16, 2008
Corey Tucker and Nathan Warmerdam, ESRI product engineers, provide an overview of the "Building and Optimizing Geoprocessing Services for ArcGIS Server" session, where developers will learn what to consider when publishing geoprocessing tasks via ArcGIS Server. —Published February 14, 2008
Simon Thompson, Commercial Industry Solutions Manager, and Amy Thorson, Marketing Coordinator, share what attendees can expect to find at the 2008 Business GIS Summit in Chicago, Illinois, April 27-30, 2008. —Published February 13, 2008
Jayant Sai, Developer, and Antony Jayaprakash, Product Engineer, discuss the "Building JAVA Applications Using the ArcGIS Server Web ADF and AJAX" session, and share what will be new and different this year. —Published February 7, 2008
Jeremy Bartley, Product Engineer, and Jayant Sai, Developer, discuss the “Building Mash-ups Using the ArcGIS Server JavaScript API” session at the upcoming Developer Summit that will be held March 17-20 in Palm Springs, California. Developers can learn of the content and highlights of this session. —Published February 4, 2008
Jeremy Bartley and Keyur Shah discuss the "ArcGIS Server REST API" session at the upcoming Developer Summit that will be held March 17-20 in Palm Springs, California. Developers can learn of the content and highlights of this session. —Published February 1, 2008
Deane Kensok gives an overview of ArcGIS Online and what developers can expect to learn in this session that will be presented at the upcoming ESRI Developer Summit, March 17-20, in Palm Springs, California. —Published January 30, 2008
Rex Hansen and Art Haddad share what will be presented at the “Building .NET Applications Using the ArcGIS Server Web ADF and ASP .NET AJAX” session at the upcoming Developer Summit that will be held March 17-20, in Palm Springs, California. —Published January 24, 2008
Chris Cappelli, ESRI Director of U.S. Sales, discusses the benefits of the new Enterprise License Agreement program for Small Municipal and County Governments. —Published January 18, 2008
Rob Elkins and Jim Barry, from ESRI's Product Development team, give an overview of what attendees can expect in the upcoming Developer Summit that will be held March 17–20, in Palm Springs, California. —Published January 15, 2008
Brent Jones, Surveying and Engineering Manager at ESRI, discusses how the new cadastral editor tools in ArcGIS Survey Analyst 9.2 improve parcel management. —Published October 9, 2007
David Maguire, Director of Products at ESRI, gives a technology keynote presentation at the 2007 ESRI International User Conference that highlights key approaches and new trends in dynamic modeling with ArcGIS. —Published September 18, 2007
Clint Brown, Director of Software Products at ESRI, gives a technology keynote presentation at the 2007 ESRI International User Conference that focuses on how GIS users can leverage advances in 3D visualization. —Published September 11, 2007
Michael Young, Senior Enterprise Architect with ESRI's Professional Services Division, discusses his recent white paper Geospatial Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). —Published September 6, 2007
Scott Morehouse, Director of Research and Development at ESRI, provides an overview of information modeling as it relates to ArcGIS. —Published September 5, 2007
Chuck Cmeyla, Public Works Industry Solutions Manager at ESRI, talks about what attendees can expect at the upcoming Public Works seminar series being held in 19 U.S. cities this September and October. —Published August 7, 2007
Jim Herries, Product Manager for Business Analyst Online at ESRI, talks about the benefits and updates of the latest release of Business Analyst Online. —Published August 2, 2007
Fred Miller, author of the ESRI Press book GIS Tutorial for Marketing, talks about the reason for writing the book and how he got involved with ESRI Press at the 2007 ESRI International User Conference. —Published July 31, 2007
John Young, Director of Enterprise Solutions at ESRI and a former CIO in the US federal government, talks about how GIS can deliver a competitive advantage to organizations throughout the public and private sectors and why senior managers should implement an enterprise GIS within their organizations. —Published July 25, 2007
Listen to Dave Busser discuss Enterprise GIS and what organizations need to know in order to get started with an Enterprise GIS. —Published June 12, 2007
Listen to Thomas discuss the topics that will be covered during the session he will be co-presenting at the upcoming 2007 ESRI International User Conference and who might benefit by attending. —Published June 9, 2007
Jeanne Foust, Global Manager for Spatial Data Infrastructure at ESRI, talks about why interoperability is important to GIS users. —Published April 26, 2007
Garry Burgess talks about his session at the upcoming Business GeoInfo Summit in Dallas, Texas. Listen to Garry discuss new features in ArcGIS Business Analyst and present highlights of the new product ArcGIS Business Analyst Server. —Published April 18, 2007
Kathy Gambee talks about her session at the upcoming Business GeoInfo Summit in Dallas, Texas. Listen to Kathy discuss what customer profiling means and how understanding customer types and their consumer behavior can help make better business decisions. —Published April 17, 2007
Jim Herries talks about his session at the upcoming Business GeoInfo Summit in Dallas, Texas. Listen to Jim discuss the data that is available in Business Analyst Online reports and maps and who can benefit from using Business Analyst Online. —Published April 16, 2007
Mark Bockenhauer and Dara Hughes, both product engineers, talk about their technical session at the upcoming Developer Summit. Listen as they talk about the three topics they will cover and the demos they will provide during their session. —Published March 16, 2007
Tamrat Belayneh and Nathan Shephard, both 3D visualization product engineers, talk about their technical session at the upcoming Developer Summit. Listen as they talk about important points to consider when developing 3D applications and discuss the best practices they will provide during their session. —Published March 15, 2007
Jeff Shaner, program manager, and Mike Shaw, developer, talk about their technical session at the upcoming ESRI Developer Summit. Listen as they discuss the applications that can be built with Mobile SDK and some of the best practices they will share during their session. —Published March 14, 2007
Eric Bader, Java SDK Lead for Developer Resources, and Divesh Goyal, Product Engineer talk about their technical session at the upcoming Developer Summit. Listen as they discuss key concepts when working with EJBs and ArcGIS Server. —Published March 13, 2007
Simon Thompson, Industry Manager for the Commercial Sector, presents an overview of the upcoming ESRI Business GeoInfo Summit which takes place in Dallas, Texas on April 23–25. —Published March 8, 2007
Divesh Goyal, Product Engineer, and Ranjit Iyer, Software Development Programmer, talk about their two technical sessions at the upcoming Developer Summit. Listen as Divesh and Ranjit explain how these two sessions relate to each other and what developers can expect to learn from both technical sessions. —Published March 6, 2007
Craig Gillgrass, Senior Geodatabase Product Engineer, and Colin Zwicker, Geodatabase Product Engineer, talk about their technical session at the upcoming Developer Summit. Listen as Craig and Colin discuss best practices for working with the geodatabase and what developers can expect to learn from their technical session. —Published February 27, 2007
Art Haddad, Development Lead and Architect, Sentha Sivabalan, Senior Software Engineer, and Nathan Warmerdam, Product Engineer, discuss their technical session at the upcoming Developer Summit. Listen as Art, Sentha and Nathan talk about the types of applications that can be built using geoprocessing services and ArcGIS Server and what developers can expect to learn from their technical session. —Published February 22, 2007
Listen as Jack Dangermond, president of ESRI, discusses the importance of building a national GIS along with technological changes and advancements that are affecting a new approach to GIS. This podcast was recorded at the 2007 ESRI Federal User Conference. —Published February 15, 2007
Clint Brown, Director of Software Products, talks about his technical session at the upcoming Developer Summit. Listen to Clint’s overview of the concepts he will discuss and how developers can leverage ArcGIS technology to build custom applications with a mapping component. —Published February 2, 2007
Rob Elkins, Product Manager for Developer Products and Art Haddad, Development Lead and Architect for ArcGIS Server for the Microsoft .NET framework, present an overview of the upcoming ESRI Development Summit which takes place March 19–22, 2007, in Palm Springs, California. —Published January 26, 2007
Lynn Wombold, ESRI’s chief demographer, describes how ESRI investigated new sources of information from disaster response agencies, news reports, and fieldwork to estimate the impact of the 2005 hurricanes. Some of this information is conflicting; all is subject to change. The 2006 estimates reflect information current as of January-February 2006. —Published December 28, 2006
Lynn Wombold, ESRI's chief demographer, describes the 2006/2011 updates that include new development methods and measures of catastrophic change in Gulf Coast communities after the 2005 hurricane season. ESRI combined spatial and demographic analysis with new data sources, producing more accurate methods to track and forecast the changing population distribution. —Published December 21, 2006
Bern Szukalski, Product Manager at ESRI, presents an overview of the new product ArcGIS Online. Listen as he discusses the content and capabilities that ArcGIS Online services provide to ArcGIS users. —Published December 12, 2006
Bern Szukalski is ESRI's Product Manger for ArcGIS Explorer. Listen to his discussion of the evolution of ArcGIS Explorer, what can be expected with the initial release, as well as plans for the software in the coming year. —Published November 15, 2006
Skip Parker, Global Account Representative for ESRI at NAVTEQ, provides highlights and benefits of the new NAVTEQ Small Municipal and County Street Data Enterprise License Agreement (ELA). —Published April 17, 2008
Todd Schmitt, Tele Atlas senior manager of enterprise markets, discusses their sponsorship of the upcoming 2008 Business GIS Summit in Chicago, Illinois, April 27-30. —Published April 3, 2008
Albert Cooley, senior director of tools and services, and Todd Schmitt, senior manager of enterprise markets, both with Tele Atlas, discuss their participation at the upcoming 2008 ESRI Developer Summit in Palm Springs, CA, March 17-20. —Published March 4, 2008
Chris Gerecke, Geospatial Solutions Manager with Timmons Group, a leader in geospatial and engineering consulting services, shares how ArcGIS Mobile and Server GIS technology has helped increase ROI and bring value to their clients. —Published January 29, 2008
Chad Yoder, Mobile GIS Developer and Project Manager at Electronic Data Solutions, talks about the mobile applications his company develops using ArcPad. —Published December 4, 2007
Jim Tochterman, VP of Research and Development at Bradshaw Consulting Services, discusses the benefits of using the ArcGIS Mobile SDK when developing mobile field applications. —Published October 30, 2007
Anita and Roger Palmer of GISetc discuss the upcoming four book series Our World as an expansion to the Mapping Our World books published by ESRI Press. —Published October 15, 2007
David Ruttka, Senior Software Architect at 3-GIS, discusses how his company is implementing ArcGIS Mobile to deliver field applications to their customers. —Published October 2, 2007
Christian Solomine, Business Development Manager at WeatherBug, discusses showcasing WeatherBug’s Web services feeds and other service offerings at the 2007 ESRI Business GeoInfo Summit. —Published July 20, 2007
Don Cooke, Chief Scientist at Tele Atlas, reflects on his career and discusses his Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2007 ESRI International User Conference. —Published July 13, 2007
Listen to Hecht describe a typical local government scenario for integrating the two systems and making it much easier to retrieve drawing documents. —Published June 12, 2007
Listen to Hecht describe a pipeline company scenario for integrating GIS and DMS to help meet inventory and inspection requirements. —Published June 12, 2007
Listen to Rose talk about the two versions of Dream Builder software that The Planning Center developed to help ensure that building permits meet architectural design standards. —Published May 31, 2007
Lola Akinmade, System Designer at Woolpert Inc., discusses the services that they provide to customers and how they developed an enterprise-wide ArcGIS Server implementation for the city of Indianapolis. —Published May 17, 2007
Listen as Wenninger talks about how WennSoft, a new partner of the year award winner, develops business solutions that integrate financial systems with GIS in order to provide a greater level of efficiency to customers. —Published May 12, 2007
Listen to Harborow and Davie talk about Business Objects' products and offerings and the integration with ESRI server-based technology. —Published May 8, 2007
Listen to Stokes talk about the datasets that Navigate provides for ESRI products in Australia such as StreetMap Australia and Business Analyst. —Published May 3, 2007
Listen to the Palmers talk about the training that GISetc provides to K-16 teachers and how teachers learn to implement GIS in their classrooms. —Published April 25, 2007
Brent Mainzinger, Vice President of Business Development, discusses the products and services that The Sidwell Company provides to their customers. —Published April 5, 2007
Tom Counts, president and founder of ESRI Business Partner 3-GIS, discusses their latest innovation solution, Field Express Chameleon®, a mobile application built with ArcGIS Server 9.2. —Published April 2, 2007
Martijn Nanninga is the Director of Sales and Marketing at Realworld Systems, a Partner of the Year Award winner at the 2007 ESRI Business Partner Conference. Listen as Nanninga discusses applications that Realworld Systems has built using ESRI's ArcGIS Server and the products they offer to customers. —Published March 30, 2007
Rodrigo Tomasi de Castro, Project Manager at INFLOR Consultoria e
Sistemas Ltda., talks about his company's Partner of the Year Award at
the 2007 ESRI Business Partner Conference. Listen to de Castro as he
discusses the services that INFLOR Consultoria e Sistemas Ltda. provides
to their customers. —Published March 27, 2007
Linda Dean is the co-owner of Electronic Data Solutions, a Partner of the Year Award winner at the 2007 ESRI Business Partner Conference. Listen as Dean discusses the products and services that Electronic Data Solutions provides to their customers and the upcoming services planned for 2007. —Published March 22, 2007
John Waterman, vice president of Geospatial Solutions at GCS Research in East Burke, Vermont, 1st place winner of the ArcGIS Server Code Challenge at the 2008 ESRI Developer Summit, discusses his code sample entry, Display Geospatial Analysis Results in Google Maps and Microsoft Virtual Earth using ArcGIS Server. —Published May 7, 2008
Vijay Sambandhan, a GIS developer from Bergmann Associates in Buffalo, New York and 3rd place winner of the ArcGIS Server Code Challenge at the 2008 Developer Summit, discusses his code sample entry SDE Web Catalog. —Published April 29, 2008
Nianwei Liu, senior system analyst programmer with the City of Charlotte, NC, discusses his ArcGIS Server Code Challenge entry, Google Maps Adapter to ArcGIS Server Map Cache, for which he received Honorable Mention. —Published April 22, 2008
Kent Riggins, a software engineer with the U.S. Federal Government, briefly discusses his ArcGIS Server Code Challenge entry, Show Result Table Task in ArcGIS Explorer. —Published April 15, 2008
Keith Fraley, GIS Developer with Shell Oil Company in the U.S., discusses his ArcGIS Server Code Challenge entry, WMS Search and Spatialization Tool for ArcGIS Server. —Published April 8, 2008
Dave Bouwman, 2nd place winner of the ArcGIS Server Code Challenge at the 2008 ESRI Developer Summit, talks about his code sample entry, ArcGIS Server Virtual Tile Server. —Published April 1, 2008
Cynthia A. Brewer, Professor of Geography at The Pennsylvania State University, discusses her illustrated new ESRI Press book, Designed Maps: A Sourcebook for GIS Users. By showcasing maps along with her redesigns, Brewer hopes to inspire GIS users with design ideas to help them produce useful, meaningful, and good-looking maps. —Published February 26, 2008
Dr. Prasad Thenkabail, Principal Researcher and Head of the Remote Sensing and GIS unit at the International Water Management Institute in Sri Lanka, discusses spatial technology research and the Special Achievement in GIS award that the Institute received at the 2007 ESRI International User Conference. —Published February 13, 2008
Frank LaFone, Sue Bergeron and Jesse Rouse of VerySpatial blog and podcast talk about the Special Achievement in GIS award they received at the 2007 ESRI International User Conference. —Published February 6, 2008
Vince Brown, Senior Program Specialist in the Mitigation Division at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and Kevin Mickey, Director of Professional Education and Outreach at The Polis Center, Indiana University, Indianapolis, discuss the release of the new HAZUS-MH Web-based courses to help public and private organizations plan for and mitigate natural disasters as well as the upcoming HAZUS-MH User Conference and related activities. —Published February 5, 2008
Ed Woods, Manager of Planning, IT and GIS Services, and Steve Whitehead, Geomatics coordinator, City of Quinte West, Ontario, Canada, talk about implementing a GIS throughout all of Quinte West’s city departments. —Published January 30, 2008
Dawn J. Wright, Professor of geography and oceanography at Oregon State University, Michael J. Blongewicz, senior GIS specialist at DHI Water and Environment, Inc. in Portland Oregon, Patrick N. Halpin, Gabel Associate Professor of the Practice of Marine Geospatial Ecology director of the Geospatial Analysis Program at the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University, and Joe Breman, GIS architect for Akimeka LLC on Maui, Hawaii discuss the release of their new book. —Published January 19, 2008
Anne Kelly Knowles, a historical geographer who teaches at Middlebury College in Vermont, and Amy Hillier, who teaches courses on the application of geographic information systems (GIS) in city planning, urban studies, and social work at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design, discuss Placing History: How Maps, Spatial Data, and GIS Are Changing Historical Scholarship. The book and digital supplement demonstrate how GIS can be used in historical research. —Published January 17, 2008
Breece Robertson, National GIS Director at Trust for Public Land, discusses how greenprinting—a GIS-aided analysis of community, land, and conservation issues—helps communities organize and prioritize land conservation strategies for maintaining access to parks and open spaces. —Published January 8, 2008
Dr. David Dzielak, Associate Vice Chancellor for Strategic Research Alliances and Dr. Fazlay Faruque, Director of GIS and Remote Sensing and Professor of Health Systems, both at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, discuss incorporating GIS in health sciences. —Published December 18, 2007
Vince Brown, Senior Program Specialist in the Mitigation Division at FEMA, and Kevin Mickey, Director of Professional Education and Outreach at The Polis Center, Indiana University, Indianapolis, discuss how the HAZUS-MH Web-based courses help public and private organizations plan for and mitigate natural disasters. —Published December 11, 2007
Abel Kho, M.D., assistant professor of medicine at Northwestern University and affiliated scientist at Regenstrief Institute, Inc. discusses how GIS is used to track and visualize data about hospital-acquired infection rates. —Published November 27, 2007
Kristen Kurland, faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University with a joint appointment at the School of Architecture and H. John Heinz School of Public Policy and Management, talks about the ESRI Press book she co-authored with Wilpen L. Gorr titled GIS Tutorial, Second Edition. —Published November 13, 2007
Joe Kezon, GIS Manager at the Chicago Police Department, talks about the crime database that was built for the police department. —Published October 23, 2007
Deane Maynard, Project Manager at McMaster University GIS Lab, School of Geography and Earth Sciences, talks about her experience with hosting a GIS Day at the university. —Published September 26, 2007
Ian Masser, visiting Professor at the University of Utrecht, Netherlands, the University of Melbourne, Australia, and the Center for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College in London, discusses his inspiration for writing the book and the importance of spatial data infrastructures (SDIs). —Published September 25, 2007
Megan Blewett, a student from Madison, New Jersey, discusses using GIS for her epidemiology research on the cause of multiple sclerosis which helped her win two college scholarships. —Published September 19, 2007
John Watermolen, GIS Specialist for the State of Nevada Division of Environmental Protection, talks about implementing a GIS system across various bureaus within the division, and how it has improved communication and tracking of facilities. —Published August 28, 2007
Diana Sinton, Chief Program Officer for the Latitude GIS Initiative at the National Institute for Technology & Liberal Education, and Jennifer Lund, who supports the faculty at Wheaton College in Massachusetts, discuss their book Understanding Place: GIS and Mapping Across the Curriculum. —Published August 21, 2007
Lucy Waruingi, Chair of the Society for Conservation GIS in Kenya and GIS Manager with the African Conservation Center, talks about using GIS technology to promote conservation efforts. —Published August 14, 2007
Petra Zimmerman, Assistant Professor of Geography at Ball State University in Indiana, talks about using GIS in college curricula. —Published July 23, 2007
Geoffrey Almvig, GIS Manager with Skagit County in Washington, discusses Skagit County’s enterprise-wide GIS system and their Special Achievement in GIS Award at the 2007 ESRI International User Conference. —Published July 19, 2007
Eric Abe, GIS Administrator at Maui Electric Company, Ltd. talks about the Special Achievement in GIS Award that Maui Electric received at the 2007 ESRI International User Conference. —Published July 18, 2007
Bradley Doorn, Technical and Remote Sensing Coordinator at the US Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service, talks about his organization’s Crop Explorer application which won them a Special Achievement in GIS Award at the 2007 ESRI International User Conference. —Published July 17, 2007
Listen to Fromm discuss his presentation on market analysis at the 2007 Business GeoInfo Summit and how Great Harvest uses GIS and Business Analyst to conduct site selection. —Published July 10, 2007
Listen to Meador discuss the mobile applications that MobileGates provides and share his experience at the 2007 Business GeoInfo Summit. —Published July 10, 2007
Developer Summit
—James Fee of TEC Inc., and Brian Goldin of Spatially Enabled
Listen as Wilde discusses the IT brands and home consumer brands that MarketStar represents and how they use GIS to increase their clients' sales.. —Published June 1, 2007
Listen to Dr. Roger Tomlinson talk about the third edition of his book Thinking about GIS: Geographic Information System Planning for Managers. —Published May 30, 2007
Listen to Bergeron and Rouse comment on their experience at the 2007 ESRI Developer Summit and how it compares to other conferences they have attended. —Published May 19, 2007
Listen to Arnold discuss GeoAge's Field Adapted Survey Toolkit (FAST) which allows you to rapidly create and deploy mobile forms for mobile devices. —Published May 15, 2007
Listen as Swanson talks about trends in mobile technology and also gives advice to developers who want to build mobile GIS applications. —Published May 10, 2007
Listen to Bouwman discuss developing custom GIS solutions for forestry and describe some of the large projects he has worked on. —Published April 27, 2007
Listen to Bradley discuss how Walgreens incorporates the use of GIS and ESRI technology in particular to support site selection of new store locations. —Published April 20, 2007
Listen to Roberts discuss how the Town of South Windsor uses GIS and how GIS has been incorporated into some of their recent projects. —Published April 11, 2007
Listen to Jay R. Lucas, CCIM and President of STDB Inc. as he provides a brief preview of his upcoming keynote address at the ESRI Business GeoInfo Summit, April 23–25 in Dallas, Texas. —Published March 21, 2007
Listen to Pennsylvanian Congressman Paul Kanjorski talk about how collaboration and coordination play important roles in implementing successful geographic information systems (GIS) across all levels of government. This podcast was recorded at the 2007 ESRI Federal User Conference. —Published February 20, 2007
Dr. William R. Elliott works as a cave biologist for the Missouri Department of Conservation, Resource Science Division and won a Special Achievement in GIS Award at last summer's ESRI International User Conference. Bill applies GIS software in projects that help to protect caves and cave dwellers such as bats, cavefishes, snails, salamanders, and other species. By understanding which caves rank high in biodiversity and knowing the geographic distribution of those caves, Elliott and his colleagues can do a better job directing conservation resources to those sites. —Published January 11, 2007
Tom Johnson is the Managing Director of the Institute for Analytic Journalism, winner of a Special Achievement in GIS Award at the 2006 ESRI International User Conference. Listen as Johnson talks about educating and promoting the use of GIS among journalists and other media professionals. —Published January 3, 2007
Ian Von Essen is the GIS Manager for the County of Spokane, Washington and a Special Achievement in GIS Award Winner. Von Essen talks about his efforts to implement GIS software throughout all local county agencies and on his experience with GIS. —Published December 5, 2006
Eugene Cieri is the deputy chief of the Hartford Fire Department in Hartford Connecticut and a Special Achievement in GIS Award winner. Listen as Cieri discusses how the idea began for this project and how GIS was used in order to provide more information for first responders on scene. —Published November 29, 2006
Dave Zilkoski is the director of the National Geodetic Survey, NOAA, winner of a Special Achievement in GIS Award. Zilkoski talks about designing a more efficient system that allows users easier access to data from the NGS. —Published November 20, 2006
Jeff Nighbert, past winner of the ESRI map gallery competition, reflects on his passion for creating great maps with ESRI's GIS software during the past 30 years. Jeff explains how his personality as a geographer and artist allows him to create maps that explore the landscape and reveal the beauty of the geography.
Justin Pummell is a Geographer with the Army Corps of Engineers, Hawaii, a Special Achievement in GIS Award winner. Pummell talks about the process and results of implementing an enterprise GIS along with data sharing with their partners in the Pacific.
Arnold van Oostrum is a Project Manager at the Ministry of LNV, Dienst Regelingen a Special Achievement in GIS Award recipient. van Oostrum discusses the challenges and results of developing an internet application using GIS for farmer's to use in the Netherlands.
Chetan Desai is the chief scientist for the GIS group at ProLogic, a Special Achievement in GIS Award winner and an ESRI business partner. ProLogic's Geospatial Information Systems business focuses on developing ArcGIS extensions and providing ArcGIS integration services. Desai describes recent projects including Weather Explorer for ArcGIS and LIDAR Explorer for ArcGIS.
Steve DeWilde, a GIS coordinator for the Orange County Sanitation District, which won a Special Achievement in GIS award, uncovers the process of implementing a GIS to meet the organization’s needs. In his discussion, DeWilde delves into the problems a GIS helped solve, the implementation needs, and how the technology helps the organization with facility management.
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