Our recent HivAtlas application (ArcGIS Server Javascript API site) was just highlighted in the latest issue of GeoWorld. Its on page 9 - "Resource Of The Month". I always find it strange when the folks who publish these articles never give you a heads up. Anyway, its nice to be recognized. Lots and lots of work went into that application. And - its one of the many ArcGIS Server sites that are hosted here at ROK...If you would like any information on our ArcGIS Server hosting services, drop us a line

Hey folks...Just wanted to share a site that is now using our remote cache hosting service to serve cached tiles.

I previously showed several Javascript API sites uing this service, but this one is using Flex api for ArcGIS Server.

This really frees up bandwidth to let the dynamic layers be served quickly. Those aerial images can be very bandwidth intensive, so hosting these remotely them makes a lot of sense when bandwidth is limited, or you have a high volume site.

Here is is: Santa Rosa Planning and Zoning Viewer. The layer that is being served remotely is the 'Aerial Photos' layer. If you are a developer geek like me, check out the site with firebug enabled so that you can see the Aerial imagery being served remotely - meaning a different location that the ArcGIS server itself. Cool stuff.

Here is a updated list of sites that we have just recently released. All of them are Coldfusion 7 / ArcIMS based sites. Each one is a little different that the other. Everyone has specific tools they like.

The list is growing everyday. Below are the ones that we have officially 'released' There are are also many currently in beta. I must tell you, I have been very pleased with the number of deployments. From all the feedback from the counties/cities themselves, it sounds like they are happy too. Thanks to everyone (especially Cotter) for making it a success.

For the future, I really cant wait for CF 8. It will make some of the ajax based interaction even easier. Also, the slow migration to ArcGIS server has begun. However, I'd really like to see to better support from ESRI on the Coldfusion front. I plan to post a 'call to arms' for all of us Coldfusion / ESRI folks soon...But for now, check out the sites!

Durham County, NC
City Of West Palm Beach, FL
Davie County, NC
Alexander County, NC
Henderson County, NC
Hertford County, NC
Warren County, NC
Union County, NC
Onslow County, NC
Santa Rosa County, FL

Anyway, I have been droolling over the Windows Live Local drawing tools (scrath pad). If you havent seen them, they are quite amazing. I have done simple VML drawings with some of my apps to create user-savable redlines, but as you already may know VML is IE only. Believe it or not, Microsoft has taken the time to make it Firefox compatible...actually, it reacts better in Firefox vs IE.

So, if you havent seen it, by all means, go check it out right now. Even better, if you know of some existing librabries to emulate it, let me know.

Well, the newest version of our public viewer is being released today. It was built with Coldfusion 7, ArcIMS 9.1 and SqlServer 2000/SDE 9.1. I have another instance of SqlServer 2005/SDE serving the imagery.

The code is based off our intranet application called Gospatial, which has been deployed in many local governements and private organizations. I basically redid the entire interface to make it much cleaner, and I hope easier for the public to understand and use. Our number one biggest complaint from folks when doing the public access types of sites is 'I want more map'. So, we gave it to them. The entire screen becomes the map, with the ability to show/hide transparent divs that control the map layers , overview map, results, tools, etc. I think it came out really nice.

There are a few issues that still need to be worked out. I have some VML based drawing tools included, and as we all know, thats an IE only implementation. So, a few tools have to be disabled for mozilla users. Or, you can grab IE Tab which enables IE rendering from within Firefox. its actually a very handy plugin to have. The site only supports IE, Netscape and Firefox for now. I need to see whats going to happen with IE 7 before I do anything else. I hate having to write basically 3 separate applications.

Anyway, this is the first release, so I expect a few glitches ramping it up. If anyone encounteres anything funky, please let me know. So, here it is:

http://santarosa.roktech.net/gomaps/

Hey all, just thought I'd share this nice site that we recently did for Georgia Power / Southern Company economic development. It gives the ability to search for building and property throughout the state of Georgia. It was done with .Net and ArcIMS. Here is the link if you want to check it out: https://grc.southernco.com/GPEDC/

One of our clients, Santa Rosa County, Florida was ground zero for hurricane Dennis. This has been a tough tropical season for them already. I recently visited onsite with them, and they were still recovering from hurricane Ivan last season. Lucky for the citizens there, they have a very proactive county goverment in place. I know many of the county employees were working sleepless nights making sure that everything would be ready for the recovery effort that is ahead of them. The Hurricane Evacuation Map Search site that we developed and host for them was lit up like a christmas tree all weekend. I'm glad that we were able to help out in this time of need for them....All you Santa Rosa County residents - hang in there!

You guys have to check this out. This site was done by a fellow Coldfusion programmer Jeremy Bartley. He'll be presenting it at this years ESRI User Conference. Here is the abstract. If you are going this year, I would highly recommend you check it out.

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