Wednesday/Thursday morning at the conference
I gave my presentation first thing in the morning (see the post below).
I attended the Geodatabase Road Ahead session- AnyGeo has a good, quick summary. While there's a lot going on under the hood, it seems like the SDE featureset is fairly stable. The expanded support in the network dataset for multiple shape types of blockages, increased cost areas, and time-dependent costs will be very useful; the next logical step is to have an implementation of multiple cost types (i.e., roads and tolls). The new 'child to parent' replication method will be extremely useful in simplifying federated database workflows (each county can directly push their work to a complete state dataset if they can handle most of the ETL actions through a schema cross-mapping). At the end of the session, I asked about 9.x version interactions- the parent will need to be 9.4, but the child won't (the state can establish the shiny new DB and the counties can transition as their budget allows).
In the afternoon, I took advantage of a couple of the non-session activities available. A couple of my co-workers are developing a new print map template at work, and I went to the Map Critique area with the current draft of the base map layers (the bread of the 'map sandwich'). I got a lot of feedback and had a good conversation with ESRI cartographic staff.
I also dropped by the Hands-On Training Lab and took a free 45-minute course (it was a topic I already had some user knowledge but not a thorough background in). The format was fantastic- a 30 minute video presentation (which I admittedly used the 'play faster' option to get through in 20) and then a set of exercises to give you the physical interaction. I hope they develop more of these in the future and I should look to using the format for my own in-house training.
I also got to try out the 9.4 Beta software- it looks pretty good. In particular, I was interested in the 'basemap group layer'- you can have multiple basemap layers in the map document (say the background in one and borders/annotation in another); they'll both draw continuously as you pan (the base map, which was fairly data heavy, took a second to render for areas where drawing hadn't occurred before). Also, when a layer is placed in a basemap group, it won't interact with the identify button- I actually like that behavior (too often, the top-most layer is relatively non-important boundary). I like the interface- it really does allow for a lot customization and hides everything you don't want.
This morning I caught the "Enterprise DB Tips & Tricks" session. I'm not the DB guy at work, but I work with him extensively and want to at least have a good understanding of the issues he has with maintaining the SDE (and occasionally give him a semi-informed suggestion). While I haven't personally dealt with the issues presented, the information did help tremendously- it put into overall system context the operations that I see at work.
I attended the Geodatabase Road Ahead session- AnyGeo has a good, quick summary. While there's a lot going on under the hood, it seems like the SDE featureset is fairly stable. The expanded support in the network dataset for multiple shape types of blockages, increased cost areas, and time-dependent costs will be very useful; the next logical step is to have an implementation of multiple cost types (i.e., roads and tolls). The new 'child to parent' replication method will be extremely useful in simplifying federated database workflows (each county can directly push their work to a complete state dataset if they can handle most of the ETL actions through a schema cross-mapping). At the end of the session, I asked about 9.x version interactions- the parent will need to be 9.4, but the child won't (the state can establish the shiny new DB and the counties can transition as their budget allows).
In the afternoon, I took advantage of a couple of the non-session activities available. A couple of my co-workers are developing a new print map template at work, and I went to the Map Critique area with the current draft of the base map layers (the bread of the 'map sandwich'). I got a lot of feedback and had a good conversation with ESRI cartographic staff.
I also dropped by the Hands-On Training Lab and took a free 45-minute course (it was a topic I already had some user knowledge but not a thorough background in). The format was fantastic- a 30 minute video presentation (which I admittedly used the 'play faster' option to get through in 20) and then a set of exercises to give you the physical interaction. I hope they develop more of these in the future and I should look to using the format for my own in-house training.
I also got to try out the 9.4 Beta software- it looks pretty good. In particular, I was interested in the 'basemap group layer'- you can have multiple basemap layers in the map document (say the background in one and borders/annotation in another); they'll both draw continuously as you pan (the base map, which was fairly data heavy, took a second to render for areas where drawing hadn't occurred before). Also, when a layer is placed in a basemap group, it won't interact with the identify button- I actually like that behavior (too often, the top-most layer is relatively non-important boundary). I like the interface- it really does allow for a lot customization and hides everything you don't want.
This morning I caught the "Enterprise DB Tips & Tricks" session. I'm not the DB guy at work, but I work with him extensively and want to at least have a good understanding of the issues he has with maintaining the SDE (and occasionally give him a semi-informed suggestion). While I haven't personally dealt with the issues presented, the information did help tremendously- it put into overall system context the operations that I see at work.
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