A look at ArcGIS 10

For June 2010 has been discussed will be available ArcGIS 10, Which we see will be a Important milestone recognizing the level of positioning of ESRI in the geospatial field.  Already forums And other spaces are spoken quite, and sure of here to the Conference Of Julio Users, we can know much more.

At the level of common doubts, little by little ESRI is clarifying things that can not be had in the short term, and making stand out comparative advantages of what a big change means.

ESRI has already confirmed that it will not be able to live in the same ArcGIS 9.3 machine and also ArcGIS 10, unless it is in a virtual VM type VM Ware's VM Workstation or Microsoft's Virtual PC.

Also in the cons they mention that they will not give continuity to Survey Analyst, which seems to be at the level of 9.3 versions, only Parcel Editor that will be part of ArcEditor and ArcInfo.

A tool called ArcPy is striking, which executes geoprocessing on Pyton. And it is, that with this toy it may be viable to avoid the breaking of links, as now happens with a .mxd and .lyr, which can have referred files, but there is no control in case they are deleted or moved. With this, you could repair broken links and obtain reports of layers referred to in the mxd and their display attributes.

The best, the use of geoprocesses in the background. This allows us to continue working and notifies us when the process is complete.

At the database level spatialWe are pleased to hear that PostgreSQL is being hosted. Although they do not make it very clear if they improve the search capacity, clarifying that the novelty of the search is towards a small amount of metadata, but not to improve the indexing in the search within the data.

At the data construction level, 3D work excels. Here they promise that spatial attribute editing will be available for both ArcGlobe and ArcScene:

• Start editing, stop, save, undo and redo functions. Sure, with CAD platform-style snapping for not only accurate but practical creation.
• Creation of individual attributes, which includes storage of vertical lines in the geodatabase.
• Ability to bring 3D models, such as COLLADA, directly to the 3D view, with copy, move, rotate, CAD-style options.
• They also offer handling of terrain data sets, such as LIDAR point clouds and editing TIN data sets from ArcMap.
• Here is the link to the 3D capacity demonstration video. Looks great.

What else.  To take a look, I recommend you aidAlthough if you want to see the novelty of the change in a few minutes, the videos are very practical. Here are some links.

Usability. The catalog looks very practical from the ArcMap side, for simple drag and drop. Also the way to locate side flaps is much better.
GIS Server.  It does not look bad, to make Mashups or portals for the Internet.
Controlled maintenance flow.  This is very interesting, for data editing, with control of topologies and multiuser transactions.
Data analysis with ArcGIS 10. It seems that the best thing that ESRI will exploit is the handling of geoprocesses. And it seems that the computer will be able to perform better at the level of cached data. Although no one knows for sure about 64-bit support yet.
Image analysis

There will also be free seminars, scheduled for the 29 for April, 13 for May, 20 for May and 17 for June.