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RE: Upgrading ArcGIS 9 geodatabase
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mhyl-@cnlm.org
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Nov 22, 2004 08:20 PST
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Good morning -
Matt Wacker, Center for Natural Lands Management's GIS Specialist and
Preserve Manager for Dove Ridge, Keeney & M. Remy Preserves (6009 Beech
Ave., Orangevale, CA 95662 (530) 693-0614 Cell, (916) 990-0624 Fax/Hm
Office
e-mail: mwac-@cnlm.org) won the Center a grant this year which allowed
Center for Natural Lands Management to upgrade to ArcGIS 9.0. Perhaps other
organizations could benefit from the information (below) early in the grant
application process.
"Hi Everyone:
I think I mentioned to many of you that I'm attempting to get a grant from
ESRI to purchase GIS software, training, books, and hardware for anyone
who's interested. This will most likely consist of one copy of ArcView 8.3
for all PMs, copies of Arc View extensions (spatial analyst, Arc Press, 3D
analyst, etc.) for those that want them, a dedicated web server most likely
housed in Fallbrook that will store all our GIS data and be used to serve up
GIS maps of our data over the Internet, ESRI software (ArcIMS) to run the
web server, and other associated hardware/software. I'm also going to get a
copy of ArcInfo and many of the extensions for myself so I would always be
available to help any of you with some of the more advanced stuff (data
creation and editing, manipulating raster-based data, grid modeling); I
don't think most of you would need anything beyond ArcView for yourselves
unless you planned to do some fairly significant data manipulation and
modeling on a regular basis. Just a note, the new versions of ArcView will
display raster data without spatial analyst, so you don't need to buy this
extension if all you need to do is make a map using a raster dataset (like a
DEM or something obtained using remote sensing).
The request to ESRI has to be fairly detailed and itemized, so. I need each
of you to provide me with a "wish list" of software, books, and training
you'd like to receive. The following ESRI websites may help you figure out
what you'd like.
For an overview of software and extensions, go to:
http://www.esri.com/products.html
For an overview of training courses, go to:
http://www.esri.com/training/index.html (classroom training) or
http://campus.esri.com/ (Web-based)
For an overview of books, go to:
http://gis.esri.com/esripress/display/index.cfm
Just a couple things to keep in mind.for books, ESRI will only cover the
costs of books published by ESRI Press. ESRI sells books published by
several different publishing houses through their website; the above link is
just for books published by ESRI Press. Also, this is not a 100% of cost
grant program; we will be expected to pay for some of the costs associated
with these products. This table will give you an idea of what sort of
discount we might expect.
Product
Full Retail
Grant Cost
ArcView 8.x
$1,200
$500
ArcView 8.x Extensions
$2,500
$500
PC ArcInfo
$3,000
$500
ArcInfo Desktop
$18,000
$1,000
ArcIMS
$6,500
$1,000
ArcInfo Extensions
$2,500
$500
Live classes
$400/day
$50/day
Books
varies
$25 ea.
Web classes
$100/class
$50/class
We can request a deeper discount, but we'd need to make a more compelling
case for why we'd, as an organization, deserve a bigger discount."
Good luck weed mappers!
Michael Hylton
Asst. Preserve Manager
Center for Natural Lands Management (cnlm.org)
1106 2nd ST, #641, Encinitas, CA 92024
760.594.4771 (O) 760.634.6946 (FAX)
-----Original Message-----
From: Rosie Yacoub [mailto:RYac-@cdfa.ca.gov]
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 8:51 AM
To: CalWeed-@topica.com; sec-d-@vom.com
Subject: geodatabase
I think it is worth looking at generally, since my guess is there is a lot
of capacity for capturing nuances in a geodatabase with respect to
time-series, treatments, relations with other species that might be
difficult to replicate using flat files (shapefiles). Some of this can be
done by integrating a .dbf into an Access database, but not all of it.
Since ArcGIS 9 and 8 don't seem to be easily backwards/forwards compatible ,
I am interested in knowing how many people are moving on to 9 and when. At
CDFA, we are considering it right now, so the question is a very timely one
for us. I'd say were thinking about it, and if we do so, we would likely
get it going by March or April of next year.
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