ThinkGeo Blog

I have always been a big fan of slashdot.org for getting my daily dose of technical news, and now I have slashgeo.org for keeping up on geospatial news.  Over the years I have run across this site a time or two, but there didn't seem to be much activity on it until lately.  The past few weeks I have been monitoring it more closely and they have had great postings.  I hope they can keep it up, because it's been difficult in the past to find a good centralized location for spatial news. 

Check it out and help the slashgeo.org community grow!

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Today I released a new white paper and code explaining how to build scalable GIS applications with web services.  The paper gives sample code for both the web service and the client application using Map Suite Web & Engine Editions.  In this case the client application was a web application, but the same concepts can be used to consume the web service in a desktop application.  This type of application architecture works really well for both scalability and allowing you centralize the large base map datasets.

Below is a screen shot of what the result of the sample client application look like.  We even used the new Map Suite Icon library for the customer icons :)

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Well it's official, the ThinkGeo Blog is finally live! 

After several conversations about how we could use blogging to better communicate with our customers and the community in general, we are ready to launch.  The main focus of this blog will be to allow people within the ThinkGeo organization to talk about cool topics like GIS (Geographic Information Systems), programming and mapping technologies, to name a few.  In addition, we also hope this blog will engage our customers on how to utilize our technologies to implement great solutions.

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