Dear Folks,
This is second consecutive time being Most Valuable Professional (MVP) on ESRI Forums. I take this opportunity to thank all those who have clicked ‘this post answered my question’ .
Thanks to all my team members, collegues, friends and organisation , for their support and encouragment throughout.
There are some active discussion going on some of social network sites on SAP-GIS Integration. I am also one who look for some specific information on integration of these two systems. I have searched continously and got some information which are useful for someone like me. The GIS group in Larsen and Toubro (LNT) Infotech, Mumbai and TCS working on this integration. You can download their paper (won prize in ESRI) titled “DEVELOPMENT OF GIS-SAP INTERFACE FOR VALIDATION OF GEO-CODED ADDRESS” explains about application developed for electric utility company. “The GIS application was developed as a multi-threaded component implemented in the COM Model. The Arcobjects toolkit from ESRI forms the core of the component. SAP’s COM4ABAP software has been used as the middleware”. This is one example. ESRI has provided some docs on integration. Here is list of some documents/paper for getting started.
1. GIS Best Practices : Using GIS and SAP , June 2007, ESRI
2. Technology Update : ESRI Internation User Conf 2005, ESRI SAP User group meeting
3. SAP/GIS Integration: Observation and practices by Stever Burner of ESRI
4. SAP Netweaver: ESRI-SAP competency centre, Europe (Good Document)
5. SAP Exchange Infrastructure (XI) by Carsten Pipel (Good document)
6. SAP Business data visualization with Map Objects (Year, 1999: Outdated one)
7. GIS and beyond Looking to SAP through the Ge0-Window: Belgian water Utility, Pidpa
8 . Tacoma Economic Development: GIS Diversity, Address and 3D visualization (2004 paper)
9. MDM for SAP-GIS Integration: from SAP Labs (Good doc)
10. Map4SAP: An ArcGIS Solution for SAP : Peter Wikinson , ESRI (UC 2007)
11. Mapping Data in SAP-Business Ware House: Mark T.Schnur, M.S.
12. Mapping SAP-BW Data
and many more documents available in internet for further reading.
In general, SAP systems are very costly and resources are also scarce. Most of pure GIS companies in India are medium level companies hence affordablity to SAP system is void. Big gaints can make use of GIS (Mapping) potentials to their existing system(SAP).Most of integration has been taken place with respect to ESRI Products. Open source GIS integration with SAP is also another viable option.
Any comments/suggestions are welcome!.
Dear Folks,
Dave is conducting his 2008 Geospatial Developer Survey. If you’re a GIS developer, I highly encourage you to complete it!
Build 722 = ArcGIS Desktop 9.1 final
Build 750 = ArcGIS Desktop 9.1 Service Pack 1
Build 780 = ArcGIS Desktop 9.1 Service Pack 2
ArcGIS Desktop 9.1 Service Pack 2 displays as build 766 from ArcMap Help > About ArcMap.Build 1324 = ArcGIS Desktop 9.2 final
Build 1332 = ArcGIS Desktop 9.2 Service Pack 1
ArcGIS Desktop 9.2 Service Pack 1 displays as build 1324 from ArcMap and ArcCatalog Help > About ArcMap/ArcCatalog.Build 1350 = ArcGIS 9.2 Service Pack 2
ArcGIS Desktop 9.2 Service Pack 2 displays as build 1324 from ArcCatalog Help > About ArcCatalog.Build 1380 = ArcGIS Desktop 9.2 Service Pack 3
Build 1420 = ArcGIS Desktop 9.2 Service Pack 4
Build 1450 = ArcGIS Desktop 9.2 Service Pack 5
ArcGIS Desktop 9.2 Service Pack 5 still displays as build 1420 from ArcCatalog Help > About ArcCatalog.Here is another Code contest for students on Open Source from Google.
The Open Source Geospatial Foundation would like to extend a welcome to all SoC students. On this page you will find links to a host of ideas organized by project. You will find ideas ranging from the depths of computer science graph theory to the heights of visualization. One thing all these ideas have in common is lots and lots of spatial data.
These ideas are *only* to motivate you, and serve as example of the kind of hills we want to charge up. Your own ideas are more than welcomed - they are encouraged. We view you as the next wave of open source leaders; show us what you’ve got.
If you need more information on how to apply try this guide for applicants
This is not only helpful for students and even for GIS community to know latest development trends in Open Source GIS, ideas, prespectives, future arena etc. If you are G-enthu (GIS Enthusiast) go through your favourite open source project.
Here are some books on GIS application development which I recently came across on surfing. Here are the details.
Programming ASP.NET for ArcGIS Server (English) - (ISBN: 9781418018757)
Web Mapping Illustrated Using Open Source GIS Toolkits
Beginning MapServer: Open Source GIS Development
Personally, I haven’t read any of these books listed above. If anyone has free copy (e-book) pl pass it on 
The crucial decider between men in blues and lions for reserving their final berth in Commonwealth Bank Series held at Hobart. The day match encounter was filled with joy, thrill and disappointments in both sessions. Indians cruised to final with convincing seven wicket victory over Lankans. After winning the toss, skipper Dhoni opted to field first. Inclusion of Praveen kumar at the expense of opener shewag has given a rich dividend. Lankans lost their opener Perera for 8 runs by Indian heart-rob Ishant, the in swinging delivery dislodged his furniture. Amid the Indians exhilaration Sangakkara gave a rock solid start with splendid fours in Munaf over. The old war horse Sanath Jayasuriya on the other end proved his experience with a himalayan sixer of Ishant sharma.
The terrific duo played aggressively with raining fours. At end of 10 overs, 55/1 seems that wounded lions up came up with a ploy to Score 300 plus runs on the board. Skipper Dhoni brought in Praveen kumar to replace Munaf that paid the result. The ambitious shot from Sangakarra ended in vein skipper took splendid diving catch to send him back to pavilion. Kumar took his first wicket in One day Internationals. The trouble started for Srilankans henceforth. In the subsequent over of Kumar, Jayewardene was caught on point by Rohit sharma for mere 3 runs. Thereafter, Indians on song. Left arm pacer Pathan took the important wicket of Sanath with a clever quick bouncer which was attempted to hit at square and caught by Dhoni. Charma Silva looked composed but edged to Kumar and was sent for duck. Dilshan and Vaas were dismissed in quick succession. Lankans were reeling for 93/7 at 26th over.
Kapugedera took his time to settle and played sensibly. He is poised and judged the situation well and quick running between the wickets and punishing bad deliveries to boundaries was the only solace for srilankans. Partnership with Lastih Malinga added another 40 runs to the total when Malinga attempted to hit across the boundary line on Ishanth well caught by Uthappa. Spin legend Muthaih joined with Kapugedera and played well. This partnership added another 40 runs before Muthaih bowled out by Kumar once again. Praveen kumar took carrier best 4/31. Finally Harbajan has taken wicket of Kapugedera (57 Runs, Highest ODI score) that ended Srilankans innings for 179.The match took a whirlwind turn between score of 71 and 93. Srilankans could not sustain the Indian young guns bowling attack. It was surprising that experienced Harbajan was not given enough overs at the end to cut the Lankan tail. Indians played well despite a poor start; lack of killer instinct was obvious when they failed to chop the tail.
Indians started their innings opening Uthappa with Sachin. Uthappa lose his wicket for 11 runs.Sachin-Gambir duo played a wonderful knock. Sachin scored first 50 of this series with 10 fours and dismissed for 63. Gambir on other end rocked till the end. Yuvraj belligerent stroke and intense shot gives visual treat before he fell for 36. Gautam Gambhir taken India home with unbeaten 63 and India won by 7 Wickets. Praveen kumar judged man of match for his magic spell for demolishing Lankan hopes. The Friday game against Ausies for Lankan is a dead-rubber.
It is high time for Indians to introspect and find how to win the series against strong Aussies. Indians have to bat well in the finals (best of three) and come with colors to avoid series loss against mighty Aussies after the test series loss.
Sachin discovered his form, wayward Yuvraj playing his best; Gambir is in his good knick. Indians need to keep the tempo for rest of the series to win against Aussies to clinch the series in style.
When Mother Teresa recieved her Nobel Prize, she was asked, “What can we do to promote world peace?”, She replied ”Go home and love your family“.
To my Mother with love
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You may have tangible wealth untold;
Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold.
Richer than I you can never be-
I had a mother who read to me.
- Strickland Gillian (1869-1954)
This is very standard question, which I come across from many new users. Generally there is some confusion prevailing between two ESRI technologies MapObjects and ArcObjects.
MapObjects and ArcObjects are two completely different technologies. MapObjects is very limited in what you can do. If you write an application in MapObjects and intend to distribute it outside of your organization, then you are required to pay ESRI a royalty fee for each installation of the application.
Applications written in ArcObjects under ArcGIS 8.x do require the user to have ArcGIS installed on their computer. ArcObjects, starting at release 9.0, can be used to develop stand alone applications through the ArcGIS Engine. The Engine licenses will offer varying degrees of functionality and will not require your users to have ArcGIS installed on their computers. Your users will be required to purchase an Engine license, which will be cheaper than purchasing an ArcGIS license (but not as cheap as the MapObjects royalty).
However, if your application is simple, MapObjects may be the way to go. ArcObjects is much more powerful. It may be that your app would require ArcObjects in order to provide all of the functionality.
