Exporting ESRI Silverlight Graphic Layer to Google Earth

On my current project I was tasked with exporting our map layers to Google Earth. This was simple for the ESRI ArcGIS Server layers, since Server has out-of-the-box support for KML. However, as would be the case, we don’t use ArcGIS Server for all of our layers. We also use ESRI Graphic Layers for rendering […]

WeoGeo Products Available on GSA Through Zekiah Technologies

Zekiah Technologies announces the availability of the open beta of WeoGeo Tools for ArcGIS. Developed by Zekiah in partnership with WeoGeo, Inc. , WeoGeo Tools is an extension to ArcGIS Desktop that allows users to browse, customize and order geospatial data from WeoGeo Market or hosted libraries. WeoGeo’s product line is available for purchase through Zekiah’s […]

Zekiah Named to the 2011 Inc. 5000 List of Fastest-Growing Companies

Zekiah Technologies has been named to the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies for the fourth consecutive year with a rank of 2630 on the 2011 list, up from a previous rank of 3484 on the 2010 list. Zekiah’s continued presence on the Inc. 5000 list has been powered by a 3-year growth rate […]

Using Arc2Earth for Tile Caching across Air Gapped Networks

Update 9/15/18 – Arc2Earth no longer offers subscriptions or services.  Zekiah supports many organizations, especially in the federal government, that have a need to run ArcGIS Server on networks that are not connected to the internet. Oftentimes, these organizations use tiled basemaps that are built from data or services that are available (whether free or […]

Drupal 6: Creating a Blog Archive and Topics Menu in Views

Once you begin to get some age on your blog, it can be helpful to create a side menu block to help users find posts by either date or topic. The first part of this post will deal with creating a side menu block sorted by month and year. The second part will deal with […]

Understanding SDSFIE 3.0 Compliance

One of the more critical, and somewhat confusing, concepts in the SDSFIE 3.0 is the notion of what constitutes a ‘compliant’ data set. SDSFIE 3.0 offers considerably more flexibility in schema options than earlier releases. This capability was created to permit individual DoD users some naming options to accommodate existing legacy applications that use geospatial […]

Spatial Data Standards for Facilities, Infrastructure and Environment (SDSFIE): Five Fundamental Tools

The Spatial Data Standards for Facilities, Infrastructure and Environment (SDSFIE) is the single Department of Defense spatial data standard that supports common implementation and interoperability for installations, environment, and civil works missions. SDSFIE is being managed by the Defense Installations Spatial Data Infrastructure (DISDI) Group. The DISDI Group is a formal governance group reporting to […]

ESRI Dev Meet Up – Washington, DC

Except from article published in ESRI blog on June 29, 2011 Less than a week after the Philadelphia meet up, we were back on the East Coast in Washington, D.C. For some reason the venue thought the meet up was the next day but thanks to Charmel from the D.C. office, they rallied round and […]

Developing Rates for Government Contracts, Part 2

Welcome back for Part II! Last post we discussed the various type of contracts (Firm Fixed Price, Time & Materials, and Cost Plus Fixed Fee) and started to get into what we call indirect cost “pools” – Fringe, Overhead and General & Administrative. For this post, we will delve a bit further into what makes […]

Implementing a Lightweight Google-Like Search Using .Net

One of the requirements for my current project was to implement searching capabilities that were “Google-like”.  When I heard this, I immediately thought about solr, which some colleagues have recommended as an enterprise search engine. And it does look good. However, after reading the description, I realized that this wasn’t a good fit for my […]