Data & Metadata Updates

Izard and Calhoun County have been added to the Arkansas Road Centerline File http://bit.ly/4juvmq Press release available on AGIO Blog http://agioar.wordpress.com/

Various Statewide Datasets are being exported to the FTP site (weekly) for use by a number of users. http://bit.ly/3rXKcb

White County has been added to the cadastral layers http://bit.ly/ak3cQ

Connections to WMS (http://bit.ly/2wQMH0)/ WFS (http://bit.ly/2wQMH0) have been added to each metadata file

GeoStor Outage & Download Issue

DIS will be having a power outage this weekend so GeoStor will be offline for part of Saturday and all of Sunday. I expect that GeoStor will be back online Monday morning at the latest. We are also having some issues with downloads and are working to resolve them.

 

Glen

GeoStor Blog: http://geostor.blogspot.com/

GeoStor FTP Server Issue

It looks like the FTP server issues have been resolved (for now anyway). Let us know if you have any issues. Also, we are really close to migrating to a new FTP server, hopefully within the next week or so. Hopefully that will resolve all the issues we have been having with the old FTP server.

Glen

GeoStor Blog: http://geostor.blogspot.com/

GeoStor Outage

Our FTP server has experienced some data corruption (again) and I am attempting to repair it, however this means that Downloads are down as well. I expect the repair process to continue though the evening since the disk being repaired is 2TB in size. I have posted a notice on the GeoStor home page and I will do another blog post when everything is resolved.

Glen

GeoStor Blog: http://geostor.blogspot.com/

GeoStor Updates and Outages

Outages

We are currently experiencing issues with our FTP server so if you are unable to get to an FTP link that worked previously that is probably why. I expect to have this resolved by Monday but there are no guarantees unfortunately. On to happier things…

Updates

We have added some pretty cool features and fixed some more bugs as usual. We also have some exciting things that are up and coming as well.

• You can now save your download preferences for email, format and projection. Just click the checkbox where it says and click submit. If you want to change your preferences, just click the checkbox again and submit your download.
  
  • CAVEAT: You have to have cookies enabled in your browser to use this feature!
    
• I have developed a widget that allows you to search GeoStor from your own website, pretty sweet huh? See the next bullet for more information.
  
• I have been working hard on documenting the GeoStor API so people can start using our services and have it pretty much finished. Just click the Developers link at the top of the home page. I will also be posting some more of our code at some point in the future as well. If you are going to the AR GIS User's Forum conference in Eureka you will get to see almost all of it on my poster. J
  
• PLEASE NOTE!!! Not all these changes have been pushed out to production yet but should be there by Monday.
  

Up and Coming

• We are migrating from web map caches to ArcGIS Image Server, there are some advantages and disadvantages to this move but it will benefit everyone in the long run.
  
  • Advantages
    
    • Using AIS will reduce our storage needs for raster by half if not more.
      
    • It will drastically reduce the amount of time we spend working on raster data.
      
    • It is faster in ArcGIS products than the map cache for some odd reason.
      
    • We will be able to offer any imagery we have as a service with very little overhead (think archived rasters…).
      
  • Disadvantages
    
    • All links to our imagery will change, unfortunately.
      
    • I'm not sure what the impact will be to our servers resource-wise as I am unable to reproduce the production load in my development environment.
      
    • AIS looks slower in web applications than a map cache although it isn't much slower in total load time.
      
• I am finishing the FTP Server migration next week so we will be on all new hardware and this is a step in the process to migrate to AIS as well.
  
• We are migrating to SQL Server 2008 as soon as I can get it installed and move everything over.
  

Sorry this was such a long post but it has been awhile since I've posted on the blog and had a lot to cover!

Glen

GeoStor Blog: http://geostor.blogspot.com/

GeoStor More Data & Updates

The following data has been added or updated throughout the GeoStor System. We appreciate all those willing to coordinate and distribute information via GeoStor- Thank You!

Additions:
These orthos have not been added to the High resolution ortho service. We are still working on our long term strategy to handle the high resolution orthos in an timely manner.
* 2009 Benton and Washington County orthos- Provided by Benton & Washington County
FTP- ftp://ftp.geostor.arkansas.gov/geostor_raster_01/2009/NWARPC/

* 2008-2009 orthos for select lakes- Provided by Army Corps of Engineers
FTP- ftp://ftp.geostor.arkansas.gov/geostor_raster_01/2009/USCOE/

Updates:
* All High & Medium Resolution National Hydrology datasets- Provided by USGS with assistance from ADEQ
http://www.geostor.arkansas.gov/G6/Home.html?q=NHD

* City Boundaries- Provided by Arkansas Highway & Transportation Department http://bit.ly/Zpa0i
NHD & City Boundary updates will be reflected in WFS. Basemap cache will be updated in the coming weeks.

* Ortho Footprint for Files on GeoStor FTP updated with ortho additions above
http://bit.ly/4z6TDm

* Inland Electronic Navigation Charts (off site)- Provided by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
http://crunch.tec.army.mil/enc/echarts/IENCShapeFileRequest.cfm

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GeoStor Updates

Whew. What can I say, been really busy as usual and haven't posted any updates in awhile. So without further ado, here they are:

• Upgraded ArcGIS Server to 9.3.1 and converted all our services over to the new MSD format. They are very fast! I should have done this a long time ago!
  
• Our services should be accessible from anywhere or any application now.
  
• We have setup a geometry service, check it out: http://www.geostor.arkansas.gov/ArcGIS/rest/services/Geometry/GeometryServer. This mostly for developers and applications but it is a very useful service.
  
• VMware ESXi has been upgraded to 4.0, this is the software we use to virtualize our servers.
  
• The production servers have been migrated to bigger, badder and faster hardware and I am going to use the old servers to build a SQL Server 2008 cluster.
  
• You can now search the dynamic layers on the GeoStor viewer. Go to http://maps.arkansas.gov and click on the Search widget, there are examples for each layer to search by.
  
• Our latest blog posts display on GeoStor now
  

Coming Up

• Upgrade FME Server from 2009 to 2010, need to test in development first though.
  
• Possible Image Server implementation?
  
• Migrate FTP server off old hardware to virtual machine
  

Gotta get back to work now J

Glen

GeoStor Blog: http://geostor.blogspot.com/