{"id":111,"date":"2011-05-18T14:33:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T14:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoplanit.co.uk\/?p=111"},"modified":"2011-06-30T14:07:13","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T14:07:13","slug":"attending-the-esri-uk-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/?p=111","title":{"rendered":"Attending the ESRI UK Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/eukac.esriuk.com\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-ecAZJKRR8SM\/Ta2uCiXMbVI\/AAAAAAAAE7w\/qU7b_uwF9nc\/s200\/eukac2011_homead.jpg?resize=200%2C113\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"113\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Okay why a post about some weird acronym type company? \u00a0Well in the world of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Geographic_information_system\"><strong>GIS <\/strong>(Geographic Information Systems\/Science)<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/about-esri\/about\/index.html\"><strong>ESRI <\/strong>(Environmental Systems Research Institute)<\/a> a software\/consultancy company is a big player.<\/p>\n<p>Yes they are a big corporate entity but in some ways they feel more like a movement, so when their yearly conference comes round I get excited. \u00a0 Not content with just advertising their products to their customers it feels as if you\u2019re at an event for the GIS industry as a whole. \u00a0 Whatever issue you might have with ESRI\u2019s software <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/products\/index.html\">ArcGIS <\/a>etc&#8230; you can\u2019t fault the staff\u2019s enthusiasm and professionalism (well that\u2019s my experience anyway) especially at events like this.<\/p>\n<p>Why the blog post this year? Well because I submitted a paper about using some software in our workflow called <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.procedural.com\/\">CityEngine <\/a><\/strong>and was asked to do a presentation on both days. \u00a0 You can find out more about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/\">ESRI here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esriuk.com\/\">ESRI UK here<\/a>, I would also recommend some <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Geographic_information_system\">Wikipedia research on GIS<\/a>.<br \/>\nYou may have come to this post because I mentioned you somewhere, if you want to add something more (links, information etc&#8230;) or correct something contact me or add a comment to the relevant post.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/?p=112\">ESRI UK Conference &#8211; Day 1<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/?p=113\">ESRI UK Conference\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Day 2<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/?p=114\">ESRI UK Conference\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0My Presentations<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/2011\/05\/esri-uk-conference-people-i-met.html\">ESRI UK Conference\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0People I met<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/2011\/05\/esri-uk-conference-thoughts-for-future.html\">ESRI UK Conference\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Thoughts for the Future, suggestions for ESRI UK<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Back in London \u2013 not really related to the conference more musings of visiting our nation\u2019s capital.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay why a post about some weird acronym type company? \u00a0Well in the world of GIS (Geographic Information Systems\/Science), ESRI (Environmental Systems Research Institute) a software\/consultancy company is a big player. Yes they are a big corporate entity but in some ways they feel more like a movement, so when their yearly conference comes round [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[93,12,104,31,122,114,116,145,64,7,17,140,83,74,16,136,119,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-3d","category-arcgis","category-arcgis-explorer","category-autocad","category-broadband","category-cartography","category-city-creation","category-cityengine","category-esri","category-gis","category-maps","category-opendata","category-ordnance-survey","category-twitter","category-visualisations","category-webmapping","category-work","category-workflow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions\/171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}