New Time Zone

Greetings from a new time zone, CET or Central European Time.

I've settled in to my new position with ESRI Switzerland. I'm working with their professional services group in Zurich. Business is good and the company has expanded to two small offices in Zurich.

Many things are different/new of course, but I find that the 'hand of Dangermond' reaches far afield, even to our little office here in Zurich. I actually saw a guy (nobody that I knew) jumping off a train last weekend who was wearing an ESRI t-shirt.

I'm currently working on a pretty exciting ArcGIS Desktop/ArcSDE implementation for the swiss national civilian mapping agency. Don't expect too many ArcObjects postings in the near future : ( (perhaps you will be happy for this?) as we are still in the system analysis phase for the project. But later, we'll be doing a lot of cool stuff with ArcGIS 9.2 including customizing the new cartographic representations functionality.

In the past month I've learned a bit about ESRI's PLTS Data Reviewer which is more or less completely revamped for 9.2. This is a very promising product component for centralizing data quality reviewing. Something interesting to look forward to in the final 9.2 release (or shortly thereafter as the PLTS release cycle typically trails ArcGIS by a little bit).

Talk to you soon,

-Cory