BareTail - A free real-time log file monitoring tool

Easy way to monitor the ArcGIS server health.  I came across a new tool called "BareTail".

It is one of the good free tool to read the ArcGIS server logs....

http://www.baremetalsoft.com/baretail/

It is very easy to monitor the server logs using this tool..

Batch - Network analysis using Arcmap and NA extension

I faced a problem in performing batch process for 50k pairs of addresses (lat.long), to find the driving distance.   I have got a good input for this task,

http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/12128-add-origin-amp-destination-locations-from-the-same-row-to-a-route-analysis-layer?highlight=routename

The above forum link explains how to achieve bulk process in a single click.....

I tried with 50k address sets, ArcMap is able to do process without any issue.

Batch - find Driving distance.

I have explored one more Excel based Add-ins.

This tools helps to find Driving distance (also it provides a lot of other functionalities) based on the start and end addresses.  It consumes Microsoft MapPoint Services.

Just a few clicks we can do find driving distances for hundreds of addresses.

Note:  This requires installation of MapPoint, but there is no need of any configurations.  It is very simple to use. I highly recommend this tool for batch network analysis.

http://ezinearticles.com/?Driving-Distance-and-Time-Calculations-Using-Microsoft-Excel-and-MapPoint&id=1560314

Batch geocoder based on Excel inputs

I have used this tool today to do geocode in a single click.  This is an excellent tool.  It provides two different address locators, so we can fine tune the output.

It also provides the level of geocoding like address level, zip level, state level and "not found"..

I recommend this tool ........


http://www.juiceanalytics.com/writing/excel-geocoding-tool-v2/

Excel Geocoding Tool v2

By Chris Gemignani
April 18, 2006
Find more about: excel geocoding googleearth tools

I'm happy to announce a few small revisions to our Excel geocoding tool. The tool takes a list of addresses and will look up the latitude and longitude of those addresses. The addresses can then be exported as a Google Earth map.

A user pointed out that the tool wasn't looking up zip+4 codes properly in Yahoo and this problem is fixed along. Also, I'm sorry to report that Yahoo has lowered their limit of free geocodes to 5,000 per day from 50,000 per day.

Geocoding and TeleAtlas data

Recently, I created the Geocoding service for NA using ArcCatalog.  While doing validation with Google maps, I faced a lot of "bugs"/"issues", the output is not matching with the Google's output.

Cities are not matching for most of the cities in Canada.

Solution:
use L_Laxon as city for Canada and L_City for US

Google maps data discrepancy

Today, I have seen an interesting map discrepancy in the Google Maps when compared with Bing maps and MapQuest for a particular lat/long.


You could see the hwy 90 in different road segment in Google.

But Google is already informing about these.. by showing the "more info" option
"We currently do not support the location 34.71696, -114.48750"

So, please avoid search in those regions.

Note: I am facing some issue in uploading the images in blogspot.