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This week our new ESRI analyst, Daniel Elroi, evaluates coming changes in ESRI's product offerings in The Future of ESRI Software at <A href="http://www.directionsmag.com/features.asp?FeatureID=18">http://www.directionsmag.com/features.asp?FeatureID=18</A>.<P>

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Our Development area has been active. Two utilities are available (for Great Circle distance calculation and lat/long conversion routines) at <A href="http://www.directionsmag.com/devel/devel_utilities.asp">http://www.directionsmag.com/devel/devel_utilities.asp</A>. And our project to make Blue Marble's GeoObjects into an internet map server progresses at <A href="http://www.directionsmag.com/devel/goims.asp?EntryID=2">http://www.directionsmag.com/devel/goims.asp?EntryID=2</A>.<P>

Be sure to check out Letters to the Editor pages regularly, at <A href="http://www.directionsmag.com/letters.asp">http://www.directionsmag.com/letters.asp</A>. There are two new ones this week, one of which raises interesting points about the Directions Wish List: <A href="http://www.directionsmag.com/letters.asp?LetterID=18">http://www.directionsmag.com/letters.asp?LetterID=18</A>.<P>

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