1. Online Sharing at 10.1 Society for Conservation GIS 2011 Conference
Charles Convis, Esri Conservation Program
Matthew Baker, Esri Development

2. In this presentation… What GIS folks do now
What the GIS cloud is now and what’s coming
Universal Search
Universal GIS & “intelligent maps”
Universal Access
How to use it now
How to get it free
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3. What GIS Folks do now… -data collection -compilation -data management
-spatial analysis
-maps and reports
…GIS professionals work via tasks and workflows
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4. What we use the cloud for now for publishing
Specialized Sharing Sites
& Online Applications
Share
Users & Groups
Search, within a site
What is on the cloud now?
mainly a place to share maps and a few specialized apps
some new custom sites for sharing data like Data Basin
some new custom web applications like Landscope and Fieldscope
based on server but with no interoperability
Author
. . . Sharing With Others, one site at a time
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5. Publishing Data Online…
ArcGIS.com and Data Basin have made it easier to publish data but they are incomplete
Publishing is the easier half of the data sharing problem, “supply side”: I have data and I want to share it.
The much harder half is the demand side:
I need data, where can I find it?
2. Demand Side: I need data, still bad, have to search on specific sites one by one,
no universal search like you could with Geoportal.
Where there is data it's often NOT in an easily useable form.
i.e. a properly documented shapefile or geodatabase, much less a live service.
Typical issues are:
1. Tabular or text format, not a standard spatial format.
2. Not enough information about attributes or classification or projection to use it.
3. Only accessible or useable while on that specific site
4. Inacessible from Desktop applications
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6. I need your data, will you share it? …
Data Sharing Primer
of the National Geospatial Advisory Committee:
- Make it easy to participate.
Identify standards to access, share and integrate data (=metadata)
Data sharing fails when one entity wants your data, with no consideration for your needs
- Recognize the power of courtesy, professionalism, understanding
The problem is trust, many people have data and don't want to give it out because they'll lose control of it. They fear other NGO's might use it to compete with them, or businesses will use it to sell something.
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7. A bigger problem is finding data…
All search now is site-specific.
Conservation Geoportal was the only search engine that cataloged across all sites
It worked because it was based on metadata and professional catalog/library approaches. Participants shared descriptions and weren’t required to give away raw data.
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8. Road ahead for Data Sharing…
Universal Search
Esri’s open-source geoportal technology will join with ArcGIS portal technology at 10.1, enabling universal cross-site metadata cataloging combined with access to data & services across all sites.
Geoportal already catalogs 300,000 data sets
Conservation Geoportal will be restored at ArcGIS.com as an Esri-hosted service
Geoportal Server supports standards-based clearinghouse and metadata discovery applications
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9. How we use the cloud now for GIS
Data is shared as downloadable packages
Share data files
Users & Groups:
download data
some custom apps
Edit, only within a site
What is on the cloud now?
Session-specific editing on Data Basin
Map Notes editing at ArcGIS.com
Mobile access is building at ArcGIS.com, not at most other sites.
based on server but with no easy way to create standard services
Mobile Access, usually not
Author
. . . Sharing downloaded data with other GIS users
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10. What’s coming for cloud GIS
Esri is releasing a major new version of ArcGIS Online soon, transforming it into a complete cloud-based system for collecting, managing, publishing, serving, and mapping geospatial data.
Ability to automatically create hosted services (map tile and feature services).
Support for OGC web services.
Support for open data formats (e.g., shapefiles, GPX data, CSV tables, and KML).
Online services to process large image datasets (any format).
Easy creation of maps with symbology and other design elements.
Ability to do online geocoding, routing, and geometric operations.
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11. Intelligent Web Maps… Society for Conservation GIS 2011 Conference
Intelligent web maps are the new medium for delivering content and functionality to applications. They are composed of services that bring in basemaps and operational data as well as functionality such as pop-ups, editing, analysis, and custom workflows.
Intelligent web maps represent an evolutionary step in the dissemination and accessibility of geographic knowledge and will facilitate many new forms of collaboration. We see this capability as a key building block for making geographic information pervasive and widely available to everyone.
The benefit of an intelligent map is that it can be used in many different desktop, web, and mobile applications that take advantage of the functionality authored within it. For example, if a map is authored with editing, applications will support data collection. Intelligent maps can be configured with specific functionality without having to develop a custom solution.
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12. Data Ownership is protected…
Universal hosted GIS services at 10.1 Arcgis.com, all GIS data structures uploaded as map packages will auto-publish, into always-on universal map services, under your complete access control, (via groups)
When users share their data in ArcGIS Online, they retain ownership of their data and proprietary information. They can choose to share it with whomever they wish—other users in their organization, or the open web.
Users can choose to publish data as an image service, where all raw data is private and map users only see images of the dataset, but these are images that in most well-designed viewer applications will be indistinguishable from the raw data.
It is important to underscore that Esri’s current attention to the cloud does not forego interest and investment in on-premises desktops, servers and mobile applications.
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13. Portal for ArcGIS… Society for Conservation GIS 2011 Conference
Portal for ArcGIS provides you with the same collaboration and sharing tools as ArcGIS Online but in your secure environment. It becomes the central repository for your authoritative content that users inside your organization can access to
Quickly create maps and apps using templates and web mapping APIs
Form groups to collaborate on projects or common activities
Share maps and apps with private groups or the entire organization
Embed maps and apps in custom web pages or blogs
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14. ArcGIS Portal at your site
Your web users
Your system
Your Spatial Data
Existing ArcGIS Server(s)
Optional Data Appliance
Web Site
Web APIs
Web Applications
Administration Tools
Default Identity Store
Sharing Services
ArcGIS Portal
Your Network
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15. Professional GIS vs consumer mapping…
We make a fundamental distinction between simple web mapping supported by the consumer mapping systems and a full GIS platform such as ArcGIS. ArcGIS has far more capabilities for supporting the full GIS workflow including geospatial data compilation, management, spatial analysis, and mapping. Soon, Esri will release a whole new class of capabilities in ArcGIS Online that dramatically simplify discovery, access, and use of geographic information. This will provide the same easy-to-use mapping capabilities as those available on the popular consumer mapping sites. In addition, this platform will support the ability to maintain your complete GIS data in the cloud with capabilities to do web editing, spatial analysis, and a host of application developments. Users will be able to easily create and share maps, datasets, and models. They can automatically turn their GIS content into services and make it available within any device—smartphones, web browsers, and desktop environments. This is a major step forward for Esri as it provides simple, consumer-oriented mapping and mashup capabilities along with the rich content and full integration with distributed ArcGIS enterprise systems.
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16. What is a “Full GIS” on the web?…
Science and understanding. GIS is a tool of science and, as such, is evolving along with our understanding of geography and all that it describes. GIS allows users to bring together, overlay, model, and visualize phenomena, and create better understanding of situations.
Improved decision making. The ability to visualize and analyze geographic information has improved the way individuals and organizations make their decisions. GIS has the ability to integrate and analyze multiple factors for a given geographic area and easily communicate this information back to individuals and teams.
Creating efficiency. Organizations can save money and time and eliminate redundancy.
Managing complex planning. Geographic planning of all sorts involves the ability to bring together large volumes of geographic information and integrate it, analyze it, and use it systematically for creative design.
Communication. Maps have always been a form of universal language.
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17. UNIVERSAL ACCESS … Society for Conservation GIS 2011 Conference 17
Currently, Esri offers five mobile technologies: ArcGIS for Windows Mobile, ArcPad, ArcGIS for iOS, ArcGIS for Windows Phone and ArcGIS Desktop.
Offline Use Support
Later this year our iOS and Android smartphone platforms will support tile packages. These packages will allow users to cache their basemaps and use them out in the field when they are offline. In Q we will support off-line usage of both tiled and feature data. Users will be able to take their data into the field in areas with little or no connectivity and use it for projects such as data collection and editing. Once connected again, these changes can be synchronized with the server.
Currently some devices already support offline editing thru “Making a local copy of a service”
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18. Demonstration of Cloud publishing
Author on desktop to lpk/mpk
publish to cloud 1-click
Explore open REST service
create & share web map
create a template
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19. Demonstration of Cloud Collaboration
Search for map
Add map notes for “park planning” or “citizen requests”
save revised map
FULL COLLABORATION DEMO
open in mobile from 3 devices
add data from field and check/edit from desktop
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20. Esri is an open source organization…
Esri’s tools and development environments have always been open, we share code and teach classes in it and have 2,000 business partners who develop custom applications based on our environment.
ArcGIS provides open APIs and SDKs: REST, SOAP, JavaScript, Silverlight, Flex, iPhone, Android, HTML5, JSON
ArcGIS supports open standards: OGC, GWG, ISO TC211, INCITS L1, DGIWG, OASIS, W3C,OWF, Apache, OWF, FGDC, INSPIRE and many other national GIS standards
ArcGIS uses and supports open source In software development via Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL), In communities such as via Resource Center support, 52North Open Source, and FOSS4G, In products such as Esri Geoportal Server and ArcGIS Editor for OpenStreetMap
Support for metadata in ArcGIS: ISO TC211, new tagging approach
Esri openly published ArcGIS GeoServices REST API through the Open Web Foundation (OWF) and are working with OGC membership to make GeoServices REST API an OGC standard.
Esri Geoportal Server is a free open source catalog used internationally SourceForge (esriurl.com/geoportalserver) .
ArcGIS Editor for OpenStreetMap is open source (docs, app & source code are available on CodePlex (esriurl.com/OSMEditor), released under the Microsoft Public License. )
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21. The ESRI Conservation Program…
It is most accurate to describe ArcGIS as a publically available GIS development environment supporting many open standards and open source tools
-It also happens to include many complete applications built from that same environment. These are professional tools and thus are very expensive.
-It is also developing an online GIS development environment with many paid and subscription pricing models.
-The ESRI Conservation Program provides ArcGIS and its applications free to non-profits.
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22. Questions? Esri Conservation Program: www.conservationgis.org
Charles Convis:
We encourage you to fill out your surveys to let us know if you found this presentation helpful, and what we might be able to do better in the future to help you.
We thank you very much for your time and attention, and now, we’re happy to take any questions you may have.
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23. Data Publishing Workshop…
A chance to put your spatial data onto the cloud for collaborative sharing
Will need to be registered (free) on Arcgis.com and a member (free) of the Esri Conservation Program group.
In this presentation, we’ll start with some background information to explain what we mean by “Web maps”.
Then we’ll take a look at how they are created using ArcGIS.
We’ll also talk a little about the design of the applications used to present the maps on the Web.
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24. Questions? Esri Conservation Program: www.conservationgis.org
We encourage you to fill out your surveys to let us know if you found this presentation helpful, and what we might be able to do better in the future to help you.
We thank you very much for your time and attention, and now, we’re happy to take any questions you may have.
Esri Conservation Program:
Charles Convis: