online sharing at 10.1

Online Sharing at 10.1

Charles Convis, Esri Conservation Program

Matthew Baker, Esri Development

Society for Conservation GIS 2011 Conference

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



What GIS Folks do now…

-data collection -compilation-data management-spatial analysis-maps and reports

…GIS professionals work via tasks and workflows

What we use the cloud for now for publishing

. . . . Sharing With Others, one site at a time

Share Users & Groups

Search, within a site

Author

Specialized Sharing Sites& Online Applications



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?


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.


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.


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

How we use the cloud now for GIS

. . . . Sharing downloaded data with other GIS users

Share data files Users & Groups:download data

some custom apps

Edit, only within a site

Author

Data is shared as downloadable packages


Mobile Access, usually not


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.


Intelligent Web Maps…

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.


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.


Portal for ArcGIS…

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

ArcGIS Portal at your site

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Your web users


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.


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.


UNIVERSAL ACCESS …

• 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 Q1 2012 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”


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


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


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. )


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.


Questions?

Esri Conservation Program:

www.conservationgis.org

Charles Convis: [email protected]


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.


Questions?

Esri Conservation Program:

www.conservationgis.org

Charles Convis: [email protected]

online sharing at 10.1

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