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The first session of the ESRI User Conference reviews the technology vision, including a look at current and future releases and the conference theme. Our editors review some key points and themes and share their responses.
13. juli 2009
Podcast: Examining the 2009 #ESRIUC Plenary
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The first session of the ESRI User Conference reviews the technology vision, including a look at current and future releases and the conference theme. Our editors review some key points and themes and share their responses.
Top Nine Innovations with ArcGIS 9.4 Desktop
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John Calkins outlined the Top Nine innovations with ArcGIS 9.4 desktop on the main stage at the user conference. Only nine this year, as Calkins indicated that he wanted to save some items for his colleagues.
9. New user interface with dockable windows that you can hide, with more real estate on your screen, along with a new catalog window embedded in ArcMap that lets you easily add new data layers, including a review of metadata and descriptions.
8. Attribute tables let’s you look at selected records, and allows you to arrange the tables any way that you like.
7. New search capability that let’s you locate the data that you’re interested in, with the capability to add multiple keywords or the search for geoprocessing tools or keywords. Access to both data and analytical tools
6. Reporting capability let’s use select the fields that you want, grouping the data, sorting, with new templates that allow you to customize report layout, and save a design for use with other data.
5. New improvements with Model Builder – shows the input, output and parameters for each tool, without having to open each tool. There’s also an undo and redo function, and a new background processing function that allows you to continue your work as the process continues in the background.
4. New layers tab is a smart legend that highlights the items on the map as you click them, and hides the layers that no longer appear on the map.
3. Ability to change symbols via a search, rather than browsing all the individual symbols in a long list of more than 20,000 symbols that are included in the software.
2. Easier to create temporal maps with GIS. Complex expressions across multiple fields. Example is a fire history map, with a time layer that allows you to set the date and time for the display. ArcGIS 9.4 is becoming time aware.
1. Fast base maps with the ability to group a set of attributes to create a new basemap layer. The new basemap layer provides a continuous redraw rather than the traditional white space as you pan the map view.
Source: Vector 1 media
Read more: http://vector1media.com/spatialsustain/top-nine-innovations-with-arcgis-9-4-desktop.html
ArcGIS Explorer at the ESRI User Conference Plenary - Part 1 + 2
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At this morning's opening plenary at the ESRI 2009 User Conference, Jack Dangermond introduced ArcGIS Explorer as technology that would be "tranformational." Bernie Szukalski provided a demonstration, highlighting some of the new features and capabilities coming up in the next release.
The first thing users will notice is the new ribbon; it's well designed, intuitive, and makes ArcGIS Explorer very easy to use. As Bernie noted in his opening statements, ArcGIS Explorer is a great way to provide broader access to your GIS data and reach new users.
He showcased the new Bing Maps, including Bing Aerials and Bing Roads that are part of Explorer's new basemaps gallery. Here's the Bing roads.
And here's the basemap gallery, showing the thumbnails to click to open Bing roads, aerials, and hybrid along with other ArcGIS Online basemaps.
Bernie explained that the basemap gallery could be extended, and chose a world population basemap that he added to the gallery. Zooming out he introduced the new integrated 2d/3d display, and showed the world population in a Web Mercator projection, explaining that Explorer supports all of the ArcGIS projections and transformations. Here's an example showing the Goode Homosoline projection.
Modes can be toggled on-the-fly, and switching to 3D mode everyone could see that the basemap data was authored in 3D, and that country polygons were extruded based on their population value.
Bernie then explained that one of the unique and defining characteristics of ArcGIS Explorer was that it worked with all users' GIS data directly, with no conversion needed. With the next release ArcGIS layer files and layer packages are supported, bringing ArcGIS Desktop's cartography to ArcGIS Explorer.
Szukalski further explained that layer packages encapsulate the cartography and data in one easy to share file. and that all that Explorer users had to do was turn on the file to see all the ArcGIS Desktop-authored cartography. Here we see several layer packages that were authored using ArcGIS Desktop, including the shared results of a GIS analysis that show high slope areas in close proximity to major roads.
Next, he explained that ArcGIS Explorer could be easily customized, without programming (this uses the new application configurations). And that ArcGIS Explorer also had a powerful SDK which let developers extend Explorer's capabilities with add-ins. He showed a new tab with several add-ins, many found in the new ArcGIS Explorer Labs group shared on ArcGIS Online.
He then used the Profile add-in to drag a line across the surface, explaining that the line was being sent to a remote ArcGIS Server geoprocessing service, which performed the analysis, and returned the result shown below.
For the next segment of the ESRI User Conference plenary demonstration, Bernie Szukalski focused on the new ArcGIS Explorer presentation capabilities. These allow users to leverage all of the capabilities of Explorer to create dynamic geographic presentations.
First he showed what looked like a PowerPoint slide, and said that he had created it using PowerPoint and had added it to Explorer (as a display overlay). To advance to the next slide, just click the arrow in the top left or press the keyboard space bar.
Szukalski showed an example of using Explorer for a presentation at a city planning meeting. As he advanced his "slides" he zoomed in to the city and displayed several layers. He explained that this might look like a regular PowerPoint presentation, but then took control of Explorer and zoomed around, tilted the view, and clicked several features to show how he was using "live" Explorer. He clicked on a lot polygon to show that attributes could be viewed, and also clicked on a camera icon to show he was also connected to live traffic cameras.
Moving into another presentation, he showcased Yellowstone National Park. Zooming into the park he explained that he was using layer packages (to take advantage of ArcGIS Desktop cartography), and showed precipitation data draped on top of the topographic basemap (from the basemap gallery) along with a legend. Note also the title added using Explorer's presentation tools.
Advancing to the Upper Geyser Basin, he showed the support for KML and KMZ files by showing a 3D Sketchup model of the Old Faithful Inn, and also a live link to the Yellowstone National Park Old Faithful Geyser cam. At any time during the presentation a user can take control of Explorer to navigate, or click on features to show additional information.
Finally, he moved into a presentation that was targeted at highlighting Explorer's use for educators. He leveraged some of the available content for kids and educators found on the Yellowstone National Park Web site, and showed flash animations and other overlays in his presentation. Below is a flash animation that shows how the Yellowstone hot spot may have formed (from the educational resources on the Yellowstone site) and a display overlay of the Junior Ranger program badges.
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esri launches mapit using bing maps in a microsoft geostack
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ESRI made a huge push into enterprise mapping today with the launch of its MapIt product...this just got interesting! Ok, so what is MapIt? Well, it turns out it’s a lot of things, but in a nut shell “ESRI MapIt™ is a lightweight Web mapping gateway to SQL Server 2008. Much of your data may have a locational component that allows it to be displayed on a map. MapIt enables your data for use in interactive mapping applications that you can build with Microsoft Silverlight, Windows Presentation Framework (WPF), and SharePoint. MapIt allows your users to easily explore the geographic component of your organization's data. Your mapped data can create a powerful visual tool for decision making, exposing trends that might otherwise remain hidden.”
ESRI MapIt is a light-weight mapping solution designed to prepare, serve and use geographic data stored in SQL Server 2008 and displayed through SharePoint, Silverlight, or WPF. The product includes:
Ok, so basically this will be an easy way for me to get my data into and out of SQL Server 2008. Nice. The Spatial Data Assistant will help me load my data into SQL while the REST service will help me get it out. There are several native interfaces for visualizing my data on Bing Maps such as Silverlight, WPF or a SharePoint web part.
So, what’s the big deal? Well, think about how challenging it is to visual your geodata today. Yes, Bing Maps has a very robust set of APIs for visualizing data and you can certainly (and I certainly want you) use those; however, what about data in SQL Server 2008 - we don’t have a native connection to SQL? So, where MapIt fits in is when you want to easily bring your geodata into a database system such as SQL 2008 and using a simple REST interface publish that data out to several different medias.
You can download a free 60-day evaluation of MapIt from the ESRI web site. Also, I uploaded an electronic version of the MapIt brochure to my Skydrive for you to peruse at your leisure.
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ESRI Live Blogging of Plenary
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Live blogging – all times PST and I’ll try to get pictures up as quick as possible.
8:39 – Meet the people around you. I met a nice guy from the ESRI surfaces office out of Denver named Jonathan. He’s involed in the aerospace group out of that office
8:40 – Jack’s running down the wealth of work that everyone out in the field actually do. No shock – nearly every field is touched by GIS.
8:42 – SAG Award winners stand up. I always like to look for those badges and give them the two finger “howdy” salute bikers give each other on the highway. Not sure anyone else gets that. But it amuses me.
8:43 – Centpoint energy gets a SAG award. Short video showing what they do. No surprise energy is winner, as they’re a huge GIS user. They’re heavily in the enterprise stuff. Right now, they’re demoing how storm and hurricane predictions help they figure out where to put their repair resources. It’s pretty cool. Thousands of crews together ready to deploy. Cindy is accepting the award for the company. Jack is saying that in several hurricans, Cindy mobilized all their people to restore power in days.
8:47 – Making a difference award. Being given to an Indian scientist Dr. Kasturirangan, who is the godfather of the India remote sensing space organization. He has apparently run for office in the Indian government, and is now going to run the national planning in that country.
8:50 – President’s Award. Jack’s favorite (no surprise there). This year goes to the state of Maryland, one of ESRI’s first customers. They’ve been doing some interesting things with server. I know West Virginia has adopted some of the technology and techniques they’ve developed. Jack says this is largely to result of the vision of the Governor O’Malley. The Governor is saying that GIS isn’t just a tool or a techniques, it allows connections to be made between groups and ideas. Side note – the green tie is kinda cool. Not many politicians rock the bright green tie, so kudos. He’s bringing up some of their government people actually doing the work. He’s asking why every citizen’s first question is always – “Can you show me my house?” Good question. Then half of them will freak out because you CAN show them your house. Just my own experience, not the good Governor’s. He’s detailing how they’re using “smart maps”. Oddly enough, probably the most popular is using them to reduce wait times at the DMV. Is there any government agency more hated than the DMV? Green print sounds cool. It shows the environment of anyone who wants to put in their address and how it can be protected. Now he’s talking about the recovery act. Maryland has developed a really cool site to track how and where that money from the federal government is being spent. West Virginia has adopted the same system. It’s built on ArcServer and the Flex API (which is pretty fun in my experience).
8:50 – President’s Award. Jack’s favorite (no surprise there). This year goes to the state of Maryland, one of ESRI’s first customers. They’ve been doing some interesting things with server. I know West Virginia has adopted some of the technology and techniques they’ve developed. Jack says this is largely to result of the vision of the Governor O’Malley. The Governor is saying that GIS isn’t just a tool or a techniques, it allows connections to be made between groups and ideas. Side note – the green tie is kinda cool. Not many politicians rock the bright green tie, so kudos. He’s bringing up some of their government people actually doing the work. He’s asking why every citizen’s first question is always – “Can you show me my house?” Good question. Then half of them will freak out because you CAN show them your house. Just my own experience, not the good Governor’s. He’s detailing how they’re using “smart maps”. Oddly enough, probably the most popular is using them to reduce wait times at the DMV. Is there any government agency more hated than the DMV? Green print sounds cool. It shows the environment of anyone who wants to put in their address and how it can be protected. Now he’s talking about the recovery act. Maryland has developed a really cool site to track how and where that money from the federal government is being spent. West Virginia has adopted the same system. It’s built on ArcServer and the Flex API (which is pretty fun in my experience).
9:04 – Governor still talking. Intertubes got a small hiccup. Hope I can upload the live blog. Oh no Mr. Bill! Whole presentation just went down. Lovely blue screens abound. Ok, they got it back. That got a round of applause. Is there any more stressful thing for an IT person than a live blow up?
9:08 – Back to the governor’s “can you show me my house?” question. The posits that it might be that people know the government knows about them. Or it might be about the desire to know you belong to a greater connection of the outside world. I think there’s some truth to that, but mostly I think it’s because that’s the geography they know best. We just like to see what we know, because most people don’t understand what they’re seeing with GIS right off the bat. Just my two
9:10 – Jack is back on. He’s saying that Jack and the Governor have down three demos of technology together, and every time the demo has blown up. So don’t buy any lottery tickets with the governor of Maryland and Jack standing in line behind you! Video of people talking is still broken. I bet there are some guys up front freaking out right now.
9:12 – Video’s back. Internet’s not. Now onto ESRI’s “Designing our Future” idea. Jack says they fall into 3 main areas, software, systems, and geography. Everyone is a designer. GIS does design naturally, according to Jack. Thus Jack calls this GeoDesign. He talking about the impact of human existence on the planet. Our landscape is suffering due to the unchecked, unguided and uncoordinated human activities. Ut oh! His slides went out. He’s gotta turn around to the screen. Gets a good laugh. [...]
Read more: http://veryspatial.com/2009/07/13/esri-live-blogging-of-plenary/
10 Tips for Those Not Attending the ESRI User Conference
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1. Watch the plenary session online.
2. Follow the Twitter action
- Search for the #ESRIUC tag
- Follow those on this Twitter List from GISUser.com
3. Browse Flickr for User Conference pictures
4. Listen to the VerySpatial live podcast from the User Conference and follow up podcasts from throughout the week.
5. Follow the ESRI Insider Blog
6. Follow all of the geospatial/gis blogs at the GIS Forum Community Mashup
7. Read through the official ESRI International User Conference Agenda Digital Magazine (PDF)
- Find Special Interest Groups
- Follow up with presenters for topics of interest
- Find out what you are really missing
8. Watch videos on youtube – esritv
9. Visit the ESRI Resource Centers
10. Mark your calendar for next year’s conference
Source: GIS Pathway
Read more: http://gispathway.com/2009/07/09/10-tips-for-those-not-attending-the-esri-user-conference/
Microsoft and ESRI Launch Fusion Core Solution
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"Agencies need the ability to efficiently collect, manage and disseminate vital intelligence from multiple sources to counter future threats and criminal activities," said Joe Rozek, Executive Director of Homeland Security and Counterterrorism for Microsoft's U.S. Public Sector business. "This technical architecture helps organizations at all levels collaborate, so the right people have the right information at the right place and time."
"Fusion Core Solution fully integrates GIS into public safety and homeland security workflows," said Paul Christin, homeland security specialist, ESRI. "This opens up the benefits of GIS throughout the organization. People can better collaborate and share knowledge for improved threat identification and vulnerability assessments."
The Fusion Core Solution capabilities include: Managed Intake -- Preloaded and fully customizable forms for processing, assigning, and satisfying many different types of intelligence and information service requests. Enterprise Search--Provides tools to search across multiple data sources including file shares, Web sites, and databases. Robust Geodatabases--The ability to easily capture, maintain, and disseminate spatial data using the ArcGIS geodatabase. Integrated Analytics -- Powerful search and preconfigured geospatial analysis capabilities that are extendable to integrate new or existing applications. Analyst Collaboration--Integrated capabilities to enable analyst and customer collaboration using Web sites, wikis, and blogs. Robust Security -- Can be integrated with existing authentication and auditing systems or can provide these capabilities out of the box. Tools for Managing Operations--Powerful management reporting capabilities for managing analyst staffing and monitoring center activities.
Fusion Core Solution combines the robust capabilities of ESRI's ArcGIS Server Advanced Enterprise and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. The solution can be implemented by both users of SharePoint and ArcGIS Server as well as new users. Current users of SharePoint and ArcGIS Server will be able to download the Fusion Core Solution Custom Code and build the solution with internal staff or choose to work with a system integrator.
Public sector organizations that used initial components of Fusion Core Solution include the Massachusetts Commonwealth Fusion Center. The agency relies on the combination of SharePoint and ArcGIS for content management, spatial analytics, and information sharing functions that are vital to its law enforcement and counterterrorism mission. For more information about Fusion Core Solution, visitwww.microsoft.com/fusion or e-mail fusion@microsoft.com. [...]
Read more: http://www.emediawire.com/releases/gis/homelandsecurity/prweb2601554.htm
Follow the ESRI team on Twitter during the #ESRIUC
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If you want to follow some of the crew while they are in San Diego at the ESRIUC here’s a number of ESRI people to consider following.
- @ESRIUC
- @GIS_Day
- @JimBarry
- @gis4kids
- @LindaHecht
- @DianaDittemore
- @gisjourno
- @lovegeography
- @alylawson
- @Jen_McCarthy
- @esrieduc
- @ESRI
- @josephkerski
- @fitzpatrickc
- @contactcap
- @karenhurlbut
- @NatGeoSociety
- @KCroutes
- @PWRNav
- @chatrox
- @karenjaffarian
- @ESRIcareers
- @mudmo
- @GIS_Day
- @jdoneill
- @ngerren
- @esriuk
- @sstephensesri
- @jeffshaner
- @FFAubry
- @bernszukalski
- @alylawson
- @mikehogan
- @martenhogeweg
Source: GISUser.com
Read more: http://www.gisuser.com/content/view/18050/
12. juli 2009
How to create a thematic map in Excel
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How do you create a map like the one above for your next presentation if you don’t have a mapping tool? Simple, create it in Excel. Easier said than done, right? Well, not really…
Following the “geo-scatterplot”, in this screencast tutorial I’ll show you how to create a thematic map and color-code it, based on your own data. You don’t need add-ins or additional software, just a little time to set it up. Please note that this is not intended to replace even the simplest mapping tool.
To start the tutorial just click the link below:
Screencast: How to create a thematic map in Excel.
Note that you need a map. You can draw it yourself or you can import it. Drawing a States map is simple:
- Import an image to the Excel file (you can use this one, for example);
- Draw the shapes using the map as a reference.
The other option is to obtain a file. You can get an ESRI Shape file from the National Atlas but you’ll have to convert it to Windows Metafile (WMF) or similar format. [...]
Read more: http://charts.jorgecamoes.com/how-to-create-thematic-map-excel/
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