ESRI Canada Community Maps Program
- 2. ArcGIS
A Simple & Pervasive System for Using Maps & Geographic Information
Web Browser
Web Map, Flex,
Cloud/Web
Visualize
Silverlight, Sharepoint
Services
Explorer Online Compile
Analyze
Enterprise
Integrate Server
Mobile iPhone
Collaborate
Windows Mobile
Communicate
Local
Desktop
ArcView
ArcEditor
ArcInfo
- 3. What is ArcGIS.com?
• ArcGIS Online – Content
– Where you find, share, use, and organize maps
and other resources from ESRI and the user
community
– Built-in to your ArcGIS experience
• ArcGIS.com – Web Site
– A Web site where you can begin your online
GIS experience
– A new component of the ArcGIS System
- 4. ArcGIS Online Maps
Maps built by and for the ArcGIS Community
World Imagery Map
World Street Map World Topographic Map
ESRI Developer Summit 2008
- 5. ArcGIS Online Is a Cloud Based GIS
Supporting Online and on Premise Deployment
Applications
Providing GIS as SaaS . . .
. . . For Individuals, Departments, and the Enterprise
- 6. What can you do at ArcGIS.com?
Sign in to ArcGIS.com
Search
Make Maps
See what others
have done
- 10. Make Maps at ArcGIS.com
Create and open maps across applications
• Your choice of applications
– ArcGIS.com Viewer
– ArcGIS Explorer Online
JavaScript Viewer
iPhone
Explorer Online
- 11. Sign Up with your ESRI Global Account
• When you sign in to ArcGIS.com you can:
– Create and save maps
– Add maps and apps
– Create and join groups
My Groups
My Content
- 14. Canadian Community Maps Program
• Authoritative Data for Your Applications
• Consume in ArcGIS Desktop/Server/Online
• High Quality Maps
• Provide Feedback Moncton
Toronto
Kamloops Nanaimo
- 16. A New Community has Emerged
Working Together Towards a Common Goal
• Building a National Web Basemap
• A Foundation for a National GIS
- 18. Community Maps Program
Online Maps using Authoritative, Rich, Local Data Sources
• Community maps hosted by ESRI on
ArcGIS Online
• Freely available to ArcGIS users
World Topo Map World Imagery World Street Map
Canada Portugal Hong Kong
- 19. ESRI wants to …
• Curate Online Basemaps
• Work with authoritative data providers (our
users)
• Promote a community process that brings
together key data providers
• Publish our collective results as a
community map
• Provide iterative releases
• Work with you to update and maintain
basemaps
• Use ArcGIS Online as a platform to facilitate
this community initiative
- 20. Benefits of Participation
• Detailed Basemap for a Community is
Online
• High-quality cartography with your accurate
data
• High-performance and availability service
• No hosting costs or support required from
provider
- 21. Benefits of Participation
• Basemap is freely available to ArcGIS and
Web users
– Use in your ArcGIS maps and apps
– Use in your public facing Web apps
• Developer APIs freely available to build
Web Apps
– REST, JavaScript, Flex, Silverlight APIs
available
– Combine your map services with community
basemap
- 22. Benefits to Community Participation
• Citation of participant as data provider for
its local area
– Referenced in online documentation and related
marketing materials
– Promotes the valuable GIS work being
performed by participant organizations
- 24. Mashup Example
Basemap with Points of Interest as an operational layer
• The community map is the basis for many
more maps and applications.
- 26. Keeping the Community Map Up to
Date
Community Map Natural
Exchange Resources
Canada
2-Way (National)
Replication
2-Way
Replication
Province
Moncton Langley Toronto
- 27. Published
– NRCan CanVec – St. Paul, AB
– Toronto, ON – Brandon, MB
– Kamloops, BC – Vancouver, BC
– Nanaimo, BC – District of North
– Moncton, BC Vancouver, BC
– Twp. of Langley, BC – Saskatoon, SK
– St. John’s, NF – Surrey, BC
– St. Albert, AB – Oak Bay, BC
– Banff, AB – Fredericton, NB
– Regina, SK – Kingston, ON
- 28. Processing
– Gatineau, PQ
– Hay River, NWT
– Wood Buffalo, AB
– Brampton, ON
– Cowichan Valley, BC
– Fort St. John, BC
– Morinville, AB
– Prince George, BC
– Thompson-Nicola Regional, BC
- 29. Expression of Interest
• Olds College • Sudbury
• Saanich • York Region
• Victoriaville • Grey County
• NWT • Brantford
• Region of Peel • Halifax Regional
• University of Ottawa Municipality
• Woodstock • Service Nova Scotia
• Hamilton • Miramichi
• London • Kenora
• Oxford County • Ville de Rimouski
• Ville de Lévis
• Village of Burns Lake
• Town of Beaumont
- 30. How do organizations participate?
1) Contact ESRI Community Maps Program
Manager at:
communitymaps@esricanada.com
2) Program Manager will introduce and
describe program details
3) Execute appropriate agreements
• Open Data policy or Participation Agreement
4) ESRI Canada builds the map
5) Review map with participant
6) ESRI Canada will publish map on
www.arcgis.com
- 31. To find out more please visit:
http://www.esricanada.com/communitymaps/