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ArcGIS Online cached demographic maps updated

ArcGIS Content Team — Wed, 22 May 2013 18:30:58 +0000

The cached demographic maps have provided colorful, interesting maps about the population of the United States for several years from ArcGIS Online. They are often used as a stand-alone map to help people understand their local neighborhood, town or metro area, and just as often they are used as a backdrop to other subjects: floods, voting patterns, or other topics of interest.

Last week, the maps were updated with 2012 demographic estimates from Esri and selected Census 2010 data. The maps are updated with fresh cartography and improved popups to better support each map’s theme. For example, the Median Household Income map has a popup that gives details about how many households fall into various income groups. As in previous years, each map is multi-scale, giving more and more detail as the viewer explores their state, county, metro area and neighborhood.

Here are some other examples:

Households by Net Worth in California

Click this link to view a web map

Population Density in New York City

Click this link to view a web map

As noted in this previous blog, application developers will want to review the changes to the underlying map service fields. Most of the commonly-used field IDs are unchanged. Some services have additional or changed fields to better support popups and charts.

If you have questions, please post them in the ArcGIS Online forums.

World Topographic Map updated with content for the Middle East, North Africa, and the United States

ArcGIS Content Team — Mon, 20 May 2013 17:30:37 +0000

We recently deployed additional community contributions to the World Topographic Map (World_Topo_Map). These include the countries of Jordan and Saudi Arabia as well as several areas in the United States. Also, new coverage was added for parts of the Middle East and North Africa using commercial data from NAVTEQ.

Cairo, Egypt, at 1:9k

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, at 1:9k

Lexington, Massachusetts, at 1:2k

Here’s a list of all the community contributors for this release; click this link to view a presentation of their work. The presentation uses ArcGIS Explorer Online, so you can zoom and pan the images.

Jordan (1:288k to 1:1k)
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (1:288k to 1:1k)
Carson, California, United States (1:9k to 1:1k)
Commonwealth of Virginia, United States (1:577k to 1:1k)
Keller, Texas, United States (1:9k to 1:1k)
Lexington, Massachusetts, United States (1:9k to 1:1k)
Spokane, Washington, United States (1:9k to 1:1k)
Wahklakum County, Washington, United States (1:9k to 1:1k)
Yakima County, Washington, United States (1:9k to 1:1k)

Many of these contributions were made through the Community Maps Program. For more information visit the Community Maps Program Resource Center or view the live map of current and forthcoming contributors.

Spokane, Washington, at 1:9k

Virginia at 1:9k

The service was updated on the following servers: services.arcgisonline.com and server.arcgisonline.com. If you have previously used the World_Topo_Map, you may need to clear your cache in order to see the updates.

If you have questions, please post them in the ArcGIS Online forums.

ArcGIS Online World Street Map and canvas maps updated for the Middle East and North Africa

ArcGIS Content Team — Fri, 17 May 2013 22:00:42 +0000

The World Street Map was recently updated to include additional coverage for the Middle East and North Africa. The World Light Gray Base and World Light Gray Reference canvas maps were updated with similar coverage.
The updated countries include Bahrain, Egypt, Israel, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.

Streets in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, at 1:36k

Click this link to view a web map

Streets in Tel Aviv, Israel, at 1:4k

Click this link to view a web map

World Street Map coverage map

Additionally, the cache for DeLorme World Basemap was updated with more recent data.

The services were updated on the following servers: services.arcgisonline.com and server.arcgisonline.com. If you have previously used these services, and you don’t see anything new, try clearing your cache in order to see the updates.

If you have feedback or comments, please post them to our forum at http://forums.arcgis.com/forums/30-ArcGIS-Online.

Esri User Conference showcases Community Maps

Mark Stewart — Wed, 15 May 2013 18:35:57 +0000

With the Esri International User Conference just a little over one month away, the time is right to begin planning how you can get the most out of this once a year event. As usual, there will be some important and helpful Community Maps sessions and activities. The best place to start is the Agenda Search and Planner page where you can search by key words to find the sessions that interest you most. A search on the term Community Maps returns all of the sessions organized and hosted by the Esri Community Maps team as well as moderated paper sessions presented by users.

Preconference Seminar

The week begins with the Building the Basemap for the Community Maps Program preconference seminar on July 7th. This one day seminar is a perfect choice for organizations that are stewards of basemap content and are interested in contributing to the Esri Community Maps. We will go through all of the details of the basemap creation and publishing process and have a fun time doing it.

Technical Workshops

Technical workshops are always one of the most popular types of events at the UC and this year there are two important sessions dealing with Community Maps.

Getting to Know Esri Community Maps is a perfect choice for users from organizations that are not currently participating in the Community Maps Program, but are interested in joining. This 75-minute workshop is scheduled on both Tuesday and Wednesday of the conference, so if you miss the first offering you can always make the second.
Ocean Basemap – An Introduction will be of particular interest to anyone considering contributing bathymetric data to this resource, and those who just want to find out how the map service is produced and what they can do with it. This workshop is only offered once on Thursday, so if you have an interest in this unique basemap, make sure to save a spot on your agenda.

Demo Theater

In addition to the standard technical workshops, the Community Maps team is also presenting a series of 30-minute Demo Theater presentations at the ArcGIS Online Content Island in the Esri Showcase area. These quick demonstrations provide a great opportunity to see Community Maps in action and include:

Moderated Paper Session

Esri staff will not be the only ones conducting Community Maps presentations at the UC. This year we are also hosting a moderated paper session on Thursday titled Community Maps Contributors Share Their Best Practices. This is a great opportunity for both new and veteran Esri Community Maps contributors to find out how others have leveraged the program and learn from their experience.

Map Gallery and Software Application Fair

Of course attending presentations is just one way to participate at the UC. We encourage users who want to take a more active role to enter their maps and apps in the Map Gallery and User Software Application Fair. The Map Gallery even has a specific Community Maps category – Best Product Utilizing Community Maps. While the Application Fair does not have a separate category for Community Maps, it is a great opportunity for contributors and others to showcase their interesting and useful web applications that take advantage of the unique, authoritative and richly detailed content in the World Topographic Map. The Community Maps team will be reviewing the entries to both of these contests and selecting our own favorites for special recognition. Remember, both of these contest have deadlines for entering, so don’t delay:

Map Gallery submission deadline – May 31^st.
User Software Applications Fair submission deadline – June 21^st.

Community Maps Data Health Check

Data contributed to Community Maps is required to conform to the Local Government Information Model schema and meet certain quality criteria. This year at the UC, we’re introducing 45-minute “health checks” where a Community Maps team member can perform a diagnostic on your data to help you assess its overall readiness for contribution. Using the ArcGIS Data Reviewer extension, we will run various automated checks on your basemap data in file or personal geodatabase format. These checks will reveal whether your data is in the correct schema for contribution and if it has any issues that will slow publishing into the Community Maps online basemap services. We will also provide you recommendations for addressing any issues found. Just one 45-minute appointment can ensure that your data contribution is swiftly and smoothly published. Sign-up for an appointment by emailing datareviewer@esri.com with your name, organization, contact details, and preferred date/time slot.

ArcGIS Online Content Island

Finally, in addition to all of these presentations, you will want to block out some time on your UC agenda to visit the Community Maps booth. Whether you are just curious about the program or you are a current contributor, our team is looking forward to meeting you and discussing any questions you may have about Community Maps. So please stop by.

We look forward to seeing you at the UC!

Community Maps and educational campuses combine at the Esri Education GIS Conference

Mark Stewart — Wed, 15 May 2013 18:15:26 +0000

Some of the richest and most interesting content in the World Topographic Map is contributed by educational campuses across the world. So far almost two dozen higher education and K-12 organizations have created their campus basemaps using Esri templates and now have their campus basemap hosted for free on ArcGIS Online. If you are attending the Esri Education Conference you will have some unique opportunities to find out more about this growing program and see how your campus can benefit from being part of the Community Maps Program. Here are some examples of Community Maps related events at the Ed UC:

Get Your Campus on the Map! Introducing the Community Maps Program – This 75-minute technical workshop will go over all the details of how campus organizations can benefit from participating in the Community Maps Program.
GIS Solutions EXPO – The Community Maps team will be staffing a booth in the Ed UC showcase area for the Saturday (July 6^th) reception and all day Sunday (July 7^th). Don’t miss this opportunity to see demonstrations and get your questions about Community Maps answered.
Hands-on Learning Lab – For anyone wanting self-paced, applied instruction on Community Maps, there is a short tutorial offered in the Hands-on Learning Lab. This quick lesson will give you details on how to contribute your content to Esri Community Maps, and Esri staff will be available to answer questions. No registration is required!

We are looking forward to seeing you at the Esri Education Conference, and if you are staying for the Esri International User Conference, don’t forget to check out all of the Community Maps events there.

User Software Applications Fair

Shane Matthews — Tue, 14 May 2013 20:18:19 +0000

Attention Community Map Contributors! There will be a User Software Applicat ions Fair at this year’s Esri International User Conference. The submission deadline is June 21, 2013. In order to participate, you will need to register for the conference. The application categories are as follows:

Web-based Applications—GIS applications delivered via web browser
Mobile GIS Applications—GIS applications developed for mobile platforms such as Windows Phone, Android, iOS (iPad or iPhone), ArcGIS Mobile, or ArcPad
Desktop GIS Applications—ArcGIS Desktop or ArcEngine applications, including entries that are developed using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), ArcObjects SDK (Java, C++, .NET), or Python
Multimedia Maps (Former Virtual Map Gallery)—Animations, CD/DVD ROM, or other multimedia presentations displaying the results of GIS analysis

The Community Maps Team will be looking for applications that incorporate Community Maps use. Over the past few years, many of the contributors to Community Maps have been creating some pretty slick web applications! We are challenging our contributors to put their best app forward and submit an entry. Remember to reference my last Blog: Best Practices for Building and Sharing Community Web Maps and Apps for tips on what to include with your application submission.

We look forward to viewing your submission and we’ll see you at the conference!

Upcoming planned changes to the cached demographic maps

ArcGIS Content Team — Wed, 08 May 2013 23:45:08 +0000

The ArcGIS Online team is getting ready to update the cached demographic maps with 2012 data on or about May 16. There are some schema changes to consider with this release. Most maps have new fields to allow better popups in ArcGIS Online and any apps that reuse popups. Most maps also have one or more fields deleted. If you have an application that references the demographic maps, you may want to update your application once the services are released. Refer to Demographic Changes May 2013 for more details. For each map, a table with a list of field names removed and a table with a list of new field names is included. If you are accessing the Esri published web maps that reference these map services, they will be updated and no changes are required.

If you have questions, please post them in the ArcGIS Online forums.

World Topographic Map updated with community content for Hong Kong, Macau, and the United States

ArcGIS Content Team — Wed, 08 May 2013 00:00:38 +0000

We recently deployed additional community contributions to the World Topographic Map (World_Topo_Map). These include Hong Kong and Macau as well as several areas in the United States. Community contributions also were added to the World Imagery map (World Imagery release details).

Hong Kong

Westminster, Colorado

York, Maine

Here’s a list of all the community contributors for this release; click this link to view a presentation of their work, as well as community contributions for the latest release of the World Imagery map. The presentation uses ArcGIS Explorer Online, so you can zoom and pan the images.

Hong Kong (1:577k to 1:1k)
Macau (1:144k to 1:1k)
Douglas County, Nebraska, United States (1:9k to 1:1k)
Florence County, South Carolina, United States (1:9k to 1:1k)
Douglas County, Nebraska, United States (1:9k to 1:1k)
Town of York, Maine, United States (1:9k to 1:1k)
Westminster, Colorado, United States (1:9k to 1:1k)

If you have questions, please post them in the ArcGIS Online forums.

Additional DigitalGlobe and community imagery added to the World Imagery map

ArcGIS Content Team — Tue, 07 May 2013 22:15:01 +0000

Yesterday we added DigitalGlobe high-resolution imagery for a number of areas around the world to the World Imagery map.

In addition, the World Imagery map was updated with community content from 1:36k to 1:1k for Olesnica, Poland, and several areas in the United States.

New DigitalGlobe Imagery
The new imagery from DigitalGlobe includes the following areas:

50cm DigitalGlobe imagery for At Ta’if, Saudi Arabia

Click this link to view a web map

50cm DigitalGlobe imagery for Sucre, Bolivia

Click this link to view a web map

50cm DigitalGlobe imagery for Diyarbakir, Turkey

Click this link to view a web map

Coverage Map
Here is a map showing the new DigitalGlobe coverage.

Map of DigitalGlobe imagery update areas for May 2013

New Community Imagery Contributions

The community contributors for this release include:

Olesnica, Poland
Bellevue, Washington, United States
City of Wichita and Sedgwick County, Kansas, United States
Helena, Montana, United States
Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
New Hampshire (Northern Half), United States
Yakima, Washington, United States

View an ArcGIS Explorer Online presentation of this new community content, as well as community content for the latest update to the World Topographic Map (World Topographic Map release details).

These community contributions were made through the Community Maps Program. For more information visit the Community Maps Program website or view the live map of current and forthcoming contributors.

This is the third of several planned releases (details of previous release). Over the coming months we’ll be adding additional community content and more DigitalGlobe imagery in Europe and many other parts of the world.

Metadata: This service is metadata-enabled. With the Identify tool in ArcMap or the ArcGIS Online Content Viewer, you can see the resolution, collection date, and source of the imagery at the location you click. The metadata applies only to the best available imagery at that location. You may need to zoom in to view the best available imagery.

The service was updated on the following servers: services.arcgisonline.com and server.arcgisonline.com. If you have previously used the World Imagery map, you may need to clear your cache in order to see the updates.

If you have feedback on content, try our Imagery Map Feedback web map at http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=ebdfa4146680410bb952c7d532ea5407.

If you have other feedback or comments, please post them to the ArcGIS Online forum.

Tweet this! Update your apps that use Twitter

Bern Szukalski — Tue, 07 May 2013 15:50:52 +0000

ArcGIS Online’s Make a Web Application gallery includes three templates that leverage the Twitter API to add geolocated tweets to your maps. Twitter recently announced updates to their API, and now requires authentication on all Twitter endpoints. For more information on these updates see the Twitter API overview.

All of these templates have been updated, and accommodate the API changes by enabling you to sign in using your Twitter account.

The updated templates are Chrome – Twitter, Social Media, and Twitter Timeline currently found on gallery pages 1, 2, and 3 respectively. Shown below is the Chrome – Twitter app template found on page 1:

With the Twitter API changes, older versions of the apps will be unable to connect to display tweets. You should update your existing applications immediately using the new templates.