Electric & Gas Community
Have you ever wanted to add live weather, recent earthquakes, or perhaps current fire locations to your applications without writing any code? Many of the projects we address in Esri Technical Marketing have this very requirement.
We tackled this challenge by using what we call the Aggregated Live Feed methodology. This process downloads data from live sources such as NOAA and the USGS and aggregates it into a geodatabase, which is then served through ArcGIS Server as map services. You can see some of these feeds in action by visiting any of the ‘latest incident maps’ on the Esri Disaster Response site.
Recently we’ve developed a much simpler approach called ALF-Lite that doesn’t require specialized knowledge of the enterprise geodatabase or third-party components. This methodology can be deployed to any large or small environment that supports Esri’s ArcPy site package.
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We’ve heard lots of feedback over the last few days from users who want to find the old “Insert your favorite” blog. Unfortunately the redirects we had in place when we deployed the new ArcGIS Blog pointed to its home page instead of these specific locations, leading to many unhappy readers. We have most of these redirects in place now & will have the rest completed today. If you’d rather not wait, here’s a table matching the old individual blogs to their corresponding URLs and RSS feeds in the new unified blog.
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By Aileen Buckley, Mapping Center Lead
ArcGIS 10.0 Service Pack 4 (SP4) for English, is now available to our users for download via the ArcGIS Resource Center. This Service Pack contains performance improvements and maintenance fixes. Here are links to the downloads:
Release Note: ArcGIS 10.0 Service Pack 4 for the other five languages (French, German, Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Spanish) will be released in the next two weeks. A follow up blog entry will be posted to announce the availability once they are ready.
Some really good improvements are coming soon to the Resource Center. Checkout this sneak peak of the updates that will be released in conjunction with ArcGIS 10.1.
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I created an application to demonstrate how easily a Flex programmer could customize and extend the ArcGIS Viewer for Flex. We can leave the artsy design up to a graphic designer to create Flex skins. After integrating the design into the viewer, we can then concentrate the majority of our effort on tools and workflows that are critical to our business.
“Go Electric” is an enterprise application that allows Go Electric management to view their current electric car charging stations, and evaluate the market potential for new charging station locations. Go Electric is a fictitious company used to model a realistic scenario.
From the image above, you’ll notice that this Go Electric example includes some intriguing customizations:
Electric utilities recognize the importance of data quality because good data provides them with the ability to efficiently perform planning and analysis and outage management. So, what can you do to validate your electric network data? You can start with the list below and begin reviewing your geometric network to validate the connectivity of edges and junctions. This will help ensure you do not encounter problems when running a trace on your network.
I’ve identified the top business rules that need to be validated and corrected before moving on to any advanced data validation.
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