Thursday, April 28, 2011

IGIC Webinar - GIS In the cloud follow up

In my presentation today for IGIC I discussed three aspects of GIS in the cloud.
  • Using ArcGIS.com entirely to share maps
  • Using ArcGIS Online to make you more productive with ArcGIS Desktop
  • Building an ArcGIS Server system in the cloud using Amazon EC2
Below is supporting information in each of these three categories.

Using ArcGIS.com entirely to share maps
The web map that I created in the presentation is accessible here: http://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=b825be4db4ae40e6ad7b16629a5fb672

ArcGIS.com documentation:
http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisonline/help/index.html#//010q00000002000000.htm

I didn’t even get into ArcGIS Explorer online and making presentations. That is an incredibly powerful concept. ArcGIS Explorer online has its own help pages available here: http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisexplorer/help/

These web maps that you create in ArcGIS.com can also be used in an iPhone or Windows Phone 7 as well.
Using ArcGIS Online to make you more productive with ArcGIS Desktop
Desktop documentation for working with ArcGIS online:
http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#/Adding_data_from_ArcGIS_online/006600000441000000/
and:
http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/00sp/00sp0000001z000000.htm

I showed downloading a layer package(Earthquake epicenters and Indiana Big Trees) from ArcGIS.com. There is more information on layer packages here:
http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/00s5/00s500000013000000.htm
and creating a map packages here:
http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#/Creating_a_map_package/006600000403000000/

The drive time analysis Geoprocessing tool that I used in the presentation is available here:
http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=16f372f4d05d40c3ab6040a98dbcae7d
Connecting to the server from ArcGIS Desktop can be done with this URL:
http://sampleserver1.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/Services

Building an ArcGIS Server system in the cloud using Amazon EC2
The resource center gallery for local government where I downloaded the Citizen Service Request Template is here:
http://localgovtemplates2.esri.com/gallery/gallery.html
And you can access the template directly here:
http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=cf64d38f5d1d4b34867a59073f5cd0b6
Documentation for working with ArcGIS Server on Amazon EC2 is available here:
http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisserver/10.0/help/arcgis_server_on_amazon_ec2/index.htmlLink

I worked through a replication workflow with the cloud. The ArcGIS Server on Amazon EC2 documentation has more information on this here:
http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisserver/10.0/help/arcgis_server_on_amazon_ec2/index.html#/Replication_to_an_Amazon_EC2_instance_using_geodata_services/00rq0000000p000000/
and replication documentation in the ArcGIS Desktop Help:
http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/0027/002700000020000000.htm


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