How do you create a simple geofence that sends an email when for example a hurricane track intersects it ?

Question

Im very new to ArcGIS GeoEvent Manager.

I have a Hurricane live feed from NOAA, I want to create an application that sends an email when the hurricane cone of influence intersects with a point buffer.

Seems simple enough. However trying to figure out how to actually implement this in GeoEvent Manager does not appear easy.

Is there a guide other than the tutorials (not much use in my opinion) that actually shows you how to do this ? It was mentioned in a seminar I viewed online, but they didn't actually show you how to do it.

Regards.

Jeremy.

MarkBramer · Answer

Jeremy,

I apologize for not seeing your message.  Either I do not have my GeoNet notifications set up properly, or GeoNet notifications suck.  I did not realize you replied until I just clicked on this message thread.  I doubt your original use case is still in effect, but if you want to keep talking GeoEvent, email me at mbramer@esri.com.

Mark

Dunn_Jeremy · Answer

Hi Mark,

OK can you see if you can use any one of these “feeds”. I guess I’m interested to know which would be best in terms of what I want to do.

Which as you know is simply to intersect the feed with a buffered point and send an email once this happens.

Which one of these formats would give the most stable and simple environment to work with.

I’ve successfully input the GeoJSON feed but don’t seem to get any through put from my service. Although I don’t know if my service is set up correctly. I don’t get any errors but that doesn’t mean it’s working.

https://data.noaa.gov/dataset/noaa-national-hurricane-center-tropical-cyclone-forecasts-wms-wfsf4982

Regards.

Jeremy.

Here’s my attempt at creating a service

My question is, does this service buffer my hurricane points with 1000m buffer ? Does the output go to my service Hunch_Airports1 ?

Doesn’t look like anything happens.

Jeremy Dunn MSc, Spatial Analytics Specialist, Analytics Technology

Willis Towers Watson, The Willis Towers Watson Building, 51 Lime Street, London, EC3M 7DQ, United Kingdom

Jeremy.Dunn@willis.com<mailto:Jeremy.Dunn@willis.com>, www.willis.com

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Dunn_Jeremy · Answer

Hi Mark,

Many many thanks for the excellent instruction. I had a long conversation with ESRI yesterday and it turns out that the feed I was trying to use can’t be used in this way with GeoEvent as it’s not a true feature service but an image service so the actual data isn’t available.

So I’m back to square one really. As you say if we had a feed we could actually use that would be a start. And I’d be happy to point you to one, but I can’t find one that would work in GeoEvent. I’m also a little confused about what sort of feed we are exactly looking for. I assume it is a pure feature service. Do you think any of these would work ?

http://idpgis.ncep.noaa.gov/arcgis/rest/services/NWS_Forecasts_Guidance_Warnings

As you can see I am looking for hurricane feeds really, but now just anything that will work in GeoEvent. As these are all MapServer types I assume these also will not work.

Any thoughts.

Regards.

Jeremy,

Jeremy Dunn MSc, Spatial Analytics Specialist, Analytics Technology

Willis Towers Watson, The Willis Towers Watson Building, 51 Lime Street, London, EC3M 7DQ, United Kingdom

Jeremy.Dunn@willis.com<mailto:Jeremy.Dunn@willis.com>, www.willis.com