24-09-2020
Yesterday was the second day of the Esri GIS Conference & Tech. The plenary session focused on the latest developments around Data & Location Services. The video with demonstration can be watched again above.
Most of our data services are offered through the Living Atlas, which provides a large collection of map layers and is integrated within the ArcGIS platform. In the demo, we take you through a number of expansions earlier this year. At the beginning of the year, the AHN3 became completely nationwide. Through good cooperation with Het Waterschapshuis, we were able to make this data available within a few days. In addition, besides the most current aerial photo from 2019, historical aerial photos also became available in collaboration with Kadaster, making the set from 2006-2019 now complete. 4orange made new shopping cart data available in March that can be used in the location service Geodata Enrichment. After that, there was much emphasis on the coronavirus. Because location is an important component in this, we wanted to provide you with current data from the start via various dashboards, including a dashboard with the current status and a dashboard with the progress per municipality. The data from these dashboards is also found in the Living Atlas for doing your own analyses. There are also customers who add services themselves to the Living Atlas, such as ProRail. The data they publish via their own infrastructure is now not only for themselves but also directly usable by all of you in ArcGIS via the Living Atlas.
Our newest addition to the Living Atlas are the energy labels. The energy labels can be used as separate map layers with addresses and buildings from the webmap. Inge van den Meiracker wrote a blog about the creation of this dataset. Besides the service we also provide a StoryMap and dashboard with example applications.
We often provide tips & tricks so that you can get more out of your own data or the data we offer. Examples include the how-to about accessing aerial photos and building webscenes. Through the content add-in, it is possible to add ArcGIS Content directly in ArcGIS Pro. Recently, several additions have been made here around the Basic Registration Subsurface (BRO), including an instruction document for working with GeoTop and importing borings in ArcGIS Pro. The BRO add-in will also be available soon.
New in our range of how-to and tools is a how-to document with toolbox and layer file to publish and add the Kadaster's 3D Basic File yourself in a webscene. Via an app with a map sheet index, areas can be downloaded as file geodatabases. The pop-up of this layer contains a link to download the respective map sheet and the associated how-to.
For those who want to use additional possibilities from the open community besides basic registrations such as BRO and the 3D Basic File, OpenStreetMap offers a source of information for various applications. We have been importing this data for several years and started offering a vector tiled base map, which we also used as a source for a reference layer for aerial photos. Additionally, we have several useful locations as POI map layers that are updated every night. Soon buildings and roads updated every night will follow. Furthermore, we are working on an offering to get even more out of OpenStreetMap's street network, where we want to deliver streets with an associated network in file geodatabase format along with a matching instruction document. If you are interested in this, please contact us via content@esri.nl.
