topic Re: Pictometry and Streetview in Web AppBuilder Custom Widgets Questions

Pictometry and Streetview

Anonymous User — Wed, 11 Mar 2015 19:50:28 GMT

Updated post:

Here is my pictometry widget. It's just a way to open a link in a new window to your Pictometry.

GitHub link to code: kevinsagis/Pictometry-for-WebApp-Builder · GitHub

Per the Read Me I will look into building the option to put Pictometry imagery into the popup inline as well. I've already had success putting video and other stuff in popups so hopefully this won't be too bad. Note also the capability to use your organization's internal EFS viewer with this as well! We use this as well as the Connect Online on Pictometry's cloud. Instructions for both of these implementations are below, including how to use the required php file.

Here's a Streetview widget that operates similarly:

Demo app link : ArcGIS Web Application

GitHub link - kevinsagis/Streetview · GitHub

***Update 5/18: New update posted. You can directly enter your server URL in the WebApp Builder in the widget configuration setup. For now it's just the Pictometry Online Connect (IPA). I will add the internal link field later today or tomorrow. See the Read Me.txt included for the common URL path formatting for Pictometry.

Re: Pictometry and Streetview

StanMcShinsky — Thu, 12 Mar 2015 02:08:45 GMT

Kevin MacLeod,

That will be a great addition to the group of widgets.

If you want to look at an existing widget that is very similar to what you are explaining then please check out Street View in Popup Widget 1.1.0.1 This basically grabs the lat long and puts it into a url and iframes it to the popup.

Re: Pictometry and Streetview

AndrewFarrar — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 14:09:52 GMT

I would be very interesting to see what you've put together for a Pictometry/WAB integration. I've been looking at a couple of ways to build that into GIS and get it out to our users.

Re: Pictometry and Streetview

KenDoman — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 14:24:19 GMT

We've put together a WAB viewer that shows the content of a separate Pictometry Connect viewer page. We use lat/long in the web requests to reposition the viewer. I'd like to see if you pull off something more integrated.

Re: Pictometry and Streetview

CN — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 16:50:50 GMT

Our company Houston Engineering (HEI) has put together a WAB widget in a similiar manner that Ken described. I agree a more integrated widget would be cool to see.

Chad

Re: Pictometry and Streetview

Anonymous User — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 14:50:31 GMT

Here is my pictometry widget. It's just a way to open a link in a new window to your Pictometry.

I'll put the Streetview one up in a bit too.

As per the Read Me I will look into building the option to put Pictometry imagery into the popup inline as well. I've already had success putting video and other stuff in popups so hopefully this won't be too bad. Note also the capability to use your organization's internal EFS viewer with this as well! We use this as well as the Connect Online on Pictometry's cloud.

kevinsagis/Pictometry-for-WebApp-Builder · GitHub

I know this is simple but it is the first code I have ever posted or shared. Thank you to everyone here I've learned so much from you all. If there are any bugs or feedback from improvement I will be happy to hear. I hope to post more as we get into WAB. Our organization has decided to start building around WebApp and leveraging it and to post and share many of our developments here as open source.

Re: Pictometry and Streetview

StanMcShinsky — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 15:07:37 GMT

Kevin,

Do you have a demo of your widget we can check out?

-Stan

Re: Pictometry and Streetview

Anonymous User — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 15:30:38 GMT

Stan,

Great idea,

Here you go - ArcGIS Web Application

-Kevin

Re: Pictometry and Streetview

StanMcShinsky — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 15:42:10 GMT

Kevin,

This looks promising. Two quick things.

1. It will be helpful to have the demo open the widget at start.

2. It would be nice to start with the map zoomed in more to an area of known pictometry.

When I click on the map I get a new page pop up that says http://insert_your_site_url/php/ipa.php?lat=32.0447869266681&lon=-81.20544531249722 It is missing the site url. Is this on purpose?

-Stan

Re: Pictometry and Streetview

Anonymous User — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 15:45:20 GMT

Stan,

I have fixed this. I revised my Git code on the server to point to our live URL. It points to Chatham County. We have Pictometry for the entire county. Use the widget inside the county boundary.

I do not know how to tell it to be open at startup but I will read through the Docs and make this change. Thank you for this suggestion!

Re: Pictometry and Streetview

StanMcShinsky — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 15:57:24 GMT

Kevin,

Here is the help to open a widget at start.

Open a widget at app start—Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS (Developer Edition) | ArcGIS for Developers

Looks good.

-Stan

Re: Pictometry and Streetview

Anonymous User — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 17:04:28 GMT

Hi Stan,

I updated it to open at startup.

I'll make it user-configurable in the next build, where users don't have to open the file and manually edit, they just put their server link in inside the Config section inside WebApp Builder.

Re: Pictometry and Streetview

StanMcShinsky — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 17:20:42 GMT

Great. I just noticed too that your Use JQuery widget is under the coordinates widget on the bottom. That can be adjusted in the main config file too.

-Stan

Re: Pictometry and Streetview

Anonymous User — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 17:52:25 GMT

Stan, updated it. Thanks. You're watching me learn this on the go here!

Re: Pictometry and Streetview

StanMcShinsky — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 17:54:43 GMT

Its all good. We all start somewhere and it is great to have a place to get help.

-Stan

Re: Pictometry and Streetview

CherylColey — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 19:22:12 GMT

Thank you Kevin, this great! I've been struggling with getting Pictometry added to my WAB and this appears to work. I'm having trouble the URL that gets past to Pictometry, but I think that is a problem on my end, not with your code. Thanks again.

Re: Pictometry and Streetview

Anonymous User — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 20:12:38 GMT

Cheryl,

It took a while for us to figure out passing the Pictometry token but I got it at last. Have you gotten that set up yet?

You have to first create a user and password with Pictometry through the EFS Viewer interface (have you got that set up?)

Then, you have to go in to SQL Server in the right table, I think it's "users" or "pol_users" or something like that. and copy out the token. Then you pass the username (ie Cheryl@Madeupsite.com) and the token, in the URL. And also pass the lat/long in the URL. As formatted in my widget example here.

Write back if you get this working. If you need help, Pictometry tech support was really great, so give them a call. They also helped us to get ESRI basemaps working in the Pictometry EFS web viewer and get our services imported into it. Give them a ring and they'll get you squared away and ask here if you have implementation questions perhaps I can help, or at least try!

Also I'll be posting a Streetview widget today that works like this one, both example and code.

Re: Pictometry and Streetview

CherylColey — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 20:39:25 GMT

Kevin,

Our Pictometry images are hosted with Pictometry, so my set up is a little different. That should still work correct? I'll have to use http://pol.pictometry.com/ipa/v1/load.php. I get 'Authentication Failure, invalid session key' when I get to their page. We have it working in another JavaScript application, so I know we can get to it.

Cheryl

Re: Pictometry and Streetview

Anonymous User — Tue, 05 May 2015 15:59:24 GMT

SCPA I'll look in to this. I think we may have set something up with Connect on the server side. I'll be sure to get back to you and update the Readme if so.

Re: Pictometry and Streetview

AdamGebhart — Wed, 06 May 2015 14:24:55 GMT

Kevin,

Thanks for creating this widget and making it available to the rest of us.

I am trying to deploy it but am not entering the correct URL or doing something else wrong. In coordination with moving from Flex to Javascript (WAB), we are also moving from self-hosting Pictometry imagery to Pictometry as the host, so I think I may be setting up the same thing as Cheryl.

I have the API Key, Secret Key, IPA Load URL and Javascript Library URL that were provided by Pictometry, but I'm not sure how those fit, if at all, into your code. I've also been trying to work through the Pictometry IPA docs in conjunction with your code but haven't figured that out either.

Can you tell me how these items fit into your widget's code? Thanks again.