Hi! I need help to integrate data from Hydro-Quebec in ArcGIS Pro. I would like to create a layer of ongoing outages that will be updated every 15 minutes.Can someone help me out please?I don't know where to start.
Ongoing outages and planned service interruptions | Hydro-Québec
Tanks in advance 🙂
I'm not familiar with this data but at a glance, it appears to be KMZs published at intervals, using filenames that aren't predictable (but can be determined using an API). I don't know of a straightforward way to add this to Pro as a layer, I believe you're going to need to write some code to do this.
The most straightforward approach to me would be to write some code that runs at a regular interval, and updates a data source that ArcGIS Pro can handle easily. For example, you could create a feature layer in ArcGIS Online, and use a scheduled notebook in ArcGIS Online to query the H-Q layer every 15 minutes, delete all current features in your layer, then reload the features from the downloaded KMZ file.
The notebook could consist of six steps:
A single-user alternative that would avoid using ArcGIS Online credits would be to use a local feature class rather than an ArcGIS Online feature layer, and have the script running locally on your machine at regular intervals.
A more manual (but code-free) approach would be something like this:
This won't automatically update, however, you'll need to re-fetch the BIS version and re-add the KMZ every time you want to refresh.
Big thanks! I will have a look 🙂