Location Advantage MOOC AMA (Ask Me Anything): Thursday Nov 30, 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm PT

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Event details:

• What: Join instructor John Shramek, course host Linda Peters and Education Manager Joseph J. Kerski, Ph.D., GISP for an AMA (Ask Me Anything) live on the GeoNet Community in the Location Advantage MOOC group. Ask the panelists anything about the topics covered in the course and any fun, interesting and thought-provoking questions. 
  
• When: The AMA event will take place in this discussion thread (right on this page!) on Thursday November 30 , 2017 from 12:30pm-1:30pm PT.

How to participate:

• During the AMA, if you are logged into GeoNet (here's how to log in with your Esri credentials), you can post your questions in the comments below and the panelists will reply to your questions in the comments. 
• You're welcome to post questions ahead of the AMA but we won't begin answering them until the AMA begins on November 30th at 12:30pm PT.

Reminder: AMA Tips and GeoNet Community Guidelines

• You will need a GeoNet account (uses Esri credentials) in order to ask questions. If you do not yet have Esri credentials, get them right away; it can take a day or two to process the request.
• When asking questions and making comments during the AMA, remember to follow the GeoNet Community Guiding Principles.
• During the AMA this discussion page will not auto-refresh, so please remember to refresh this page to see new questions, comments and replies.

You'll know the AMA is live when you see a picture below with John, Linda and Joseph. From there on, remember to refresh the page to see our updates and new questions and comments. 

Thanks for joining us and we'll see you on Thursday!

12:30 pm - And we're live! Go ahead and ask your questions!

1:00 pm - We're halfway through, Great questions! Keep them coming!

1:25 pm - Five minutes to go! Got any fun questions for Joseph or John?

1:30 pm - Overtime! We'll take your questions too during this bonus 10 minutes! 

1:40 pm  - And that's a wrap! The live AMA has ended but Joseph, Linda and John will continue to answer questions as schedules allow. Thanks for joining us and asking great questions! 

 

[Anonymous User]

Javier, Tapestry is a great dataset, but at the moment we only have it built out for the US. Esri invests a lot in collating great datasets like this, and we're working continually on improving coverage all over the world, so hopefully soon we'd have a similar product for Honduras. Without it, there is still census data for most countries to get insights on demographics and socioeconomics. Here's a link to the for Tapestry, scroll down just a bit to see links for the methodology:

Tapestry Segmentation—Esri Demographics | ArcGIS 

[JavierGamero]

When you do that, please let me know how I can cooperate.

[JosephKerski]

Javier - here is the Esri distributor in Honduras.  I have not talked with them but i *have* talked with the people in Belize.  

Serving GIS Users in Honduras

Ingenieria Gerencial S.A., Honduras

Carretera Al Primer Batallón, Atrás de la escuela la Estancia School

Tegucigalpa

Gustavo Palacios

Manuel Mendez

E-mail: gpalacios@ingenieriagerencial.com

E-mail: mmendez@ingenieriagerencial.com

Phone: +504-2291-0238

Fax: +504-2291-0239

Website: www.ingenieriagerencial.com 

[JavierGamero]

I am not far. Thank you for this!

[JeanMegope_Foonde]

1- I have been using ESRI products for quite a while now. I wonder why ESRI keep multiplying separate applications such as Bathimetry, Business Analyst online...

2- Some Parts of the world have very little(resolution) if not  coverage at all on some ESRI products. What steps are you taking to reduce the coverage divide?

[JosephKerski]

Greetings Jean:  Great question.  The resolution and types of data vary widely around the world.  I used to work at data gathering institutions (US Census Bureau, USGS, NOAA) and those agencies still exist, churning out data, but not every country has agencies like that, or if they do, the data is sold OR you have to pay royalties on it OR it is simply not releasable to data users. The good news is that there is an open data movement happening for about 10 years now that has resulted in more data being available now than ever, and Esri works actively with organizations to help them serve their data, and we host some in The Living Atlas of the World.  We write about these issues on http://spatialreserves.wordpress.com every week.  But - you are correct - there are still significant gaps and I suspect there always will be.

--Joseph Kerski 

[JeanMegope_Foonde]

Where Can I have a complete bathymetric data of the Gulf of Guinea.

Which organisation provide Esri Basemap with the ocean Data of this area?

[JosephKerski]

Jean - we do have the Esri Oceans Data - here - Visualizing Bathymetric Data Using the Esri Ocean Basemap | ArcWatch   and the Ecological Marine Units new data set Ecological Marine Units    - will these help?  

--Joseph Kerski 

[JeanMegope_Foonde]

Thank You I will check these links at the End of AMA.

[Anonymous User]

Which geographic region has the best coffee in your opinion? If you can provide lat/long too that would be great.