How to make a time enabled map run in real time?

[EllenWildig]

I am creating a map showing the movement of the tides at a specific site and therefore require the layers showing high low, incoming and outgoing tide to run in real time with tidal data. How do I go about doing this? I can make the layers run at arbitrary input times, they have date fields but how do I acquire and use real-time data? Thanks

[ChrisSmith7]

I'm not sure where you are needing to do this, but if you are looking to deploy a web application using ArcGIS Server, have a look at this sample:

Stream Layer | ArcGIS API for JavaScript

Here's more info on the class:

StreamLayer | API Reference | ArcGIS API for JavaScript

And a presentation on the technology from Esri:

http://proceedings.esri.com/library/userconf/proc14/tech-workshops/tw_260.pdf​

[EllenWildig]

Thanks, I'll take a look. The site is in the North of the UK.

[ChrisSmith7 · Accepted solution]

Regarding data, are you looking for something like this?

https://www.tidetimes.org.uk/all

Here's an example page - Aberdeen Tide Times | Tide Times  with RSS feeds at the bottom of each page - https://www.tidetimes.org.uk/aberdeen-tide-times.rss

Here's a tutorial on using RSS feeds:

http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=29f0689ec924498c9baf3bb2812dc78c

What would be really helpful is if you could find an all encompassing GeoRSS feed of tidal data, something like Recent UK earthquakes but for tidal data. I wasn't able find anything like this briefly searching. You might be able to join the data from the RSS, though. Honestly, I haven't done much with streaming data to a web mapping application, but am looking to do so in the future and so have been researching.

[EllenWildig]

Thank you so much for taking the time, It's a massive help.  

[ChrisSmith7]

No problem! Another thing you could do is aggregate all of the RSS feeds using something like RSS Mix (RSS Mix - Mix any number of RSS feeds into one unique new feed! ), to get something like

My feed. It might make getting all of your targeted locations easier.