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How can Geospatial Collaboratives maximize the return on investment in your Spatial Data Infrastructure? Consider an ecosystem approach.   https://go.esri.com/sdi-ecosystem ... View more

The GeoNet Community platform will be updating on November 12th and the new community features provide several ways to stay in touch with content regarding Open Platform topics that you are interested in the most. Followers: If you’re a follower of this space, you will need to Subscribe to our Place in the new platform. Additional guidance for Subscriptions in the new platform will be available under a new help section. Thank you for being a part of the Open Platform space and we look forward to seeing you in the new GeoNet! For more information about the platform update, visit the GeoNet Lounge for the latest announcements. Sincerely, Your Open Platform space owners ... View more

The GeoNet Community platform will be updating on November 12th and the new community features provide several ways to stay in touch with content regarding ArcGIS for INSPIRE that you are interested in the most. Followers: If you’re a follower of this space, you will need to Subscribe to our Place in the new platform. Additional guidance for Subscriptions in the new platform will be available under a new help section. Thank you for being a part of the ArcGIS for INSPIRE space and we look forward to seeing you in the new GeoNet! For more information about the platform update, visit the GeoNet Lounge for the latest announcements. Sincerely, Jill Saligoe-Simmel, Product Manager SDI and INSPIRE ... View more

The GeoNet Community platform will be updating on November 12th and the new community features provide several ways to stay in touch with content regarding Spatial Data Infrastructure that you are interested in the most.   Followers: If you’re a follower of this space, you will need to Subscribe to our Place in the new platform.   Additional guidance for Subscriptions in the new platform will be available under a new help section. Thank you for being a part of the Spatial Data Infrastructure space and we look forward to seeing you in the new GeoNet! For more information about the platform update, visit the GeoNet Lounge for the latest announcements.   Sincerely, Jill Saligoe-Simmel Product Manager of Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) ... View more

Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs) are rapidly evolving. Together, the internet and cloud computing are transforming the way organizations manage data and collaborate. Web GIS is significantly easier to use, deploy, and integrate into an SDI ecosystem than traditional systems. Whatever you call your SDI, in this video you will learn how to leverage the ArcGIS platform to create new value for your SDI. Use ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Hub with Open Data to set up a standards-compliant multi-organizational data sharing portal that will delight your partners and end-users. Learn more about the ArcGIS Open Platform at www.esri.com/open ... View more

The Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) is seeking public comment on the draft strategic plan for the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI). Comments are due by September 17, 2020. ... View more

At the 2020 Esri User Conference, the Regional Municipality of York (York Region) was honored for its pioneering work in creating a shared geospatial infrastructure that connects partners, breaks down silos, and puts their collective data to work. York Region is the first Canadian organization to win the President’s Award.   For the York Region Data Co-op, sharing is an especially important aspect that collectively supports smaller partner entities that individually lack the resources to adopt spatial technologies. The Co-Op’s common infrastructure represents a modern approach to spatial data infrastructure (SDI) that underpins a truly federated model, a system of systems that interconnect organizations across borders, jurisdictions, and organizations to address regional issues and manage operations collaboratively.   Read Geospatial Infrastructure at Its Best in the Summer 2020 issue of ArcUser magazine to learn more about how York Region shares data, scripts, code, apps, workflows, and training among its constituent organizations. ... View more

This updated open vision conversation between Esri President Jack Dangermond and Satish Sankaran, product manager in charge of Esri's open platform strategy, details Esri's multifaceted approach to open. Discussion topics include open standards, interoperability, open specifications, open-source software, open data, and open innovation. Learn more about Esri's Open Vision. ... View more

ArcGIS is fundamentally an open platform. Esri president Jack Dangermond discusses how Esri ensures that ArcGIS is interoperable with other technology that users might need to integrate with ArcGIS. Esri’s approach is to help users achieve their interoperability goals. Esri supports open standards like OGC, WWW, and ISO standards, as well as industry data standards. The software has open APIs so developers can extend and build on top of the data and tools, and the ArcGIS platform is extendable and embeddable. Open source tools are also available in GitHub. ... View more

ArcGIS for INSPIRE supports the publication of INSPIRE View and Download Services for the respective INSPIRE data themes and underlying datasets. ArcGIS for INSPIRE makes this process easier by helping you add the INSPIRE feature datasets, automatically detecting the available feature layers and tables to add to your map and guiding you through the INSPIRE-specific publication process. If you already use the ArcGIS suite of products, ArcGIS for INSPIRE's familiar interface will be easy for you.   This lesson steps you through the process of creating a map document and publishing INSPIRE View and Download Services. This lesson assumes you have installed the latest version [1] of ArcGIS for INSPIRE and, using your extract/transform/load (ETL) tool of choice, have loaded your source data into the provided INSPIRE GDB templates. Watch the video  Load the Geodatabase in ArcMap Go to ArcCatalog and open the database connection to view its contents. Here we see the geodatabase organized thematically by feature datasets.   Add INSPIRE Layer(s) to create an INSPIRE map document in ArcMap In ArcMap, click the menu button 'Add INSPIRE Layer' to launch the INSPIRE Layer Wizard (this button is available when the ArcGIS for INSPIRE extension is installed and tools have been added).   You have the option to load one, more than one, or all the feature datasets into the geodatabase, as desired. For demonstration purposes, we are using a sample Hydrology (HY) dataset based on original data downloaded from https://www.chsegura.es/chs/cuenca/resumendedatosbasicos/cartografia/descargas/ (CC BY 3.0 license). The data have already been transformed and loaded into the INSPIRE GDB template.   Let's add it to ArcMap.     In the INSPIRE Layer Wizard, click the folder icon to see the INSPIRE geodatabase selector dialog, then choose the GDB connection and click 'Add' button.   The extension will check the GDB, analyze it, and try to find what feature classes that are available. It will then display a list of feature classes you can choose to load as layers into your map.   Select the INSPIRE Layers to be created Here you see the list of layers. We have sample data for Transportation Networks, so we scroll down to the Transportation Network theme and click the check box to select all the layers, then click the 'Create' button. The Wizard loads all the Transportation Network related feature classes and tables into ArcMap. The Table of Contents displays the feature layers and related tables, displaying the layers in the map window. To provide context, this screenshot shows we have added a basemap in the background. Do not include basemaps when publishing the INSPIRE View Services.   Note, the INSPIRE Technical Guidelines require specific symbology be used for View Services on several themes. Our example shows the default ArcMap symbology. During publication of your INSPIRE View Services, the ArcGIS for INSPIRE extension will automatically apply the appropriate symbology according to the INSPIRE specification. Save your map document as an MXD file.   Publish INSPIRE View and Download Services INSPIRE View Services use the OGC web map services (WMS and WMTS) protocol and include INSPIRE-specific requirements according to the INSPIRE Technical Guidelines.   INSPIRE Download Services use the OGC web feature services (WFS3 complex features) protocol and include INSPIRE-specific requirements for serving complex GML according to the INSPIRE Technical Guidelines. For more detailed information, see the online documentation Publish the INSPIRE View Service and Create the INSPIRE Feature Download Service.   Share as a Service In the main menu, choose 'File > Share As > Service…' to open the Share As Service dialog. Choose 'Publish a Service' and click 'Next'.   The server connection and name are pre-filled for you and can be edited as desired. Click 'Next'. Publish the service to an existing folder or create a new folder and click 'Continue' to open the Service Editor.   Configure the Service Choose 'Capabilities' in the left sidebar to choose the capabilities you would like enabled for the serice. Add WMS, ArcGIS for INSPIRE View Service, and ArcGIS for INSPIRE Feature Download Service.   Analyze the Service In the Service Editor, click 'Analyze' if you would like to check for issues. Low severity issues are not typically a problem for producing valid services.   Publish the Service In the Service Editor, click 'Publish' to package the service. It will take some time to publish the INSPIRE View and Download Services with the proper configurations.   Edit your newly created service Once the service has been published, we go to the ArcGIS Catalog to connect to the server instance and see the service. Right-click the service and choose 'Service Properties…' to open the Service Editor.   Enable the INSPIRE View Service Supported Language(s) In the Service Editor left sidebar, select the properties for the ArcGIS for INSPIRE View Service. The dialog for the View Service will open.   In the Service Editor dialog, click in the language text field to display and choose from supported languages according to the INSPIRE specification.   Enable the INSPIRE View Service WMS and WMTS Capability Check the 'WMS uses layer names from map document' check box, and optionally check the 'WMS uses TileCache (WMTS available)' check box to enable the INSPIRE View Service using OGC Web Map Tile Service (WMTS). Next, click the 'Advanced Properties' button to open the Edit View Service Properties dialog.   Edit the INSPIRE View Service Properties The INSPIRE Directive requires specific properties for metadata to be used in the INSPIRE Service capabilities file beyond the default used by ArcGIS. ArcGIS for INSPIRE helps simplify this task by pre-filling the required elements where possible, and guiding you through the others. Required elements are highlighted in yellow.   According to the INSPIRE Technical Guidelines (version 3.1), the service provider can choose how to provide metadata about the service. This can be set using the following options at the top of the INSPIRE View service properties dialog box: Enter a URL referencing the INSPIRE metadata record describing this INSPIRE View service—Enter a URL, from an INSPIRE Discovery Service (Geoportal Server), that references a metadata record that describes the View Service. Enter all INSPIRE metadata element values, these will be exposed directly in the service capabilities document—Enter all INSPIRE metadata element values using the INSPIRE View Service properties configuration page (these elements are exposed directly in the service capabilities document). If you choose the second option, you see a dialog box as shown below. Fill in the required yellow fields, being sure to use the (YYYY-MM-DD) date format. Accept the pre-filled default values as desired.   See the online guide, Configure INSPIRE View Service properties, for more detailed description of values to use for these properties. When you have completed filling in the yellow fields, click 'Close' to return to the Service Editor dialog.   Enable INSPIRE Feature Download Service WFS Capabilities In the Service Editor left sidebar, select the properties for the ArcGIS for INSPIRE Feature Download Service. The dialog for the Feature Download Service will open. As with the View Service, you can select the languages to be used in the service. Click to enable the following: Enable direct acces Enable stored query management through WFS 2.0.0 Then click 'Advanced Properties' button to open the Edit Properties dialog.   Edit the INSPIRE Feature Download Service Properties As with the dialog for editing the View Service, fill in the required yellow fields.   Scroll down to select the theme feature types to include. Click 'Select All', or choose specific feature types as desired.   NOTE: INSPIRE Services and Service Metadata are co-dependent. Since we haven't created the INSPIRE Metadata reference, we can't yet provide the Metadata URL. We'll come back to edit the service after creating the Service Metadata.   Scroll down to choose 'conformant' or 'not conformant' when the service has been evaluated in the INSPIRE Reference Validator. If the evaluation passes, the degree is conformant; otherwise, it is not conformant. In this case, the service has not yet been evaluated in the INSPIRE Reference Validator so choose 'not evaluated'.   Click 'Close' to exit the editing dialog, and then click 'OK' to exit the Service Editor. The ArcGIS for INSPIRE Server extension will update the properties we just entered to finish. You have created your INSPIRE View and Download Services! ... View more

Have you been waiting to upgrade to the next generation Esri Geoportal Server? The recent release of Esri Geoportal Server Catalog v2.6.4 streamlines the creation and management of standards-compliant Metadata, including INSPIRE Metadata v2 (released with ArcGIS for INSPIRE 10.8.1). Geoportal Server Catalog is Esri's open-source next-generation search application and metadata catalog based on elasticsearch and enabled for INSPIRE. Geoportal Server Catalog includes a revised Metadata Editor that makes it super easy to create, edit, and serve INSPIRE Metadata that "pass" the official INSPIRE Reference Validator.   Geoportal Catalog Features: Metadata editor - Create and edit metadata in ArcGIS Metadata, FGDC, ISO 19115 (Data), ISO 19119 (Service), ISO 19115-2 (Imagery and Gridded Data), INSPIRE 2.0.1 (Data), INSPIRE 2.0.1 (Service), GEMINI (Data), GEMINI (Service) Faceted Search - Configure different facets to allow your user to filter from the haystack to the needle Scalability - Thank you elasticsearch for providing multi-node configuration support OGC CSW 3.0.0 and CSW 2.0.2 - Standards compliant catalog service interface, includes CSW2 requirements for INSPIRE Discovery Service Many metadata formats - Extend the configuration with your favorite XML format Built-in Viewer - Use the app we include or build one using Web AppBuilder and hook it up! No more database - Yes, that's a feature!   Esri Geoportal Server v2 now provides the catalog and harvesting capabilities as separate modules. Separate modules are useful when users need catalog capabilities without needing metadata harvesting.   View this tutorial to learn how to easily create INSPIRE Metadata using Esri Geoportal Server's Metadata Editor. ... View more

ArcGIS for INSPIRE 10.8.1 supports INSPIRE Metadata v2 creation and management using the latest Esri Geoportal Server Catalog v2.6.4. Geoportal Server is Esri's open source next generation search application and metadata catalog, based on elasticsearch and enabled for INSPIRE. Geoportal Server Catalog makes it easy to create and edit metadata styles including ArcGIS Metadata, FGDC, ISO 19115 (Data), ISO 19119 (Service), ISO 19115-2 (Imagery and Gridded Data), INSPIRE 2.0.1 (Data), INSPIRE 2.0.1 (Service), GEMINI (Data), and GEMINI (Service). UPDATED 23-June-2021 to include steps using the new INSPIRE Reference Validator.   Before you begin This lesson steps you through how to create INSPIRE Dataset Metadata using Geoportal Server Catalog's Metadata Editor. This lesson assumes that you have already installed the latest version of Geoportal Server Catalog. Sign In to Geoportal Server Catalog Open Geoportal in your web browser. Click ' Sign in' and enter your administrator or publisher username and password. Choose 'Create Metadata' from the Admin menu bar HINT: Before you get started, gather the information you need. You will need basic information about your dataset to complete the metadata, including its title, a descriptive summary (abstract), contact information for your organization, any legal or use constraints, and how the dataset can be accessed.   Choose INSPIRE 2.0 (Data) Click the 'New Document' tab and choose INSPIRE 2.0 (Data) to create dataset metadata, or INSPIRE 2.0 (Service) to create service metadata. In this example, we'll create dataset metadata.   Quick Tip: Click 'Save' to reveal the INSPIRE required elements dialog Clicking the metadata editor 'Save' button runs a check to see what required elements have not yet been completed. A click-through dialog is presented for the missing required values, denoted with a yellow circle.   Use this dialog to guide you through the creation of your INSPIRE metadata. Click 'Organization Name - A value is required'. Your cursor moves automatically to the element in metadata editor.   Begin entering required information Enter your organization name. Note, the circle turns green and the message for Organization Name is now "OK". Click the next element for 'value is required' in the Message dialog box (E-Mail Address). Continue filling in the required information.   Continue clicking through and fill in the required information The Metadata Editor dialog guides you through each required elements for INSPIRE baseline metadata, providing drop-down menus and pick-lists where applicable.   Click 'Save' then view your metadata Click the 'Save' button in the Metadata Editor. After saving your metadata, you can view it in the Geoportal Catalog. Click the title or the 'HTML' 'XML' 'JSON' to view your metadata in the desire encoding format.   Chose 'XML' to open the metadata record in a new tab. Copy the URL of the XML metadata from your browser menu bar. Alternatively, save/download the XML file to use with the INSPIRE Reference Validator.   Check your Metadata using the INSPIRE Reference Validator In a web browser, open the official INSPIRE Reference Validator and click ’Test your data, services, or metadata’ to start a test.    The validator is already configured to test your metadata using the Technical Guidelines versos 2.0 for data sets and data set series metadata. Verify your answer to the antispam question.   Add your metadata to be tested Follow instructions to provide your metadata to test and click ’Start test’.   Check the Status of your report The validator runs its tests and generates a report. View the results to see your metadata "Passed" inspection. If you left fields blank or incorrectly filled in metadata elements when creating your metadata, it may fail some tests. Click the “See report” link to expand sections and view detailed results. Then, return to the ArcGIS Metadata Editor and update your metadata, as needed.   For your convenience, you can download the example metadata file used in this lesson along with the Validator 'Passed' report (generated 25-Aug-2020) to assist you in your metadata creation.   See the Geoportal GitHub repository for more information about configuring and using Geoportal Server Catalog v2 for your INSPIRE metadata requirements, including instructions to enable your INSPIRE Discovery Service with CSW 2.0.2 support. ... View more

Geospatial leaders from Minnesota, Utah, New Mexico, Massachusetts, Kansas, Vermont, and New York share best practices for successful integrated Addresses in their statewide geospatial infrastructure. These states received top marks for their Address theme in NSGIC's 2019 Geospatial Maturity Assessment (see the NSGIC GMA Dashboard). These state programs roll-up point addresses from hundreds of local government authoritative providers and update on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. Addresses are among the NSDI National Geospatial Data Asset (NGDA) themes that form the common core set of digital spatial information for the Nation. Summary of Best Practices Connect the value proposition with public safety Proper funding is key, with policy to back it It's all about relationships - with champions, local government partners, and private sector partners These honor roll states noted two major challenges in building a strong address data set: Technology: in addition to potentially being expensive, building, acquiring, and developing technology, software, data models, and workflows can prove challenging. Building strong networks with local municipal support and coordinating with local governments. Read more about the challenges and solutions in NSGIC Best Practices: Addresses https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6987787/2020-6-24-Best-Practices-Addresses.pdf     header photo by Mathyas Kurmann on Unsplash ... View more

ArcGIS for INSPIRE, an extension to ArcMap and ArcGIS Enterprise, helps streamline the production of harmonized data themes and INSPIRE Services. Esri introduced ArcGIS for INSPIRE in 2012 to meet INSPIRE technical guidelines and implementation requirements.   At the 10.8.1 release, ArcGIS for INSPIRE introduces geodatabase templates to support the ‘Environmental Management Facilities’ and ‘Administrative and Social Government Services’ schema of the Utilities and Governmental Services (US) data theme, and the ‘Hydrogeology’ schema of the Geology (GE) data theme.   Also with this upcoming release, Esri Geoportal Server Catalog v2.6 upgrades its support for INSPIRE Metadata v2.0.1. and CSW2 to manage INSPIRE metadata catalogs and deploy INSPIRE Discovery Services.   Geospatial technologies have evolved tremendously in the past decade. ArcGIS provides the fundamental architecture to support SDI by being an open platform that enables secure, scalable, and frictionless data management, sharing, and use across a broad range of integrated applications. While INSPIRE is bound by European Union regulation, no doubt it will evolve, too. We are actively exploring how the next generation of INSPIRE can better leverage these technology advancements.   For more answers to this and related questions, see the Esri UC 2020 Q&A ... View more

SDI are evolving. Integrated geospatial infrastructure and modern SDI interconnect organizations across borders, jurisdictions, and sectors, to address our most significant social and environmental challenges, including natural and human-made disasters. Geospatial collaboratives are alliances of organizations whose role is to lay the rules of engagement to cooperatively build integrated geospatial infrastructure, or spatial data infrastructure (SDI), and to engage with and grow the capacity of their communities. Modern SDI must take a holistic approach to governance, data and technology, engagement, and capacity building. The ArcGIS platform provides the fundamental architecture to support SDI by being an open platform that enables secure, scalable, and frictionless data management, sharing, and use across a broad range of integrated applications. For example, collaborative partners use ArcGIS software and SaaS products to create, analyze, and manage authoritative data. They leverage shared resources and ArcGIS Solutions to build and maintain common core foundational data cooperatively. Coordinating bodies use ArcGIS tools to integrate and aggregate data from multiple heterogeneous sources in a distributed environment. Data and services from ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World supplement this work. ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Hub provide the essential engagement and delivery solution to help make your SDI data FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable). Geospatial collaboratives use Groups in Online and Hub to create shared data spaces where partners can share open data, maps, and applications. Partners document their data to maintain their investment, to automatically generate machine-readable metadata that powers search and discovery, and to facilitate data sharing and federation. A host of easy-to-use applications such as ArcGIS Dashboard, Survey123, and StoryMaps help amplify strategic initiatives and community engagement. We seek to be a catalyst for effective geospatial collaboration. Our support of international open standards and open specification enables the use of open data with APIs and facilitates data interoperability and system interoperability. Beyond technology, we help you develop your geospatial strategy, learn new skills, share experience, and stay abreast of good practices. Ultimately, the combination of Esri's products, solutions, support and services, education, and training resources, alongside a robust global community of users, helps geospatial collaboratives build SDI, grow capacity, and have the tools you need to develop and execute your geospatial strategies. In our increasingly interconnected world, interconnected data and location intelligence are crucial to seeing what others can't. Using shared resources, you and your partners can tackle challenges as varied as growing green economies, achieving sustainable development goals, improving equity and quality of life, and protecting people during public health emergencies like COVID-19. For more answers to this and related questions, see the Esri UC 2020 Q&A ... View more