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Create 2D planning scenarios in GeoPlanner and visualize them in 3D in ArcGIS Pro These are exciting times for the city of Hartford, Connecticut. A new bus rapid transit (BRT) line, CTfastrak, has recently opened, connecting the city to several communities in central Connecticut. Furthermore, minor league baseball is coming to town, as the Hartford Yard Goats prepare for their debut in 2016. The city now faces the challenge of successfully integrating the upcoming sports entertainment development with the new BRT line in order to maximize the impact of both multi-million dollar projects. As part of the ArcGIS platform, GeoPlanner for ArcGIS and ArcGIS Pro can help city decision-makers and planners understand and visualize the dynamics of urban infrastructure projects as well as help them optimize the impact of these projects. GeoPlanner and ArcGIS Pro offer new opportunities to incorporate GIS into planning and design practices. GeoPlanner allows you to create and assess multiple planning alternatives. ArcGIS Pro helps you understand these alternatives through 3D visualization. The ArcGIS Platform transfers changes between these applications. This enables uninterrupted workflows and helps to facilitate valuable insights. Create and Evaluate Plans across a Synchronized Platform Let’s say your organization has GIS professionals who use ArcGIS Pro and a planning team that works with GeoPlanner. The ArcGIS Platform can help these two groups collaborate on projects through the sharing of data, analysis, and information. GeoPlanner scenarios and analysis results are saved to ArcGIS Online as hosted feature layers. These layers can be accessed and rendered in 3D in ArcGIS Pro. 3D visualization helps you evaluate the impact of current conditions and proposed changes within your study area. For example, you can explore how the orientation of surrounding buildings affects your proposed development. Valuable insights gleaned from visualizations in ArcGIS Pro promote evidence-based and analysis-driven design alternatives in GeoPlanner. Changes you make to hosted feature layers are available in real-time in both GeoPlanner and ArcGIS Pro. As a result, ArcGIS Pro and GeoPlanner comprise a synchronized platform for seamless geodesign workflows. Using GeoPlanner and Pro Seamlessly Let us now explore how GeoPlanner and ArcGIS Pro can be used in tandem to locate and plan the optimal site for construction of a minor league baseball stadium in Downtown Hartford, Connecticut. We begin by importing our data into a scenario which will model the current built conditions and zoning districts in Downtown Hartford. The scenario shown above has a transportation layer, point of interest layer, and land use layer, and additional contextual layers such as parcels and building footprints to supplement the scenario. We can further create layers showing both suitable and unsuitable land for stadium construction by using GeoPlanner’s analysis tools. Since the city is proposing a 220,000 square foot stadium, we’ll look for areas where contiguous parcels meet this square footage requirement. GeoPlanner’s sketching and visualization tools combined with knowledge of the local area help us further refine our search. For example, although a parcel on the state capitol building grounds has the requisite area, it is unsuitable for stadium construction. Using analysis tools, sketching tools, and scenarios, we conclude that there are three possible areas of contiguous parcels upon which to construct the Yard Goats stadium. We will determine which site is best positioned to promote use of CTfastrak among Yard Goats fans as they head to the stadium on game day. This conclusion is best reached by combining GeoPlanner’s analysis tools with its visually instructive classification scales. We see that there is only one contiguous area of parcels upon which to build the stadium in order to promote CTfastrak use among Yard Goats fans. By using the Create Travel-Time Areas tool, we can model the distance that a pedestrian could feasibly travel from a CTfastrak Route 101 transit stop in 5, 10, or 15 minutes. We classify these travel times on an intuitive color classification scale, with a 5 minute walk designated as optimal (green). With our location for stadium construction identified, we now use the 3D visualization capabilities of ArcGIS Pro to determine the orientation of the stadium. Modeling the design of our stadium to be similar to those of other minor league baseball teams, we set a 9,000 seat capacity with no outfield seating. Therefore, we determine that the stadium should be oriented with home plate somewhere along the northern or western edge of the final location, since this would allow for excellent grandstand views of the skyline of Downtown Hartford or the nearby Connecticut River. Locating home plate close to the corner of Pleasant & Main Streets would allow spectators to take in an aesthetically-pleasing view of the city. Bringing the Yard Goats to Hartford is a boon for the city. By constructing a baseball stadium within walking distance of a CTfastrak transit stop, the city can promote the use of public transit as an enjoyable, affordable, and fun part of a family-friendly summer activity: taking in a ballgame in the heart of Hartford. How Do I Get Started? Choosing to work with both GeoPlanner and ArcGIS Pro is a smart decision for planners and decision-makers in all industries. 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Want to bring your own datasets into GeoPlanner for ArcGIS? With GeoPlanner, leveraging your own data is easy. You share your feature data to ArcGIS Online and then access this data in GeoPlanner for visualization, sketching, analysis, and evaluation. Below are instructions on how to publish your datasets from ArcGIS Pro, ArcMap, and ArcGIS Online and access them in a GeoPlanner project. ArcGIS Pro ArcGIS Pro and GeoPlanner comprise a synchronized platform for seamless geodesign workflows. The following steps will help you share your data from ArcGIS Pro to ArcGIS Online: Step 1: Right-click a feature layer in the Contents pane and choose Share as Web Layer. Step 2: In the Share Web Layer tool, add a summary and tags. Make sure the Features option is checked on. This tool also allows you to set sharing permissions. You can choose to share with your organization, Everyone or a group. Step 3: Click Analyze on the bottom of the panel. Once any errors are fixed, click Publish. ArcMap Sharing your own data from ArcMap to ArcGIS Online is also a straightforward process. Step 1: Select File > Sign In to open the ArcGIS Online Sign In dialog. Enter your Username and Password. Step 2: From ArcMap’s File menu, click Share As > Service. Step 3: Navigate through the Publish a Service dialog box, making sure to choose your Hosted Services connection. Step 4: In the Service Editor, click on Capabilities and check on Feature Access. Feature Access allows you to use this data in GeoPlanner’s dashboard, import scenario and analysis tools. Optionally, check off Tiled Mapping. Step 5: Click on Item Description and add a summary and tags. Step 6: Click on Sharing and share with your organization, Everyone, or a group. Step 7: Click Analyze on the top of the Service Editor dialog. Resolve any errors and click Publish to push your data to ArcGIS Online. ArcGIS Online Do you have shapefiles or file geodatabases that you want to share but don’t have access to ArcGIS Pro or ArcGIS for Desktop? You can share them using the Add Item tool in ArcGIS Online! The ArcGIS Online publishing process will automatically create hosted feature layers from the data you have uploaded. Step 1: Compress your shapefiles or file geodatabases in a ZIP file. Step 2: Sign in to ArcGIS Online and navigate to My Content. Click Add Item and choose From my computer. Step 3: Browse to your zipped data. Don’t forget a title, summary, and tags! Step 4: Click Add Item to upload your zipped data and create a new hosted feature layer. Add your data in GeoPlanner You’re almost done! Simply add these newly hosted feature layers to a GeoPlanner project. Step 1: In GeoPlanner, open a project and move to the Data segment. Step 2: Click on the Add Data icon. The Search for Data dialog appears. Step 3: In the Search for Data dialog, click My Content. Feature layers that you have published to ArcGIS Online can be found here. Search for your feature layers by name or tags. Step 4: Click the Add button to add a layer to GeoPlanner! Other types of layers Feeling comfortable with uploading your own feature data for use in GeoPlanner? You can add map and image layers to a GeoPlanner project. If you have these types of layers hosted in ArcGIS Server or Portal, add their URLs as items to ArcGIS Online. Then discover these items using GeoPlanner’s Add Data functionality. Finally, you can build your own web-based weighted raster overlay service to support suitability modeling in GeoPlanner! Contributed by John Preysner, intern with the GeoPlanner team, 2015 ... View more

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The 2015/2020 U.S. Esri Updated Demographic data, available across the ArcGIS platform, reveals some interesting trends: The 2015 U.S. population is 318,536,439, an increase of 3.2% since 2010. Population growth in the South continues to outpace growth in the rest of the US, 4.6% since 2010, compared to 3.8% in the West, 1.5% in the Northeast and 1.4% in the Midwest. The country is becoming more diverse. The Hispanic population now accounts for 17.6% of the total population and is expected to increase to 19% by 2020. http://http://blogs.esri.com/esri/arcgis/2015/05/06/esris-2015-u-s-demographic-data-is-now-available/ ... View more

The 2015/2020 U.S. Esri Updated Demographic data is now available across the ArcGIS platform. Here are some interesting trends that it reveals: The 2015 U.S. population is 318,536,439, an increase of 3.2% since 2010. Population growth in the South continues to outpace growth in the rest of the US, 4.6% since 2010, compared to 3.8% in the West, 1.5% in the Northeast and 1.4% in the Midwest. The country is becoming more diverse. The Hispanic population now accounts for 17.6% of the total population and is expected to increase to 19% by 2020. ... View more

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