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Community Member Connection #2 The connections and conversations with community members continue to be a highlight this week! This morning and afternoon I had the pleasure of connecting with smcshinsky‌ and Tapas_Das who's contributions have been a big help in the https://community.esri.com/groups/web-app-builder-custom-widgets?sr=search&searchId=516daaca-d6da-49a4-9433-54ff79dbc0f0&searchIndex=2‌ and other groups. We chatted about what they've been learning this week, what GIS and dev projects they're working on and how GeoNet's been inspiring them to move forward in their work. Good luck on the projects and thanks, guys! Always nice to hear how the community is helping you work better and come up with new ideas.  It's a bot that time From there it was time to check out the "Using Voice Recognition and Chatbots to make Navigation Better" session. Chatbots are a hot topic and Christopher Marovec took us through this personal dev journey and quest to better understand how building code, bots and Artificial Intelligence came together during this complex project. He admitted that he didn't get as far as he wanted to for this talk but that didn't stop him from sharing valuable insight and leaving us with lots of great takeaways. I really appreciated the fluidness of the session and how Chris took us step by step through his thought process. As Chris highlighted, his the presentation of his project was fantastic example and good reminder of how developers can strive to "work out loud" with each other and encourage the openness of how they solved problems or what they get stuck on and why.  Got your buttons yet? Then it was time to check in on the always popular conference button situation. Well, they're going fast and it looks like the most popular are the Python and Javascript buttons. Did you get your button swag yet? Which do you like the most this year?  I also think we need to consider adding a GeoNet button to the mix. What do you think?  What's happening on the Esri showcase? Strolling through the Esri Showcase and expo area is always an inspiring time. There's a collaborative buzz as users are at the stations asking questions and Esri staff are right there answering questions and sharing deep dive demos on how the new platform features can provide solutions and new ways of working. I especially love walking by and seeing working sessions like these and overhearing discussions as real problems and solutions are worked out here at DevSummit. Great stuff! What did you learn in the showcase floor? What new discoveries did you make? Then it was time to dive more into the dynamics of how to effectively lead development teams as Daniel_Lewis-esristaff‌ took us through "Team Driven Development: The Art of failing, Succeeding and Reflecting as a Team."  Daniel openly shared what he's learned over the last 20 years of being a developer and how he's grown into a team leader.  I really enjoyed how Daniel shared the inner workings of his team and what some of their actual process are related to QA and Team Driven Development (pics below), and how they actually get work done day to day. What questions do you have about leading dev teams? What's worked for you?  And that's a wrap for the sessions highlights today! We can't cover it all, so let us know what you learned today. Of course, there's still the dodgeball tournament coming up tonight. So check back for some picture and highlights from the fun and festivities. Thanks for following along and we look forward to seeing what you learned this week.  ... View more

    Here we go with Day Two of DevSummit! Loved starting the day reading the inspiring work shared on the Science of Where wall. So let us know below...what are you working on? What does The Science of Where mean to you? Thanks for sharing and have a great Day Two!    8:30am Time for the keynote featuring: Todd Greene, Cofounder and CEO of PubNub, sharing what he's learned through his work and where dev is heading. Great talk! Here's some highlights.  What did you like? What did you learn? Update: Check out the full video below: Todd doesn't wear a suit jacket when he codes. PubNub key stats: Over... 1.8 trillion monthly transactions, 330 million unique monthly devices, 15+ data centers The streaming web is an emerging trend The Hollywood Operating System (HOS) has been setting expectation for decades We must find ways to solve the Yummy Soda data Conundrum Remember South Park's Gnomes Underpants business model? Learn from it. Don't follow it.   "To handle future state: app logic must be distributed everywhere"   What's coming..? -> Esri blocks: routing, Base maps, GeoEnrichment    That's a wrap for the keynote! Enjoy the rest of your day and check back for more updates. Drop a comment below to say hello and let us know what you're learning. Thanks for sharing!  1:00pm The Code was alive and thriving this afternoon. Here's a few highlights as I cruised through the sessions and spent time connecting with GeoNet Community members. (Special thanks to Carol Sousa, Mohand KETTOUCHE, mcygan-esristaff‌ and gletham_geojobe for sharing the photos on social media. We appreciate you allowing us to feature them here.) The Applications Prototype Lab team shared some insightfully green presidential quotes and complex "Betweenness Centrality" code equations to kick off and then dove into sharing the works they've been doing building applications that support the Green Infrastructure project.    2:00pm During the ArcGIS Python API session, a packed Primerose room followed along as AMani-esristaff and rsingh-esristaff on the Esri team answered the all-important "What can it do for you?" question and demoed real-time scenarios. Got more questions? Check out what other users are saying and experiencing in the https://community.esri.com/groups/arcgis-python-api?sr=search&searchId=f5d6e77b-9e12-4cf3-8d31-b399815ee3e7&searchIndex=5‌ group.  3:00pm Then it was time for another fantastic meet-up chat with GeoNet Community member, rscheitlin‌. We talked about his dev background, the community roadmap and the future of the gamification and points system within GeoNet, of which Robert has reached the highest level.  If you're not already, you should follow Robert. Like other top Geonet members, he graciously shares his GIS and dev knowledge to help others solve problems and work better making him a perfect example of how to contribute and connect others within the community.    5:00pm In case you missed it, throughout the day, our Esri social media shared a nice collection of videos celebrating International Women's Day. Check them out here and here. And that's a wrap for today! We couldn't get to it all, so tell us what you loved and learned the most today in the comments below. Thanks for sharing the day with us!   ... View more

Thanks for checking out the featured DevSummit session conversations!   Before, during or after the "Latest Innovations from Esri’s Application Prototype Lab" session, we invite you to share your questions, ideas, experiences and thoughts in the comments below. Thanks and we look forward to seeing your contributions!      For more DevSummit 2017 discussions and updates, visit the DevSummit Conference group in the GeoNet Community.  ... View more

Thanks for checking out the featured DevSummit session conversations! Before, during or after the "Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS: A Deep Dive Into Enterprise Deployment" tech session, we invite you to share your questions, ideas, experiences and thoughts in the comments below. Thanks and we look forward to seeing your contributions!      For more DevSummit 2017 discussions and updates, visit the DevSummit Conference space in the GeoNet Community.  ... View more

Thanks for checking out the featured DevSummit session conversations!   Before, during or after the "Intro to ArcGIS Python API: Introduction to Scripting Your Web GIS" tech session, we invite you to share your questions, ideas, experiences and thoughts in the comments below. Thanks and we look forward to seeing your contributions!      For more DevSummit 2017 discussions and updates, visit the DevSummit Conference space in the GeoNet Community.  ... View more

We're excited to announce that next week we'll be onsite at the Developer Summit 2017 conference in Palm Springs, CA.  During the week we'll be live blogging, sharing updates and starting collaborative session conversations here in the Developer Summit space and other groups throughout the GeoNet community.  (Make sure to click "follow" in the top right corner of the DevSummit space overview page to get the updates.)   Whether you're attending the event or following along virtually, we invite you to join the DevSummit conversation on GeoNet. What topics, sessions and conference events are you most excited about?    Thanks for joining and we look forward to seeing you and your contributions!     ... View more

Thank you for attending the "Building a Living Atlas of The World" workshop hosted by SBreyer-esristaff and Deane Kensok. We invite you to continue the conversation here on the GeoNet Community by sharing your questions, ideas, experiences and thoughts from the workshop. Thanks and we look forward to seeing your contributions!    For more FedGIS 2017 discussions and updates, visit the FedGIS Conference space in the GeoNet Community. Living Atlas of the World Discussion Group‌ ... View more

Thank you for attending the "Spatial Data Mining I - Essentials of Cluster Analysis" workshop hosted by LBennett-esristaff‌ and FVale-esristaff‌. We invite you to continue the conversation here on the GeoNet Community by sharing your questions, ideas, experiences and thoughts from the workshop. Thanks and we look forward to seeing your contributions!    For more FedGIS 2017 discussions and updates, visit the FedGIS Conference space in the GeoNet Community.  ... View more

Welcome to Day Two of the FedGIS coverage and story sharing here on the GeoNet Community!  We hope you enjoyed Day One and we're excited to dive into today's events, sessions and workshops.   ArcGIS Insights Workshop To start the day, in one of the morning workshops, Linda Beale and Art Haddad, took us through an intro to ArcGIS Insights.  Lots of good questions were asked by attendees including one popular question about being able to do cross-database joins. Many hands were raised when Linda asked how important that was and she appreciated the feedback and was going to consider it for future releases. Contribute to the workshop conversation here.  Why Birds Love the Science of Where: National Audubon Society Keynote Next, it was time to fly in for the morning keynote from David Yarnold, CEO and President of the National Audubon Society, who shared how they transformed their organization into a more collaborative network with GIS and the Science of Where. Here's a collection of highlights and takeaways.  Jack welcomed us and introduced the keynote with this video sharing the National Audubon Society story. In the past, the NAS didn't have a clear vision of the impact and influence of their work. So using the global map image below, David began to help his team transform how the NAS saw itself and understand the global impact of their work. David, a former leader at the San Jose Mercury news, told a story about how when an oil spill happened in San Jose they used an old base map and just wrote "oil spill on it" in an area that wasn't correct or geographically accurate. He said this was a key moment that inspired and reminded him of why his team needed to leverage the Science of Where in their work.  David shared that "If you take care of birds, you can take care of the worlds biggest problems" and using GIS and maps empowered his team to communicate this powerful message both to their own organization and the world. "GIS takes ideas out of your head and puts them on the table. When we can all look at it together we can iterate shared visions of the future."   David shared that as they begun to create "a conversation network," their organizational change "aha moment" was driven by GIS in three ways: Sophisticated conversation planning Collaborate workspace  Authoritative, shared data David shares the five year vision for the National Audubon Society: Sharing insight from his journalism and media background, David highlighted the importance of using compelling GIS data to engage the media to get the word out about important issues and tell more compelling stories in the press.  Demonstrating the power of GIS and maps to create real change David shared how this story map about the Piper Polver helped turn a map and data into policy.  It was a great keynote and we'd love to hear what you thought. Share your comments below! National Mapping and Imagery Workshop After the keynote, I swung by the "National Mapping and Imagery: See the Earth, Find the Patterns, and Share the Knowledge" workshop as Mark Romero and Kurt Schwoppe from Esri they explained and demoed how drones, imagery and photogrammetric production in ArcGIS online and Drone2Map is being use to update historical images and enhance current data sets. The use cases highlighted the importance and challenges of collaboration, and how the combination of tech helped local and federal agencies recover from Hurricane Matthew and cast a vision for improving roadways and infrastructure projects. We invite you to continue the workshop conversation here. Spatial Data Mining I: Essentials of Cluster Analysis workshop I enjoyed checking out the Spatial Data Mining I: Essentials of Cluster Analysis" workshop hosted by Lauren Bennett and Flora Vale. Using examples of car crime in local communities, they shared helpful details, insights and live demos about the value of doing thoughtful cluster analysis and highlighted how they incorporated the Getis-Ord Gi* Statistic into the hot spot tool set. We invite you to continue the workshop conversation here. ArcGIS Online Content - Building a Living Atlas of the World workshop The world (and its digital twin) is always changing and during the Building a Living Atlas of the World session, Sean Breyer and Deane Kensok from the Esri team, showed how the Living Atlas platform gives users a broad set of tools to use.  They shared the depth of the Living Atlas content portfolio (image below) and how big of a role the tools are playing in helping users keeping their imagery data updated and how precise the new imagery tools is. For example, as seen in the image below, the Living Atlas images are can be so precise that you can see the shadows clear enough to tell that baseball players are left and right handed. And this helps users create better maps and data sets. Check out the livingatlas.arcgis.com to get started. We invite you to continue the workshop conversation here:FedGIS Discussion: ArcGIS Online Content - Building a Living Atlas of the World   And that's a wrap! Thanks for following along on the updates during the FedGIS 2017 Conference. We had a great time connecting and collaborating with you. Let's continue the conversation! Check out other discussions about the events and workshops, start new discussion and ask questions in the FedGIS Conference‌ space.  ... View more

Thanks for joining today's "National Mapping and Imagery: See the Earth, Find the Patterns, and Share the Knowledge" workshop hosted by Mark Romero and Kurt Schwoppe. We invite you to continue the conversation here on the GeoNet Community by sharing your questions, ideas, experiences and thoughts from the workshop. Thanks and we look forward to seeing your contributions!    For more FedGIS 2017 discussions and updates, visit the FedGIS Conference space in the GeoNet Community.  ... View more

Thanks for joining today's "Intro to ArcGIS Insights" workshop hosted by Art Haddad and Linda Beale We invite you to continue the conversation here by sharing your questions, ideas, experiences and thoughts from the workshop. Thanks and we look forward to seeing your contributions!  Learn more about Insights from Linda in the latest Video Link : 3691‌.    For more FedGIS 2017 discussions and updates, visit the FedGIS Conference space in the GeoNet Community.  ... View more

Thanks for joining today's "Analyzing Multidimensional Scientific Data in ArcGIS" workshop hosted by Sudhir Raj Shrestha! We invite you to continue the conversation here by sharing your questions, ideas, experiences and thoughts from the workshop. Thanks and we look forward to seeing your contributions!  Sciences‌ For more FedGIS 2017 discussions and updates, visit the FedGIS Conference‌ space.  ... View more

Editor's note: We're live blogging the Monday morning plenary on this post. For more discussions and updates this week visit the FedGIS Conference‌ space here in the GeoNet Community.  9:00amEST FedGIS 2017 is underway! The plenary kicks off as Jack welcomes attendees and continues an Esri conference tradition inviting us to turn around and say "hello" to each other. I had the pleasure of talking with Rolando from the Department of Defense. He's excited to learn more about clean data and GIS.    Jack jumps in and recognizes the Winners of the Global Content Challenge, and then David Lilley of the Department of Homeland Security is awarded the "Making a Difference award. David thanks Jack and says this recognition and important work is because of "the power of partnerships built with Esri.  Jack shares his vision of the future of GIS and it's impact on the world: "If we're going to have a positive future. It's going to take us working together to make it work."  Jack shares the Science of Where. "What is it? It's the "Geography and Technology of GIS coming together."    "Humans have never been more capable, now is the time to apply the Science of Where. We need to scale it out.  realize what is possible and collaborate among all levels of our organizations."  9:30am  Jack highlights the impact and power of GIS in government agency and projects.   9:45am  Jack dives into sharing how Big Data, Imagery and Real-time are key elements to Esri platform and they are impacting GIS and together they changing how we understand our world.  Jack shares that "Smart means real-time. This is so exciting!" He then welcomes David Attaway who demonstrates the power of Insights showing it as a powerful platform and tool to fight global terrorism and its sociogeographic impact.  10:00am Tim Clark shares how ArcGIS Pro is improving workflows through wildfires. He takes us through a real-time use case and shows us how to use the 3D imagery and space time cube.  "You can maximize your data and apply it to the meaning of your symbology. ArcGIS Pro is a connected environment and this integration can make your workflows easier."   10:30am A portal to portal cross-agency use case shows how the Fusion Center in Virginia is collaborating with partners to better understand and address issues caused by heroine overdoses in their local counties.  Jack shares the new stats on ArcGIS online: 3.8 Million users  1 Billion day map views  7.9 million items 18.8 million open data downloads  Jack takes us through the ArcGIS Enterprise and its new distributed architecture, and then gives us a tour of the ArcGIS Hub that's a new cloud-based GIS for community engagement.  10:45amEST Heading into the break Jack thanks the audience. "Geography has never been so important. It's enabling the Science of Where and creating a platform for creating a better future.  You've made it come alive. You're building the maps that run our country. It's a great privilege to serve and work with you."  We're taking a short break on the plenary and will be back shortly.  What did you think so far? Share your thoughts and feedback in the comments!  11:08am And we're back! A video about the "Science of Where" welcomes us back. Then Tyson Quink takes us through what's new in ArcGIS online:  Vector basemaps  Joined features tool   Publishing WSFS servers in web maps  New and improved Smart mapping and 3D Analysis tools, vector tiles and more.  Publish to 3D mapping and Droan2map 11:30am Federal Aviation Administration team takes us through how they use ArcGIS to make sure planes stay out off restricted airspace when landing in Washington DC and flying for passengers remains safe and uneventful so you can send that happily send that "just landed" text to your family."  Did you know...? 690,000 drones are in operation since they first become legal to fly in recent years.  Drones can freely fly below 400 feet but the FAA still has to figure out how we balance legal drone flight paths with maintaining safe airspace that is always dynamic and changing. (yes, they use ArcGIS to do it) 11:50am  The Chesapeake Conservatory team shows how they are using ArcGIS Pro to better understand and solve watershed issues. "In the past this type of data processing might take a week, with ArcGIS Pro we are able process 3.8 billion pixels of NAIP imagery in high resolution in 5 minutes."  12:02pm The Ardent MC team shares how they used the Operations Dashboard to bring teams together to make decisions, synchronize data and promote operational awareness.   They also shared 3 tips to create Operational Awareness with GIS: 1. Paperwork before process. Do this first before begin your projects.  2. Get to know the gatekeepers. Build relationships and educate those who are the influential and on the front lines. 3. Agile Management approach. Agile isn't just for product development use it to manage your teams and change how you work.    12:15pmEST We have apps! Chris from the Esri team takes us through how you can take GIS into the field via the helpful workforce friendly and mobile Field Apps. The Loudoun county team takes us through their new GeoHub and share how they're using it to improve the lives of the local families and businesses.    And that's a wrap! We hope you enjoyed the plenary presentations. What did you think of the talks and demos? Share your thoughts and comments below.  Thanks for following along during this live blog. As the conference continues, be sure to join the discussions and daily update conversations in the FedGIS Conference‌ space.   ... View more