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Intended for database administrators as recommendations for establishing the product workspaces in an Enterprise Geodatabase (Oracle®, SQL Server®, PostgreSQL®).

Production Mapping (Topographic Mapping / Defense Mapping), Data Reviewer, Workflow Manager, Maritime, Aviation

MCS Enterprise Geodatabases Best Practices 

Intended for database administrators as recommendations for establishing the product workspaces*  in an Enterprise Geodatabase (Oracle®, SQL Server®, PostgreSQL®).

*Production Mapping, Data Reviewer, Workflow Manager

Every year, in preparation for Esri’s annual User Conference, Jack Dangermond asks managers across the company to prepare Questions and Answers of concern to their user communities. We reached out to you and your peers, and have worked to provide thoughtful answers to each question. The entire set of hundreds of “2017 Esri UC Q&As” in 49 categories was published on June 26^th.  

The 2017 answers for our industry, addressing the unique workflows and challenges of national mapping and charting, can be found by clicking the National Mapping link under the Industries heading in the left-hand menu.

Key Takeaways

• Esri's ArcGIS enables secure and quick delivery of your authoritative information to key stakeholders, anywhere, anytime, and on any device, empowering evidence-based decision making across government and industry.
• The ArcGIS platform enables you to optimize efficiency, reduce costs, and increase accuracy while maintaining your authoritative data.
• Esri provides solutions for national mapping, defense mapping, maritime charting and bathymetry and aviation charting and airports information management.
• ArcGIS empowers you to automate and streamline your workflows to collect and manage quality information once and produce many authoritative information products, allowing you to be more efficient and cut costs.
• Esri's ArcGIS supports National Mapping organizations' imagery workflows for analysis, management, analytics, and ortho mapping.
• ArcGIS is an effective platform for national governments to manage their modern, secure, and efficient production environments for national mapping, statistics, and imagery content, and other national geospatial authority organizations.

Look deeper in this resource to understand Esri’s road map for products. You can also learn a great deal more about this year’s event and how to make the most of your time at the UC.

Here are some of the answers with the most visits so far:

• Can you share with me the future of the ArcGIS Desktop technology?
• What is the meaning of this year’s User Conference Theme: Applying the Science of Where?
• What emerging trends are influencing Esri’s GIS work?
• How is Esri doing?
• Can you share some of the GIS usage trends Esri is seeing among users this year?

We hope to see you at the UC! Visit this link to see the UC 2017 Industry Flier for National Mapping Events and Activities. Be certain to visit our Industry area in the UC Expo.

If you’re unable to attend, be sure to check GeoNet for live blogging of the plenary session and daily updates from the event.

The Civilian Topographic Map (CTM) is designed to allow you to easily create civilian style 25K topographic data and maps using Esri Production Mapping.  The first release of CTM includes a geodatabase data model as well as sample configurations for editing, quality assurance, and cartography for creating 1:25000 scale civilian style topographic maps. 

You can adopt the CTM data model holistically and implement all configuration rules rapidly, easily, and repeatedly or you can use these files as a sample to implement this type of configuration with a different data model.  The CTM configuration provided can also be configured as a sample map product for Product on Demand (POD).  For more information on POD see the following POD GitHub Repro:  https://github.com/Esri/product-on-demand/releases. 

CTM can be accessed on GitHub:  https://github.com/Esri/CTM/releases 

Requirements:

ArcGIS Desktop 10.3

Esri Production Mapping 10.3

Release Notes (text in GitHub on the release):

The Civilian Topographic Map (CTM) is designed to allow users to easily create civilian style 25K topographic data and maps using Esri Production Mapping. The first release of CTM includes a geodatabase data model as well as configurations for editing, quality assurance, and cartography for creating 1:25000 scale civilian style topographic maps. Organizations can adopt the CTM data model holistically and implement all configuration rules rapidly, easily, and repeatedly creating topographic data and maps.  Additionally, these files can be used as a guide with a different data model.

Automated data checks help organizations efficiently detect errors and ensure that data adheres to business rules and quality standards. As users of spell-check programs know, however, some errors cannot be detected by automated methods. In this course, you will learn visual review techniques to supplement automated data checks. This second layer of quality control is essential to ensure the accuracy of mission-critical GIS data and all the products derived from that data. Learn how to:

• Identify scenarios when a visual data review is appropriate.
• Generate a statistically significant random sample of your data for review and analysis.
• Create a polygon grid to guide a systematic visual review of feature geometry.
• Indicate missing, misplaced, miscoded, or redundant features.
• Inspect versioned data and identify differences between versions.

Check it out today!

Data QC with ArcGIS: Visual Review

http://training.esri.com/gateway/index.cfm?fa=catalog.webCourseDetail&courseid=2886

If you found this course helpful, you may also enjoy the following complementary course. This course teaches automated workflows to ensure data adheres to your organization's quality standards. You will learn about the three phases of the quality control life cycle and techniques to validate data consistently and efficiently.

Data QC: Automating Validation

http://training.esri.com/gateway/index.cfm?fa=catalog.webCourseDetail&courseid=2687

The third edition of Building European Spatial Data Infrastructures presents an update on the efforts of the European Union (EU) to create a system for spatial data sharing among the 28 EU member nations. Building a spatial data infrastructure (SDI)—a common framework or language for sharing geographic information—will make providing geographic information and developing geographic information system (GIS)-based applications easier within the EU...  Read more here.

Geodesy is defined as the science of accurately measuring and understanding the Earth's geometric shape, orientation in space, and gravity field.  Or, as NASA puts it, it is the study of where you are, where you've been, and where you are going.  Simple enough, right?  Geodesy as a science has existed for thousands of years, evolving from equations based on point-to-point data to space-based measurements used to determine coordinate systems for mapping our planet.

If you have studied geography or worked with GIS, you have relied on geodetic standards to provide context for your data.  The following video put out by NASA does a fantastic job of explaining the basics of Geodesy - what it is, where it came from, and how it forms the foundation of our study of the earth.  Check it out and share - this would be a great intro video for students or those in training to learn more about the field.