arcgis open data - best practices
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Best Practices for Working with ArcGIS Open Data
Courtney Claessens, Product Engineer Esri R&D Center, Washington DC
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What this session is
• Tips and tricks: - Configuring your services - Preparing your data - Organizing in ArcGIS Online - Simple site design
• For: - Those with ArcGIS Open Data running now - Those interested in spinning up a site
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What this session is not
• In-depth overview of ArcGIS Open Data • Step-by-step how-to • Other great sessions for more details:
- Design and Style Your Sites: Tuesday 11:30 am (TW) - Engaging your Community with Open Data: Tuesday 2:30 pm - How to Federate ArcGIS Open Data Catalogs: Tuesday 4:30 pm - Bridging Communities and Data with ArcGIS Open Data: Thursday 3:15 pm (TW)
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ArcGIS Open Data: Part of the ArcGIS Platform
Desktop Web Device
Server Online Content and Services
Portal
Web GIS
Open Data Site
Apps
Services
Access
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Simple, integrated, open
ArcGIS Open Data Technical Session - Esri UC 2015 5
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• Data-centric view • Open formats • Hosted and configurable
• Included with ArcGIS subscriptions
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not all data is created equal
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tricky: introducing your data to new users that new use cases
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Ultimate goals + session outline
• Data that is performant and quick to view and download (service configuration) • Data that is citizen-friendly and easy to understand (data preparation and
organization) • Sites that are inviting and give user guidance (site design)
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Dataset and service preparation How to best configure your services
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Getting data ready from ArcMap
• Humanize your attributes: use attribute aliases
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Getting data ready from ArcMap
• Humanize your attributes: use attribute aliases • Hide unnecessary or empty fields
- Keep ObjectID
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Let’s talk server and services
• Latest is greatest (but definitely need 10+) • Service parameters
- Max record count should be less than 5,000
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Let’s talk server and services
• Latest is greatest (but definitely need 10+) • Service parameters
- Max record count should be less than 5,000
• Service capabilities - Enable WMS, WFS, WCS (where applicable) - Turn off feature access if not needed
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Let’s talk server and services
• Latest is greatest (but definitely need 10+) • Service parameters
- Max record count should be less than 5,000
• Service capabilities - Enable WMS, WFS, WCS (where applicable) - Turn off feature access if not needed
• Organize datasets into multiple services - No more than 20 to a service - A unique title for each dataset
• Must be publicly accessible
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ArcGIS Online preparation How to best configure your organization and data in Online
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Let’s talk organization structures
• ArcGIS Online user roles - Open Data administrator
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Let’s talk organization structures
• ArcGIS Online user roles - Open Data administrator
• Staging groups – good for orgs with multiple contributors • Thematic groups – comes in handy when adding data
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Let’s talk organization structures
• ArcGIS Online user roles - Open Data administrator
• Staging groups – good for orgs with multiple contributors • Thematic groups – comes in handy when adding and organizing data on your site • Include good group names, icons, descriptions
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Registering data and editing metadata
• Register individual layers over full services • Gives greater and easier control of metadata
• Title, description, access and use constraints (license), tags • License: Creative Commons is ideal! • Add structured metadata on ArcGIS Online
- Accessible from dataset page and included in shapefile downloads
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Site customization Some tips for site design and user guidance
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Basic customization
• Header CSS – a little goes a long way! - Overwrite the predefined classes that you want to change - Use developer tools in your browser to identify classes - Can still use wizard for the body of your site
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Basic customization
• Header CSS – a little goes a long way! - Overwrite the predefined classes that you want to change - Use developer tools in your browser to identify classes - Can still use wizard for the body of your site
• Place categories on your homepage
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Basic customization
• Header CSS – a little goes a long way! - Overwrite the predefined classes that you want to change - Use developer tools in your browser to identify classes - Can still use wizard for the body of your site
• Place categories on your homepage • Open source icon libraries
- Icons8 - Noun Project - Bootstrap Glyphicons
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Basic customization
• Header CSS – a little goes a long way! - Overwrite the predefined classes that you want to change - Use developer tools in your browser to identify classes - Can still use wizard for the body of your site
• Place categories on your homepage • Open source icon libraries
- Icons8 - Noun Project - Bootstrap Glyphicons
• Add contact information or feedback mechanisms to homepage
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• Data preparation - Attribute aliases - Hide unnecessary fields
• Service configuration - Max record count - Enabling WMS, WFS, WCS - Maximum 20 datasets per service
• ArcGIS Online organization - User roles - Staging groups
• Registering data - Individual layers - Effective metadata
• Site design - Header CSS - Groups - Feedback mechanisms
What did we learn?
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Other Open Data Sessions bit.ly/OpenDataUC
• Design and Style Your Sites • Tuesday 11:30 am in Demo Theater 11 - Developer
• Engaging your Community with Open Data • Tuesday 2:30 pm in Demo Theater 8 – Online GIS
• How to Federate ArcGIS Open Data Catalogs • Tuesday 4:30 pm in Demo Theater 8 – Online GIS
• Bridging Communities and Data with ArcGIS Open Data • Thursday 3:15 pm (TW) in Room 31 C
• Open Data Special Interest Group • Tuesday 5:30 pm in Room 31 C
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Want to learn more?
• Documentation - ArcGIS Open Data docs - ArcGIS Online docs
• Related Esri Training and Tutorials - ArcGIS Open Data Live Training Seminar (Oct 2014)
• bit.ly/OpenDataLTS
• Additional Resources - ArcGIS Open Data on the ArcGIS Blog - ArcGIS Open Data on GeoNet
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Session survey
• Please fill out the session survey in your mobile app • Search Open Data in the mobile app • Select Best Practices • Click “Demo Theatre Survey” • Answer a few short questions and enter any comments
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