Presentation by David McChesney of ESRI CANADA on its Community Maps Program. Delivered at the Water and Environmental Hub track of the 2011 Cybera Summit.

1. ESRI Canada Community Maps Program

2. ArcGIS
A Simple & Pervasive System for Using Maps & Geographic Information
Web Browser
Web Map, Flex,
Cloud/Web
 Visualize
Silverlight, Sharepoint
Services
Explorer Online  Compile
 Analyze
Enterprise
 Integrate Server
Mobile iPhone
 Collaborate
Windows Mobile
 Communicate
Local
Desktop
ArcView
ArcEditor
ArcInfo

3. What is ArcGIS.com?
• ArcGIS Online – Content
– Where you find, share, use, and organize maps
and other resources from ESRI and the user
community
– Built-in to your ArcGIS experience
• ArcGIS.com – Web Site
– A Web site where you can begin your online
GIS experience
– A new component of the ArcGIS System

4. ArcGIS Online Maps
Maps built by and for the ArcGIS Community
World Imagery Map
World Street Map World Topographic Map
ESRI Developer Summit 2008

5. ArcGIS Online Is a Cloud Based GIS
Supporting Online and on Premise Deployment
Applications
Providing GIS as SaaS . . .
. . . For Individuals, Departments, and the Enterprise

6. What can you do at ArcGIS.com?
Sign in to ArcGIS.com
Search
Make Maps
See what others
have done

7. ArcGIS.com Gallery
Featured Maps and Apps from the ArcGIS Community
Maps
Mobile Apps
Apps

8. ArcGIS.com Gallery
Hover over thumbnail for more information
Description, rating,
and comments
Click to open or
view more details

9. ArcGIS.com Gallery
Map and App Details
Rating
Description
Comments
Map Contents with
link to Services Directory

10. Make Maps at ArcGIS.com
Create and open maps across applications
• Your choice of applications
– ArcGIS.com Viewer
– ArcGIS Explorer Online
JavaScript Viewer
iPhone
Explorer Online

11. Sign Up with your ESRI Global Account
• When you sign in to ArcGIS.com you can:
– Create and save maps
– Add maps and apps
– Create and join groups
My Groups
My Content

12. Community Topographic Basemap
• Template Based
• Collaborative
• Multi-Scale
• Authoritative Source
• Many Participants

13. Background
• Started Community Maps Program in 2009
• Small scale basemap (Canvec)
• Large scale basemap (Provincial and
Community)

14. Canadian Community Maps Program
• Authoritative Data for Your Applications
• Consume in ArcGIS Desktop/Server/Online
• High Quality Maps
• Provide Feedback Moncton
Toronto
Kamloops Nanaimo

15. Key Driver for the Program
A National Web Basemap for Canada

16. A New Community has Emerged
Working Together Towards a Common Goal
• Building a National Web Basemap
• A Foundation for a National GIS

17. Community Maps Program

18. Community Maps Program
Online Maps using Authoritative, Rich, Local Data Sources
• Community maps hosted by ESRI on
ArcGIS Online
• Freely available to ArcGIS users
World Topo Map World Imagery World Street Map
Canada Portugal Hong Kong

19. ESRI wants to …
• Curate Online Basemaps
• Work with authoritative data providers (our
users)
• Promote a community process that brings
together key data providers
• Publish our collective results as a
community map
• Provide iterative releases
• Work with you to update and maintain
basemaps
• Use ArcGIS Online as a platform to facilitate
this community initiative

20. Benefits of Participation
• Detailed Basemap for a Community is
Online
• High-quality cartography with your accurate
data
• High-performance and availability service
• No hosting costs or support required from
provider

21. Benefits of Participation
• Basemap is freely available to ArcGIS and
Web users
– Use in your ArcGIS maps and apps
– Use in your public facing Web apps
• Developer APIs freely available to build
Web Apps
– REST, JavaScript, Flex, Silverlight APIs
available
– Combine your map services with community
basemap

22. Benefits to Community Participation
• Citation of participant as data provider for
its local area
– Referenced in online documentation and related
marketing materials
– Promotes the valuable GIS work being
performed by participant organizations

23. City of Toronto – 1:1,000

24. Mashup Example
Basemap with Points of Interest as an operational layer
• The community map is the basis for many
more maps and applications.

25. Top 100 Infrastructure Projects
http://top100projects.ca/

26. Keeping the Community Map Up to
Date
Community Map Natural
Exchange Resources
Canada
2-Way (National)
Replication
2-Way
Replication
Province
Moncton Langley Toronto

27. Published
– NRCan CanVec – St. Paul, AB
– Toronto, ON – Brandon, MB
– Kamloops, BC – Vancouver, BC
– Nanaimo, BC – District of North
– Moncton, BC Vancouver, BC
– Twp. of Langley, BC – Saskatoon, SK
– St. John’s, NF – Surrey, BC
– St. Albert, AB – Oak Bay, BC
– Banff, AB – Fredericton, NB
– Regina, SK – Kingston, ON

28. Processing
– Gatineau, PQ
– Hay River, NWT
– Wood Buffalo, AB
– Brampton, ON
– Cowichan Valley, BC
– Fort St. John, BC
– Morinville, AB
– Prince George, BC
– Thompson-Nicola Regional, BC

29. Expression of Interest
• Olds College • Sudbury
• Saanich • York Region
• Victoriaville • Grey County
• NWT • Brantford
• Region of Peel • Halifax Regional
• University of Ottawa Municipality
• Woodstock • Service Nova Scotia
• Hamilton • Miramichi
• London • Kenora
• Oxford County • Ville de Rimouski
• Ville de Lévis
• Village of Burns Lake
• Town of Beaumont

30. How do organizations participate?
1) Contact ESRI Community Maps Program
Manager at:
communitymaps@esricanada.com
2) Program Manager will introduce and
describe program details
3) Execute appropriate agreements
• Open Data policy or Participation Agreement
4) ESRI Canada builds the map
5) Review map with participant
6) ESRI Canada will publish map on
www.arcgis.com

31. To find out more please visit:
http://www.esricanada.com/communitymaps/

32. Community Maps - ArcGIS Explorer
Demonstration