00:01My name is Ismael Chivite. I am the ArcGIS Server product manager.

00:05I want to group kind of the different features that we added to the product into thematic sections...

00:11...so we will talk about what is new that affects how you deliver Web mapping. How do you create Web maps?

00:20What is new that will make your analysis in [ArcGIS] Server more powerful?

00:24What is new that allows you to create new geocollaboration workflows and Web editing applications?

00:31What is new regarding deployments of ArcGIS Server, specifically deployments in the cloud on Amazon EC2?

00:37And then we'll have a few slides at the end that kind of take a few other important things...

00:42...but that I was not able to get into these groups.

00:45Before I start, I want to let you know that ArcGIS Server 10 has some nice additions, actually many, many, many of them...

00:54...many little and big things, but basically builds upon 9.3.1.

01:009.3.1 was so far our best release for ArcGIS Server, very solid; always software has issues but it's a fairly stable release...

01:09...and we just built upon it. We are not dramatically changing things.

01:13In fact, from a migration point of view, the migration from 9.3.1 to 10 is pretty, pretty smooth.

01:18You can actually, for instance, leave ArcSDE 9.3.1 running and install ArcGIS Server 10...

01:23...so you can do Web editing and some of the things you have here.

01:27Your applications working with the Web mapping APIs built on top of 9.3.1 can hit 10 services...

01:34...except those things that are new, of course, but they will continue to work.

01:37And your 10 applications will be able to connect to your 9.3.1 services as well.

01:43So let's talk first about Web mapping.

01:47What is new that makes Web mapping easier or more...more powerful in ArcGIS Server 10?

01:55First of all, we are putting a lot of effort trying to make Web mapping accessible to the non-GIS expert...

02:04...the non-GIS administrator, so everyone could build a Web mapping application.

02:09And I want to highlight the role that ArcGIS.com plays in all of this. ArcGIS.com is a public site hosted by Esri.

02:17And it allows you to find, create, and share geographic information maps with others.

02:23And in the context of ArcGIS Server as you can imagine, these maps are coming from ArcGIS Server.

02:28They are ArcGIS Server services, and people just create mashups and they share them with others.

02:34To me, the powerful thing about ArcGIS.com is not that we have a fully fledged GIS application...

02:40...that you can use from a Web browser. I think the power is that it gives a different...

02:45...fresh look at how we allow people to build geographic knowledge and share it with others.

02:52With ArcGIS.com, you no longer need to be an administrator, an ArcGIS Server administrator...

02:57...and have root access to the machine to create a Web mapping application.

03:02Anyone can now go to this site and take ArcGIS Server services and create a mashup without developing a single line of code...

03:09...and then share that information with others.

03:12That's very powerful because it fosters collaboration within the organization, allows you to push your GIS investments...

03:19...across the organization so people can use tools that are easy to use this geographic information.

03:25There are two viewers that we are going to talk about, the ArcGIS.com Viewer and the ArcGIS Explorer Online.

03:33So let's do a quick demonstration so you can see these in action.

03:37I guess many of you are familiar already with ArcGIS.com. You have seen the site.

03:46I'm not sure what’s going on with the resolution here. Excuse me just a second.

03:57Okay; that's better.

03:59So, I'm going to go to ArcGIS.com, and you probably have seen this site already.

04:06But let's look at this site from the context of the ArcGIS Server user.

04:11As you know, you can come to ArcGIS.com, go to the gallery, and the gallery displays different maps that people create.

04:17You can find maps within ArcGIS.com by using the Search...

04:21...and this search can work on public maps that everyone can access but also on the groups to which you belong.

04:29So you can create groups within ArcGIS.com so you only share maps with people that belong to these groups.

04:35Now the question is how these maps get in here in the first place.

04:40So often, everything starts with ArcGIS...ArcGIS Desktop and ArcGIS Server.

04:45So this is ArcGIS Desktop, and I have a map.

04:49I'm going to publish a map and put it...push it to ArcGIS.com so you can see that experience.

04:54So, the first thing that I'm going to do is...you can see that I have different petroleum assets here...

05:00...wells, pipes, and oilfields, and I'm going to create a map service out of this and push to ArcGIS.com.

05:05Because I want people to mash up this information with other basemaps, I'm actually going to get rid of that basemap...

05:13...and publish just my business data.

05:15And now I'm going to save my map document, and I'm going to use the Map Service Publishing toolbar.

05:22So, now I can just push this map service to my server, and this will create a new map service.

05:31At this point, people with Web browsers can access my map document because it's a new map service.

05:38So, in fact, I'm going to use a browser now to access this map service.

05:45So, let me go back to my laptop. As you can see, this is a remote desktop to a machine.

05:49I'm going to...going down to my laptop and kind of connect to the Services directory.

05:54The Services directory is basically an HTML page that displays the services that run in my server.

06:00And this is a page that normally only the ArcGIS administrator access. It's kind of pretty ugly looking. Right?

06:08But it's just for administrators.

06:10So, here you can see that I have a folder, and within this folder I have the map service that I just created.

06:16And it exposes the different metadata information about it, and I can preview this map service from a Web browser.

06:24You can see my oilfields, my pipes, and...and if I get close enough, the wells.

06:29This is not different than 9.3.1. This is exactly what you saw in 9.3.1.

06:33What has changed in 10 is that now we have a new link...

06:38...which allows you to open this map service that you created from a fancier application.

06:43Well, this is one of these out-of-the-box ArcGIS.com applications.

06:48The application includes a basemap, which by the way I can change.

06:52For instance, I'm going to use this Bing Maps layer because it has more names for towns around.

06:59The application also allows me to click on details and display a nice-looking legend...

07:04...which is created dynamically from my map service.

07:07And if I go to Contents, I can even click here to control the visibility of different layers...

07:15...and I can even change the transparency of the layers that I have added to my application.

07:22So, it's a very simple application. You can see that it has some print options, and so on.

07:29The point here is that while I was changing the basemap, changing the extent, the transparency...

07:34...I was in fact creating a Web application.

07:37I don't need to be an administrator to do that; anyone can use this application to mash up the services and create applications.

07:44In fact, I can now take this and save it. So I will save this as a Persian Gulf Petroleum map.

07:58And here I will provide some tags so people can more easily find my map.

08:04This map is saved within my profile in ArcGIS.com.

08:09So nobody can access this map at this point, unless I share it.

08:14So, if I go to my content, you'll see all the different resources that I have shared with ArcGIS.com from ArcGIS Server.

08:22And here you can see the Persian Gulf Petroleum map. If I click on it, you can see the...the thumbnail.

08:28I can tweet my map, I can put it into Facebook, and I can also share it.

08:34So, if I share it, I can say everyone can access it.

08:38So if I click there, you could from your iPhone, your iPad, or any Web browser go to ArcGIS.com...

08:43...look for a smile, and automatically you'll get to this map.

08:46So, you can create maps from it, but I'm not going to do that.

08:51I want to keep that secret to the UC 2010 Group...

08:55...so any person belonging to the UC 2000 Group within ArcGIS.com can now search and find this map.

09:03So if I go to Groups, UC 2010, you'll see that now it has my Petroleum Map map. Okay?

09:10So let's say that I'm a different user; I logged in to the Web site with a different account, I used the Search...

09:15...I look for Petroleum, I find this map. Now I can look at the details, which gives me the metadata.

09:22I can also see...look at some comments that people may have added to this map.

09:27And, of course, I can open it.

09:29I can open it with the same application I used to create the map or with ArcGIS Explorer Online.

09:35ArcGIS Explorer Online is yet another application that is hosted within ArcGIS.com...

09:40...and it's a bit more powerful, more functional than the one you saw before.

09:45It's built on Silverlight, so you need the plug-in, but it has some fancier capabilities to create presentations...

09:50...to add notes and graphics on top of the map.

09:54And it also has, of course, the, you know, similar functionality like if I want to change the basemap, I can change it there.

10:03And I can add additional content from ArcGIS Server. I can add here a...a...a little note, and so on.

10:13I'm not going to go into the details of ArcGIS Explorer Online.

10:16The only point I want to make here is that for the first time...

10:19...we have a very excellent nice gateway into your ArcGIS Server services.

10:25That's something that people will get; people connect to the Services directory or to ArcGIS Server Manager or even...

10:32...either they need an administrator password or they get into this developer thing.

10:37ArcGIS.com is an easy-to-understand site on which people can very easily get maps from here and there...

10:45...create applications, sharing them, add comments, and so on. And that is extremely powerful.

10:50You'll see people within your organizations getting this GIS thing, because it’s just a map; they don't need to be GIS experts.

10:58That is, I believe, truly very powerful.

11:04So, don't forget; this is a public site. It's being hosted by Esri.

11:10Now many of you have limitations or constraints.

11:15They need to keep your applications very secure because they have sensitive data.

11:19And ArcGIS.com is not one of these places where you want to put sensitive data.

11:23It has this type of Flickr kind of security. Right?

11:28Yes, you have groups and you can restrain things...

11:30...but petroleum assets and expiration sites, you probably don't want to put into ArcGIS.com.

11:35Well, we have other applications that kind of fit that niche...

11:38...where you have to have an application that is hosted in your network.

11:44And that is the ArcGIS Viewer for Flex, which we released in beta about a week ago...

11:49...and we actually give it...gave it an update on Monday to add additional widgets.

11:55The ArcGIS Viewer for Flex is basically an application that you can download locally, and then you can configure it.

12:00You can configure the layers, the map extent, but also the widgets, the tools that the application has.

12:06When I go to ArcGIS.com and I use these applications that you saw, the...the tools are there; you cannot add or remove tools.

12:12In this application, you have full control over the tools that the user is exposed to.

12:17So, it allows you to create very focused applications by simply tweaking a text file.

12:23Also, as a developer, you can extend the viewer, so you can create custom widgets, which plug into this viewer application.

12:33Let's...let's have a look at the...the experience of...of this thing.

12:47Okay. So in this case, I'm going to go to the Resources.ArcGIS.com.

12:52Remember, this in the past used to be Resources.Esri.com.

12:56Now it's Resources.ArcGIS.com. We like to change names on things like this.

13:01You go to Server, to the Server Resource Center, and now you click on Out-of-the-box applications or Applications, right here.

13:11And in this, you can see some of the applications that we saw before like ArcGIS.com, and so on...

13:18...in the Web Mapping Applications tab...

13:21...the ArcGIS.com Viewer, which we saw; the ArcGIS Explorer Online, which we saw too...

13:26...and then the ArcGIS Viewer for Flex.

13:28So you come here, and you click on Download Flex Viewer. This is going to...going to give you a small folder...

13:34...which contains a configurable application.

13:37I'm going to go back to my remote desktop session, and I'll go to the root folder. This is the Web Server folder.

13:48And here you can see this Flex Viewer folder. That is what I downloaded from that site.

13:54And if I open that folder, you see that it has different files...

13:58...and this is the configuration file that you can tweak to customize the application.

14:02We'll see that in just a minute. For now, I'm just going to access the application that you will get out of the box.

14:13Demos Flex Viewer. So literally, any...all you need to do is to get the application and put it into a Web server.

14:22And at that point, this is what you get.

14:24It has a few widgets in the top, different basemap switchers here, and then you can just navigate your maps...

14:32...and it has a bookmarks widget so you can navigate to different places, and many...many different tools.

14:39I'm not going to get into the details of this, because throughout the demonstration or this session...

14:44...you're going to see this viewer all the time with different demonstrations.

14:48So back to my Web server; if you want to create your custom application, what you would do is simply you copy, you paste...

15:02...and then I'm going to rename this to...let's call this Petrol.

15:07I get into here, and I edit this XML file.

15:12And this XML file, well, can be changed; you can change the title here. Right?

15:20Petroleum, whatever, and then, I know, this is going to be pretty tight on time.

15:29I thought this session was one hour and a half.

15:32And then, remember this is the...this is the map we created before. Remember this one. Right?

15:37So, this is the map I want to display into my application.

15:40So I'm going to copy the URL, go back here and say, for operational layers, I want one that is called Petroleum.

15:51It's dynamic, and then the URL will be this one. Okay.

16:01And then I save that, go back to my browser, and instead of going to Flex Viewer, I go to Petrol.

16:10So this will load the same application but now, if I...let's...let's go to the Middle East area...

16:17...which is where I have the data.

16:24Okay. Now I can go to here, Petroleum; that's the layer we...we configured, and those are my petroleum assets, right there.

16:35Okay? You understand? I mean, it's an easy...easy process, right? Configuration through text files.

16:42We'll work on it; we will add more tools.

16:43We are thinking also about creating kind of a non text file experience to configure this application.

16:49But for know, you can download this thing and...and just use it. Download, configure, and deploy.

16:56You can deploy within your intranet, secure it; you can extend it; it's a wonderful tool.

17:03More out-of-the-box things. Now in ArcGIS Server 10, you can put your maps very easily into SharePoint, so we have...

17:10You go to Esri.com/sharepoint, and you can download Web parts.

17:14You need to ask your SharePoint administrator to install these Web parts within your SharePoint site.

17:19But at that point, if you have permissions to edit the look and feel of your SharePoint pages, you'll see two controls...

17:26...a control that displays information in a table view and also in map view.

17:31And it's easy to configure, I mean, there is...it's...

17:34...what you see what you get experience to add your maps and layers into this Web part.

17:41iPhone is another one.

17:43Every time I publish a map service, it can be accessed by Web browsers, by ArcMap, and now by iPhone.

17:49So you can download the iPhone application and have an experience similar to the ArcGIS.com one...

17:55...where you search for a map and then right there will be your map.

17:59So without writing a single line of code, you can get maps into an iPhone application.

18:04We also have an SDK, which allows you to build these iPhone applications from scratch...

18:08...and they can, of course, hit your ArcGIS Server services.

18:12So, this was kind of a big effort for us in ArcGIS Server 10, kind of bring down the...

18:19...the barriers of entry to creating Web applications and using ArcGIS Server services.

18:30But that’s just about the application.

18:32We did a lot at the map service level to make sure that your maps are more beautiful and more efficient.

18:41First of all, we are increasing the number of map services available to you so you can create these mashups.

18:47And I want to highlight that with ArcGIS Server 10, the use of Bing Maps is, in practice, is kind of free for ArcGIS Server users.

18:56Bing Maps free for ArcGIS Server users, and I say...

19:00...I say “free,” quote, because there are some limits to the amount of tiles that you can use from virtual...from Bing Maps.

19:07But the number is so big that, in practice, for Internet applications, it’s going to be pretty much free. Okay? For you.

19:14The number is...is big enough. And on top of this Bing Maps licensing change, we have added more content to ArcGIS.com...

19:23...more layers, as you know, from other presentations on ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS.com.

19:28If you want the details, I think you should go to these sessions.

19:31But I wanted to highlight this Bing Maps thing.

19:35The other thing is you want to create your own map services...

19:39...and we made changes in the map service engine so you can create more beautiful maps.

19:44In the past, you know that in 9.3.1 we released this new optimized map service. Remember that...the optimized map service?

19:52Well, it had a few limitations.

19:54You couldn’t use text placement from Maplex; you couldn’t use cartographic representations.

20:00Those limitations are gone.

20:01You can now use them with optimized map services, which is the fastest way to get dynamic map services done.

20:09And, also, we added other enhancements like support for query layers...

20:13...so you can add contents to the map document that you are going to publish as a map service...

20:21...that hit a SQL Server or Oracle database directly without having ArcSDE in the middle.

20:29We will talk about that later.

20:34Map animations is another one.

20:36Yes, you can create more beautiful maps because we support cartographic representations and Maplex.

20:40But now your maps can have...be...they can be animated. And it’s actually quite easy to do that.

20:48Actually, many of you using the developer APIs created map animations in Web browers in the past.

20:53But now, as you will see, it’s just much, much easier than ever before.

20:58Let me show you that with a demonstration.

21:17Having problems here with the resolution for some reason.

21:20Anyways, back to my map document, Petroleum Assets.

21:23If I identify my oilfields, you’ll see that there is a field that tells me when this map was discovered, or opened. Okay?

21:35We are going to use this field to enable map animations on the map service.

21:39So I’m going to right-click on the Fields layer, and there’s a new tab...the Time tab.

21:45This allows me to create time-aware layers.

21:48Here’s the Time field; the file format, which is just a year...

21:52...and I checked so information when I go back and forth in time is displayed cumulatively. Okay?

22:00This is how I defined the map...the time properties of my layers.

22:04So all you need is basically features that have a date. That’s all you need to create map animations.

22:11Now, once you have enabled this time awareness on the layer, you can use different tools to go back and forth in time.

22:22So, here in ArcMap, you can see this slider bar, and I can go back and forth. Okay.

22:27But this is ArcMap, and we are talking about ArcGIS Server.

22:30So, how this works in ArcGIS Server...very easy.

22:33All you need to do is to publish a map service which has time-aware layers.

22:38So, I’m going to click again here; I’m going to republish the...the map service, and it will complain.

22:44It will say it already exists. So I’m going to overwrite and then publish again, now with time information.

22:53And, as you probably know, I need to clear the cache again.

22:57By the way, in 10 you can clear the cache programmatically. You don’t need to go manually and do it.

23:04I know it’s kind of a pain to...to update the Services directory.

23:07So let’s go back to that service and back in the Services directory...

23:13...and now I’m going to refresh my cache in my browser here, hopefully.

23:23And you can see that it has time info.

23:27So the service is advertising to clients that there is some time information associated with my map.

23:34So now applications can connect to the service and figure it out. Okay, I can enable a slider bar so you can go back and forth.

23:41So let’s see that.

23:42I’m going to open the Flex Viewer.

23:48And, in this case, I changed the configuration of my viewer so it centers on that area.

23:53It adds the layer that we just published, and also I added a new widget, the time widget.

23:59So I click in here, and now, oh, everything goes away, because it’s filtering by time.

24:04It’s only displaying 1900s for oilfields.

24:09And now I can go back and forth and display here information, out of the box, no coding necessary. Right?

24:19Of course, with the APIs, the new APIs support this and you can do your custom applications as well.

24:29We don’t have time for details, but it’s really incredible what you can do with that.

24:32I mean it’s not like you can just go back and forth.

24:34You can have a slider bar with two knobs, so you can do only from 1900s to 1905, and then move that time window around.

24:44You can represent data by age, so if you are representing a hurricane, as time moves on...

24:51...the hurricane will be smaller and smaller, because it happened a long time ago.

24:55You know what I mean?

24:56You can animate image services; you can animate vector data, images, weather, all these things.

25:02So it’s pretty amazing what you can do with animations.

25:04And that helps us kind of communicate better through maps.

25:09Many of you are using cache map services...

25:11...and that’s a good thing because it’s probably the fastest and most scalable way to publish basemaps...

25:18...high, rich cartography on the Web.

25:20But creating these map caches is often kind of a nightmare, right?

25:25Because, you know, you have to create these folders with millions of small map tiles.

25:30And moving that thing around servers takes for days, fails.

25:35We know that; we are suffering ourselves when we put the map caches in ArcGIS Online.

25:41So, in 10, we are introducing a new format for the compact cache...it’s...for the map...map cache.

25:47It’s called the compact map cache format.

25:51And it’s nothing but big chunks of files that have the map tiles inside, so when you look at the map cache...

25:58...you’ll see that rather than having many millions of tiny 5 or 10 kilobyte map tiles, you have larger chunks.

26:08And that makes a tremendous difference, because operating systems like Linux or Windows have trouble managing files...

26:15...or folders that have millions of map tiles.

26:18Just to give you an example, you create a map cache of Europe land use, about four...four million map tiles.

26:24Just to delete the cache takes hours...hours just to delete the map tiles.

26:32If you want to move your map tiles from your staging environment to your production environment, it takes...

26:39...in our case, it took about nine hours to move just four map...four million map tiles...nine hours of time, moving.

26:46And the process can fail because the network...you know how it works.

26:50With a compact cache, we went from hours to minutes, from nine hours to nine minutes...

26:56...just because we were using compact cache...I mean, no secret.

26:59These guys, Windows and Linux, can more quickly move 10 gigs of data if they are in just a few files...

27:07...rather than spread over millions of them.

27:11It also helps with creation.

27:13Especially with these maps that are very simple, we spend a lot of time writing to disk as opposed to rendering the images.

27:19So you can see things like what used to take five hours to cache now takes one hour to cache.

27:25When the maps are more complex, we often spend more time rendering the map tiles than writing them to disk.

27:31So the difference between compact cache and exploded cache is not that big...at creation time.

27:38But deleting the cache is still slow with exploded, so for workflows where you are updating the cache...

27:44...compact cache is perfect, because you can delete the map tiles quicker, and then you just replace them with the new caches.

27:50So this is a very nice addition to ArcGIS Server 10 and...

28:03...okay, so, let me just open Windows Explorer here so you can see what these caches look like...ArcGIS cache.

28:17I have imagery here, the same structure as before but now we have these bundle files...

28:23...and you will notice that this one has 45 megabytes.

28:26Inside these compact, or bundle files, we have many map tiles.

28:31And you may think, well, but now you need to open the file and then it might be slower than before.

28:35It’s actually not slower than having exploded map caches. We did the retrieval tests on them.

28:43How do you create these map caches? No complication at all.

28:46You take your map service as usual, go to Service Properties, Caching tab, and you say I want to cache my map.

28:54In 9.3.1, this is the way you used to build map caches. No different in 10.

28:59But now you have an option, which by default is compact, and you can change from exploded to compact. Okay?

29:07That’s all you need to do to create a compact cache; just pick that.

29:10Also, one more important thing. When you pick compact, you have this option enabled.

29:15It’s the local directory, and this is a very important option when you have a caching job that needs many machines.

29:22So, let’s say I...I’m trying to cache the whole U.S., takes 15 days to cache the whole U.S.

29:28I need to get down to 1 day; well, let’s add 15 machines, right?

29:33Well, didn’t work that way because we had all these 15 machines trying to write to the same location at once...

29:39...and we had tremendous I/O bottlenecks.

29:41So it doesn’t matter how much iron you throw to your map caching job...

29:47...it won’t scale beyond a specific number of...of servers.

29:51With this option, we address that.

29:52What we do is we have every machine writing chunks of the map tiles locally on the machine...

29:59...and then, from time to time, when the bundles are ready, we move them to the common location where the real cache is.

30:05And that allows us to scale much better.

30:09Do you understand? Do you follow that? Yes?

30:13And then the last thing with compact cache, too, is that when you look at the tile format, not the map cache format...

30:20...the format of the images on that cache format.

30:22We have a new option; it’s called Mixed, and this is very nice when you are caching imagery.

30:27When you are caching imagery, you want to cache JPEG, because it’s compressed.

30:31You don’t want to cache PNG 32, but JPEG has an issue; it’s that browsers do not support transparency.

30:38So you...you can see the edges of the images with black or white pixels.

30:43This will basically look and see...okay, this map tile contains no pixels with no data, JPEG.

30:52This map tile has a few no-data pixels, then PNG 32.

30:58So the clients will see nice looking imagery in the optimal format. Only on the sites, we will use PNG 32.

31:07And because part of the image actually has no data, PNG 32 doesn’t work that bad in terms of the size of that image.

31:14Yes? I see some of you are thinking about it? Yeah? Okay.

31:22That’s the compact cache.

31:24[Inaudible audience question]

31:27From a speed point of view, it doesn’t matter. I mean, if you have an...a map tile that has just a few pixels with no data...

31:35...because we cache that map tile with PNG 32, the size is going to be much bigger than if you cache with JPEG.

31:41[Inaudible audience question]

31:45No, at creation time, it’s pretty much irrelevant. You know, using mixed versus just saying JPEG.

31:52Okay, so there are more things with geoprocessing than...

31:55...a very interesting one is we have added more geoprocessing tools so you can create collaborative workflows...

32:03...for...for building a map cache.

32:05So, basically, we have a tool to import and a tool to export map caches.

32:08Import is kind of nice, because I have county A caching their county, county B caching their county...

32:15...and then I use the import GP tool to import this cache into the master estate or nationwide map cache.

32:23And because map compact caches are so easy to move around, this workflow really works now.

32:29Because I can ship my compact cache in a DVD and then import, and so on.

32:34Export is similar; I can go to a map service, cache an extract...or an extract, a portion of that map cache...

32:43...and the interesting thing is that not only I can republish the map cache...

32:48...I can also take it to this laptop and read it with ArcGIS Desktop.

32:53So we...we have created a disconnected map cache format where you don’t need ArcGIS Server to look at the map cache...

32:59...you export, you put it into your laptop, and then when you navigate to that folder that has the map tiles...

33:05...it will look like a raster file...

33:09...literally, like a raster, and then in ArcMap, you display it.

33:12So, for people that go to the field with tablets, it’s perfect.

33:15Extract the area in compact cache, push to the laptop, and then they can use the basemaps.

33:21Right? Obviously, they cannot query the data and things like that, because they are just looking at images...

33:27...but for basemaps, it’s just perfect.

33:31Other map services enhancements...a lot, attachments.

33:34Attachments are like files that you can associate with features in a geodatabase, like pictures and videos.

33:40So you can have these geodatabase attachments, and then your map service will expose them...

33:45...so people over the Web can look at attachments to your features. They can even edit the attachments.

33:51We look at this in another session; it’s called Web Editing with ArcGIS Server 10, I believe, which is not in the agenda...

33:59...in the pocket agenda, but it’s in the online agenda.

34:01Geodatabase relationships; we had relationships in the geodatabase forever.

34:06But when you were publishing your map services, these relationships didn’t come through.

34:11The Web browser client couldn’t find out that partials are related to owners.

34:17Now this come through, so I can click on a pipe and get all the related inspection records from a Web browser...

34:23...because the map service exposes these relationships.

34:27Enhanced supports for subtypes and domains; this has to do with dealing with descriptions, which we didn’t handle very well.

34:34Stand-alone tables is another one. You put a stand-alone table in ArcMap, and then the Services directory will display it.

34:41So your Web browser applications can look at stand-alone tables, not only layers, many other things.

34:48Let me highlight the last one. Support for spatial references with no well-known ID. What this means is very simple.

34:55In 9.3.1, if you want to put a map service in a JavaScript application or a Flex application...

35:01...you have to use a projection that has a well-known ID.

35:05Basically, you have to navigate, look up for a PRJ file that ships with our software, and then publish the map.

35:11Otherwise, it won’t work.

35:13So, let’s say you have a Plate Carree projection, and you want to center right in the 180 degrees...

35:19...so you have the view centered in the Pacific; that’s not a projection that we supported in 9.3.1 with the JavaScript APIs.

35:25But now, it’s supported. Okay?

35:28So folks like NOAA, Sun; that’s kind of nice; because you can go across the dateline. Right? In your Web applications.

35:36So what we did with Web mapping is...okay, what is what people really think about, care about...

35:42...people care about having beautiful maps...map animations, cartographic representations.

35:47People care about having very fast map services, compact cache, and so on.

35:53People care about having great use of experiences...the viewers in ArcGIS.com, the Flex Viewer...

35:59...and other experiences like iPhone, and so on.

36:02Is this making sense? So this is all what we did in 10 to kind of make Web mapping more powerful for you.

36:11Let’s talk about analysis, because analysis is a unique characteristic of ArcGIS Server.

36:16Many people do Web mapping, but very few do good analysis on the Web.

36:20And you know this notion of the geoprocessing service. Right?

36:23You author a geoprocessing model, and you can create a geoprocessing service so people can run analysis over the Web.

36:31Every time we put a new tool in ArcGIS, it’s server enabled.

36:36We added over 150 geoprocessing tools in ArcGIS, in 10, and all of them you can use in a server context.

36:44So I’m going to now go in alphabetical order and describe each of these tools.

36:51I’m going to just talk about three of them.

36:54Network allocation is a very interesting one.

36:56For those of you who used to work with ArcInfo Workstation, the locate...allocate tool...

37:01...remember that one? Okay...to allocate resources to centers...service centers? No? Not many workstation people?

37:09Go to the [ArcGIS] Network Analyst session. You’ll learn about this tool. It’s pretty cool.

37:14Then, let me talk more about PDF creation and data extraction services.

37:18Let me show that with a demonstration.

37:21So you can create...you can create data extraction services relatively easily in ArcGIS 10...

37:35...that is, let me actually show the demo first and then we author the geoprocessing mode.

37:48I have a Web application...this is the Flex Viewer one, and in this case...

37:52...I have added a widget that allows me to do data extraction.

37:57Oh, that’s right; I didn’t create the service. Okay. So, I need to create the service.

38:02Basically, this allows us to open a Web browser application, select an area of interest, and say I want layer A, B, and C...

38:09...in this format and in this spatial reference; please zip from me...for me.

38:13So it will extract from the database, zip it up, and then send us a file down to the client, so you can use the data locally.

38:20So how do you build this? Easy. Kind of easy. Let me show you.

38:24So, first, you go to the folder where you have your maps, and so on, and you create a toolbox, okay?

38:37Like the one you see here. And this...let me delete that so you can see the entire process.

38:43That’s an empty toolbox. In that toolbox, I’m going to create a geoprocessing model, and I’m going to publish it.

38:50Now, if I go to system toolboxes and to the server tools category, you can see that this is new.

38:56This is...this is the data extraction toolset.

38:59And within it, we can see two tools, one that will zip the contents of the data and then send you an e-mail with that ZIP file...

39:09...and the other one, which will just send you the ZIP file, which is the one I’m going to use.

39:14So I’m going to copy this tool into my toolbox, paste, and now I’m going to edit the tool.

39:26And you can see, it’s very simple; it’s a simple geoprocessing model.

39:30I’m going to double-click on the layers to clip, which are the layers that I want to extract...

39:36...and this is how I define the layers that the user will be able to extract.

39:41That’s one parameter. The area of interest is the polygon that the user is going to draw.

39:46The feature format we’ll see in a minute.

39:48Because I have no rasters, I’m going to uncheck the model parameter so the user doesn’t need to bother setting a raster format.

39:55And these are optional like spatial reference, and so on, that you can check, but in this case, I’m going to leave that alone.

40:02If I go to the model properties, you can see that the feature format is a value list.

40:07This list displays the different formats that I can export to.

40:10If you have the Data Interoperability extension with ArcGIS Server...

40:14...you can add any of the formats supported by that extension.

40:18I think that they are in the hundreds, and they will be supported here.

40:21And, of course, you can get rid of those that you don’t like as well.

40:26Just to see a little bit of the guts of this thing, if I edit the tool, you’ll see that it’s a Python script. Okay?

40:32And this is what does all the logic of the clipping and the zipping.

40:36And it’s important to know it’s a Python script because now you can tweak it and you can...

40:40...kind of customize this tool to your liking if you...if you wish.

40:45Anyways, so now I have my geoprocessing model all set up.

40:49I’m going to drag and drop my model into the table of contents to make my map geoprocessing aware.

40:56And now I will save the document and publish it.

41:00I won’t use the map service publishing toolbar...

41:02...because MXD-based or optimized map services do not support geoprocessing tool layers.

41:09So I’m going to simply click on the map MXD and publish to ArcGIS Server.

41:21Let me refresh here...refresh.

41:27Okay, I’ll delete this guy, and now I publish to ArcGIS Server in this folder, and now I enable the geoprocessing capability...

41:39...so the map knows it has a tool layer in the table of contents...

41:43...so it basically enables geoprocessing on that service to expose the capabilities of these services...data extraction.

41:51So at this point, the map service has been created along with the geoprocessing service.

41:57So I just wait for it; here, you can see the geoprocessing service. I’m going to again clear the cache.

42:04And now, if I come here, I’m going to clear the cache to here in the browser just to avoid any confusion there...

42:14...and kind of reload the application.

42:19Here, reload. And I think we should be good to go.

42:24So this widget, which I configured to the text file, is pointing to my service.

42:32Ahh, there you go. Right?

42:33It’s displaying the layers. Remember when we configured the geoprocessing model?

42:38We picked the layers. So I want wells, pipes, files...fields in shapefile format in this area...extract.

42:49This is invoking the geoprocessing model. Right? No coding out of the box through this application.

42:57That’s a beauty, isn’t it? Right? And now I can open this thing and save the ZIP file. Okay?

43:05So you can download this today. Okay?

43:07From...from the Resource Center and start playing with it because we published this model in the Resource Center.

43:14So you can kind of practice and configure your applications, just to play, and, of course, if you have ArcGIS...

43:19...you can create your own.

43:23Now, were we, data extraction. Oh, yes. This one, I think you’re going to like this one.

43:28This is about printing. Okay? Printing.

43:31So in ArcGIS 10, how much time do we have left?

43:36Fifteen minutes? Yeah. Okay. In ArcGIS 10, we added this thing called ArcPy mapping.

43:41It’s a Python model that allows you to do cartographic production kind of thing, automating cartographic production.

43:46And we normally talk about it in the context of [ArcGIS] Desktop, so people can create these map books and such...

43:51...can be used in [ArcGIS] Server as well.

43:53So I’m going to give you a...a brief demonstration so you can see how that works.

44:00Save to PDF. Same thing. I have the ArcGIS Viewer for Flex; it’s pointing to a map service...

44:07...and I’m going to navigate to an area of interest and say Create PDF.

44:13This is going to call a geoprocessing service, which is this...is using this Python script thing...

44:18...and it tells me, oh, you can change the map title; this is my map.

44:23You can change the map style. These map styles are actually map documents that I authored in ArcGIS Desktop...

44:30...that define the layout, the marginalia elements around the map.

44:34Is it an 8- by 11-inch size paper or is it 33 by 44 inches?

44:40You define those styles on the server, and then this guy kind of recognizes that.

44:46And then you can also force the scale to be, in this case, 1,000, and you may also want to include attributes.

44:56I’m not going to include attributes.

44:57But attributes basically allow your PDF to have all the attributes that your features have in the geodatabase...

45:04...will be put within your PDF file so people can do things like identify and search and things like that.

45:10Anyways, this thing is creating the PDF, and it should have been done by now, but maybe it’s kind of sleepy.

45:22Let’s wait a little bit.

45:25[Inaudible audience question]

45:28It’s a geoprocessing service, so you can run it from any API.

45:31But if you want an out-of-the-box experience for hitting this, that’s the client...

45:36...the ArcGIS Viewer for Flex at this point.

45:41Okay. So, now I’m going to save my PDF on disk.

45:45I can preview from the browser, but I’m going to save it on disk because when you use Adobe Reader...

45:51...you can get some nicer features.

45:54First of all, look at the scale. It’s fixed to what we said...1,000 exact.

45:59And this is important because having this PDF file in that scale allows me to really print the map at 1:1,000. Okay?

46:06The other one is layer visibility. So if I want to turn on the buildings, I can turn them on enough...from PDF.

46:15If I want to have a coordinate readout, you can see in the bottom part that I have it.

46:21If I want to zoom in and zoom out, I can use these simple tools, and if I do a Ctrl F, I can look for Fourth Street.

46:31Right?

46:32You can see it highlighted right there, so it can find annotation within your map, and you can do Find on that.

46:40So that’s a lot, isn’t it? Right? That’s a lot that you can do.

46:44But not only you can do these simple things, you can do all sort of crazy stuff like I want to print this pipe...

46:51...and this pipe will be made out of 1:1,000-scale maps that will kind of follow along.

46:58Those things you can automate with Python and then publish as a geoprocessing service.

47:02You can have a multipage PDF document with the map, a table, and a chart.

47:08Right?

47:09And you can see also that the title changed with what we defined from the Web application.

47:14So we don’t have time to look at this, but we will publish this in the Code Gallery so you can download it.

47:20And it’s just a Python script; it’s easy to...to set up.

47:24And it can combine information that is local on your server as well as services coming from other servers.

47:32So if you want to display your business data on top of ArcGIS Online basemaps, you can still use this Python script...

47:38...and have a PDF that pulls the Bing Maps information or the ArcGIS Online basemap...

47:43...pulls from your ArcSDE database, and creates a PDF file so you can print.

47:47You can enable layers, and so on.

47:54Editing...editing is a very nice addition to 10...

47:58...allows basically people to edit the geodatabase over the Internet with simple Web browser applications.

48:03Let me give you a couple of examples here.

48:11Let’s see Firefox. Yeah. No.

48:18One...nah, I shouldn’t do this. No, no, no. I’m going to do this this way. Yes.

48:30We’re...we’re going to do it from scratch because I think, again, this is quite, quite powerful.

48:36Let’s go to this folder.

48:41We’re going to author a map document.

48:43We are going to create a service that can be used to edit, and we are...

48:46...we are going to use an application to edit that information.

48:49My ArcMap document has observations, different observations that I’m collecting in this area.

48:55I want to create a service to edit this information.

48:58I’m going to get rid of the map, and I’m going to save this map document...

49:10...here. Okay?

49:12I saved the map document. This is the information I want to edit.

49:15This information is in a multiuser geodatabase in SQL Server Express, specifically.

49:20And now, if I actually edit the information...

49:25...you’ll see that when you edit the information, you work with this notion of templates.

49:29You’re familiar with this notion of templates, right?

49:31They were described in the users...in the Plenary Session, but essentially the experience is...

49:36...I click on the feature I want to add, and then I draw on the map. And that will create it.

49:40And this tool...this feature has associated attributes, and so on.

49:45So first you add the layers, you create the templates, and then you publish the map service.

49:53When you publish the map service, it’s complaining about it already exists. I will overwrite.

49:58You need to enable feature access.

50:00When you enable these things, you allow Internet clients to edit your geodatabase information over the Web.

50:11Okay? Just by enabling that thing.

50:14Now, because this map service has been published now to my server, I can again go to my services directory...

50:22...Save the Bay, and you can see that my map service has the feature service capability enabled.

50:28Do you see that there?

50:29So let...let’s look at this. I click on the feature server, and now I’m going to open my feature service from ArcGIS.com.

50:41And those are my features.

50:47And, as usual, you know that already, you saw that before, you can change the basemap and now look at this...

50:56...editing, so I click because the application recognizes that the feature service capability is enabled.

51:03There you go, all the templates. So start having fun.

51:06Alright? You click in there, and you start drawing.

51:09This is simple sketching; this is not for accurate editing.

51:13And here are the attributes with all the geodatabase domains.

51:17This is a date field, and so on.

51:20And, in fact, if I zoom in a little bit on this guy, you’ll see that I can change the vertices, I can move the feature...

51:29...or I can delete it and go to a point, and I add a new point; I can add attachments to the features.

51:37That’s pretty incredible.

51:38How many lines of code?

51:42Zero! Right? Simple sketching. Now you can get pretty sophisticated with Web editing.

51:49Don’t think that this is just geosketching kind of things.

51:52Here’s another example.

51:57This is a quite complicated one. We need to edit polygons that cannot overlap; they cannot have gaps.

52:04You know, it’s kind of...we need to maintain the topological relationships.

52:08So we build a Web editing application with the Web mapping APIs...

52:11...that support editing that allows me to kind of do this editing.

52:14So you can see here that really the distribution of crops doesn’t really quite work well.

52:19So I can get this guy selected and say actually I want to split so this guy goes like that...

52:28...and this will create that feature there so I can change the attributes now.

52:32And maybe these I need to adjust a little bit, so what I’m going to do is I’m going to take this one.

52:37I’m going to split it a little bit here. Okay. And now I’m going to select this one, and I’m going to merge it with that one.

52:48Okay? That’s pretty nice. Sophisticated editing, but simple user interface.

52:54We did not build ArcEditor on the Web. Right?

53:01Okay?

53:04So that’s something that all the Web mapping APIs now support...now support all this type of advanced editing.

53:11And we don’t have a lot of time, but there is this geometry service that we had before.

53:16How much time is left?

53:19Eight minutes! Oh, that’s plenty of time.

53:22So we have this geometry service which you use to do geometric manipulations.

53:26We actually used that service in this demonstration that you show.

53:30How do you think we were doing the splits on the merge?

53:32We were going to the database, pull the geometries to the client, get the geometry, let the user draw a line...

53:38...and then we were giving this service, the geometry service, the geometry of the parcel, the line that the user draw...

53:45...and then the geometry service sends me back the polygon split.

53:49And then we call this feature service and say delete here, add there, update, and that’s where the split and merge happens.

53:56So these are very powerful tools for the developer to create fairly sophisticated Web editing over the Web. Okay?

54:04So tons of new things in the geometry service, tons of things in the Web mapping APIs to work with them.

54:13This is powerful too. You know, at some point, you really need a lot of powerful tools to edit...

54:21...and a Web browser is just not enough.

54:24So we allow in 10 ArcMap to connect to this editing service, so I can use ArcMap...we don’t have time to demo...

54:32...but I ask you to go to the [ArcGIS] Server Island to see it if you’re interested.

54:36I go to ArcMap. I connect to a map service. I add the map service to ArcMap.

54:40Because that map service has the feature service capability enabled, I can right-click on the layer like there...

54:46...and I say Edit layers locally.

54:49So what ArcMap will do is it will go to the server, fetch the geometry and the attributes, all the features in the current extent...

54:56...store them locally, either on a file geodatabase or on a...

55:02...a multiuser enterprise geodatabase, and then you start editing.

55:06You can now disconnect from the server because you are editing the data that is local and then you come...

55:11...go back to the map service and say synchronize layers, and it will just happen.

55:16It will take the changes you made and send them back to the geodatabase through the feature service.

55:22Right? A really powerful tool.

55:26And it’s a pity we don’t have this one hour and a half, but we need to keep going.

55:31ArcGIS Server runs on Amazon EC2.

55:33We have a couple of sessions just for this and just a few thoughts here.

55:38The reason why we decided that we wanted you to be able to run ArcGIS Server on Amazon is because...

55:43...it really simplifies the deployment of ArcGIS Server.

55:47You cannot imagine how many calls we get with people who doesn’t know how to set up ArcGIS Server users...

55:54...the SOC and the SOM, and they have issues installing the Web server...

55:58...and not to mention the issues that people have with their IT department to get ArcGIS Server up and running.

56:03It’s just the red tape of getting the server up and running so you can get that.

56:08So Amazon is kind of a nice environment where these things get addressed.

56:13Amazon provides a self-service experience for renting servers in their data centers.

56:22So you can literally, in a matter of minutes, follow a wizard and create a fully functional ArcGIS Server machine.

56:28You don’t need to install anything. You just say I want a machine with two...two cores or with four cores.

56:34I want it with ArcGIS Server 10, and there you go.

56:38That’s the machine. It’s a next, next, next experience to get a machine running on the Web immediately.

56:45The other reason is now this kind of simple management or quick access to ArcGIS Server.

56:50The other reason is elasticity.

56:52In the Amazon cloud, you can say, My ArcGIS Server deployment now has one machine...

56:57...but you can very easily say, Now I want to add additional machines to my deployment to sustain higher loads.

57:04And then I can remove the machines very easily as well.

57:07So, you have these elastic ArcGIS Server clusters that can grow along with the load in your applications.

57:16But again, that’s kind of covered in a separate section...session. You should probably join if you are...want details on that.

57:24And so many things...the search service to index GIS assets within your enterprise.

57:31It’s a search service, kind of like a Google approach to search GIS datasets...new service.

57:37Enhanced access to databases. This is the query layers concept I introduced before where you can literally open ArcMap...

57:43...type a SQL query, and anything that the database understands and returns as stand-alone table or a layer...

57:49...we will display in ArcMap, and then you can push that map to the ArcGIS Server so you have a map service.

57:57So it gives you more flexibility on how you access data from databases; you don’t need to have ArcSDE installed...

58:02...and also you can use the power of SQL to define how these data are...are going to be brought to ArcMap...

58:11...things like on-the-fly joins, how do you call it when you do a summary...

58:18...aggregation functions like sum are not supported in ArcMap; with SQL queries are supported.

58:23Enhanced image services. The big thing here is they truly are now part of ArcGIS Server.

58:28There’s not a separate project or server like the image server; it’s just an extension to ArcGIS Server.

58:34There are no longer ISDefs; it’s just a mosaic dataset.

58:39You can extend the server with this new concept of server object extension...

58:43...which now you can easily build with REST and SOAP endpoints.

58:46And there is also enhanced OGC support.

58:50That’s pretty much all I can do in one hour.

58:54If you have any questions...although maybe we are running out of time already, right? Yes? No? If you have any questions, just throw them.