00:01Hi, my name is Jim Barry. I'm with Esri in Redlands, and I'm the program manager for the EDN program.

00:06And with me, as always, is my trusty sidekick Andy Gup.

00:13Or I'm your sidekick.

00:14One or the other. Anyways, you can reach us on Twitter using those names.

00:18But welcome! This is ArcGIS for Developers—An Introduction.

00:22Very high pass, very introductory level look at ArcGIS.

00:28You've seen a lot over the past few days, and you've probably used ArcGIS for many years.

00:33And Esri, for many years, has put out professional GIS products that you can use…

00:38…to manage spatial data, do good spatial analysis, good cartographic output.

00:44But also, for almost as long, we've been very aggressive about putting out SDKs and APIs…

00:49…and exposing even so much as scripting languages on some of our…

00:53…on our products in order to allow people to customize their use of the product and, in some cases…

01:00…build applications where our components are completely embedded within yours…

01:02…parcel valuation, service requests, and those types of things.

01:04…almost to the point where you can't see it.

01:06So it's a big landscape, so the idea today is to give you a high pass.

01:11It's basically to answer the question, I know you can't go into detail right now, but just show me…

01:16…the whole the landscape so that I can pick what I'm interested in and dive in a little bit further…

01:21…whether that be additional sessions this week or, perhaps if you take a look at some of the tutorials…

01:26…or training videos or other types of resources we have on the Resource Center.

01:30Or, perhaps if you go to the Developer Summit that we run each March in Palm Springs.

01:35How many of you have gone to the Developer Summit?

01:38Okay, some of you.

01:39It's a great experience for geospatial developers.

01:42Best conference for that to get real deep-dive stuff into our developer technologies.

01:48Exactly not what we're doing today.

01:50So basically what we want to show you very quickly, what is there, what can you do with it…

01:54…what resources are available for you so that you can get started and get the most from it…

01:59…and then where is the community? So who are you?

02:02We're assuming that you're either an experienced GIS professional that may be new to tinkering around…

02:07…with the developer tools or, maybe you're an experienced developer…

02:12…but you're new to things geo, you're new to GIS.

02:15So you develop apps but you want to bring maps into them.

02:19So if I can ask, just a show of hands.

02:20How many of you consider yourselves to be GIS professionals, maybe a little bit new to the developer stuff?

02:26Okay, about half the room.

02:27How about the others?

02:28Experienced developers, maybe a little bit new to GIS?

02:31Okay, so about roughly a half.

02:34But also, there's management, project leads, it's good to have a picture of what's capable…

02:40…even if you're not the one that's actually going to be designing, but you're the one that's responsible…

02:43…for its completion and knowing what can be done.

02:46So if you're here as well, that's great.

02:48So what we're going to cover is ArcGIS, but from a developer angle.

02:53We're going to look at it as a developer toolbox.

02:55What kinds of applications, SDKs, APIs, and scripting languages are there for you…

03:00…to build applications and customize the way that you do GIS with ArcGIS?

03:06We're going to cover desktop applications, high pass.

03:09I'm actually going to do a quick demo or two for you to show how quick it can be to at least get started.

03:14I'm not going to say the whole thing is easy, because it's not.

03:17But it's easy to get started, and it's easy to grow, and we provide plenty of resources for that.

03:23Then I'll go a little bit into geoprocessing and the Python scripting language…

03:27…either interactively or to create tools, also talk to you about what your options are…

03:32…as developers with regards to managing and using geodatabases.

03:36Then Andy's going to take over and show you the client/server angle, web applications…

03:40…mobile applications, map services, how to create a customized GIS by leveraging…

03:47…the client/server technologies and developer tools.

03:50And then I'm going to take a couple of minutes and go through developer resources.

03:53It's not enough for us to show you what's possible…

03:55…we want to show you what is available to you that you can use and dig in.

03:59And, you know, it's not just here's the technology, good luck…

04:02…there's a whole set of resources that are available for you to use.

04:05If you're new to GIS, what is GIS, if you've ever seen on the esri.com website…

04:10…it's a good place to start.

04:12It explains what GIS is and shows some case studies for how people are using it.

04:16There's also gis.com that goes into this stuff a little bit more, also it has tabs for learn GIS careers and GIS.

04:24It kind of gets a good feel for what types of things are being done.

04:28You've probably seen this slide before, ArcGIS 10, the Complete System.

04:32What Andy and I are going to show you today is not the complete system…

04:35…but we're going to touch each one of these points and look at it through a developer's lens.

04:42Let me start with ArcGIS Explorer.

04:43The reason why I start here, it's the freest thing you can do.

04:47You can download, it's a Windows application that anyone can freely download and install and use.

04:52It's a spinning globe, sure, but you can add your own local data to it…

04:57…you can reach out and touch and bring in map services.

05:01You can also bring in some fairly advanced geoprocessing services.

05:05So what a lot of people don't know is, with ArcGIS Explorer, you can actually…they say well…

05:09…that's a nice spinning globe viewer for map visualization, but you can tap into geoprocessing services.

05:16You can use ArcGIS Explorer pretty aggressively…

05:18…to do some GIS processes that are normally a bit heavier.

05:23So it's free to use.

05:25It's free to develop against.

05:26You can download the SDK for free, and then you can also deploy for free.

05:30There's no license manager…

05:32…there's no license control or authorization files or royalties or license fees that have to be paid.

05:38Everything from top to bottom, from the application to the SDK…

05:41…to developing and deploying, you can do for free.

05:45And there's really two options for developers.

05:47One is application configuration without any code whatsoever.

05:51ArcGIS Explorer is designed very liberally to be able to change the interface…

05:58…to change the appearance of the application, to change the colors and the schemes…

06:02…and the tools and the ribbons and the logos and the splash screens so that you can really turn…

06:08…and save that customization, or save a bunch of those customizations…

06:11…and really turn that application into yours.

06:14Something that's really custom-tailored to, let's say, I need an application that just does three things.

06:20I don't need to train my users, just need them to do three things.

06:23ArcGIS Explorer provides a customization way to do that.

06:27The second option is the ArcGIS Explorer SDK.

06:29You can create your own add-ins.

06:31You can create your own buttons with code that you write against our SDK or through Visual Studio…

06:36…with other components to bring additional functionality…

06:40…that you develop into ArcGIS Explorer that wasn't there.

06:44So application configuration, we give you a manager application and it gives you a bunch of tabs…

06:51…and lots of check boxes and lets you really dial that thing into the way that you want it to look like…

06:55…and then save that configuration and share that configuration…

06:58…with anyone or with everyone in your organization.

07:04The SDK is very well documented, there's conceptual help, there is sample code…

07:10…there is basically object model diagrams, everything you need to understand…

07:18…what the SDK can do and how you can leverage it.

07:23Creating add-ins…when you install the SDK, we install a bunch of templates for use…

07:29…with Visual Studio so that you don't have to develop…

07:33…if you want to build a button that has code in it, you don't have to develop that from scratch.

07:36You start a button base project, it adds all the references for you, stubs out all the code for you…

07:46…and then you just go in and code for the events and deploy it.

07:52What do you do after you create an add-in?

07:54Well, you can install it on your machine, you can put it in a shared location…

07:57…for everyone that's using ArcGIS Explorer just takes it, or you can share it on arcgis.com.

08:04You can upload it to the world so that anyone can download your add-in and use it.

08:08Or, if you create a group in arcgis.com and you control access to who can see the things in that group…

08:16…you can share it in the group as well.

08:17Arcgis.com is not just about sharing with the world, it's sharing with a group that you control.

08:22And that's a platform that you can use for sharing.

08:26It provides, in the ArcGIS Explorer options, gives you the option for managing your add-ins.

08:33You might have lots of buttons and galleries and dockable windows that you can manage…

08:37…and it provides an interface for doing that.

08:39ArcGIS Explorer Desktop team also blogs pretty aggressively.

08:43They go into details about how developers and users can use ArcGIS Explorer.

08:48They tell big-picture stories about what people are using with Explorer.

08:52And if you want to know more details, because this is just…I want to dig in, but I can't.

08:57But today at 5 p.m. in the Desktop Developer Island, I'll be going through…

09:02…configuring and customizing ArcGIS Explorer Desktop, and I'll be digging in…

09:06…and actually showing you code, how to configure the application…

09:08…how to write add-ins, how to share them on arcgis.com.

09:13ArcGIS Desktop, of course our flagship professional GIS product, is great for GIS people…

09:21…to do spatial analysis, manage data, cartographic output, all that good stuff.

09:25But there's also a developer angle.

09:29So the first thing I want to do is create a map with ArcMap.

09:35I'm going to add a basemap from ArcGIS Online.

09:39There's a World Streets layer that I want to put in there…

09:42…and use that sort of as reference for the rest of the map.

09:47Then I have a point feature class of customers, some of my customers in downtown Denver.

09:54In fact, if I zoom in on that layer, it zooms in.

09:59I can zoom out a little bit if I want.

10:01And those are some of my customers in downtown Denver.

10:04And I'm going to go ahead and save that as an MXD or a map document that's sharable and reusable.

10:12So I can save that on disk.

10:13I'll go ahead and do that.

10:15And for those of you who haven't seen ArcMap, that's basically the Hello World of using ArcMap.

10:22Add a base layer from online, add a point dataset from something that's sitting on my disk…

10:28…and then save that map, save the state of that map into something that I can use again.

10:33So that's create a map, and I'll get back to that one.

10:36We're going to reuse that one over and over.

10:39Okay, so ArcGIS Desktop, there are four options for developers.

10:44There's customization of the UI and its functionality; there's a ArcObjects SDK…

10:50…that has thousands of object classes, and over a hundred object model diagrams.

10:56So we basically expose everything to you that's exposed to us, pretty much.

11:02But there's also a simpler option of add-ins, just like you can with ArcGIS Explorer.

11:07We provide add-in templates that you can use to create add-ins.

11:09And then there's also script tools.

11:12There's Python scripting that you can use in order to customize the experience.

11:16So what does customizing the UI look like?

11:18Well, through the Customize window, there's the Toolbars menu…

11:22…and it gives you access to dozens of toolbars that have hundreds of tools.

11:27You couldn't possibly turn them all on even in a high-resolution screen.

11:31You wouldn't see the map anymore, you'd see nothing but buttons and tools.

11:34So this is a great idea if you have a shop of GIS people to really…

11:39…just put the toolbars and the tools on there that they need, remove the stuff that they don't need…

11:44…and you can lock that down, password protect it so that all your users are using the same interface.

11:50And you're not coding at all.

11:53Okay, the next is ArcGIS Desktop…I'm sorry, ArcObjects...

11:58The ArcObjects API.

11:59And this is what I was talking about, about all the object models.

12:02I'm not going to ask you if you can read it from there, because I can't even read it from here.

12:06But, it just goes to show you that practically everything you can do in ArcGIS…

12:11…through the interface and more is exposed through the ArcObjects API.

12:15Can be daunting, but this API has been around for over 10 years now.

12:20There are so many samples that we've included and built up over the years…

12:24…there are so many applications and samples that the users have created…

12:27…and built up over the years, for most, 99.whatever tasks, you really shouldn't…

12:32…have to write too much from scratch anymore.

12:35It's really just a part of picking and choosing what you want to start with…

12:38…and then coding from there as a launch point.

12:41Now if you started with this back at version 8.0, you're basically writing everything from scratch.

12:45We had no templates and the community really hadn't jumped in yet.

12:50But a simpler way that started just a couple years ago is creating add-ins.

12:56And this is a very easy way to deploy…we give you templates in Visual Studio…

13:03…you pick the template you want, you code away…

13:06…and then you build that thing as what's called an Esri add-in file.

13:10It's really just a ZIP file.

13:12But we call it Esri add-in so that our application can recognize that it's part of the system.

13:16And when you put…and you don't even have to install it.

13:20There's no registration, there's no install wizard, its really just taking that single file…

13:25…dropping it in the default well known location…

13:28…or another well known location that you designate on a network share.

13:31And the next time ArcMap starts up…

13:34…it reads those add-ins that are in the well known location and brings it into the system.

13:38So that ZIP file encapsulates everything that you need.

13:43Here's what the templates look like in Visual Studio.

13:45You install the ArcObjects SDK…

13:48…you get these templates to create an ArcMap add-in, an ArcCatalog add-in.

13:56Add-ins doesn't give you as much of an extensive set of possibilities as the ArcObjects API does…

14:04…but we do hit center mass on the big bulk of at least 80 percent of what people do.

14:10You can create toolbars and menus and combo boxes, and create extensions.

14:14You could do some pretty advanced stuff with add-ins and deploy them and maintain them fairly easily.

14:20In fact, as a developer, let's say you have the add-in…

14:23…in a network share location and your users are working with it.

14:27You know, at the end of the day, you know, you're coding bug fixes or improvements to your add-in.

14:32When they leave for the day, all you do is swap out that add-in at that well known location…

14:36…and the next time they start up ArcMap the next morning, they get the new tool…

14:40…with the new fix or the new, enhanced functionality.

14:42So it's a nice, simple way to deploy.

14:47So you can create add-ins, you can bring add-ins into the system this way.

14:52There's an add-in manager so that you can manage the add-ins more manually if you want to.

15:00The ArcObjects SDK has a pretty extensive help system…

15:03…lots of samples, lots of conceptual help and tutorials as well. Okay?

15:11So what I'm going to do is I'm going to find and install an add-in.

15:16And what I want to…and I'm going to go find an add-in that I want and install it.

15:20Something that was shared.

15:22So I'm going to start up a web browser and go to arcgis.com…

15:27…and search for an add-in that's been shared…

15:29…and I'll show you how fairly quick it is to install.

15:40So let me…I happen to know that there is a tool out there for importing GPX files.

15:46These are GPS exchange format files.

15:49And I want to take those points from a GPS device and bring them into ArcMap.

15:53Well, if I just click the Open button and I open with the Esri add-in file…

15:59…it's going to at some point give me an installation wizard.

16:04And I just say, I'll just take the defaults and go ahead and install the add-in.

16:08It says that it succeeded.

16:12And now when I go to ArcMap and I go into the Customize…

16:17…into my Customize window, there's a place where all the add-ins will go when the installer installs them.

16:26And it's under Commands, and it's going to pop up here soon.

16:31There's my add-in controls, and there's my GPX import.

16:35So at that point, all I have to do is drag it and drop it onto the toolbar, and I can use that GPX importer.

16:42Asks me to navigate to the GPX file, imports it as a point layer.

16:48So if you share things on arcgis.com, others can download it and install it almost as easily, okay?

16:57Next is ArcGIS Engine.

17:00ArcGIS Engine is sort of like ArcGIS Desktop, except it's only components, there is no interface.

17:05It's just all of the controls that ArcGIS…or most of the controls…

17:10…that ArcGIS Desktop uses plus the entire same access to ArcObjects API.

17:19And oh, let me see…And so as you can see, I'm totally within Visual Studio.

17:26There's thousands of classes, over a dozen controls.

17:30And this is when you want to create and compile…

17:33…and deploy stand-alone applications using Windows or Java.

17:38I'm going to go with Windows here.

17:40I'm in Visual Studio.

17:42I'm going to create a brand new project.

17:45And when you install the SDK, you get all of these templates that you can choose from.

17:49I'm just going to choose a Windows application using ArcGIS Engine, and click OK.

17:54And this is what's going to be included by the wizard.

17:58And let's say I want to go ahead and use an Engine license…

18:02…and default to an ArcInfo license, use the Network Analyst extension.

18:07So I pick which licenses and which extensions I want to use, and the install wizard…

18:11…will add all the references, add all the dependencies, and stub out all of the code…

18:17…that I need in order for my project to get a really nice kick start.

18:23Okay, so a lot of the code was there, and now I'm going to…

18:28…once the wizard is done, I'm going to go ahead and add a map control.

18:41I'm going to add a map control to the form, and also the table of contents control.

18:49Once it comes back…and also a toolbar control.

18:54And show you the hundreds of tools that you can…

18:57…I'm not going to put hundreds of tools on there, but…

19:00…come on, come back to me…Okay, alright.

19:20It can do it, now it's not going to do it.

19:24Alright, there's my map control.

19:26Okay, now I want a license control in order to control the license that the application will use at runtime.

19:37Oh, there it is. Oh, I have two license controls, I don't want that.

19:44Alright, so the license control is going to let me use an ArcInfo license or an ArcGIS Engine license…

19:50…and now I'm going to add the table of contents control, and the toolbar control.

19:59Alright, now, my map control, I could do this programmatically by code…

20:05…but I'm going to add the map document that I just created a couple minutes ago.

20:10And it's reading the local data, it's reading across to and checking out the layer…

20:16…that's coming across from ArcGIS Online, making sure everything looks good…

20:25Alright, and then I hit OK.

20:28And now, the next thing I want to do is take this table of contents control…

20:31…and make it a buddy of the map control.

20:35And same thing with the toolbar control.

20:37Now all three of these controls are bound together.

20:40You don't have to write the code that binds them.

20:42They're all now bound together.

20:43Now if I go the toolbar, what do I want?

20:45Well, I want to add some tools for my user.

20:49And like I said, there's dozens of toolbars and hundreds and hundreds of tools to choose from.

20:53I'm just going to go real simple.

20:55I want a zoom-in box, I want a zoom-out box, I want a full extent, and a pan.

21:04It doesn't get more hello-world than this, folks.

21:09And now I'm going to fire that bad boy up…

21:12…and I'm going to show you what this application looks like.

21:17Alright, and so it's easy to get started.

21:22We used to have a product years ago called MapObjects.

21:26And it was a great product, I loved it.

21:27But everything you had to do, every little thing you had to do, you had to code.

21:31So when ArcGIS Engine came out, people were daunted by the 20 times sheer size of the SDK…

21:38…and thinking it was going to be so much harder to use.

21:41But what they didn't realize is that there are hundreds of tools that are already prebuilt for you…

21:48…that handle most of the applications…handle most of the stuff that you would want to do.

21:52So Voilà! I've just created the smallest GIS application in the world.

21:58And I have to go to UI design school.

22:01So there you go.

22:02That's pretty quick, and at least to get started.

22:07So that's Engine.

22:09So, but what if you're a new programmer?

22:10How do you get started with Visual Studio?

22:14Well the express editions of Visual Studio are free, and you can create add-ins with the express edition.

22:20And then there's lots of online training, there's beginners books that you'd see at Borders and stuff.

22:24I recommend those for the basics of data types and conditions and looping and things like that.

22:30But the MSDN site also has lots of tutorials and videos and sample code.

22:34And then, if you're like me, you're like…when you're using a technology, you say, Where's the community?

22:40Well, the community for Visual Studio, here's just a couple.

22:42But there's lots and lots of them.

22:44Here's two that I like at least for Visual Basic…

22:47…when I'm hacking around, is vbforms.com and extremevbtalk.com.

22:50These are very, very active.

22:52And lots of times when I have a problem or a question, I just search the site…

22:56…and find the answer because chances are I'm not the first one that hit it.

22:59But if I did, I just post it…there's lots of people out there are just itching to jump in…

23:03…and help you solve your problem.

23:05So jump into the community when you can.

23:07Geoprocessing, what are your options?

23:09Well, we provide a Python scripting language...

23:11…and you can create add-ins and geoprocessing packages with it.

23:17And there's lots of conceptual help and sample help on the Resource Center.

23:23So let's go back to that ArcMap application.

23:27And I have that point layer of my customers.

23:30And what I can do before I even deploy a tool…

23:33…I can do some interactive Python right here in the Python window.

23:38So I have my customer 3 layer, I want my output layer to…let's just call that output 99.

23:47What distance do I want to buffer these points?

23:49Let's go with 750 feet.

23:51Notice how I'm using that very naturally.

23:53750 feet in quotes.

23:56And then it's got some additional options, I want them fully buffered.

24:01I want the ends to be flat, which they're not going to be, because they're not lines.

24:05I'll go ahead with all I want to dissolve.

24:10I want all of the buffers to be dissolved if they intersect with one another.

24:14And I'll let that run for a little bit.

24:16And if you noticed, as I was typing there was an auto code complete, it was giving me the options…

24:21…and the methods and the arguments in the drop-down.

24:24There was also a lot of help that was occurring over here in the right-hand side…

24:27…so I don't have to keep going back and forth to the documentation.

24:30And it went ahead and it buffered all my points by 750 feet, it dissolved them together…

24:34…because that's what I told it to do, and now I have a polygon layer that I can use for subsequent analysis.

24:41So that's…and, when I'm writing in Python, I can save that as a tool.

24:47I can save that to the toolbox.

24:48And if I want, I can put that on the interface for people to run.

24:53And then Andy's going to show you how you can even take that Python script…

24:56…and publish it as a geoprocessing service so that web and mobile clients can hit it as well.

25:03Okay? So I hope…Okay, how do you get started with Python if you haven't touched it before?

25:11Start with Python.org.

25:13It's a great resource.

25:15Lot of doc, lot of samples, tutorials, and the community is there as well.

25:20Of course, there's lots of books and lots of training out there on Python, but I recommend you start here.

25:25Geodatabase, what are your options?

25:27You have three.

25:28As I showed you with Engine, you have all these tools.

25:32Well, there's lots of editing tools in there too.

25:34There's a lot of data management tools in there that you can drag onto the toolbar.

25:37So there are components that are already written that you can leverage…

25:40…into your applications without writing much code.

25:43There's also the geodatabase object model.

25:46Remember, I described the huge ArcObjects object model.

25:48Geodatabase is just one of those parts that gives you pretty much full access to the geodatabase.

25:54You can break as much as you want.

25:58That's what I do.

25:59And then, relatively new is the file geodatabase API.

26:10This is a freely released API you can read and write file geodatabases without needing ArcGIS at all.

26:19So anyone who doesn't even have Esri technology at all can download this file geodatabase API…

26:25…and read and write file geodatabases whether they want to use it for exchange…

26:26…whether they want to use it as a part of their application, or maybe the error applications…

26:32…output or input needs to interact with an organization that has ArcGIS…

26:36There's lots of options, and you can use it on Windows or on Linux.

26:40So next, Andy…Andy's going to take you through client/server…

26:44…and the whole web and mobile side of this landscape.

26:50Thanks, Jim.

26:52We'll see if I can click this on and it will actually stay.

26:58Can you hear me now?

27:01In the back?

27:03Alright, ArcGIS Server.

27:07It does help if we switch screens.

27:11Minus two points, right?

27:14We're just striking out on this little clip here.

27:17Whoever invented it needs to…we need to get our money back.

27:21Alright, I think that's going to stay.

27:25Alright, ArcGIS Server.

27:27ArcGIS Server is really the heart of the system that we're talking about.

27:31And so what I'm going to do is give you an overview from an architecture perspective…

27:36…let you know what all the pieces are, and I'm going to talk about the APIs…

27:40…and the services that make up this architecture.

27:43I'm going to liberally sprinkle some demos in there for you to keep your interest…

27:47…and at the very end I'm just going to give you a very quick…

27:50…high-level audit of some getting started suggestions.

27:53I do want to let you know that I'm going to cover a lot of material.

27:57If you don't have a chance to write down some of the links and shortcuts that I provided for you…

28:02…they're available in the PowerPoint after the session is done and when they're posted up on esri.com.

28:11There. It's probably a little bit better to see when it's in presentation mode.

28:15ArcGIS Server is a system that lets you work with many clients.

28:20And like I said, ArcGIS Server is really at the heart of this system.

28:24ArcGIS Desktop is a client of ArcGIS Server, ArcGIS Explorer is also a client…

28:29…and many more as you can see there.

28:32And that's the real power, is because you can take your data and you can use ArcGIS Server…

28:37…to collaborate and to share your information publicly or even within your peer group on projects.

28:46So just to show you a few examples in addition to what you may have already seen…

28:50…this week and in the plenary, and tell you which API was used to build these applications…

28:55…on some of the capabilities that you can do, this is a crime map for the City of San Francisco.

29:00It's using the Silverlight API.

29:03You can look at the information on crime on a time basis, you can create client-side hot spots.

29:11It's an algorithm that exists on the client application that enables you to tell…

29:16…areas where there's higher amounts of crime.

29:18So where there's more crime you'll see red, where there's less crime you'll see blue.

29:22This information is a library that we were able to pull into the Silverlight application…

29:28…so that people can look at this and make better decisions about where crime is happening.

29:33This application is also built with the Silverlight API.

29:36It was tracking in near real time a young boy that summited on Everest…

29:41…and we were able to incorporate social media, we were able to bring his points and his tracks…

29:46…into ArcGIS Server so that people around the world could track his progress.

29:50We also threw in some geoprocessing which Jim was talking about.

29:54So on a daily basis, we knew not only how far he went, but you could see the elevation…

29:59…on what they gained or lost on that particular day.

30:04This application was built with the JavaScript API.

30:07It's bringing in real-time flood information and real-time radar.

30:12And this is mainly just to give you an idea that it's not just ArcGIS Server information…

30:17…that you can bring into these applications.

30:19It's other information that's published by other people…

30:21…like you and other services around the country or the world.

30:26This application, City of Greeley, built with the Silverlight API, it's a tax parcel map.

30:32Not only do you have rooftop information, but you also have fire hydrant information…

30:37…water and sewer information, and much, much more.

30:40And the Silverlight API as well as our other APIs…

30:43…give you the framework on which to build these things.

30:46I just threw this one in there because it's beautiful cartography.

30:50This was built as a custom layer.

30:52And if you have custom mapping information and you want to integrate it…

30:55…into your map, this tax parcel map for the…I want to say the City of Boulder…

31:01…for the County of Boulder…it's a beautiful presentation, one of the best I've seen.

31:08Hopefully, now you're wondering, you've seen these applications, what point am I trying to make?

31:14What's going on behind the scenes and how does this stuff work?

31:17And if I can emphasize anything, your data is at the heart of this system.

31:22And as Jim was talking about, your data could be a shapefile, it could be a CSV file…

31:27…it could be a geodatabase or a file geodatabase.

31:30What ArcGIS Server does, is it gives you the framework to take your data…

31:35…and make it available to other people to collaborate with.

31:38And the way we do that is we create what we call GIS services.

31:41And those are function-specific.

31:44So if you have mapping data in your geodatabase and you want to share it with someone…

31:49…you can use what we call a mapping service, and so on.

31:53Geoprocessing, querying, there's many others that I'll get into in just a minute.

31:59Web services is how that data in the GIS services is manipulated.

32:05And we have three.

32:06We have REST, SOAP, and OGC.

32:09And throughout the week, you may have heard of WMS, web mapping services…

32:13…WFS, web feature services…those are all OGC.

32:17And we also have a SOAP, API in ArcGIS 10.

32:23Client APIs let us wrap the web services so we don't have to do much work.

32:28And we have four of those, four different types available.

32:32We have mobile, JavaScript, Flex, and Silverlight.

32:39If you didn't write those down, I'll have another slide in just a minute.

32:43What is a GIS service?

32:45Remember, I said if you have data in your database and you want to share it with someone…

32:50…the GIS service enables your customers, your clients, your colleagues…

32:55…or your users to edit, use, and display your data.

33:00That is all a GIS service is.

33:02And there's many different types, depending on what type of data you have…

33:06…and how you want to deploy it.

33:09Pretty straightforward.

33:11There's lots of them depending on exactly what you want to do.

33:16I mentioned mapping, there's feature services…you may have heard us talk about that this week.

33:20Geoprocessing, which Jim already talked about, search, imaging, geodata.

33:25Lots of these services are available…

33:27If you go to the shortcut URL that I provided, it talks about when you're in Desktop…

33:33…how you can publish these services in ArcGIS Server.

33:37That shortcut URL is esriurl.com/arcgisservices.

33:44And again, if you don't have time to get these while I'm presenting…

33:48…they'll be provided to you after the conference.

33:51So how does all this start?

33:54Where does all this begin?

33:56And it really begins with Desktop.

33:58And the only way to get your service published…

34:02…is either through Desktop or someone's already published it on the Internet.

34:07So what I want to show you here is, I have the same data that Jim was showing you earlier.

34:12And what I have is my customer information as a point layer around the City and County of Denver.

34:17And I also have some census tracts for the same area.

34:21And what I want to do is be able to publish this as a web service so that near the end of my presentation…

34:28…I'm going to consume that in a web app.

34:31These are my points, it's my custom data, and I want to be able to serve that.

34:35So how do I do that?

34:39Now, I've cheated a little bit, and I already have ArcGIS Server installed…

34:44…and I'm not going to talk about how to install ArcGIS Server.

34:47But once you have it installed, in Catalog in ArcGIS Desktop, I'm simply right-clicking…

34:54…on my MXD, and there's an option that says, Publish to ArcGIS Server.

35:01Now for the purposes of time, I'm not going to walk you through all the defaults…

35:04…but if you do click through all the defaults and just say Yes, Yes, Yes, the end result…

35:09…is under your GIS Servers tab in Catalog, you should get a service that pops up.

35:18And when it pops up, you should see the Start button grayed out.

35:22This is the first indication, Yay, I was successful, I was able to publish this service.

35:27But that's not all! What you need to do after you're done with this is…

35:34…you're going to go into a web browser and you're going to go to what's called the REST endpoint.

35:40And this pattern that I'm showing you is very important.

35:43It's going to be the name of your machine and, in this case, I have ArcGIS Server…

35:47…installed on my laptop /arcgis/REST/services.

35:53And that pattern should always be very similar.

35:56And what you're going to see is the service that you published.

35:59And what this REST endpoint is, is it's just a dictionary that ArcGIS Server creates…

36:05…that says, here's the information, here's all your services.

36:08But you can drill down into these services.

36:12And my server is cold so it's going to take just a second to connect to it.

36:17You can drill down into these services and you'll see here…

36:20…in just a second that there is a lot more information available.

36:25There we go, it's loaded.

36:27And you can see here, here's my two layers…

36:30…here's my customer info layer that I borrowed from Jim.

36:33Here's my census tracts, here's my spatial reference…very important.

36:40And I want to point out a couple of last things for you down here at the bottom.

36:46Remember my slide? I said, How do we access this information?

36:49This particular service that I published is available through both REST and SOAP.

36:54Very good, because I'm going to be using REST…

36:56…in my JavaScript application that I'm going to show you in just a couple minutes.

37:01And you can see here the different types of things that I can do against this service.

37:06I can view it as a map, I can run an identify process against it, Find, and I can also generate KML.

37:15But what I'm going to do is just click on Show Me the Map.

37:20And what this is, is this is my final test to make sure that that REST endpoint really works.

37:25And you can see here, I can see my points and my census tract data.

37:29Yes, everything was successful.

37:31The last thing I need to do is build that into my application.

37:36It's pretty straightforward so far, right? Pretty cool. Alright.

37:46We talked about these, how do I get the data in REST, SOAP, and OGC?

37:52These are behind-the-scenes frameworks that are letting you access that data.

37:57And if you look at when I ran this page, this application that's built into ArcGIS Server…

38:08…you'll notice something very interesting in the URL.

38:11And what REST is, it's a URL-based interface.

38:15And you see there where it says Export, and a question mark, and BBox…

38:19…which stands for bounding box, this is the reason why people like REST-based interface…

38:25…because they're very easy to manipulate.

38:33The way the REST architecture works.

38:36So what you just saw, and this is just a recap, is I took an MXD…

38:40…I took the data that Jim gave me, I published it to ArcGIS Server…

38:44…and it went into the geodatabase, it was available on my web server.

38:49That application that's built into the ArcGIS Server REST endpoint…

38:53…remember I clicked on Export Map?

38:55What that did is that that made a REST request, which looks just like a URL…

39:00…it made a request of the server, the server did something…

39:04…and it sent me some information back where it says JSON right there.

39:09And what JSON is, JSON means JavaScript Object Notation.

39:14And there's a lot of information that comes back…

39:17…and I'll show you an example of what that looks like in just a second.

39:21So this is the request that's going out.

39:24It looks just like a URL.

39:25Pretty straightforward, right?

39:27And what I can do is, I can take that URL, I can copy and paste it…

39:31…put it in my browser, and information is going to come back.

39:34And I proved that to you when I was at the REST endpoint.

39:41So let's take a step back for just a second.

39:45We have some web APIs that let you manipulate the REST endpoints.

39:50And the Web APIs that we have are JavaScript; we have JavaScript compact…

39:55…which is specifically built for Mobile, it's the much lighter weight library…

39:59…that you download to the browser; we also have…

40:01…Adobe Flex; and we have Microsoft Silverlight/Windows Presentation Foundation.

40:08And people always asks us, Great, that's lots of choices, but where do I start?

40:13If you're a new developer and you're not familiar with these…

40:16…I recommend that you start with JavaScript.

40:18It's much easier to get going, there's millions of samples.

40:22In order to develop on it, really all you need is a Notepad or Notepad++ to get going.

40:28If you're an experienced developer, I know there's quite a few experienced developers in here…

40:33Go with what you're comfortable with, go with what your team skill set is…

40:37…or go with which one of these APIs matches your requirements the best.

40:43So maybe you're thinking well, you told me about a REST API and you told me about a web API.

40:50Now, which one do I use?

40:52I'm kind of confused, perhaps.

40:56The nice thing about the web APIs is they wrap…

40:59…they handle all of the web requests for you behind the scenes.

41:03The web APIs you can use a very simple syntax to make the request.

41:08And here I'm showing you a pattern where it says map.add.layer = some basemap.

41:14In comparison, if I wanted to use the REST API…and this is going on behind the scenes…

41:19…that's how we're communicating with ArcGIS Server.

41:21I would have to add parameters to this endpoint and it could get very tedious.

41:26The web APIs take a lot of that complexity away from you…

41:30…and it makes it much easier for you to build applications faster.

41:34And that's not all.

41:36The bonus is, remember in that diagram I showed you we were making a request…

41:40…to ArcGIS Server and information's coming back?

41:42It's called the JSON payload?

41:45You can use the REST API if you want to, but you're going to have to do something…

41:50…with this information that's coming back.

41:52This JavaScript Object Notation stuff.

41:55In comparison, within the web API, all I have to do is…

41:59…a single line of code to make this stuff display on my map.

42:03So what I just showed you is that first line, is I make the request to the server…

42:07…one line of code, and the information comes back, one line of code.

42:12And what happened behind the scenes was this REST request…

42:15…that's manipulating the GIS services against my map service data.

42:23That's a lot of information, right?

42:26But the one thing to remember is, those web APIs are making your life a lot easier.

42:33Lots of capabilities inside the web APIs…queries, maps.

42:38You've probably heard about all this stuff all this week.

42:40Feature layers, time awareness, editing, and extents.

42:45The web APIs are very powerful so that even if your project is adding points to the map…

42:50…or simple polygons, as your needs grow, the capabilities are within these APIs to help you out…

42:58…and make your life so much easier so you don't have to build this functionality by hand.

43:04The web APIs also give you a tremendous framework for integrating multiple services.

43:10I proved that to you, for example, when I showed you the JavaScript application…

43:14…that brought in real-time floodgate data.

43:18And real-time radar information.

43:20You don't have to build this framework by hand.

43:23The framework is already built into the APIs so that you can display a basemap…

43:29…with parcel information on top of it or any other custom data.

43:32Like that beautiful cartography that I showed you for Boulder County.

43:36You can do that, and it's just a few lines of code.

43:39And that's the real power of the web APIs.

43:44You may have already heard, and I've used and referred to things such as syntax.

43:51And I mainly just want to impress upon you as you go throughout your other sessions…

43:56…even if you're in a session where they're talking about a different language…

43:59…that you know or you're new to a programming language, syntax is just like how we speak.

44:04If I say hola to you, it also means hello. We say different things in the different languages.

44:10As long as you understand the concept…

44:13…you can at least figure out how these particular things are working.

44:17And it's just something to keep in mind as you go throughout the week.

44:21We also talk about patterns.

44:23And if there's one takeaway you have from this session, if you can understand the patterns…

44:30…that are behind the APIs, you can apply that to any situation.

44:34It can solve your problems, and even if you can't get something to work…

44:38…and you go back and you look at our Resource Center documentation…

44:42…which is in resources.arcgis.com, that pattern will help you.

44:46And this particular pattern that I'm showing here that I'll demonstrate is a five-step pattern…

44:52…that's very common throughout all of our APIs.

44:55Because even though the syntax is different, we're accomplishing the same thing.

45:00In this pattern, we're defining a query task…

45:03…which is, I want to get information out of my geodatabase.

45:07The next…Step Two is saying, When that's done…

45:10…because remember, I'm sending a request to Server, and something's coming back.

45:14When it's done, I need to tell it do something.

45:16I'm going to assign it what we call some properties, and then I always have to tell it to execute.

45:23And execute is going to happen when someone clicks on the map, or someone clicks on the button.

45:29And when it's done, up in Step Two, I'm going to do something with that information.

45:35And these patterns, and this is just one example of the many that we have…

45:39…if you just remember that there's a pattern to it you can always go back and troubleshoot…

45:44…or you can remember the pattern and build your applications faster.

45:49So let's take a look at what this looks like.

45:53Alright, so this particular application, remember I said I wanted to consume my custom points…

45:58…and my county boundaries that Jim gave me?

46:01So what I'm going to do in this particular application…can you see it better?

46:07What I'm going to do in this particular application is, this pattern should look familiar, right?

46:12I'm adding my basemap, which is a street map.

46:16I'm adding my custom layer that I just published from Desktop.

46:21And like Jim said, I also added a geoprocesser service here.

46:27And the pattern that all this stuff follows is, here's the pattern.

46:33What do I do when my map loads?

46:35Well, I run all this information here.

46:38And I have another pattern in here that I want to use.

46:41I want to be able to identify a census tract…I almost said tax parcel.

46:47I want to be able to identify a census tract, and if you look at this, even if you don't understand it…

46:52…that five-step pattern that I just showed you is there.

46:55I'm saying I want to be able to identify something, I'm assigning it some properties…

47:00…and see down here I'm saying, when it's done, go ahead and execute it…

47:06…and then I'm going to simply project that on a map in a pop-up window.

47:11But that's not all.

47:13Also built into this application, I'm following the same pattern again…

47:18…when I'm running a geoprocessing service.

47:22You're seeing the pattern again here.

47:24I have some features and I'm telling it to execute this geoprocessing task.

47:30And then when it's done, I'm going to run that function that says Get Drive Time Polys…

47:35…and I'm going to display that on the map.

47:37And that's why these patterns are so very powerful.

47:41So let's look at what that looks like when we actually run it in an application.

47:45Ha! I cheated there.

47:47Alright, so it's actually loaded here.

47:51And just to prove to you that this is live and running on my machine, you can see here…

47:56…this is running that Identify task that I programmed into my application.

48:00When I click on it, it's executing the Identify task, it's running this query…

48:06…behind the scenes and returning me this information that I asked for, which is population.

48:11I can also click on my points.

48:14This is the point layer that I had in Desktop.

48:16That information is being processed through that Identify task in my code.

48:21And I can also run this geoprocessing service.

48:25And I was calling that Drive Times.

48:26And remember, I said there's a trigger…

48:28…when you want to run one of these functions…these services.

48:33And in this case, I click on Drive Times.

48:35Now, when I click on my map, it's going to go out to ArcGIS Server…

48:41…and it's running this geoprocessing task.

48:47The main takeaway for this is, follow the patterns, the patterns are there in the documentation…

48:53…and they provide you with some very powerful toolsets…

48:55…that you can build very quickly within these applications. Cool, right?

49:02Still with me? Yep.

49:07Alright, if you want to make your life easier…

49:09…you're thinking, Oh, my God, I have to build everything from scratch.

49:12We have some extendable solutions that you can use out of the box…

49:15…and you've already seen some of them this week.

49:18The ArcGIS Viewer for Flex…again, I know that there's no hyperlink there.

49:22It'll be available in the PowerPoint after the conference, or you can go to resources.arcgis.com.

49:29We have Silverlight templates for you .NET developers…

49:32…we also have a Silverlight toolkit which has things such as the magnifying glass…

49:37…that you can move on the map.

49:38We also have ArcGIS Mapping for SharePoint.

49:41The whole idea behind these extendable solutions and, in particular, the ArcGIS Viewer for Flex…

49:48…is you can get the source code and you get functionality that's going to give you a huge kick start.

49:53And if all else fails, even if it doesn't give you a kick start you can go in there and look at some of the patterns…

49:59…that they use to do some of the functionality that you think is cool…

50:02…or you need for your particular project.

50:06Whew! Alright, that was web GIS.

50:14I'm going to switch gears to mobile GIS.

50:15I just wanted to prepare you, context shifting.

50:19Mobile GIS…we have two different categories of our APIs…

50:26…and developer offerings for mobile GIS.

50:28We have ruggedized devices, which includes ArcGIS Mobile and ArcPad…

50:33…and we have smartphones.

50:35I bet…how many of you in here have smartphones?

50:39And those of you who don't you don't have to be ashamed.

50:41Almost everybody.

50:42We have iOS, Windows Phone, and Android.

50:46All of the major flavors.

50:49Our API for smartphones are specifically designed for touch-based interfaces…

50:54…because that's how you're using these.

50:56Some of them have keyboards…

50:57…but I'm guessing most of the time you're using a touch-based interface.

51:00So the workflows, or the way that you use these phones, is much different…

51:05…than the way that you would build any other application.

51:08These are primarily designed to work in what's called an assisted GPS environment.

51:15So the GPS, you may have noticed sometimes, that depending on which application you're using…

51:19…it has a big circle that says you're within a couple miles, sometimes it's within 50 to 100 feet.

51:25But it's not super accurate.

51:27Most commonly, these are used in instances such as emergency operation…

51:38The ArcGIS API for iPhone, iOS, is a native Objective-C programming language.

51:45It's using the REST interface that we just looked at a few minutes ago.

51:50It does require a Mac.

51:52So if you're planning on doing iOS development, you're going to need to get a Mac.

51:57And if you to see how this application works, you can download the application today…

52:01…off of iTunes and just search for ArcGIS for iOS.

52:07ArcGIS for Windows Phone is using a C Sharp Silverlight API…

52:12…so you .NET developers should feel very at home.

52:15It's integrated into Visual Studio 2010.

52:17It's also REST-based, which is really convenient.

52:21And if you want to see how this application works on your phone…

52:24…you can download the ArcGIS Windows Phone application.

52:27You can get that off the Resource Center.

52:33Android, native Java API, so if you're a Java developer, this is the way to go.

52:41The nice thing about Android is, you'll be able to develop applications for it on Windows…

52:47…in Linux, and on Mac boxes. It's very flexible in that respect.

52:52So if you want to get involved in that, see what other people are saying…

52:53It also runs on many devices.

52:56For those of you that do have Androids…

52:58…you may have noticed that there's many different shapes, sizes, manufacturers.

53:03Android also comes as an Eclipse plug-in.

53:06If you're using Eclipse again, that'll be very natural for you.

53:12The last thing I want to mention on Android is, ArcGIS API for Android is currently in public beta…

53:17…so if you're not participating in the program and you're interested in doing Android development work…

53:23…make sure you get on board with that.

53:24And that information is on the Resource Centers.

53:27ArcGIS for rugged devices.

53:31Designed for harsh field conditions.

53:34And again, which API you're using depends on the requirements for your particular application.

53:40This is for high-accuracy data collection.

53:43And one of the most common, one of the best examples I know of…

53:47…is if you're standing in the middle of an intersection and you have three or four manhole covers…

53:53…you need to have a very accurate GPS…

53:56…to know which one of the those manhole covers you need to go down and service.

53:59Or if you need to enter that into your application and update the GIS database.

54:09The ArcGIS Mobile SDK is built on the older versions of the Microsoft operating system for Mobile.

54:17It's a .NET API specifically for Windows Mobile 5 and Windows Mobile 6…

54:23…as well as the pocket PC .NET compact framework.

54:27So if you have requirements that run on these ruggedized devices…

54:32…then you're going to need to use the ArcGIS Mobile SDK.

54:39And it's specifically designed to run in connected and disconnected environments.

54:44ArcPad is specifically designed to run in disconnected environments.

54:49It's for extremely accurate field data collection.

54:53And the example I just gave you is very applicable to this type of device.

54:57You want to know which manhole you're going down, or if you're sending some field workers out…

55:02…with the ArcPad device, you want to make sure that they're going down into the right manhole cover.

55:08It uses .NET and it's an XML-based interface that you can manipulate through a UI designer.

55:19As I wrap up, I want to impress upon you that building applications for mobile…

55:25…is much, much different than building applications on the web.

55:29And just a few suggestions for you to consider as you leave the session…

55:33…and you're thinking about this throughout the rest of the week.

55:36Much smaller screens…you can't take a fully loaded, fully functional…

55:41…command and control web application and expect to squeeze it onto a tiny screen.

55:45Think about very focused web applications.

55:48These phones have different workflows than you would use…

55:51…when you're sitting at your desktop with your 19- or 20-inch screen.

55:55They have inconsistent interconnections, slower processors…

55:59…the battery life is potentially more limited.

56:02These are just some takeaways for you to think about, because you're seeing…

56:05…a lot of web applications, but mobile is a much different environment.

56:13Last but not least, I'm going to go through these pretty quick.

56:16If you miss something, come up afterwards or grab the PowerPoints later.

56:21And what I'm going to do as I wrap up here is just throw out some ideas…

56:24…if you're getting started on these web APIs and just hit some of the highlights.

56:29Training, if you're interested in the Adobe Flex API, Flex.org is a great place to go.

56:35They have videos that I think are some of the best that I've seen on the Internet.

56:48Getting started with JavaScript, dojotoolkit.org…In our JavaScript API, we use the dojo engine.

56:56That's a great place to go for information on what's in the interface.

57:00Tutorials, W3Schools.com, many examples.

57:06They also have applications in there where you can change different things…

57:11…in JavaScript and see what the results look like in real time.

57:14And I always suggest that to people as a starting point.

57:17A great community for dojo at dojotoolkit.org/community.

57:22JavaScript, basically all you have to do for JavaScript is, there's a million samples out there.

57:26Just search for what you're looking for and you're going to hit something very quickly.

57:33If you're building on Silverlight, Silverlight.net is the place…

57:37…to get the plug-ins, the place to find information for the SDK.

57:42The online resources for Silverlight are available at msdn.microsoft.com.

57:48That would be the online documentation.

57:50And there's a great community at Silverlight.NET.

57:55…or ask Silverlight-related questions, that's a great place to go.

58:00Getting started with Android, developer.android.com is the place to go.

58:06For the vast majority of stuff on there, especially if you're getting started…

58:11…Google and Android has done a fantastic job at documenting the functionality in that API.

58:16They have lots of samples and it's a great place to go.

58:22iOS, developer.apple.com, that would be what I write down if you're interested in iOS.

58:30And I can't stress more, if you're going to be doing mobile web development…

58:34…make sure that you have a mobile phone that you're going to be testing on.

58:38Simply just using the emulators in these SDKs isn't going to be enough.

58:42You really want, in the end, to test it on one of these phones…

58:46…before you release it out into the wild.

58:50Windows Phone, App Hub.

58:53Looks like it's spelled there.

58:55App Hub is the place to go if you're interested in Windows Phone development.

59:00And I hope you found that section interesting.

59:02That's all I've got.

59:04I've got a few more things here…

59:07I'll turn it over to Jim to wrap it up.

59:10Resource Center is the place to go to get started with…

59:14…not only for all the user stuff and ArcGIS, but all of the developer content.

59:20We touched on some of it already, I'll touch on some more real quick.

59:23It gives you focused access.

59:27Every product or area of ArcGIS has its own resource center…

59:30…where we give you focused access to those resources, like the Help.

59:34Here's the geoprocessing, conceptual help, detailed help, Python scripting help.

59:39ActionScript.org is the perfect place to go if you're interested in the ActionScript/Flex Flash community.

59:40The JavaScript Resource Center is great because it has hundreds of runnable code that exercises…

59:48…most of the basic functionality that you can copy and paste and run with.

59:52In fact, I met a gentleman a couple weeks ago in South Carolina…

59:56…who built…used the JavaScript API to build a website for his city.

1:00:01And it looked like a lot of the stuff came right from the help.

1:00:05I asked him what percentage of that application came from the help.

1:00:09He said about 97 percent of it was just copy, paste from the help, and he just adjusted some paths.

1:00:15At least to get started.

1:00:16He wants to do more with it, but at least it's something that can get up and running pretty quickly.

1:00:20Silverlight help in the Resource Center is also a great example.

1:00:23We have something in here called the interactive SDK…

1:00:27…where you can actually run in the website here.

1:00:30This is not a static snapshot, it's actually an application.

1:00:33And if you like what it's doing, you just click the code behind and grab that code and run with it.

1:00:40The various development teams and engineers at Esri like to blog.

1:00:43They like to blog to let you know the latest of stuff that they're working on…

1:00:46…and also to hear back from you with whatever comments that you leave for them.

1:00:50So that's a great way.

1:00:51I know here you're talking to a lot of Esri staff, that's great.

1:00:54But in between these conferences, this is a great way…

1:00:56…to find out what's new and to talk to those who are doing it.

1:01:00We also have a whole set of discussion forums…

1:01:03…that we're using vBulletin engine, very popular discussion forum engine.

1:01:07This forum right here is just one of them.

1:01:09It's the Python forum.

1:01:11It's Python, and the audience that I'm seeing in here is not only people that are doing geoprocessing…

1:01:17…with Python and they have questions or problems, but also people that are learning Python as they're using ArcGIS.

1:01:23So it's a great little forum, there's dozens of other discussion forums out there.

1:01:27We also publish a lot of videos from our conferences…

1:01:30…and presentations we do, training workshops, tech workshops.

1:01:34We even sometimes grab the handheld camera and run around at Esri…

1:01:37…and talk to people and we throw that on the video site as well.

1:01:42We also have an Ideas site.

1:01:43Have any of you used the ArcGIS Ideas site?

1:01:46Okay, a couple of you.

1:01:48This is great, this is where…this is another way that we get to hear from you…

1:01:52…about what types of functions and things that you want included or fixed in ArcGIS.

1:01:58And not only can you enter your idea, but the rest of the community…

1:02:03…can vote on your idea with Promote and Demote buttons.

1:02:06And most teams at Esri, particularly product managers, our engineers and developers…

1:02:11…even our team, we're reading this thing all the time and we're using it as a major piece of input…

1:02:17…in order to figure out what to do next with the product.

1:02:19When an idea is under consideration or implemented into the product…

1:02:23…we badge it so that you know that it's already been taken care of…

1:02:26…or already underway at least on the whiteboard.

1:02:30A lot of developer help, like adding…like this one for Desktop…

1:02:34…adding and removing tools from menus and toolbars.

1:02:37A lot of descriptive information, a lot of screen snapshots and step-by-step walkthroughs.

1:02:43ArcGIS Online, great place to find code…

1:02:47…find apps, code snippets, layers, layer packages, geoprocessing tasks.

1:02:52You know, before you write something from scratch, it's good to search around…

1:02:55…and see if someone's already done it and if they've shared it.

1:02:58And ArcGIS Online's a great place to go to do that.

1:03:02There's over 3,000 public groups that you can join and get the stuff that they're sharing…

1:03:08…whether it be apps or maps or layers or what have you.

1:03:11There's one right there at the top, I think you saw called Python Resources.

1:03:15It's a group someone created.

1:03:16Let's create a group for Python Resources and put all kinds of stuff there.

1:03:21There's web apps and mobile apps that are shared by the community, and you can see these things run.

1:03:25Some of them have source code, some of them don't.

1:03:27Even the ones that don't, sometimes you can get some clever ideas on how people did certain things.

1:03:32And you can always leave comments from them…

1:03:34…for the people that uploaded these things, and ask them questions.

1:03:38Esri Developer Network is a subscription-based product…

1:03:42…that you can get basically the entire ArcGIS stack for an inexpensive developer license.

1:03:47Although the stuff Andy showed, the web and mobile stuff, that stuff's already free for developer use.

1:03:52It's not a part of EDN.

1:03:53But if you want to get ahold of Server, whether it be on your machine…

1:03:57…or in an Amazon EC2 AMI, ArcGIS Engine, ArcGIS Desktop, it's all a part of Esri Developer Network.

1:04:05We have a jump page, which lets you control your licenses…

1:04:09…control your subscription, also some links for resources and also some social media links.

1:04:15Training, we have a lot of training.

1:04:17That's online…a lot of classroom training.

1:04:19In fact, 40 percent of our training seats this year are remote, online training.

1:04:25And that percentage is continuing to grow.

1:04:28A lot of people are asking for cost-effective ways to get training…

1:04:32…in a way that they don't have to sit in a classroom for a whole week, or travel somewhere.

1:04:36So everyone's doing this, we are too.

1:04:39We also have…we still do have instructor-led training.

1:04:42We have Virtual Campus courses, over 80 courses online.

1:04:45Those are self-paced that you can take.

1:04:47Some of them are free.

1:04:48Live training seminars are all free.

1:04:51And you should check that out on the site.

1:04:53Here's an example of a live training seminar.

1:04:55It's a one-hour training seminar, live webcast…

1:04:59…with an interactive text chat to talk to the instructors during the Q&A period.

1:05:04But it's training.

1:05:05There's Dave Cardella, you probably saw him during the plenary.

1:05:07And this was a training course that was done a little while ago…

1:05:10…Introduction to the ArcGIS API for iOS.

1:05:13You want to get started with iOS iPhone apps, you want to use our API…

1:05:17…if you weren't able to attend the live webcast, of course, we record these…

1:05:21…and we put them up on the training site as well.

1:05:24So you could always watch the training for free if you weren't able to participate.

1:05:28And whenever we do one of these live training seminars, we do them three times a day…

1:05:33…spaced out around the clock in order to get the greatest global reach as possible.

1:05:38You don't have to be in the Pacific time zone to take advantage of something like this in business hours.

1:05:46Tech support is always a great place to get specific problems answered and knock some ideas against.

1:05:52If you're under maintenance for our products you get tech support, you can log it through a form.

1:05:57We also have a live text chat…

1:05:59…where you can talk to a developer support analyst or technical support analyst for help.

1:06:06I mentioned this before about the Developer Summit.

1:06:08This is premier geospatial developer conference of the year.

1:06:11We had almost 2,000 people here last year in March…

1:06:15…and it's a great place to get all the deep-dive developer stuff and get yourself ready…

1:06:21…for the next 12 months of using this technology.

1:06:24It's typically in March in Palm Springs, California…

1:06:27…but the cool thing is, if you can't get there, we record all these sessions.

1:06:31In fact, we recorded about 130…

1:06:34…deep-dive developer technical workshops from 30 minutes to 75 minutes each.

1:06:39Actually, of them are three hours long…the preconference seminars.

1:06:42We recorded those, too.

1:06:44And we put them all up on the Resource Center for free…

1:06:47…so that you could watch all of those tech workshops if you're not able to get to the Dev Summit.

1:06:52Dev meet-ups is something we started last year.

1:06:54It's just a nice technical social that's run by various teams in regional offices around the US.

1:07:01And we're also kicking this off globally as well, through Esri international distributors.

1:07:07It's a great place to get together and meet other people that are doing what you're doing.

1:07:10We normally invite a keynote speaker of developer interest…

1:07:14…let you do the Lightning Talk so that you can share with other people what you're doing.

1:07:18And it's a fun time.

1:07:20So check that out on esri.com/devmeetup to see when the next dev meet ups are happening.

1:07:29We'll probably in the next 12 months do about 40 of them within the US and more outside as well.

1:07:35They're a lot of fun, and they're free.

1:07:37It's just a few hours after work on a Wednesday or Thursday night somewhere.

1:07:40We get a back room of a brew pub or a restaurant…

1:07:42…make sure it's got Internet connectivity, and we just go for it.

1:07:47We also promote these and put these up through meetup.com.

1:07:52Has anyone used meetup.com for any reason?

1:07:55Okay, so you could just go to meetup.com and search for Esri to see if there's a meet up group near you.

1:08:00And if there isn't a meet up group near you, let us know.

1:08:02Get on Twitter, let us know, send us an e-mail, whatever…

1:08:05…and we'll see if we can work with you to get a meet up group going.

1:08:08Of course we're on Facebook, we use Twitter a lot, LinkedIn…

1:08:11…because you're already there, so are we.

1:08:14A lot of people at Esri are on Twitter, great place to find out what's going on…

1:08:19…what's new, new blog posts, maybe ask some quick questions as long as they're under 140 characters.

1:08:25Esri TV on YouTube…constantly putting videos there.

1:08:28We have a blog just for developers.

1:08:31ArcGIS Developer blog.

1:08:32In fact, that's a snapshot of the application that you showed, the Everest application, yeah.

1:08:40Okay, we have Wiki.gis.com…you can contribute!

1:08:42We have thousands of documents, hundreds of contributors.

1:08:46There's a lot of developer content on there as well.

1:08:49How many of you used to use stack overflow?

1:08:52If you're a developer and don't use stack overflow, I think you're missing a lot.

1:08:55It's at least worth a look.

1:08:56It's not ours, but I wanted to mention it anyway, because it's a great resource.

1:09:00It's a Q&A site for developers.

1:09:03You ask and answer developer questions.

1:09:05You can search for content because it's been around for a little while.

1:09:08The community votes on what answers are the best.

1:09:10So when you go to a question and it's got 12 answers, you know the best answers…

1:09:14…as voted by the community have already bubbled up.

1:09:16So you don't have to read the whole document in order to get the information you're looking for.

1:09:20There's also a stack exchange, very similar…Q&A site.

1:09:23This one's specific to GIS.

1:09:25Again, it's not ours, but I wanted to mention it because if you're doing GIS…

1:09:29…even GIS development, this is a great place to go.

1:09:31Ask, answer, vote, rate, and support the community.

1:09:36And learn…if you're new to development in general.

1:09:40How many of you have read this book, Code Complete?

1:09:43There's lots of books out there, and you go to Borders…

1:09:45…oh, you know, shelves of how to do whatever with development.

1:09:49If I had to recommend one book for someone who is a GIS professional…

1:09:52…that's just getting started with the hacking…

1:09:54…maybe not classically trained in software development…

1:09:58…of the entire development cycle, the center section is coding…the coding itself.

1:10:03And this book helps you with a lot of the concepts of starting to think like a coder…

1:10:08…so that you can code efficiently and write code that works well…

1:10:13…it's efficient, it's easy to test, it's easy to modify.

1:10:16It's a great book, it's been around for years…

1:10:18…but it's just recently been updated to reflect some new technologies.

1:10:23So welcome to the conference, I know we're right in the middle of it.

1:10:26We have 30 developer track sessions, product islands…

1:10:29…you can talk directly to the engineers and developers…

1:10:31…you've got specific problems you can go to the tech support island.

1:10:35And I just want to mention, esri.com/sessionevals is a place you can go for all the sessions…

1:10:40…that you go to give us some feedback if you wouldn't mind, and let us know…

1:10:44…how it went and how we can modify it for next year.

1:10:47In fact, we did this session last year…

1:10:50…but we had it all oriented toward experienced developers that are new to GIS.

1:10:54And we totally missed the mark on the GIS pros that are new to development.

1:10:59And we got that in the session evals.

1:11:00So Andy and I went back to work and we totally reorganized this session.

1:11:05So if you could give us feedback to how we can make it even better next year, that would be great.