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