Esri User Conference Presentation 2010

1. The Making of “Live on Everest”
a Real Time GIS Social Media Application
@AL_Laframboise
@AGup

2. Agenda
Geolocation and Social Media Integration
ArcGIS Platform
Case Study: “Live on Everest”

3. What have we been up to…
Community
Resource Centers (blogs, forums, galleries)
Wherecamps
ESRI Dev Meet-ups
http://edn.esri.com

4. Social media & Geolocation
are changing how we build GIS
applications…

5. What does this mean?

6. Devices, Technologies, Apps…

7. Did you know?
400+ million
users
75+ million
users
45+ million
U.S. smartphones
31+ million
Visitors/month

8. Traditional GIS Maps

9. Social GIS Maps

10. www.arcgis.com

11. Monitoring Haiti Live…

12. Twitter + Demographics

13. Twitter Location-based Trends

14. Scientific + Crowd-sourced Data (TED)

15. Live on Everest

16. Background – Team Jordan
Members:
Jordan Romero (13)
Paul Romero
Karen Lundgren
Mission: Seven Summits
Goal: Climb Mt. Everest
http://www.jordanromero.com

17. The Vision
Share experience with the world with a map!
1. Find and follow
2. Report updates/status
3. Video and pictures
4. Real-time

18. Technology
Broadband Global Network (BGAN)
Explorer 700
Netbook computer
Camera
SPOT GPS

19. Social Media Tools

20. Their job – Team Jordan
1. Climb Mt. Everest
2. Share geolocation
3. Updates

21. Our job - ESRI
1. Build a real-time mapping application
2. Integrate social media
Minimize impact on team!

23. April 5th…
7-10 days to start of climb…

24. Preparation
Travel…

25. Initial Design

26. Feature Requirements
Nice to have Need to have
Daily tracks Find/track the team
Elevation and distance trekked Status updates
Base camp locations Last update
Weather
GIS features
Auto Notification
Overview map
Live YouTube videos
Background Information
Local time

27. simple, easy to use

28. single location

29. Initial Design

30. *

31. Challenges

32. Server

34. Server size and spec’s
Windows Server 2008 R2
4x2-core/16 @ 2.27GHz
64-bit
16GB RAM
SQL Server 2008
IIS 7.5
ArcGIS 10 Server
ArcSDE
http://tinyurl.com/esridesign

35. Data

36. ArcGIS Explorer and ArcGIS Online

37. API

38. ArcGIS Web APIs

39. Requirements
1. Graphic capabilities
2. Web Service Integration
3. Development experience (.NET)

41. ArcGIS Silverlight Template
http://tinyurl.com/esriSL

42. Geolocation

43. SPOT GPS Messaging System
Messages
OK
Help
Custom = “Team Jordan is ok. We are trekking!”
911
Modes
1. Manual
2. Tracking

44. Prototype #1 - Client-side ArcGIS Silverlight

45. Waypoints

46. Prototype #2 – Tracks by day

47. Date/Time

48. Standardizing Time
Everest Time
User Time
UST

49. GIS 101

50. Points, Lines, Polygons, Great Circles!

51. TOC

52. Prototype #3 – TOC?

53. Application Framework

54. On the move…

55. ArcGIS Silverlight Template – Buttons, Windows…

56. Service-Oriented Architecture

57. SOA – .NET, Silverlight and Web Services
SPOT
Weather
Elevation
Geoprocessing
Flickr
Weather
…

58. Social Media Integration

59. Little anti-social?

60. Blog – RSS

61. flickr – REST API

62. Twitter – REST API

63. Facebook – REST API

64. YouTube – REST API

65. ipadio - Embeddable

66. Bring it all together?

67. Twitter + REST API
Widgets!

68. Flickr Integration

69. Photo opts…

70. Time-based Geocoding
GPS
+
Time

71. The Unknown…

72. SPOT Data Timeout!

73. ArcGIS Server Implementation
Silverlight
Client
Social Media
Web
Geo Services
Basemap
ArcGIS
Server
SPOT
Geodatabase

74. ArcGIS Server – Server Object Extension (SOE)
ArcCatalog
Silverlight
Client
ArcGIS SPOT
Server

75. Basecamp Locations

76. Is that really basecamp?

77. ArcMap for Geodatabase Editing
Silverlight
Client
Social Media
Web
Geo Services
Basemap
ArcGIS
Server
SPOT
ArcGIS
Desktop
Geodatabase

78. ArcMap – Example of Live Editing

79. Good Design?

81. Final - Pre-summit

82. Final - Post-summit

83. Success?

85. Feature Requirements
Nice to have Need to have
Daily tracks Find/track the team
Elevation and distance trekked Status updates
Base camp locations Last update
Weather
GIS features
Auto Notification
Overview map
Live YouTube videos
Background Information
Local time
Player

86. Web Stats

87. Server Scaling

88. Feedback

89. Successful?

90. Successful?

91. Successful? Blog

92. “the app” + “the Team”

93. Summary
1. Next generation of GIS applications…
2. Social media and geolocation is compelling
3. ArcGIS Platform is capable
This is just the beginning…