A large amount of Public Sector spatial data has been created in and is managed in ArcGIS. This has often been seen as an impediment to providing universal access to that data, but in fact in this deck I argue that the opposite is true. In recent years Esri software engineering effort has resulted in the adoption of open standards across the ArcGIS Platform that in turn make it possible to support our Customers as they seek to make more and more of their data available as either INSPIRE services or OpenData. This has resulted in a number of interesting Projects, both commercial and Open Source that have truly "opened ArcGIS". This deck presents some aspects of that transformation, examines the resulting projects and consider future developments and of course has a bit of personal reflection thrown in for good measure!

1. Opening ArcGIS

2. The Road to Damascus

4. George and the “rule of thumb”

5. the actual rule of thumb
Arc XXX : - we sell it!
W*S : we support it!
Open XXX : we do it!

6. Open Standards

7. My
DREAM
Job

8. Oracle SDO,SQL Server Spatial,WMS,WFS,WFS-T,WMTS,WCS,WPS,GeoPackag
NSPIRE View,INSPIRE Dowload,W3C,CS-W,RESTful,AutoCAD,MicroStation,
XLS,CSV,ShapeFile,PostGreSQL,Excel,PowerPoint,SharePoint,Dynamics,
SAP,Cognos,HTML5,Flash,Flex,JavaScript,iOS,Android,XML,GML,
SOAP,NetCDF,PDF,KML,Google Earth,Bing Maps,Pointer,GeoDirectory,bootst
Angular JS,Node JS,DoJo,JQuery,SQLite,PostGIS,JSON,GeoJSON,AMF ???????
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My
ACTUAL
Job

9. GeoServices REST
KML
W*S
GeoJSON
INSPIRE

10. Tick the Boxes to select your favourite Open Standard

11. STANDARDS are IMPORTANT in PASSING
INTEROPERABILITY is IMPORTANT in GENERAL

12. Hi
I’m from
Ballymena,
hey
GeoServices REST

14. Open Standards Strategy: To adopt and/or implement the
open standards published by Esri, OGC and others necessary to
ensure open systems interoperability.

15. Open Source

16. Approach:
1. ArcGIS is a platform
2. The platform and most of its elements are
accessible via open standards
3. The platform and many of its elements are
distributed under commercial licence for a fee
4. Some elements of the platform are distributed
under commercial licence but are free of charge
5. Some elements of the platform are distributed
under Open Source licence and are free of charge

18. You could:
1. Take a look!
2. Use esri.Leaflet or Open Layers to develop apps
3. Open Source your app on your own Git.
4. Host your app on GitHub Pages or your own web
server
5. Fork & Contribute to our GitHub repos.
6. Use Flex or JS Templates to configure your own
app
7. Host your app on GitHub pages or your own web
server

19. Useful Resources:
1. http://esri.github.io/
2. https://github.com/Esri/esri-leaflet
3. https://github.com/Esri/esri-leaflet-geocoder
4. http://dtc-sci01.esri.com/OGCApps/OpenLayersApp
5. https://github.com/PhilipThompson/OSI-Developer-Guide
Remember:
• You can also use http://developers.arcgis.com free of
charge for free to air applications
OR
• You can also get a subscription ($10 buck’s a month) to
http://developers.arcgis.com if you want to monetise
your app

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for something we may or may not get done.

24. Open Data

26. http://webservices.spatialni.gov.uk/arcgis/rest
/services/LPS/CadastralParcelsNI/MapServer/0
/query?where=1%3D1&text=&objectIds=&tim
e=&geometry=&geometryType=esriGeometryE
nvelope&inSR=&spatialRel=esriSpatialRelInters
ects&relationParam=&outFields=&returnGeom
etry=true&maxAllowableOffset=&geometryPre
cision=&outSR=&returnIdsOnly=false&returnC
ountOnly=false&orderByFields=&groupByField
sForStatistics=&outStatistics=&returnZ=false&r
eturnM=false&gdbVersion=&returnDistinctVal
ues=false&f=html
=data

29. Standards Source
Data
Are we done yet?

30. Opening ArcGIS
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