The Role of Content Aggregators in GEOValueDawn J. Wright, Sean Breyer, Marten Hogeweg, Jeanne Foust, Lawrie Jordan

Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (aka Esri), Redlands, CA, USA

Gordon Plunkett

Esri Canada, Toronto, CANADA

AGU Fall Meeting, PA11D-05

Common “Aggregators” … from music to mood swings

Geospatial

Aggregators

Volume

Velocity

Variety

Commmunity Engagement

Communities

Organizations

People

Supporting Real-Time

Awareness and

Collaboration

Via a System of Engagement

GIS Provides a

Common Language

for Communication

ArcGIS Online

Over 1 Million Public Items, ~200 Tb of Data

160 Million Map Requests by 1.6 Million Users Per Day

4-5 Billion Map Tile Requests Per Month

www.arcgis.com/home

Living Atlas of the World

Compiled from the Best Available Sources

Tens of Thousands of Open Datasets

Thousands of Maps & Layers

Millions of User Contributions . . . Billions of Views per Week

Ease Leads to Exposure. Exposure Leads to Adoption.

80,000 Landsat 8 scenes - esriurl.com/landsat - esriurl.com/landsat-story

Community Content

Esri

Partners

Users

C O M M U N I T Y M A P S

Precipitation Estimates

NOAA

Weather Radar

Real-Time Observations

Nearmap Imagery (7-cm)

Hexagon Imagery (30-cm)

Architecture

Commercial Data

ArcGIS Online World Topo Map

World Street Map

Ocean Basemap

Value AddedServices

Community Maps

Other Maps & Layers(elevation, buildings,…)

Contributor Data

Web Mapsand Apps

Contribution

App

Apply

Submit Data

Data Review

Map Preview

GDB

Open Data

OGC- and ISO-compliant

Online Resource: Best Practices for Sharing (esriurl.com/sharing)

Not Only Contributors but Curators

livingatlas.arcgis.com/contribute

livingatlas.arcgis.com

Dawn Wright

dwright@esri.comTwitter: @deepseadawn