Esri Redlands Campus - training on portal for arcgis

Not too much time today to create a new blog post but this is the map I used this morning to get to the Esri Campus site for a training course on private portal for arcgis installation. Notice the detailed topographic basemap!


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Geological Map of Austria, a time enabled patchwork

Publishing geological maps is one of the main tasks of the Geological Survey of Austria.
This Web Map is a collection of following maps:
Geological Map 1:50.000
Regional Geological Maps
Geological Maps of Federal States
Geological Maps 1:75.000
The Geological Map 1:50.000 is the main geological map of the Geological survey of Austria.
Regional Geological Maps show a wide range in scale and quality. Geological Maps of Federal States are in the Scale of 1:100.000 and 1:200.000. They cover a whole Federal State of Austria with one or two sheets. The map is time enabled and can be visualised in function of time.

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Topographic and Military Map 1850

Jeroen Van Winden (Esri NL) published this historic map from 1850: a topographic and military map for the Netherlands. It is a mosaic of several individual maps.


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GIS in Africa

My post of today is technically not a special map but content-wise it is very special for me, I have lived for almost 7 years in Rwanda and found somebody just posted the Points of Interest for Kigali, the capital of Rwanda on top of a nice open streetmap. The dots represent different types of POIs (business directory Kigali).


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Live rainfall (buienradar) & temperature map Belgium

This is a combination of the KMNI live rainfall map (low resolution), the NOAA live temperature map and the EEA live ozone map. The triangles show the ozone values (green = OK), the blue areas are rainfall areas and the colored dots represent the relative temperature range for Belgium. It seems the map doesn't always load when you're not logged in on arcgis.com. In that case either log in or load the larger map (which doesn't require you to log in).


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Labels on web maps based on uploaded files

Even on ArcGIS.com it is possible to add labels. The method is explained here. An example is shown below in the Belgian police zone map. When you zoom out the labels will disappear, they are scale dependent. Due to the large amount of data, it can take half a minute before loading the map, have some patience!


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Water towers in Flanders

This map was published by the Flemish Government (Philip Thomas, VMM) and shows a number of Water Towers in Flanders with their picture and name.


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Dashboards & GIS

The maps below are not very attractive as an i-frame but when you open them in ArcGIS Explore online you will see the real power behind: thanks to the dashboard functionality you can view and compare statistics from one area (hover over) with several areas (select). Statistics are calculated on the fly. There is one German map on population statistics and one UK map on criminality in the London area. Check out the dashboards by opening the larger maps (Silverlight plugin needed)!

Population Statistics in Germany

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Crime Statistics in London

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Census of marine life

The Census of Marine Life is a 10-year international effort undertaken in to assess the diversity (how many different kinds), distribution (where they live), and abundance (how many) of marine life—a task never before attempted on this scale. The Census stimulated the discipline of marine science by tackling these issues globally, and engaging some 2,700 scientists from around the globe, who participated in 540 expeditions and countless hours of land-based research. The scientific results were reported on October 4, 2010 at the Royal Institution in London. The map below shows scientifically important finds and new species. The map is composed of the Esri ocean base map combined with a KML file.


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Window on the world

The map below is showing a selection of webcam images around the world that are updated very regularly. The map is showing points with the image as a symbology. Just zooming and panning will update the images. Check out the three web cams on Antartica.


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Belgium traffic density

A very simple map, yet interesting to integrate in a mobile application: traffic density of the Belgian roads as served through map services by the Walloon region. Click here to open the map.

One map or four maps?

One or four maps? It is just one map but published with 4 separate extents. Just add "&extent,Xmin,Ymin,Xmax,Ymax" to the URL and you can show different locations of the same map. It is also possible to center the map on certain locations at a certain zoom level. Interesting to link to objects on the map. Guess what the 4 different Belgian locations are below!




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Wastewater map for firefighters

Leiedal published a wastewater map (pipes & manholes in green) for the firefighters. Based on this map, firefighters can do their job more efficiently e.g. in case of flooding. The map service is published on the joint Govmaps GIS platform. Access to the data behind the map is disabled here, no popups in this map! Zooming in allows you to see the address points as well.


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Environmental noise map

Environmental noise —unwanted or harmful outdoor sound — is spreading, both in its duration and geographical coverage. Noise is associated with many human activities, but it is road, rail and air traffic noise that has the highest impact. This is particularly a problem for the urban environment; about 75 % of Europe’s population lives in cities, and traffic volumes are still on the rise. Country reviews show that the number of complaints related to environmental noise is increasing in many European countries. This map depicts the mean noise agglomeration at 55dB Lden per source (Air, Industry, Road, & Rail) across city coverage. Source: EEA


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Bathymetric survey tracks

Bathymetric surveys intend to make detailed depth profiles under water. This map shows the survey tracks of many survey vessels. The details of each survey are available by clicking on the track lines. The dense coverage in green and orange is based on multibeam surveys from 1980 to 2010.


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Extra Terrestrial GIS?

NASA is publishing data on other planets (Mars) in this case through WMS map services. I used the NASA service as a base map with the detailed elevation on top of it. More detail can be seen on the full map using the detailed narrow angle camera mosaic data. These data can be used exactly the same way as traditional GIS data with annotations and overlays. The map isn't cached which means every image is created on the fly. The feature below is the Elysium Mons, one of the highest mountains on Mars.


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Temperature map for Western Europe (live data)

What is the difference between the map on the bottom and the map below? Very different you would say? Not at all, both maps are using exactly the same map service from NOAA on top. The default map from NOAA is showing wind direction and intensity for the whole world. I made a feature layer of the service in ArcGIS Explorer Online, I applied a filter to show only selected countries from Western Europe and changed the symbology to show temperature data. The popup was changed to show the temperature in the header next to the station name. You can make many maps with just one web service! To view two maps synchronised side by side click here.


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Live Traffic cameras

The URLs and images of traffic observation cameras are public for a large part of the US. A comma delimited file with latitude and longitude of the camera locations and the URL with the images is all you need to make your own traffic camera map:


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Flanders Heritage sites

The VIOE in Flanders is publishing heritage sites as shape files and kml. Both can be integrated in arcgis.com which was done for complete heritage sites and church organs (West-Vlaanderen only). Below you see the heritage sites of Leuven. There are more details available for each site when you click on it. Move to West-Vlaanderen to see the historic church organs on the map. Data courtesy of VIOE (http://www.vioe.be/). I also published a complete customised web app here.


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Old maps coming to life again

The atlas of the municipalities in the Netherlands dates back from 1868. It was drawn by Jacob Kuyper. The map service is published by Esri Nederland. I have combined the map using 15 percent transparency with Bing maps. If you zoom in more you will see the imagery below since the atlas itself is not visible at a larger scale.


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Biological Value Map of Flanders

The Biological Value Map in Flanders shows the degree of biological value of parcels. A separate layer is indicating the fauna value with regard to rare species. Click on the map to check the fauna value. The map can be opened in a separate application with this link.

Explanation on the code can be found on:
http://www.inbo.be/docupload/1080.pdf

Explanation on the BWK itself is available on:
http://www.inbo.be/content/page.asp?pid=BIO_BWK_start


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Antwerp thermography

The thermography map of Antwerp covers everything, not only the buildings (cf Brussels thermography map). You can find many interesting items on the map based on their temperature (cold = dark, warm = red). I indicated a few interesting places on the map. If you open the large scale map you can change the transparency of the aerial photograph to see what items are hot and what items are cold. You can also access the application that was made to consult the thermography data on this link. I added a presentation of remarkable heat radiation places when you open the map with ArcGIS Explorer Online or open the presentation immediately (Silverlight plugin needed).



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Wind farm distribution in the US

Yet another wind related map, this map shows actual wind farm distribution in the US, more information on the wind farms can be found by clicking the points. Orange points are planned facilities, the green points show facilities in production. If you would like to see examples of a dashboard, open the map in ArcGIS Explorer online and select a number of wind farms to show the total power, number of plants and number of turbines. Open ArcGIS Explorer map here.


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Wind opportunity map of the Netherlands

This map is part of a study comparing potential wind energy and local opportunities to install wind mills. When you open the larger map you will be able to activate other important geodata in the evaluation of new sites for wind energy parks. Green means lower potential, Orange higher potential.


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Bucharest Metro map

This map is used on the website of the website of Bucharest to show parking places and metro lines for commuters.


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Live wind speed & direction map

Arrows indicate the wind direction, the size and the color show the wind speed. This is a dynamic wind map for a large part of the world. Click on the arrows to get the complete info from the meteorological station that provided the data. While only wind is shown as a symbol, a lot of other meteorological data are available in the popup.


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