{"id":348691,"date":"2020-06-30T19:59:13","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T02:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/?post_type=arcnews&#038;p=348691"},"modified":"2024-05-08T10:39:11","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T17:39:11","slug":"latest-developer-technology-inspires-creativity","status":"publish","type":"arcnews","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/arcnews\/latest-developer-technology-inspires-creativity","title":{"rendered":"Latest Developer Technology Inspires Creativity"},"author":5752,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","castos_file_data":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10832,10942,10922],"tags":[12172,12152,262362,12162,279282],"arcnews_issues":[457841],"class_list":["post-348691","arcnews","type-arcnews","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-developer-technology","category-esri-developer-summit","category-esri-events","tag-developers","tag-devsummit","tag-gaming","tag-tech-trends","tag-technology-2","arcnews_issues-summer-2020","arcnews_sections-esri-technology"],"acf":{"short_description":"Developers who tuned into the 2020 Esri Developer Summit, held online, heard about the most up-to-date innovations in ArcGIS technology.","pdf":{"host_remotely":false,"file":"","file_url":""},"flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"The 2020 Esri Developer Summit (DevSummit) went virtual this year, drawing an online audience of more than 6,000 viewers via the livestream on esri.com and the Esri Facebook page. The event was held online due to concerns about the global coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic."},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":348741,"image_position":"right","orientation":"vertical","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"App developers and others who livestreamed the event heard about the latest innovations in ArcGIS from a team of more than two dozen Esri developers, product engineers, and product managers. Over the past year, the development team has added new or improved capabilities to ArcGIS in areas such as mapping and visualization, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/en-us\/capabilities\/spatial-analytics-data-science\/analytics\">spatial analysis and data science<\/a>, deep learning and 3D mapping, custom web app development, and natural language processing. A new project to integrate ArcGIS with the capabilities of two gaming engines is also under way.\r\n\r\nJim McKinney, chief technology officer for ArcGIS Desktop, opened the DevSummit Plenary Session on March 10 by thanking the developer community and welcoming the audience to the event, now in its 15th year.\r\n\r\n\u201cOur goal is to share with you new technology, which you can do amazing things with\u2014technology that is going to make your [work] more effective,\u201d McKinney said in his introduction to the event.\r\n\r\nEsri president Jack Dangermond lauded the developers for what they do to help organizations create what he called \u201ca digital transformation using geographic science.\u201d Dangermond said that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/en-us\/digital-transformation\/overview\">digital transformation<\/a>, with the support of geospatial app developers, is driving advances in precision agriculture, conservation, public safety, public health, forestry, and water resource management.\r\n\r\n\u201cThis doesn\u2019t happen by chance. It\u2019s not out of the box,\u201d Dangermond said. \u201cIt requires the creativity of you who are here and online around the world, engineering and thinking.\u201d"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<h2>What the ArcGIS Platform Can Do for Developers<\/h2>\r\nEsri director of software development Sud Menon gave a high-level overview of the ArcGIS platform, which integrates many data types including imagery, vector, real-time, multidimensional, unstructured, tabular, 3D, lidar, CAD, and building information modeling (BIM)."},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":348701,"image_position":"left","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"\u201cIt extracts all this data into layers to create a common language of maps, scenes, models, and tools that can be used by creators and analysts, as well as to power applications,\u201d Menon said.\r\n\r\nHe highlighted how ArcGIS Online can be used to deliver important information to an audience. \u201cArcGIS Online is a platform that allows you to create and share <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/en-us\/arcgis\/products\/mapping\">mapping applications<\/a> that communicate important information at scale,\u201d Menon said. \u201cA single trending mapping application, such as the live coronavirus dashboard from Johns Hopkins [University], may receive many thousands of requests per second and have millions of concurrent users.\u201d\r\n\r\nThe COVID-19 dashboard from Johns Hopkins, which is maintained by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at the Whiting School of Engineering, was built using ArcGIS Dashboards."},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<h2>Visualizing Information in a New Way<\/h2>\r\nThe product presentations kicked off with a focus on mapping\u2014the foundation of GIS technology\u2014and ArcGIS API for JavaScript, which powers the web mapping capabilities for both 2D and 3D visualizations."},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"\u201cMapping is at the heart of what we do,\u201d said Jeremy Bartley, group development lead for ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS API for JavaScript. \u201cWe want to enable everyone to make amazing maps through dynamic and data-driven styling.\u201d\r\n\r\nJennifer Bell, senior product engineer from the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World team, then demonstrated how capabilities in the new Map Viewer in ArcGIS Online\u2014including fast filtering, enhanced labeling, and a dot density tool\u2014make it easier to author useful and beautiful maps.\r\n\r\nIn her scenario, volunteers sent to Los Angeles area schools to encourage hard-to-reach Spanish speakers to participate in the US Census could use the Map Viewer in ArcGIS Online to better focus their efforts. They could create a map to locate where Spanish-speaking children aged 5 to 17 attend school."},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":348721,"image_position":"right","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"Bell showed how to make a map like this using tools such as filtering, dot density, and ArcGIS Arcade. She then customized it to find exactly which schools in the Los Angeles area have 1,500 or more students who are Spanish speakers.\r\n\r\n\u201cThese new updates [to ArcGIS Online] are all about exploring and understanding your data so quickly that you have the time to experiment, be creative, and ask deeper questions,\u201d she said."},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<h2>Get the Most out of Your Data<\/h2>\r\nAround the world, organizations are increasingly using dashboards to communicate a wide range of information clearly, including data on crime, public health, elections, and the environment.\r\n\r\n\u201cDashboards unlock information hidden in your data and allow it to reach its full potential,\u201d said David Nyenhuis, product engineer on the ArcGIS Dashboards team. \u201cThey are interactive and engaging. Charts, indicators, and gauges summarize complex datasets and help inspire smarter decisions.\u201d"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"In his presentation, Nyenhuis showed how users can author expressions in ArcGIS Arcade to modify how data is displayed in ArcGIS Dashboards. Arcade is a scripting language for creating custom visualizations and labeling.\r\n\r\nHe demonstrated a dashboard built for a fire department chief monitoring calls for service in real time. The dashboard includes information such as the call volume; an incident feed with a brief description of the problem and a time stamp; a map displaying the incident locations; and the 30-day average dispatch, turnout, and response time.\r\n\r\nNyenhuis then showed how, right inside ArcGIS Dashboards, a user can employ an ArcGIS Arcade editor to write a simple expression to convey and display how long an incident has been open and when it was cleared. \u201c[With an ArcGIS Arcade expression], we can even reveal whether an incident is meeting or exceeding department guidelines for response time,\u201d he said."},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<h2>A Nudge to Use Top Developer Technology<\/h2>\r\nAlthough support for ArcObjects for building custom GIS solutions will continue for years, McKinney encouraged the developer community to shift its focus.\r\n\r\n\u201cIf you are doing new development work, we strongly encourage you to use our latest developer technologies for ArcGIS Enterprise and ArcGIS Pro and to build stand-alone apps using ArcGIS Runtime,\u201d he said.\r\n\r\nArcGIS Pro SDK for the Microsoft .NET Framework, which now uses Visual Studio 2017\/2019, supports customization for ArcGIS Pro.\r\n\r\nMcKinney said users can extend ArcGIS Pro using ArcGIS Pro SDK for .NET in three ways: with add-ins, solution configurations, or plug-in data sources.\r\n\r\nHe also strongly encouraged the audience to start using ArcPy and its Python modules for doing geoprocessing tasks, such as conducting geospatial analysis, in ArcGIS.\r\n\r\nBesides adding new geoprocessing tools in ArcPy, Esri is simplifying the use of the tools. \u201c[This results] in fewer lines of code you have to write to get your work done,\u201d said McKinney."},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":348751,"image_position":"left","orientation":"vertical","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<h2>Custom Web Apps Get a Boost<\/h2>\r\nMajor improvements to ArcGIS API for JavaScript are driving some big changes in custom web application development. Case in point: developers can now build highly interactive web apps to visualize and do analysis on large datasets.\r\n\r\nKristian Ekenes, a senior product engineer on the ArcGIS API for JavaScript team, demonstrated a custom web app called One Ocean. Developed with ArcGIS API for JavaScript, it uses a global layer that includes attributes on ocean temperature, salinity, and the speed and direction of ocean currents at various depth levels. This data was derived from the Ecological Marine Units dataset from Esri.\r\n\r\n\u201cI\u2019ve configured this application so, as the user hovers a mouse over a point [on the map], it executes a query for the salinity attribute at all of the levels of depth throughout the ocean available on the client,\u201d Ekenes said. The salinity numbers quickly appear in a scatterplot to the left of the map.\r\n\r\n\u201cI get that fast performance because I\u2019m taking advantage of the very fast client-side query engine of JavaScript API,\u201d he said."},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<h2>A Spatial Analysis and Data Science Platform<\/h2>\r\nJay Theodore, chief technical officer of ArcGIS Enterprise, walked the audience through how ArcGIS supports a complete workflow process: data preparation\/engineering, visualization and exploration, spatial analysis, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/en-us\/artificial-intelligence\/overview\">artificial intelligence<\/a> integration, and big data analytics using modeling and scripting."},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":348761,"image_position":"right","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"Esri staff highlighted the work they\u2019ve done over the past year with multidimensional raster data collected by satellites, along with advances in mapping and analyzing unstructured data, lidar, and full-motion video.\r\n\r\nThe DevSummit audience also got to see an interesting demonstration of how ArcGIS can be used in the process of extracting geospatial data from unstructured text and then mapping that information.\r\n\r\nLauren Bennett, lead product engineer for spatial analysis at Esri, showed how she used the arcgis.learn module in ArcGIS API for Python to help extract and map data from 1,500 text files of crime reports.\r\n\r\n\u201cEach of these reports is unstructured text that has a description of the crime, including things like the address, the date and time, and other details,\u201d Bennett said. \u201cTraditionally, turning this kind of unstructured text into useful data would be really time-consuming.\u201d\r\n\r\nBennett created training data for deep learning by labeling certain aspects of the reports, including the type of crime, the weapon reportedly used, the address, the date and time of the crime, and the name of the reporting officer.\r\n\r\nShe then used the training data and the natural language processing built into the arcgis.learn module to train the EntityRecognizer model. After making sure the model could identify entities, such as the crime and the date, time, and address of the incidents, she used it to extract this information from each of the text files."},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":348771,"image_position":"left","orientation":"vertical","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"Now that the data was structured, Bennett used ArcGIS API for Python to geocode the locations and create a point feature layer. Each point represented the location of a crime. Bennett then generated a web map that showed these crimes in Madison, Wisconsin."},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<h2>App Building Options with Little or No Coding<\/h2>\r\nEsri staff demonstrated how to get apps into the hands of users easily with ArcGIS AppStudio and the new ArcGIS Experience Builder."},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"Chris LeSueur, the product manager for ArcGIS AppStudio, walked the audience through a workflow for sharing native mobile apps. The apps, built with AppStudio templates, can be shared to an ArcGIS Online organization and put into groups with named users and then shared with those users via ArcGIS AppStudio Player, an app that can be downloaded from app stores.\r\n\r\nLeSueur also demonstrated an offline 3D mapping app that displays the beautiful terrain of Angeles National Forest in California. He developed this sophisticated app using AppStudio, which is built on top of ArcGIS Runtime SDK for Qt.\r\n\r\nEsri also recently introduced a new tool for building web apps. ArcGIS Experience Builder gives people the ability to build web experiences using one of a series of templates, which come with widgets. Jianxia Song, product manager for ArcGIS Experience Builder and ArcGIS Web AppBuilder, demonstrated how it works."},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<h2>Game On!<\/h2>\r\nDuring the DevSummit Plenary Session, Euan Cameron, chief technology officer for developer technology at Esri, announced that an effort is under way to integrate ArcGIS with Unity and Unreal Engine, two popular game engines.\r\n\r\nAccording to Cameron, game engines are a great development environment because they provide premium rendering and cross-platform hardware support, allowing developers to build experiences that come alive. This also generates an opportunity to build connections with game engine developers."},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":348801,"image_position":"right","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"\u201cThere\u2019s an extremely large developer community, and we\u2019ve been hearing from that developer community that they want to get ArcGIS content into their game engines to improve the applications that they are building,\u201d Cameron said.\r\n\r\nEsri will build plug-ins for Unity and Unreal Engine that will provide the following:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>APIs to access ArcGIS services and local data<\/li>\r\n \t<li>The capability to display and honor real-world\/geographic coordinate space<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Integration with the game engine developer experience<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Software developer kit resources such as samples and demonstrations<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\u201cIn terms of ArcGIS functionality, you will be able to work with raster tiles, imagery, elevation, scene layers with 3D objects, and integrated meshes and point clouds,\u201d Cameron said. \u201cFeature layers will be supported with points, lines, and polygons, and you will be able to get access to some of the other services that are available from ArcGIS, like geocoding and networking.\u201d"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<h2>Keep DevSummit Going All Year Long<\/h2>\r\nDuring the close of the Plenary Session, McKinney pointed out that for the past few years, Esri has tried to keep DevSummit going all year long with GeoDev webinars.\r\n\r\n\u201cEach month, we host a DevSummit-style tech workshop as a webinar, including a live Q&amp;A [session],\u201d he said. \u201cIf you haven\u2019t tuned in to one of these, check it out. 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