So that the highlights don’t get lost in the details, I’ve listed some of the top things to pay attention to here.\u00a0 These are some of the biggest topics that customers have been asking us about and it’s great to be able to speak with users about so many of these diverse 3D-related efforts.\u00a0 Some of these items include topics that have been building over the last few years, but there is a ton new to talk about at this year’s UC.<\/p>\n
What if you don’t see your favorite topic here?\u00a0 Please stop by the 3D GIS Showcase in the Expo Hall where our experts can help you find what you need now or (even better) can listen to what you will need in the future.<\/p>\n
BIM and AEC<\/strong><\/h2>\nAs governments and corporations adopt Building Information Management (BIM) globally to drive more efficiency in the trillions of USD of investment required to propel us sustainably into the 21st century, asset owners and construction and design consultants have realized that location is an essential component of successful BIM projects.<\/p>\n
Esri has jumped into the BIM market with both feet, educating partners and customers, developing software to support better integration of design and location, and launching an industry changing alliance with Autodesk.\u00a0 This years’s UC caps about two and a half years of effort to get the BIM story rolling at UC and I couldn’t be happier that we’re where we are.<\/p>\n
\n- The new Engineering Summit<\/a> kicks things off today with talks from industry experts from Esri, Autodesk, and customers<\/li>\n
- UC Plenary<\/a> – Don’t miss a fantastic story that came together because of a collaboration between Autodesk, Esri, and a major AEC joint-customer<\/li>\n
- Autodesk<\/a> has a large presence at this year’s UC – Please stop by their booth, thank them for helping to sponsor the show, and tell them that you want even more collaboration<\/li>\n
- Look for ArcGIS Pro’s new capability to read Revit files, Autodesk InfraWorks’ new Autodesk Connector for ArcGIS, demos integrating BIM 360 and ArcGIS Online and more<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":273732,"id":273732,"title":"reducedKentuckyBIM","filename":"reducedKentuckyBIM.png","filesize":41123,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/reducedKentuckyBIM.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-pro\/3d-gis\/3d-at-the-2018-esri-uc\/reducedkentuckybim","alt":"","author":"6531","description":"","caption":"","name":"reducedkentuckybim","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":273052,"date":"2018-07-08 16:59:04","modified":"2018-07-08 17:05:42","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":480,"height":270,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/reducedKentuckyBIM.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":120,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/reducedKentuckyBIM.png","medium-width":464,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/reducedKentuckyBIM.png","medium_large-width":480,"medium_large-height":270,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/reducedKentuckyBIM.png","large-width":480,"large-height":270,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/reducedKentuckyBIM.png","1536x1536-width":480,"1536x1536-height":270,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/reducedKentuckyBIM.png","2048x2048-width":480,"2048x2048-height":270,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/reducedKentuckyBIM.png","card_image-width":480,"card_image-height":270,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/reducedKentuckyBIM.png","wide_image-width":480,"wide_image-height":270}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"
Interactive tools<\/strong><\/h2>\nFor years, every day people have been able to touch things, see shadows, and change them in 3D games.\u00a0 It’s natural that GIS users should expect to do the same with the 3D data that represents their real world environments. Since the 2017 UC, we’ve seen a rollout of interactive analytical tools across the ArcGIS platform.\u00a0 These include inter-visibility tools in ArcGIS Pro and Esri CityEngine, 3D measurement tools in the ArcGIS API for JavaScript.<\/p>\n
\n- Visit the ArcGIS Pro island and the 3D Showcase in the UC Expo hall to see the intervisibility tools at work<\/li>\n
- Nathan Shephard will demo Pro’s new capabilities in a regular UC session<\/a><\/li>\n
- Eric Wittner CityEngine session<\/a> will discuss urban planning-focused capabilities, including interactive tools<\/li>\n
- Find the ArcGIS Earth team in the 3D Showcase and ask for a demo of new interactive tools that we’ll be releasing later this summer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":273692,"id":273692,"title":"ProViewshed","filename":"ProViewshed.gif","filesize":2323925,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ProViewshed.gif","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-pro\/3d-gis\/3d-at-the-2018-esri-uc\/proviewshed","alt":"","author":"6531","description":"","caption":"","name":"proviewshed","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":273052,"date":"2018-07-08 16:58:40","modified":"2018-07-08 17:05:42","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/gif","type":"image","subtype":"gif","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":596,"height":406,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ProViewshed.gif","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":145,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ProViewshed.gif","medium-width":383,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ProViewshed.gif","medium_large-width":596,"medium_large-height":406,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ProViewshed.gif","large-width":596,"large-height":406,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ProViewshed.gif","1536x1536-width":596,"1536x1536-height":406,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ProViewshed.gif","2048x2048-width":596,"2048x2048-height":406,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ProViewshed.gif","card_image-width":596,"card_image-height":406,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ProViewshed.gif","wide_image-width":596,"wide_image-height":406}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"
Mobile<\/strong><\/h2>\nMany of our customers are exploring mobile-first or mobile-only work environments.\u00a0 While the high end data and analysis authors in many fields will likely stay on desktop computers for years to come, many more software users are transitioning to mobile-format experiences.\u00a0 That’s as true for 3D GIS experiences as it is for any other part of our user workflow.<\/p>\n
\n- Checkout\u00a0 the new capability to use the Scene Viewer and the ArcGIS API for JavaScript 3D capability on mobile devices at the 3D Showcase and in the Developer Showcase<\/li>\n
- Find the ArcGIS Earth team and ask about the alpha release of ArcGIS Earth for Android devices which we are planning to ship in the next few weeks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":275942,"id":275942,"title":"ReducedEarthMobilePreview","filename":"ReducedEarthMobilePreview.png","filesize":93704,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedEarthMobilePreview.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-pro\/3d-gis\/3d-at-the-2018-esri-uc\/reducedearthmobilepreview","alt":"","author":"6531","description":"","caption":"","name":"reducedearthmobilepreview","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":273052,"date":"2018-07-10 07:02:31","modified":"2018-07-10 07:02:31","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":387,"height":672,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedEarthMobilePreview.png","thumbnail-width":115,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedEarthMobilePreview.png","medium-width":150,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedEarthMobilePreview.png","medium_large-width":387,"medium_large-height":672,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedEarthMobilePreview.png","large-width":387,"large-height":672,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedEarthMobilePreview.png","1536x1536-width":387,"1536x1536-height":672,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedEarthMobilePreview.png","2048x2048-width":387,"2048x2048-height":672,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedEarthMobilePreview.png","card_image-width":268,"card_image-height":465,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedEarthMobilePreview.png","wide_image-width":387,"wide_image-height":672}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"
Underground capabilities<\/strong><\/h2>\nTwo years ago, I was cornered after a talk on 3D by 5 or 6 users who complained that when it came to underground, we had nothing.\u00a0 We’re trying hard to change that and this year you’ll be able to take a look at:<\/p>\n
\n- The ability to navigate underground in the Scene Viewer in global scenes and the ability to manipulate the transparency of the ground surface both in the UI and in the API<\/li>\n
- A new experience for manipulating surfaces in ArcGIS Pro<\/li>\n
- The new slice exploratory tool in ArcGIS Pro that enables the ability to inspect complex subsurface data<\/li>\n
- The Utility Network which has been built to accommodate above and below-ground 3D utility information<\/li>\n
- If you can find me, ask me about our R&D with voxels…<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Urban Planning<\/strong><\/h2>\nWe are increasing our focus on Urban Planning solutions and we have several initiatives that we’d love to speak with you about to help us guide where we’re going in the future.<\/p>\n
\n- CityEngine has made tremendous strides to be better oriented as a tool for Urban Designers.\u00a0 Great work from partners, such as Houseal Levigne Associates<\/a>\u00a0and Garsdale Design<\/a> showcases how far CityEngine has come.<\/li>\n
- The 3D team will be eager to show you some of the upcoming capabilities planned for ArcGIS Urban<\/a>.\u00a0 Stop by the 3D Showcase and ask about what we’re planning.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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AR, VR and other new visualization capabilities<\/strong><\/h2>\nThe experience of GIS is fundamentally changing as we are seeing more demand for Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, game engine dynamics, and higher visual quality.\u00a0 Work from Esri R&D and many of our partners is helping to push real world content from GIS into experiences that allow users to interact with their data in whole new ways.\u00a0 I expect to see much more on this over the next few years.<\/p>\n
\n- Ask about the AR capabilties in the ArcGIS Runtime SDKs at the Developer Showcase<\/li>\n
- Meet up with the ArcGIS Urban team and the CityEngine team at the 3D Showcase and ask about how we’re exploring VR for Urban Planning workflows<\/li>\n
- Check out our partners who are already delivering products for AR to our users, such as Argis Solutions<\/a> and Meemim Inc.<\/a><\/li>\n
- Ask the 3D team at the Showcase about the new edge rendering capability in ArcGIS Pro and the ArcGIS API for JavaScript, including the great new sketchy edge capability<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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I3S and 3D Content<\/strong><\/h2>\nLast year, we were happy to have the Indexed 3D Scene Layer (I3S) specification<\/a> adopted by the\u00a0Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) as a Community Standard.\u00a0 We’ve seen numerous partners and others in the community start to produce I3S content that is directly usable in ArcGIS products.\u00a0 We’re also seeing a ton of other 3D content, such as point clouds, IoT, and reality capture data being integrated into GIS for whole new\u00a0experiences allowing us to explore our world.<\/p>\n\n- Check out our many content provider partners who will be here including Vricon<\/a>, Nearmap<\/a>, Orbit<\/a>, and many others.\u00a0 Ask them how they can help you acquire 3D content for use in your GIS workflows.<\/li>\n
- Visit the 3D Showcase and ask about I3S and how it changes the way 3D is shared and distributed across ArcGIS<\/li>\n
- While you’re at the 3D Showcase, ask about new capability to go directly from formats such as LAZ and zLAS to I3S to allow you to use your point cloud data in new workflows<\/li>\n
- Ask the Living Atlas team about the new AIRBUS content<\/a> that allows us to deliver the highest res 3D ground elevation data set that is available from any GIS vendor today for use in everyday<\/li>\n
- Attend the I3S related talks and ask at the 3D Showcase about the new capability to edit feature-based scene layers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":273722,"id":273722,"title":"ReducedHelsinki","filename":"ReducedHelsinki.png","filesize":289147,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedHelsinki.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-pro\/3d-gis\/3d-at-the-2018-esri-uc\/reducedhelsinki","alt":"","author":"6531","description":"","caption":"","name":"reducedhelsinki","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":273052,"date":"2018-07-08 16:59:01","modified":"2018-07-08 17:05:43","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":480,"height":270,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedHelsinki.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":120,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedHelsinki.png","medium-width":464,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedHelsinki.png","medium_large-width":480,"medium_large-height":270,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedHelsinki.png","large-width":480,"large-height":270,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedHelsinki.png","1536x1536-width":480,"1536x1536-height":270,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedHelsinki.png","2048x2048-width":480,"2048x2048-height":270,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedHelsinki.png","card_image-width":480,"card_image-height":270,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedHelsinki.png","wide_image-width":480,"wide_image-height":270}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"
See you at the UC!<\/h2>\n
I hope to see you at the UC this year and I’d love to hear your feedback.\u00a0 It’s another exciting year for progress in 3D with ArcGIS.<\/p>\n
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I’d like to thank our customers, including the University of Kentucky, for continuing to provide demo content for us to be able to test, develop, and demo the new capabilities that our users need.<\/em><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2018UCBlogCounter\")
<\/p>\n"}],"authors":[{"ID":6531,"user_firstname":"Chris","user_lastname":"Andrews","nickname":"Chris Andrews","user_nicename":"candrewsesri","display_name":"Chris Andrews","user_email":"CAndrews@esri.com","user_url":"","user_registered":"2018-03-02 00:18:31","user_description":"Chris Andrews is an experienced product management and technology leader who enjoys solving real world problems, establishing high performance teams, and connecting people and businesses in positive collaborations. Chris started off at Esri as the senior product manager for 3D across the ArcGIS platform, based in Southern California. Chris now leads a team of product managers with responsibility for ArcGIS Hub, ArcGIS Excalibur, 3D, ArcGIS Urban, AEC\/CAD\/BIM offerings, ArcGIS Business Analyst and more. Before Esri, Chris was the lead product manager for Autodesk\u2019s Infrastructure Modeler (now InfraWorks) and Digital Cities efforts and was previously in the enterprise integration industry focused on CAD-GIS integration. Chris has focused on strategic innovation, defining and driving to production new products at top tier software companies. He is active on social media and provides mentoring on 3D, product management, and technical career growth.","user_avatar":"
"}],"related_articles":[{"ID":73691,"post_author":"3611","post_date":"2016-09-22 08:25:15","post_date_gmt":"2016-09-22 08:25:15","post_content":"","post_title":"BIM-GIS Integration with IFC","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"bim-gis-integration-with-ifc","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2018-03-26 21:10:24","post_modified_gmt":"2018-03-26 21:10:24","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/bim-gis-integration-with-ifc\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"blog","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":71571,"post_author":"6531","post_date":"2016-04-01 11:53:36","post_date_gmt":"2016-04-01 11:53:36","post_content":"","post_title":"Increasing interest in the fusion of GIS and BIM","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"increasing-interest-in-the-fusion-of-gis-and-bim","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-08-11 10:25:16","post_modified_gmt":"2022-08-11 17:25:16","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/increasing-interest-in-the-fusion-of-gis-and-bim\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"blog","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":69501,"post_author":"6531","post_date":"2015-09-24 16:08:08","post_date_gmt":"2015-09-24 16:08:08","post_content":"","post_title":"Brave New 3D World","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"brave-new-3d-world","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2018-03-26 21:06:44","post_modified_gmt":"2018-03-26 21:06:44","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/brave-new-3d-world\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"blog","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":123341,"post_author":"8022","post_date":"2018-03-14 09:00:00","post_date_gmt":"2018-03-14 16:00:00","post_content":"
A broad collection of beautiful and useful geographic items are available to access within your own ArcGIS Enterprise environment, brought to you by ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World. Now, with the new 10.6 release, you can enjoy an even greater collection with a significant increase in content from previous releases. As our world is ever-changing, so is Living Atlas content, and we\u2019ll review some of the highlights in today\u2019s blog.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
![\"Living](\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/01\/1.png\")
<\/a><\/p>\nWhat is Living Atlas of the World?<\/h2>\n
Living Atlas is a rich collection of ready-to-use, authoritative content, from maps, layers, and scenes to apps, Story Maps, and more. For example, if you need to find near real-time traffic speeds on an Atlanta freeway one day and a 3D scene of Linz, Austria the next, Living Atlas has you covered.<\/p>\n
These items are available for all members of your ArcGIS Enterprise deployment for enrichment, analysis, use in apps, maps and more. You can utilize Living Atlas content as is, or enhance it by incorporating your own data and layers.<\/p>\n
Living Atlas content is available in ArcGIS Enterprise by default, and can be configured to bring in content at the subscriber and\/or premium levels. You can also choose to download boundary layers from My Esri and host as feature layers in your Enterprise portal (highlighted a little further on in the blog). For more information on default, subscriber and premium levels of Living Atlas content, see Bern\u2019s blog here<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
New content in 10.6<\/h2>\n
<\/p>\n
U.S. demographic data<\/h3>\n
What was the average amount spent on retail goods in New York City in May? How about the market potential for D.C. residents to eat organic food? New 2017 demographic data will help you search for and answer these types of questions. Additional demographic layers include political affiliations, online banking patterns, commute times, pet spending, and more. That\u2019s right \u2013 if you need to determine if the amount spent on pet food in Milwaukee is higher or lower than the national average, you can do so using Living Atlas layers. Demographic information is fantastic for a range of analyses at different scales, whether you are interested in trends for a block group or for a whole state. Zoom in and out of your map to see variations in patterns based on different areas.<\/p>\n
![\"U.S.](\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/01\/2.png\")
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/h3>\nLandscape layers<\/h3>\n
Landscape analysis is a crucial part of civil engineering, land use planning, natural resource management, and ecosystem analysis and monitoring. The ArcGIS Enterprise 10.6 release contains updated versions of SSURGO (Soil Survey Geographic Database) data, which includes layers with attributes on soil hydrology, chemistry, texture, density, and nutrients. These beautiful layers provide all types of information on soil composition around the globe.<\/p>\n
![\"Landscape](\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/01\/3.png\")
<\/a><\/p>\nAlso new in 10.6 are updates to NLCD (National Land Cover Database) imagery layers, including vegetation types, agricultural use, and impervious surfaces. These layers can be used for a wide variety of mapping analyses (and are quite visually stunning!)<\/p>\n
Tile layers<\/h3>\n
Take advantage of vector tile layers and web maps using the improved tiling scheme WGS84 Geographic, Version 2. This includes tile layers such as the World Navigation Map, Hybrid Reference Layer, dark and light gray canvas layers, and street maps. This new tiling scheme is enhanced for precision, and more than 20 items are included in the 10.6 release. Try out vector tile layers today and let us know what you think!<\/p>\n
<\/h3>\nBoundary layers<\/h3>\n
The 10.6 release brings in updates to boundary layers for a number of countries. Boundary layers are polygons that contain various levels of demographic information about a country, such as population or land area\/size. They are also available at different ranges based on the country, from counties to provinces.\u00a0 These layers are great for spatial analysis, such as aggregating data within a certain geographic boundary. They can also be used in scenes, apps and maps (as displayed below within a web map in ArcGIS Enterprise):<\/p>\n
![\"Boundary](\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/01\/4.png\")
<\/a><\/p>\nThere are also approximately 130 boundary layers available in My Esri to download and host as feature layers in ArcGIS Enterprise. If you are interested in these layers, head over to My Esri to take a look at the ones available.<\/p>\n
Mature support items in the Living Atlas<\/h2>\n
Keep in mind that Living Atlas content does have a lifecycle, which means some items may reach a state of mature support, and may ultimately be retired.<\/p>\n
Therefore, it is recommended that after you upgrade your Living Atlas content, you do a quick audit of the layers you are using in your maps and apps to determine if any have been tagged as mature support. If they have been tagged as mature support, it is recommended that you visit What's new in Portal for ArcGIS 10.6<\/a> to identify the replacement layer.<\/p>\n---<\/p>\n
We hope you are excited about the new Living Atlas offerings in 10.6! To read additional information on Living Atlas in ArcGIS Enterprise, see Julia\u2019s blog, Take advantage of Living Atlas content in your ArcGIS Enterprise<\/a>. We look forward to hearing more about how you\u2019re using Living Atlas content in your own geospatial maps, apps, and analyses!<\/p>","post_title":"ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World updates in ArcGIS Enterprise 10.6","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"arcgis-living-atlas-of-the-world-updates-in-arcgis-enterprise-10-6","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2020-02-21 12:22:54","post_modified_gmt":"2020-02-21 20:22:54","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/arcgis-living-atlas-of-the-world-updates-in-arcgis-enterprise-10-6\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"blog","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":123251,"post_author":"4501","post_date":"2018-03-06 13:24:21","post_date_gmt":"2018-03-06 13:24:21","post_content":"Elevation surface provides foundational layer for your work in 3D.\u00a0ArcGIS 3D clients such as ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online\u00a0Web Scene Viewer<\/a>, and\u00a0ArcGIS Earth<\/a> comes with a default elevation layer - Terrain 3D<\/a>. \u00a0Along with this default elevation layer, ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World<\/a> also provides TopoBathy 3D<\/a>, which combines topography (land elevation) and bathymetry (water depths) into one seamless layer. Terrain 3D and TopoBathy 3D are tiled elevation services that uses the LERC (Limited Error Raster Compression) tile format and are derived from World Elevation Terrain<\/a> and TopoBathy<\/a> respectively.\n\nA few weeks ago World Elevation layers (Terrain & TopoBathy) and Tools<\/a> were enhanced with Airbus WorldDEM4Ortho<\/a>. These updates are now rolled out to 3D elevation layers (Terrain 3D<\/a> and TopoBathy 3D<\/a>). Airbus WorldDEM4Ortho is a global dataset covering the entire earth\u2019s land surface (excluding the countries of Azerbaijan, DR Congo and Ukraine), which\u00a0has a resolution of 0.8 arc second (approx. 24 meters). It brings many quality improvements especially over urban areas in Europe, Asia, Africa and South America, which were previously using SRTM 30 m dataset.\n\nSRTM is a digital surface model (DSM), which represents elevation values of the natural and built features on the earth surface such as buildings, vegetation, etc. Due to its DSM nature and coarser resolution, urban areas especially with dense and high rise buildings appear to have small hills or undulating surface. When you overlay 3D buildings\/objects on this undulating surface, it seems to be either sinking or floating on the ground. In Airbus WorldDEM4Ortho, urban areas are flattened to give DTM-like product thus\u00a0providing much better surface than SRTM 30 m. Let's see a few examples showing improvements over urban areas in before and after comparisons.\nAuckland, New Zealand \u2013 3D buildings are now sitting nicely on flat ground surface (WorldDEM4Ortho 24 m) in comparison to previously undulating surface (SRTM 30 m) where buildings seem to be sinking in the ground.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n![\"Auckland](\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Auckland_Bldgs_T3D_SRTM_Airbus.gif\")
<\/a>\nBerlin, Germany \u2013 3D buildings are now sitting nicely on flat surface of WorldDEM4Ortho 24 m (after) in comparison to undulating surface of SRTM 30 m (before).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n![\"Berlin](\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Berlin_blgs_T3D_SRTM_Airbus.gif\")
<\/a>\n\nEsri will keep improving the World Elevation Layers, Tools and derived information products with high resolution content from open sources and community maps for elevation program. You can look at the current data sources used by checking our Elevation Coverage Map<\/a>. If your organization has better elevation content that they can contribute, then check our Community Maps for Elevation<\/a> program to get in touch.\n\nIf you are interested in learning more about various elevation information products in the ArcGIS Living Atlas, then take a tour with this elevation story map<\/a>.","post_title":"Airbus WorldDEM4Ortho in Esri 3D elevation services","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"airbus-worlddem4ortho-in-esri-3d-elevation-services","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-06-11 13:07:26","post_modified_gmt":"2024-06-11 20:07:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/airbus-worlddem4ortho-in-esri-3d-elevation-services\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"blog","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":123161,"post_author":"6311","post_date":"2018-03-01 14:23:04","post_date_gmt":"2018-03-01 14:23:04","post_content":"ArcGIS Pro is used to build the maps and data analysis models you use throughout the ArcGIS platform. Here are some of the can\u2019t miss sessions at the Esri Developer Summit for ArcGIS Pro.\nArcGIS Pro Area in the Esri Showcase<\/h1>\nVisit the ArcGIS Pro area to talk to the product team about creating maps and analysis models, using geoprocessing tools, sharing your maps and scenes, and developing applications using Esri\u2019s ArcGIS Pro SDK.\nEsri Showcase Hours<\/h2>\n
Interactive tools<\/strong><\/h2>\nFor years, every day people have been able to touch things, see shadows, and change them in 3D games.\u00a0 It’s natural that GIS users should expect to do the same with the 3D data that represents their real world environments. Since the 2017 UC, we’ve seen a rollout of interactive analytical tools across the ArcGIS platform.\u00a0 These include inter-visibility tools in ArcGIS Pro and Esri CityEngine, 3D measurement tools in the ArcGIS API for JavaScript.<\/p>\n
\n- Visit the ArcGIS Pro island and the 3D Showcase in the UC Expo hall to see the intervisibility tools at work<\/li>\n
- Nathan Shephard will demo Pro’s new capabilities in a regular UC session<\/a><\/li>\n
- Eric Wittner CityEngine session<\/a> will discuss urban planning-focused capabilities, including interactive tools<\/li>\n
- Find the ArcGIS Earth team in the 3D Showcase and ask for a demo of new interactive tools that we’ll be releasing later this summer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":273692,"id":273692,"title":"ProViewshed","filename":"ProViewshed.gif","filesize":2323925,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ProViewshed.gif","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-pro\/3d-gis\/3d-at-the-2018-esri-uc\/proviewshed","alt":"","author":"6531","description":"","caption":"","name":"proviewshed","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":273052,"date":"2018-07-08 16:58:40","modified":"2018-07-08 17:05:42","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/gif","type":"image","subtype":"gif","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":596,"height":406,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ProViewshed.gif","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":145,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ProViewshed.gif","medium-width":383,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ProViewshed.gif","medium_large-width":596,"medium_large-height":406,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ProViewshed.gif","large-width":596,"large-height":406,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ProViewshed.gif","1536x1536-width":596,"1536x1536-height":406,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ProViewshed.gif","2048x2048-width":596,"2048x2048-height":406,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ProViewshed.gif","card_image-width":596,"card_image-height":406,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ProViewshed.gif","wide_image-width":596,"wide_image-height":406}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"
Mobile<\/strong><\/h2>\nMany of our customers are exploring mobile-first or mobile-only work environments.\u00a0 While the high end data and analysis authors in many fields will likely stay on desktop computers for years to come, many more software users are transitioning to mobile-format experiences.\u00a0 That’s as true for 3D GIS experiences as it is for any other part of our user workflow.<\/p>\n
\n- Checkout\u00a0 the new capability to use the Scene Viewer and the ArcGIS API for JavaScript 3D capability on mobile devices at the 3D Showcase and in the Developer Showcase<\/li>\n
- Find the ArcGIS Earth team and ask about the alpha release of ArcGIS Earth for Android devices which we are planning to ship in the next few weeks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":275942,"id":275942,"title":"ReducedEarthMobilePreview","filename":"ReducedEarthMobilePreview.png","filesize":93704,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedEarthMobilePreview.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-pro\/3d-gis\/3d-at-the-2018-esri-uc\/reducedearthmobilepreview","alt":"","author":"6531","description":"","caption":"","name":"reducedearthmobilepreview","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":273052,"date":"2018-07-10 07:02:31","modified":"2018-07-10 07:02:31","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":387,"height":672,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedEarthMobilePreview.png","thumbnail-width":115,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedEarthMobilePreview.png","medium-width":150,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedEarthMobilePreview.png","medium_large-width":387,"medium_large-height":672,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedEarthMobilePreview.png","large-width":387,"large-height":672,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedEarthMobilePreview.png","1536x1536-width":387,"1536x1536-height":672,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedEarthMobilePreview.png","2048x2048-width":387,"2048x2048-height":672,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedEarthMobilePreview.png","card_image-width":268,"card_image-height":465,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedEarthMobilePreview.png","wide_image-width":387,"wide_image-height":672}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"
Underground capabilities<\/strong><\/h2>\nTwo years ago, I was cornered after a talk on 3D by 5 or 6 users who complained that when it came to underground, we had nothing.\u00a0 We’re trying hard to change that and this year you’ll be able to take a look at:<\/p>\n
\n- The ability to navigate underground in the Scene Viewer in global scenes and the ability to manipulate the transparency of the ground surface both in the UI and in the API<\/li>\n
- A new experience for manipulating surfaces in ArcGIS Pro<\/li>\n
- The new slice exploratory tool in ArcGIS Pro that enables the ability to inspect complex subsurface data<\/li>\n
- The Utility Network which has been built to accommodate above and below-ground 3D utility information<\/li>\n
- If you can find me, ask me about our R&D with voxels…<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":273752,"id":273752,"title":"reducedundergroundglobalsceneviewer","filename":"reducedundergroundglobalsceneviewer.png","filesize":35964,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/reducedundergroundglobalsceneviewer.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-pro\/3d-gis\/3d-at-the-2018-esri-uc\/reducedundergroundglobalsceneviewer","alt":"","author":"6531","description":"","caption":"","name":"reducedundergroundglobalsceneviewer","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":273052,"date":"2018-07-08 17:04:42","modified":"2018-07-08 17:05:43","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":487,"height":324,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/reducedundergroundglobalsceneviewer.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":142,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/reducedundergroundglobalsceneviewer.png","medium-width":392,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/reducedundergroundglobalsceneviewer.png","medium_large-width":487,"medium_large-height":324,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/reducedundergroundglobalsceneviewer.png","large-width":487,"large-height":324,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/reducedundergroundglobalsceneviewer.png","1536x1536-width":487,"1536x1536-height":324,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/reducedundergroundglobalsceneviewer.png","2048x2048-width":487,"2048x2048-height":324,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/reducedundergroundglobalsceneviewer.png","card_image-width":487,"card_image-height":324,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/reducedundergroundglobalsceneviewer.png","wide_image-width":487,"wide_image-height":324}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"
Urban Planning<\/strong><\/h2>\nWe are increasing our focus on Urban Planning solutions and we have several initiatives that we’d love to speak with you about to help us guide where we’re going in the future.<\/p>\n
\n- CityEngine has made tremendous strides to be better oriented as a tool for Urban Designers.\u00a0 Great work from partners, such as Houseal Levigne Associates<\/a>\u00a0and Garsdale Design<\/a> showcases how far CityEngine has come.<\/li>\n
- The 3D team will be eager to show you some of the upcoming capabilities planned for ArcGIS Urban<\/a>.\u00a0 Stop by the 3D Showcase and ask about what we’re planning.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":273702,"id":273702,"title":"Reduced2018UC-CityEngine","filename":"Reduced2018UC-CityEngine.png","filesize":118278,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Reduced2018UC-CityEngine.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-pro\/3d-gis\/3d-at-the-2018-esri-uc\/reduced2018uc-cityengine","alt":"","author":"6531","description":"","caption":"","name":"reduced2018uc-cityengine","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":273052,"date":"2018-07-08 16:58:52","modified":"2018-07-08 17:05:43","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":482,"height":324,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Reduced2018UC-CityEngine.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":143,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Reduced2018UC-CityEngine.png","medium-width":388,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Reduced2018UC-CityEngine.png","medium_large-width":482,"medium_large-height":324,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Reduced2018UC-CityEngine.png","large-width":482,"large-height":324,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Reduced2018UC-CityEngine.png","1536x1536-width":482,"1536x1536-height":324,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Reduced2018UC-CityEngine.png","2048x2048-width":482,"2048x2048-height":324,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Reduced2018UC-CityEngine.png","card_image-width":482,"card_image-height":324,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Reduced2018UC-CityEngine.png","wide_image-width":482,"wide_image-height":324}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"
AR, VR and other new visualization capabilities<\/strong><\/h2>\nThe experience of GIS is fundamentally changing as we are seeing more demand for Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, game engine dynamics, and higher visual quality.\u00a0 Work from Esri R&D and many of our partners is helping to push real world content from GIS into experiences that allow users to interact with their data in whole new ways.\u00a0 I expect to see much more on this over the next few years.<\/p>\n
\n- Ask about the AR capabilties in the ArcGIS Runtime SDKs at the Developer Showcase<\/li>\n
- Meet up with the ArcGIS Urban team and the CityEngine team at the 3D Showcase and ask about how we’re exploring VR for Urban Planning workflows<\/li>\n
- Check out our partners who are already delivering products for AR to our users, such as Argis Solutions<\/a> and Meemim Inc.<\/a><\/li>\n
- Ask the 3D team at the Showcase about the new edge rendering capability in ArcGIS Pro and the ArcGIS API for JavaScript, including the great new sketchy edge capability<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":273742,"id":273742,"title":"ReducedSketchApp","filename":"ReducedSketchApp.png","filesize":135351,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedSketchApp.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-pro\/3d-gis\/3d-at-the-2018-esri-uc\/reducedsketchapp","alt":"","author":"6531","description":"","caption":"","name":"reducedsketchapp","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":273052,"date":"2018-07-08 16:59:08","modified":"2018-07-08 17:05:43","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":582,"height":322,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedSketchApp.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":118,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedSketchApp.png","medium-width":464,"medium-height":257,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedSketchApp.png","medium_large-width":582,"medium_large-height":322,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedSketchApp.png","large-width":582,"large-height":322,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedSketchApp.png","1536x1536-width":582,"1536x1536-height":322,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedSketchApp.png","2048x2048-width":582,"2048x2048-height":322,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedSketchApp.png","card_image-width":582,"card_image-height":322,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedSketchApp.png","wide_image-width":582,"wide_image-height":322}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":"https:\/\/ralucanicola.github.io\/JSAPI_demos\/urban-sketch\/"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"
I3S and 3D Content<\/strong><\/h2>\nLast year, we were happy to have the Indexed 3D Scene Layer (I3S) specification<\/a> adopted by the\u00a0Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) as a Community Standard.\u00a0 We’ve seen numerous partners and others in the community start to produce I3S content that is directly usable in ArcGIS products.\u00a0 We’re also seeing a ton of other 3D content, such as point clouds, IoT, and reality capture data being integrated into GIS for whole new\u00a0experiences allowing us to explore our world.<\/p>\n\n- Check out our many content provider partners who will be here including Vricon<\/a>, Nearmap<\/a>, Orbit<\/a>, and many others.\u00a0 Ask them how they can help you acquire 3D content for use in your GIS workflows.<\/li>\n
- Visit the 3D Showcase and ask about I3S and how it changes the way 3D is shared and distributed across ArcGIS<\/li>\n
- While you’re at the 3D Showcase, ask about new capability to go directly from formats such as LAZ and zLAS to I3S to allow you to use your point cloud data in new workflows<\/li>\n
- Ask the Living Atlas team about the new AIRBUS content<\/a> that allows us to deliver the highest res 3D ground elevation data set that is available from any GIS vendor today for use in everyday<\/li>\n
- Attend the I3S related talks and ask at the 3D Showcase about the new capability to edit feature-based scene layers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":273722,"id":273722,"title":"ReducedHelsinki","filename":"ReducedHelsinki.png","filesize":289147,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedHelsinki.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-pro\/3d-gis\/3d-at-the-2018-esri-uc\/reducedhelsinki","alt":"","author":"6531","description":"","caption":"","name":"reducedhelsinki","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":273052,"date":"2018-07-08 16:59:01","modified":"2018-07-08 17:05:43","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":480,"height":270,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedHelsinki.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":120,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedHelsinki.png","medium-width":464,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedHelsinki.png","medium_large-width":480,"medium_large-height":270,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedHelsinki.png","large-width":480,"large-height":270,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedHelsinki.png","1536x1536-width":480,"1536x1536-height":270,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedHelsinki.png","2048x2048-width":480,"2048x2048-height":270,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedHelsinki.png","card_image-width":480,"card_image-height":270,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedHelsinki.png","wide_image-width":480,"wide_image-height":270}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"
See you at the UC!<\/h2>\n
I hope to see you at the UC this year and I’d love to hear your feedback.\u00a0 It’s another exciting year for progress in 3D with ArcGIS.<\/p>\n
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I’d like to thank our customers, including the University of Kentucky, for continuing to provide demo content for us to be able to test, develop, and demo the new capabilities that our users need.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n"}],"authors":[{"ID":6531,"user_firstname":"Chris","user_lastname":"Andrews","nickname":"Chris Andrews","user_nicename":"candrewsesri","display_name":"Chris Andrews","user_email":"CAndrews@esri.com","user_url":"","user_registered":"2018-03-02 00:18:31","user_description":"Chris Andrews is an experienced product management and technology leader who enjoys solving real world problems, establishing high performance teams, and connecting people and businesses in positive collaborations. Chris started off at Esri as the senior product manager for 3D across the ArcGIS platform, based in Southern California. Chris now leads a team of product managers with responsibility for ArcGIS Hub, ArcGIS Excalibur, 3D, ArcGIS Urban, AEC\/CAD\/BIM offerings, ArcGIS Business Analyst and more. Before Esri, Chris was the lead product manager for Autodesk\u2019s Infrastructure Modeler (now InfraWorks) and Digital Cities efforts and was previously in the enterprise integration industry focused on CAD-GIS integration. Chris has focused on strategic innovation, defining and driving to production new products at top tier software companies. He is active on social media and provides mentoring on 3D, product management, and technical career growth.","user_avatar":""}],"related_articles":[{"ID":73691,"post_author":"3611","post_date":"2016-09-22 08:25:15","post_date_gmt":"2016-09-22 08:25:15","post_content":"","post_title":"BIM-GIS Integration with IFC","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"bim-gis-integration-with-ifc","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2018-03-26 21:10:24","post_modified_gmt":"2018-03-26 21:10:24","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/bim-gis-integration-with-ifc\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"blog","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":71571,"post_author":"6531","post_date":"2016-04-01 11:53:36","post_date_gmt":"2016-04-01 11:53:36","post_content":"","post_title":"Increasing interest in the fusion of GIS and BIM","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"increasing-interest-in-the-fusion-of-gis-and-bim","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-08-11 10:25:16","post_modified_gmt":"2022-08-11 17:25:16","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/increasing-interest-in-the-fusion-of-gis-and-bim\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"blog","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":69501,"post_author":"6531","post_date":"2015-09-24 16:08:08","post_date_gmt":"2015-09-24 16:08:08","post_content":"","post_title":"Brave New 3D World","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"brave-new-3d-world","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2018-03-26 21:06:44","post_modified_gmt":"2018-03-26 21:06:44","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/brave-new-3d-world\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"blog","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":123341,"post_author":"8022","post_date":"2018-03-14 09:00:00","post_date_gmt":"2018-03-14 16:00:00","post_content":"
A broad collection of beautiful and useful geographic items are available to access within your own ArcGIS Enterprise environment, brought to you by ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World. Now, with the new 10.6 release, you can enjoy an even greater collection with a significant increase in content from previous releases. As our world is ever-changing, so is Living Atlas content, and we\u2019ll review some of the highlights in today\u2019s blog.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nWhat is Living Atlas of the World?<\/h2>\n
Living Atlas is a rich collection of ready-to-use, authoritative content, from maps, layers, and scenes to apps, Story Maps, and more. For example, if you need to find near real-time traffic speeds on an Atlanta freeway one day and a 3D scene of Linz, Austria the next, Living Atlas has you covered.<\/p>\n
These items are available for all members of your ArcGIS Enterprise deployment for enrichment, analysis, use in apps, maps and more. You can utilize Living Atlas content as is, or enhance it by incorporating your own data and layers.<\/p>\n
Living Atlas content is available in ArcGIS Enterprise by default, and can be configured to bring in content at the subscriber and\/or premium levels. You can also choose to download boundary layers from My Esri and host as feature layers in your Enterprise portal (highlighted a little further on in the blog). For more information on default, subscriber and premium levels of Living Atlas content, see Bern\u2019s blog here<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
New content in 10.6<\/h2>\n
<\/p>\n
U.S. demographic data<\/h3>\n
What was the average amount spent on retail goods in New York City in May? How about the market potential for D.C. residents to eat organic food? New 2017 demographic data will help you search for and answer these types of questions. Additional demographic layers include political affiliations, online banking patterns, commute times, pet spending, and more. That\u2019s right \u2013 if you need to determine if the amount spent on pet food in Milwaukee is higher or lower than the national average, you can do so using Living Atlas layers. Demographic information is fantastic for a range of analyses at different scales, whether you are interested in trends for a block group or for a whole state. Zoom in and out of your map to see variations in patterns based on different areas.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/h3>\nLandscape layers<\/h3>\n
Landscape analysis is a crucial part of civil engineering, land use planning, natural resource management, and ecosystem analysis and monitoring. The ArcGIS Enterprise 10.6 release contains updated versions of SSURGO (Soil Survey Geographic Database) data, which includes layers with attributes on soil hydrology, chemistry, texture, density, and nutrients. These beautiful layers provide all types of information on soil composition around the globe.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nAlso new in 10.6 are updates to NLCD (National Land Cover Database) imagery layers, including vegetation types, agricultural use, and impervious surfaces. These layers can be used for a wide variety of mapping analyses (and are quite visually stunning!)<\/p>\n
Tile layers<\/h3>\n
Take advantage of vector tile layers and web maps using the improved tiling scheme WGS84 Geographic, Version 2. This includes tile layers such as the World Navigation Map, Hybrid Reference Layer, dark and light gray canvas layers, and street maps. This new tiling scheme is enhanced for precision, and more than 20 items are included in the 10.6 release. Try out vector tile layers today and let us know what you think!<\/p>\n
<\/h3>\nBoundary layers<\/h3>\n
The 10.6 release brings in updates to boundary layers for a number of countries. Boundary layers are polygons that contain various levels of demographic information about a country, such as population or land area\/size. They are also available at different ranges based on the country, from counties to provinces.\u00a0 These layers are great for spatial analysis, such as aggregating data within a certain geographic boundary. They can also be used in scenes, apps and maps (as displayed below within a web map in ArcGIS Enterprise):<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nThere are also approximately 130 boundary layers available in My Esri to download and host as feature layers in ArcGIS Enterprise. If you are interested in these layers, head over to My Esri to take a look at the ones available.<\/p>\n
Mature support items in the Living Atlas<\/h2>\n
Keep in mind that Living Atlas content does have a lifecycle, which means some items may reach a state of mature support, and may ultimately be retired.<\/p>\n
Therefore, it is recommended that after you upgrade your Living Atlas content, you do a quick audit of the layers you are using in your maps and apps to determine if any have been tagged as mature support. If they have been tagged as mature support, it is recommended that you visit What's new in Portal for ArcGIS 10.6<\/a> to identify the replacement layer.<\/p>\n---<\/p>\n
We hope you are excited about the new Living Atlas offerings in 10.6! To read additional information on Living Atlas in ArcGIS Enterprise, see Julia\u2019s blog, Take advantage of Living Atlas content in your ArcGIS Enterprise<\/a>. We look forward to hearing more about how you\u2019re using Living Atlas content in your own geospatial maps, apps, and analyses!<\/p>","post_title":"ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World updates in ArcGIS Enterprise 10.6","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"arcgis-living-atlas-of-the-world-updates-in-arcgis-enterprise-10-6","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2020-02-21 12:22:54","post_modified_gmt":"2020-02-21 20:22:54","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/arcgis-living-atlas-of-the-world-updates-in-arcgis-enterprise-10-6\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"blog","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":123251,"post_author":"4501","post_date":"2018-03-06 13:24:21","post_date_gmt":"2018-03-06 13:24:21","post_content":"Elevation surface provides foundational layer for your work in 3D.\u00a0ArcGIS 3D clients such as ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online\u00a0Web Scene Viewer<\/a>, and\u00a0ArcGIS Earth<\/a> comes with a default elevation layer - Terrain 3D<\/a>. \u00a0Along with this default elevation layer, ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World<\/a> also provides TopoBathy 3D<\/a>, which combines topography (land elevation) and bathymetry (water depths) into one seamless layer. Terrain 3D and TopoBathy 3D are tiled elevation services that uses the LERC (Limited Error Raster Compression) tile format and are derived from World Elevation Terrain<\/a> and TopoBathy<\/a> respectively.\n\nA few weeks ago World Elevation layers (Terrain & TopoBathy) and Tools<\/a> were enhanced with Airbus WorldDEM4Ortho<\/a>. These updates are now rolled out to 3D elevation layers (Terrain 3D<\/a> and TopoBathy 3D<\/a>). Airbus WorldDEM4Ortho is a global dataset covering the entire earth\u2019s land surface (excluding the countries of Azerbaijan, DR Congo and Ukraine), which\u00a0has a resolution of 0.8 arc second (approx. 24 meters). It brings many quality improvements especially over urban areas in Europe, Asia, Africa and South America, which were previously using SRTM 30 m dataset.\n\nSRTM is a digital surface model (DSM), which represents elevation values of the natural and built features on the earth surface such as buildings, vegetation, etc. Due to its DSM nature and coarser resolution, urban areas especially with dense and high rise buildings appear to have small hills or undulating surface. When you overlay 3D buildings\/objects on this undulating surface, it seems to be either sinking or floating on the ground. In Airbus WorldDEM4Ortho, urban areas are flattened to give DTM-like product thus\u00a0providing much better surface than SRTM 30 m. Let's see a few examples showing improvements over urban areas in before and after comparisons.\nAuckland, New Zealand \u2013 3D buildings are now sitting nicely on flat ground surface (WorldDEM4Ortho 24 m) in comparison to previously undulating surface (SRTM 30 m) where buildings seem to be sinking in the ground.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/a>\nBerlin, Germany \u2013 3D buildings are now sitting nicely on flat surface of WorldDEM4Ortho 24 m (after) in comparison to undulating surface of SRTM 30 m (before).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/a>\n\nEsri will keep improving the World Elevation Layers, Tools and derived information products with high resolution content from open sources and community maps for elevation program. You can look at the current data sources used by checking our Elevation Coverage Map<\/a>. If your organization has better elevation content that they can contribute, then check our Community Maps for Elevation<\/a> program to get in touch.\n\nIf you are interested in learning more about various elevation information products in the ArcGIS Living Atlas, then take a tour with this elevation story map<\/a>.","post_title":"Airbus WorldDEM4Ortho in Esri 3D elevation services","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"airbus-worlddem4ortho-in-esri-3d-elevation-services","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-06-11 13:07:26","post_modified_gmt":"2024-06-11 20:07:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/airbus-worlddem4ortho-in-esri-3d-elevation-services\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"blog","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":123161,"post_author":"6311","post_date":"2018-03-01 14:23:04","post_date_gmt":"2018-03-01 14:23:04","post_content":"ArcGIS Pro is used to build the maps and data analysis models you use throughout the ArcGIS platform. Here are some of the can\u2019t miss sessions at the Esri Developer Summit for ArcGIS Pro.\nArcGIS Pro Area in the Esri Showcase<\/h1>\nVisit the ArcGIS Pro area to talk to the product team about creating maps and analysis models, using geoprocessing tools, sharing your maps and scenes, and developing applications using Esri\u2019s ArcGIS Pro SDK.\nEsri Showcase Hours<\/h2>\n
Mobile<\/strong><\/h2>\nMany of our customers are exploring mobile-first or mobile-only work environments.\u00a0 While the high end data and analysis authors in many fields will likely stay on desktop computers for years to come, many more software users are transitioning to mobile-format experiences.\u00a0 That’s as true for 3D GIS experiences as it is for any other part of our user workflow.<\/p>\n
\n- Checkout\u00a0 the new capability to use the Scene Viewer and the ArcGIS API for JavaScript 3D capability on mobile devices at the 3D Showcase and in the Developer Showcase<\/li>\n
- Find the ArcGIS Earth team and ask about the alpha release of ArcGIS Earth for Android devices which we are planning to ship in the next few weeks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":275942,"id":275942,"title":"ReducedEarthMobilePreview","filename":"ReducedEarthMobilePreview.png","filesize":93704,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedEarthMobilePreview.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-pro\/3d-gis\/3d-at-the-2018-esri-uc\/reducedearthmobilepreview","alt":"","author":"6531","description":"","caption":"","name":"reducedearthmobilepreview","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":273052,"date":"2018-07-10 07:02:31","modified":"2018-07-10 07:02:31","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":387,"height":672,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedEarthMobilePreview.png","thumbnail-width":115,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedEarthMobilePreview.png","medium-width":150,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedEarthMobilePreview.png","medium_large-width":387,"medium_large-height":672,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedEarthMobilePreview.png","large-width":387,"large-height":672,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedEarthMobilePreview.png","1536x1536-width":387,"1536x1536-height":672,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedEarthMobilePreview.png","2048x2048-width":387,"2048x2048-height":672,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedEarthMobilePreview.png","card_image-width":268,"card_image-height":465,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedEarthMobilePreview.png","wide_image-width":387,"wide_image-height":672}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"
Underground capabilities<\/strong><\/h2>\nTwo years ago, I was cornered after a talk on 3D by 5 or 6 users who complained that when it came to underground, we had nothing.\u00a0 We’re trying hard to change that and this year you’ll be able to take a look at:<\/p>\n
\n- The ability to navigate underground in the Scene Viewer in global scenes and the ability to manipulate the transparency of the ground surface both in the UI and in the API<\/li>\n
- A new experience for manipulating surfaces in ArcGIS Pro<\/li>\n
- The new slice exploratory tool in ArcGIS Pro that enables the ability to inspect complex subsurface data<\/li>\n
- The Utility Network which has been built to accommodate above and below-ground 3D utility information<\/li>\n
- If you can find me, ask me about our R&D with voxels…<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":273752,"id":273752,"title":"reducedundergroundglobalsceneviewer","filename":"reducedundergroundglobalsceneviewer.png","filesize":35964,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/reducedundergroundglobalsceneviewer.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-pro\/3d-gis\/3d-at-the-2018-esri-uc\/reducedundergroundglobalsceneviewer","alt":"","author":"6531","description":"","caption":"","name":"reducedundergroundglobalsceneviewer","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":273052,"date":"2018-07-08 17:04:42","modified":"2018-07-08 17:05:43","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":487,"height":324,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/reducedundergroundglobalsceneviewer.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":142,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/reducedundergroundglobalsceneviewer.png","medium-width":392,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/reducedundergroundglobalsceneviewer.png","medium_large-width":487,"medium_large-height":324,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/reducedundergroundglobalsceneviewer.png","large-width":487,"large-height":324,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/reducedundergroundglobalsceneviewer.png","1536x1536-width":487,"1536x1536-height":324,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/reducedundergroundglobalsceneviewer.png","2048x2048-width":487,"2048x2048-height":324,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/reducedundergroundglobalsceneviewer.png","card_image-width":487,"card_image-height":324,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/reducedundergroundglobalsceneviewer.png","wide_image-width":487,"wide_image-height":324}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"
Urban Planning<\/strong><\/h2>\nWe are increasing our focus on Urban Planning solutions and we have several initiatives that we’d love to speak with you about to help us guide where we’re going in the future.<\/p>\n
\n- CityEngine has made tremendous strides to be better oriented as a tool for Urban Designers.\u00a0 Great work from partners, such as Houseal Levigne Associates<\/a>\u00a0and Garsdale Design<\/a> showcases how far CityEngine has come.<\/li>\n
- The 3D team will be eager to show you some of the upcoming capabilities planned for ArcGIS Urban<\/a>.\u00a0 Stop by the 3D Showcase and ask about what we’re planning.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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AR, VR and other new visualization capabilities<\/strong><\/h2>\nThe experience of GIS is fundamentally changing as we are seeing more demand for Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, game engine dynamics, and higher visual quality.\u00a0 Work from Esri R&D and many of our partners is helping to push real world content from GIS into experiences that allow users to interact with their data in whole new ways.\u00a0 I expect to see much more on this over the next few years.<\/p>\n
\n- Ask about the AR capabilties in the ArcGIS Runtime SDKs at the Developer Showcase<\/li>\n
- Meet up with the ArcGIS Urban team and the CityEngine team at the 3D Showcase and ask about how we’re exploring VR for Urban Planning workflows<\/li>\n
- Check out our partners who are already delivering products for AR to our users, such as Argis Solutions<\/a> and Meemim Inc.<\/a><\/li>\n
- Ask the 3D team at the Showcase about the new edge rendering capability in ArcGIS Pro and the ArcGIS API for JavaScript, including the great new sketchy edge capability<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":273742,"id":273742,"title":"ReducedSketchApp","filename":"ReducedSketchApp.png","filesize":135351,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedSketchApp.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-pro\/3d-gis\/3d-at-the-2018-esri-uc\/reducedsketchapp","alt":"","author":"6531","description":"","caption":"","name":"reducedsketchapp","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":273052,"date":"2018-07-08 16:59:08","modified":"2018-07-08 17:05:43","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":582,"height":322,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedSketchApp.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":118,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedSketchApp.png","medium-width":464,"medium-height":257,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedSketchApp.png","medium_large-width":582,"medium_large-height":322,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedSketchApp.png","large-width":582,"large-height":322,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedSketchApp.png","1536x1536-width":582,"1536x1536-height":322,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedSketchApp.png","2048x2048-width":582,"2048x2048-height":322,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedSketchApp.png","card_image-width":582,"card_image-height":322,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedSketchApp.png","wide_image-width":582,"wide_image-height":322}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":"https:\/\/ralucanicola.github.io\/JSAPI_demos\/urban-sketch\/"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"
I3S and 3D Content<\/strong><\/h2>\nLast year, we were happy to have the Indexed 3D Scene Layer (I3S) specification<\/a> adopted by the\u00a0Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) as a Community Standard.\u00a0 We’ve seen numerous partners and others in the community start to produce I3S content that is directly usable in ArcGIS products.\u00a0 We’re also seeing a ton of other 3D content, such as point clouds, IoT, and reality capture data being integrated into GIS for whole new\u00a0experiences allowing us to explore our world.<\/p>\n\n- Check out our many content provider partners who will be here including Vricon<\/a>, Nearmap<\/a>, Orbit<\/a>, and many others.\u00a0 Ask them how they can help you acquire 3D content for use in your GIS workflows.<\/li>\n
- Visit the 3D Showcase and ask about I3S and how it changes the way 3D is shared and distributed across ArcGIS<\/li>\n
- While you’re at the 3D Showcase, ask about new capability to go directly from formats such as LAZ and zLAS to I3S to allow you to use your point cloud data in new workflows<\/li>\n
- Ask the Living Atlas team about the new AIRBUS content<\/a> that allows us to deliver the highest res 3D ground elevation data set that is available from any GIS vendor today for use in everyday<\/li>\n
- Attend the I3S related talks and ask at the 3D Showcase about the new capability to edit feature-based scene layers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":273722,"id":273722,"title":"ReducedHelsinki","filename":"ReducedHelsinki.png","filesize":289147,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedHelsinki.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-pro\/3d-gis\/3d-at-the-2018-esri-uc\/reducedhelsinki","alt":"","author":"6531","description":"","caption":"","name":"reducedhelsinki","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":273052,"date":"2018-07-08 16:59:01","modified":"2018-07-08 17:05:43","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":480,"height":270,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedHelsinki.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":120,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedHelsinki.png","medium-width":464,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedHelsinki.png","medium_large-width":480,"medium_large-height":270,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedHelsinki.png","large-width":480,"large-height":270,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedHelsinki.png","1536x1536-width":480,"1536x1536-height":270,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedHelsinki.png","2048x2048-width":480,"2048x2048-height":270,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedHelsinki.png","card_image-width":480,"card_image-height":270,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedHelsinki.png","wide_image-width":480,"wide_image-height":270}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"
See you at the UC!<\/h2>\n
I hope to see you at the UC this year and I’d love to hear your feedback.\u00a0 It’s another exciting year for progress in 3D with ArcGIS.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I’d like to thank our customers, including the University of Kentucky, for continuing to provide demo content for us to be able to test, develop, and demo the new capabilities that our users need.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n"}],"authors":[{"ID":6531,"user_firstname":"Chris","user_lastname":"Andrews","nickname":"Chris Andrews","user_nicename":"candrewsesri","display_name":"Chris Andrews","user_email":"CAndrews@esri.com","user_url":"","user_registered":"2018-03-02 00:18:31","user_description":"Chris Andrews is an experienced product management and technology leader who enjoys solving real world problems, establishing high performance teams, and connecting people and businesses in positive collaborations. Chris started off at Esri as the senior product manager for 3D across the ArcGIS platform, based in Southern California. Chris now leads a team of product managers with responsibility for ArcGIS Hub, ArcGIS Excalibur, 3D, ArcGIS Urban, AEC\/CAD\/BIM offerings, ArcGIS Business Analyst and more. Before Esri, Chris was the lead product manager for Autodesk\u2019s Infrastructure Modeler (now InfraWorks) and Digital Cities efforts and was previously in the enterprise integration industry focused on CAD-GIS integration. Chris has focused on strategic innovation, defining and driving to production new products at top tier software companies. He is active on social media and provides mentoring on 3D, product management, and technical career growth.","user_avatar":""}],"related_articles":[{"ID":73691,"post_author":"3611","post_date":"2016-09-22 08:25:15","post_date_gmt":"2016-09-22 08:25:15","post_content":"","post_title":"BIM-GIS Integration with IFC","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"bim-gis-integration-with-ifc","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2018-03-26 21:10:24","post_modified_gmt":"2018-03-26 21:10:24","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/bim-gis-integration-with-ifc\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"blog","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":71571,"post_author":"6531","post_date":"2016-04-01 11:53:36","post_date_gmt":"2016-04-01 11:53:36","post_content":"","post_title":"Increasing interest in the fusion of GIS and BIM","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"increasing-interest-in-the-fusion-of-gis-and-bim","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-08-11 10:25:16","post_modified_gmt":"2022-08-11 17:25:16","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/increasing-interest-in-the-fusion-of-gis-and-bim\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"blog","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":69501,"post_author":"6531","post_date":"2015-09-24 16:08:08","post_date_gmt":"2015-09-24 16:08:08","post_content":"","post_title":"Brave New 3D World","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"brave-new-3d-world","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2018-03-26 21:06:44","post_modified_gmt":"2018-03-26 21:06:44","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/brave-new-3d-world\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"blog","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":123341,"post_author":"8022","post_date":"2018-03-14 09:00:00","post_date_gmt":"2018-03-14 16:00:00","post_content":"
A broad collection of beautiful and useful geographic items are available to access within your own ArcGIS Enterprise environment, brought to you by ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World. Now, with the new 10.6 release, you can enjoy an even greater collection with a significant increase in content from previous releases. As our world is ever-changing, so is Living Atlas content, and we\u2019ll review some of the highlights in today\u2019s blog.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nWhat is Living Atlas of the World?<\/h2>\n
Living Atlas is a rich collection of ready-to-use, authoritative content, from maps, layers, and scenes to apps, Story Maps, and more. For example, if you need to find near real-time traffic speeds on an Atlanta freeway one day and a 3D scene of Linz, Austria the next, Living Atlas has you covered.<\/p>\n
These items are available for all members of your ArcGIS Enterprise deployment for enrichment, analysis, use in apps, maps and more. You can utilize Living Atlas content as is, or enhance it by incorporating your own data and layers.<\/p>\n
Living Atlas content is available in ArcGIS Enterprise by default, and can be configured to bring in content at the subscriber and\/or premium levels. You can also choose to download boundary layers from My Esri and host as feature layers in your Enterprise portal (highlighted a little further on in the blog). For more information on default, subscriber and premium levels of Living Atlas content, see Bern\u2019s blog here<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
New content in 10.6<\/h2>\n
<\/p>\n
U.S. demographic data<\/h3>\n
What was the average amount spent on retail goods in New York City in May? How about the market potential for D.C. residents to eat organic food? New 2017 demographic data will help you search for and answer these types of questions. Additional demographic layers include political affiliations, online banking patterns, commute times, pet spending, and more. That\u2019s right \u2013 if you need to determine if the amount spent on pet food in Milwaukee is higher or lower than the national average, you can do so using Living Atlas layers. Demographic information is fantastic for a range of analyses at different scales, whether you are interested in trends for a block group or for a whole state. Zoom in and out of your map to see variations in patterns based on different areas.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/h3>\nLandscape layers<\/h3>\n
Landscape analysis is a crucial part of civil engineering, land use planning, natural resource management, and ecosystem analysis and monitoring. The ArcGIS Enterprise 10.6 release contains updated versions of SSURGO (Soil Survey Geographic Database) data, which includes layers with attributes on soil hydrology, chemistry, texture, density, and nutrients. These beautiful layers provide all types of information on soil composition around the globe.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nAlso new in 10.6 are updates to NLCD (National Land Cover Database) imagery layers, including vegetation types, agricultural use, and impervious surfaces. These layers can be used for a wide variety of mapping analyses (and are quite visually stunning!)<\/p>\n
Tile layers<\/h3>\n
Take advantage of vector tile layers and web maps using the improved tiling scheme WGS84 Geographic, Version 2. This includes tile layers such as the World Navigation Map, Hybrid Reference Layer, dark and light gray canvas layers, and street maps. This new tiling scheme is enhanced for precision, and more than 20 items are included in the 10.6 release. Try out vector tile layers today and let us know what you think!<\/p>\n
<\/h3>\nBoundary layers<\/h3>\n
The 10.6 release brings in updates to boundary layers for a number of countries. Boundary layers are polygons that contain various levels of demographic information about a country, such as population or land area\/size. They are also available at different ranges based on the country, from counties to provinces.\u00a0 These layers are great for spatial analysis, such as aggregating data within a certain geographic boundary. They can also be used in scenes, apps and maps (as displayed below within a web map in ArcGIS Enterprise):<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nThere are also approximately 130 boundary layers available in My Esri to download and host as feature layers in ArcGIS Enterprise. If you are interested in these layers, head over to My Esri to take a look at the ones available.<\/p>\n
Mature support items in the Living Atlas<\/h2>\n
Keep in mind that Living Atlas content does have a lifecycle, which means some items may reach a state of mature support, and may ultimately be retired.<\/p>\n
Therefore, it is recommended that after you upgrade your Living Atlas content, you do a quick audit of the layers you are using in your maps and apps to determine if any have been tagged as mature support. If they have been tagged as mature support, it is recommended that you visit What's new in Portal for ArcGIS 10.6<\/a> to identify the replacement layer.<\/p>\n---<\/p>\n
We hope you are excited about the new Living Atlas offerings in 10.6! To read additional information on Living Atlas in ArcGIS Enterprise, see Julia\u2019s blog, Take advantage of Living Atlas content in your ArcGIS Enterprise<\/a>. We look forward to hearing more about how you\u2019re using Living Atlas content in your own geospatial maps, apps, and analyses!<\/p>","post_title":"ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World updates in ArcGIS Enterprise 10.6","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"arcgis-living-atlas-of-the-world-updates-in-arcgis-enterprise-10-6","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2020-02-21 12:22:54","post_modified_gmt":"2020-02-21 20:22:54","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/arcgis-living-atlas-of-the-world-updates-in-arcgis-enterprise-10-6\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"blog","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":123251,"post_author":"4501","post_date":"2018-03-06 13:24:21","post_date_gmt":"2018-03-06 13:24:21","post_content":"Elevation surface provides foundational layer for your work in 3D.\u00a0ArcGIS 3D clients such as ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online\u00a0Web Scene Viewer<\/a>, and\u00a0ArcGIS Earth<\/a> comes with a default elevation layer - Terrain 3D<\/a>. \u00a0Along with this default elevation layer, ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World<\/a> also provides TopoBathy 3D<\/a>, which combines topography (land elevation) and bathymetry (water depths) into one seamless layer. Terrain 3D and TopoBathy 3D are tiled elevation services that uses the LERC (Limited Error Raster Compression) tile format and are derived from World Elevation Terrain<\/a> and TopoBathy<\/a> respectively.\n\nA few weeks ago World Elevation layers (Terrain & TopoBathy) and Tools<\/a> were enhanced with Airbus WorldDEM4Ortho<\/a>. These updates are now rolled out to 3D elevation layers (Terrain 3D<\/a> and TopoBathy 3D<\/a>). Airbus WorldDEM4Ortho is a global dataset covering the entire earth\u2019s land surface (excluding the countries of Azerbaijan, DR Congo and Ukraine), which\u00a0has a resolution of 0.8 arc second (approx. 24 meters). It brings many quality improvements especially over urban areas in Europe, Asia, Africa and South America, which were previously using SRTM 30 m dataset.\n\nSRTM is a digital surface model (DSM), which represents elevation values of the natural and built features on the earth surface such as buildings, vegetation, etc. Due to its DSM nature and coarser resolution, urban areas especially with dense and high rise buildings appear to have small hills or undulating surface. When you overlay 3D buildings\/objects on this undulating surface, it seems to be either sinking or floating on the ground. In Airbus WorldDEM4Ortho, urban areas are flattened to give DTM-like product thus\u00a0providing much better surface than SRTM 30 m. Let's see a few examples showing improvements over urban areas in before and after comparisons.\nAuckland, New Zealand \u2013 3D buildings are now sitting nicely on flat ground surface (WorldDEM4Ortho 24 m) in comparison to previously undulating surface (SRTM 30 m) where buildings seem to be sinking in the ground.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/a>\nBerlin, Germany \u2013 3D buildings are now sitting nicely on flat surface of WorldDEM4Ortho 24 m (after) in comparison to undulating surface of SRTM 30 m (before).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/a>\n\nEsri will keep improving the World Elevation Layers, Tools and derived information products with high resolution content from open sources and community maps for elevation program. You can look at the current data sources used by checking our Elevation Coverage Map<\/a>. If your organization has better elevation content that they can contribute, then check our Community Maps for Elevation<\/a> program to get in touch.\n\nIf you are interested in learning more about various elevation information products in the ArcGIS Living Atlas, then take a tour with this elevation story map<\/a>.","post_title":"Airbus WorldDEM4Ortho in Esri 3D elevation services","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"airbus-worlddem4ortho-in-esri-3d-elevation-services","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-06-11 13:07:26","post_modified_gmt":"2024-06-11 20:07:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/airbus-worlddem4ortho-in-esri-3d-elevation-services\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"blog","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":123161,"post_author":"6311","post_date":"2018-03-01 14:23:04","post_date_gmt":"2018-03-01 14:23:04","post_content":"ArcGIS Pro is used to build the maps and data analysis models you use throughout the ArcGIS platform. Here are some of the can\u2019t miss sessions at the Esri Developer Summit for ArcGIS Pro.\nArcGIS Pro Area in the Esri Showcase<\/h1>\nVisit the ArcGIS Pro area to talk to the product team about creating maps and analysis models, using geoprocessing tools, sharing your maps and scenes, and developing applications using Esri\u2019s ArcGIS Pro SDK.\nEsri Showcase Hours<\/h2>\n
Underground capabilities<\/strong><\/h2>\nTwo years ago, I was cornered after a talk on 3D by 5 or 6 users who complained that when it came to underground, we had nothing.\u00a0 We’re trying hard to change that and this year you’ll be able to take a look at:<\/p>\n
\n- The ability to navigate underground in the Scene Viewer in global scenes and the ability to manipulate the transparency of the ground surface both in the UI and in the API<\/li>\n
- A new experience for manipulating surfaces in ArcGIS Pro<\/li>\n
- The new slice exploratory tool in ArcGIS Pro that enables the ability to inspect complex subsurface data<\/li>\n
- The Utility Network which has been built to accommodate above and below-ground 3D utility information<\/li>\n
- If you can find me, ask me about our R&D with voxels…<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Urban Planning<\/strong><\/h2>\nWe are increasing our focus on Urban Planning solutions and we have several initiatives that we’d love to speak with you about to help us guide where we’re going in the future.<\/p>\n
\n- CityEngine has made tremendous strides to be better oriented as a tool for Urban Designers.\u00a0 Great work from partners, such as Houseal Levigne Associates<\/a>\u00a0and Garsdale Design<\/a> showcases how far CityEngine has come.<\/li>\n
- The 3D team will be eager to show you some of the upcoming capabilities planned for ArcGIS Urban<\/a>.\u00a0 Stop by the 3D Showcase and ask about what we’re planning.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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AR, VR and other new visualization capabilities<\/strong><\/h2>\nThe experience of GIS is fundamentally changing as we are seeing more demand for Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, game engine dynamics, and higher visual quality.\u00a0 Work from Esri R&D and many of our partners is helping to push real world content from GIS into experiences that allow users to interact with their data in whole new ways.\u00a0 I expect to see much more on this over the next few years.<\/p>\n
\n- Ask about the AR capabilties in the ArcGIS Runtime SDKs at the Developer Showcase<\/li>\n
- Meet up with the ArcGIS Urban team and the CityEngine team at the 3D Showcase and ask about how we’re exploring VR for Urban Planning workflows<\/li>\n
- Check out our partners who are already delivering products for AR to our users, such as Argis Solutions<\/a> and Meemim Inc.<\/a><\/li>\n
- Ask the 3D team at the Showcase about the new edge rendering capability in ArcGIS Pro and the ArcGIS API for JavaScript, including the great new sketchy edge capability<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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I3S and 3D Content<\/strong><\/h2>\nLast year, we were happy to have the Indexed 3D Scene Layer (I3S) specification<\/a> adopted by the\u00a0Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) as a Community Standard.\u00a0 We’ve seen numerous partners and others in the community start to produce I3S content that is directly usable in ArcGIS products.\u00a0 We’re also seeing a ton of other 3D content, such as point clouds, IoT, and reality capture data being integrated into GIS for whole new\u00a0experiences allowing us to explore our world.<\/p>\n\n- Check out our many content provider partners who will be here including Vricon<\/a>, Nearmap<\/a>, Orbit<\/a>, and many others.\u00a0 Ask them how they can help you acquire 3D content for use in your GIS workflows.<\/li>\n
- Visit the 3D Showcase and ask about I3S and how it changes the way 3D is shared and distributed across ArcGIS<\/li>\n
- While you’re at the 3D Showcase, ask about new capability to go directly from formats such as LAZ and zLAS to I3S to allow you to use your point cloud data in new workflows<\/li>\n
- Ask the Living Atlas team about the new AIRBUS content<\/a> that allows us to deliver the highest res 3D ground elevation data set that is available from any GIS vendor today for use in everyday<\/li>\n
- Attend the I3S related talks and ask at the 3D Showcase about the new capability to edit feature-based scene layers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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See you at the UC!<\/h2>\n
I hope to see you at the UC this year and I’d love to hear your feedback.\u00a0 It’s another exciting year for progress in 3D with ArcGIS.<\/p>\n
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I’d like to thank our customers, including the University of Kentucky, for continuing to provide demo content for us to be able to test, develop, and demo the new capabilities that our users need.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n"}],"authors":[{"ID":6531,"user_firstname":"Chris","user_lastname":"Andrews","nickname":"Chris Andrews","user_nicename":"candrewsesri","display_name":"Chris Andrews","user_email":"CAndrews@esri.com","user_url":"","user_registered":"2018-03-02 00:18:31","user_description":"Chris Andrews is an experienced product management and technology leader who enjoys solving real world problems, establishing high performance teams, and connecting people and businesses in positive collaborations. Chris started off at Esri as the senior product manager for 3D across the ArcGIS platform, based in Southern California. Chris now leads a team of product managers with responsibility for ArcGIS Hub, ArcGIS Excalibur, 3D, ArcGIS Urban, AEC\/CAD\/BIM offerings, ArcGIS Business Analyst and more. Before Esri, Chris was the lead product manager for Autodesk\u2019s Infrastructure Modeler (now InfraWorks) and Digital Cities efforts and was previously in the enterprise integration industry focused on CAD-GIS integration. Chris has focused on strategic innovation, defining and driving to production new products at top tier software companies. He is active on social media and provides mentoring on 3D, product management, and technical career growth.","user_avatar":""}],"related_articles":[{"ID":73691,"post_author":"3611","post_date":"2016-09-22 08:25:15","post_date_gmt":"2016-09-22 08:25:15","post_content":"","post_title":"BIM-GIS Integration with IFC","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"bim-gis-integration-with-ifc","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2018-03-26 21:10:24","post_modified_gmt":"2018-03-26 21:10:24","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/bim-gis-integration-with-ifc\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"blog","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":71571,"post_author":"6531","post_date":"2016-04-01 11:53:36","post_date_gmt":"2016-04-01 11:53:36","post_content":"","post_title":"Increasing interest in the fusion of GIS and BIM","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"increasing-interest-in-the-fusion-of-gis-and-bim","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-08-11 10:25:16","post_modified_gmt":"2022-08-11 17:25:16","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/increasing-interest-in-the-fusion-of-gis-and-bim\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"blog","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":69501,"post_author":"6531","post_date":"2015-09-24 16:08:08","post_date_gmt":"2015-09-24 16:08:08","post_content":"","post_title":"Brave New 3D World","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"brave-new-3d-world","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2018-03-26 21:06:44","post_modified_gmt":"2018-03-26 21:06:44","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/brave-new-3d-world\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"blog","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":123341,"post_author":"8022","post_date":"2018-03-14 09:00:00","post_date_gmt":"2018-03-14 16:00:00","post_content":"
A broad collection of beautiful and useful geographic items are available to access within your own ArcGIS Enterprise environment, brought to you by ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World. Now, with the new 10.6 release, you can enjoy an even greater collection with a significant increase in content from previous releases. As our world is ever-changing, so is Living Atlas content, and we\u2019ll review some of the highlights in today\u2019s blog.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nWhat is Living Atlas of the World?<\/h2>\n
Living Atlas is a rich collection of ready-to-use, authoritative content, from maps, layers, and scenes to apps, Story Maps, and more. For example, if you need to find near real-time traffic speeds on an Atlanta freeway one day and a 3D scene of Linz, Austria the next, Living Atlas has you covered.<\/p>\n
These items are available for all members of your ArcGIS Enterprise deployment for enrichment, analysis, use in apps, maps and more. You can utilize Living Atlas content as is, or enhance it by incorporating your own data and layers.<\/p>\n
Living Atlas content is available in ArcGIS Enterprise by default, and can be configured to bring in content at the subscriber and\/or premium levels. You can also choose to download boundary layers from My Esri and host as feature layers in your Enterprise portal (highlighted a little further on in the blog). For more information on default, subscriber and premium levels of Living Atlas content, see Bern\u2019s blog here<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
New content in 10.6<\/h2>\n
<\/p>\n
U.S. demographic data<\/h3>\n
What was the average amount spent on retail goods in New York City in May? How about the market potential for D.C. residents to eat organic food? New 2017 demographic data will help you search for and answer these types of questions. Additional demographic layers include political affiliations, online banking patterns, commute times, pet spending, and more. That\u2019s right \u2013 if you need to determine if the amount spent on pet food in Milwaukee is higher or lower than the national average, you can do so using Living Atlas layers. Demographic information is fantastic for a range of analyses at different scales, whether you are interested in trends for a block group or for a whole state. Zoom in and out of your map to see variations in patterns based on different areas.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/h3>\nLandscape layers<\/h3>\n
Landscape analysis is a crucial part of civil engineering, land use planning, natural resource management, and ecosystem analysis and monitoring. The ArcGIS Enterprise 10.6 release contains updated versions of SSURGO (Soil Survey Geographic Database) data, which includes layers with attributes on soil hydrology, chemistry, texture, density, and nutrients. These beautiful layers provide all types of information on soil composition around the globe.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nAlso new in 10.6 are updates to NLCD (National Land Cover Database) imagery layers, including vegetation types, agricultural use, and impervious surfaces. These layers can be used for a wide variety of mapping analyses (and are quite visually stunning!)<\/p>\n
Tile layers<\/h3>\n
Take advantage of vector tile layers and web maps using the improved tiling scheme WGS84 Geographic, Version 2. This includes tile layers such as the World Navigation Map, Hybrid Reference Layer, dark and light gray canvas layers, and street maps. This new tiling scheme is enhanced for precision, and more than 20 items are included in the 10.6 release. Try out vector tile layers today and let us know what you think!<\/p>\n
<\/h3>\nBoundary layers<\/h3>\n
The 10.6 release brings in updates to boundary layers for a number of countries. Boundary layers are polygons that contain various levels of demographic information about a country, such as population or land area\/size. They are also available at different ranges based on the country, from counties to provinces.\u00a0 These layers are great for spatial analysis, such as aggregating data within a certain geographic boundary. They can also be used in scenes, apps and maps (as displayed below within a web map in ArcGIS Enterprise):<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nThere are also approximately 130 boundary layers available in My Esri to download and host as feature layers in ArcGIS Enterprise. If you are interested in these layers, head over to My Esri to take a look at the ones available.<\/p>\n
Mature support items in the Living Atlas<\/h2>\n
Keep in mind that Living Atlas content does have a lifecycle, which means some items may reach a state of mature support, and may ultimately be retired.<\/p>\n
Therefore, it is recommended that after you upgrade your Living Atlas content, you do a quick audit of the layers you are using in your maps and apps to determine if any have been tagged as mature support. If they have been tagged as mature support, it is recommended that you visit What's new in Portal for ArcGIS 10.6<\/a> to identify the replacement layer.<\/p>\n---<\/p>\n
We hope you are excited about the new Living Atlas offerings in 10.6! To read additional information on Living Atlas in ArcGIS Enterprise, see Julia\u2019s blog, Take advantage of Living Atlas content in your ArcGIS Enterprise<\/a>. We look forward to hearing more about how you\u2019re using Living Atlas content in your own geospatial maps, apps, and analyses!<\/p>","post_title":"ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World updates in ArcGIS Enterprise 10.6","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"arcgis-living-atlas-of-the-world-updates-in-arcgis-enterprise-10-6","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2020-02-21 12:22:54","post_modified_gmt":"2020-02-21 20:22:54","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/arcgis-living-atlas-of-the-world-updates-in-arcgis-enterprise-10-6\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"blog","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":123251,"post_author":"4501","post_date":"2018-03-06 13:24:21","post_date_gmt":"2018-03-06 13:24:21","post_content":"Elevation surface provides foundational layer for your work in 3D.\u00a0ArcGIS 3D clients such as ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online\u00a0Web Scene Viewer<\/a>, and\u00a0ArcGIS Earth<\/a> comes with a default elevation layer - Terrain 3D<\/a>. \u00a0Along with this default elevation layer, ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World<\/a> also provides TopoBathy 3D<\/a>, which combines topography (land elevation) and bathymetry (water depths) into one seamless layer. Terrain 3D and TopoBathy 3D are tiled elevation services that uses the LERC (Limited Error Raster Compression) tile format and are derived from World Elevation Terrain<\/a> and TopoBathy<\/a> respectively.\n\nA few weeks ago World Elevation layers (Terrain & TopoBathy) and Tools<\/a> were enhanced with Airbus WorldDEM4Ortho<\/a>. These updates are now rolled out to 3D elevation layers (Terrain 3D<\/a> and TopoBathy 3D<\/a>). Airbus WorldDEM4Ortho is a global dataset covering the entire earth\u2019s land surface (excluding the countries of Azerbaijan, DR Congo and Ukraine), which\u00a0has a resolution of 0.8 arc second (approx. 24 meters). It brings many quality improvements especially over urban areas in Europe, Asia, Africa and South America, which were previously using SRTM 30 m dataset.\n\nSRTM is a digital surface model (DSM), which represents elevation values of the natural and built features on the earth surface such as buildings, vegetation, etc. Due to its DSM nature and coarser resolution, urban areas especially with dense and high rise buildings appear to have small hills or undulating surface. When you overlay 3D buildings\/objects on this undulating surface, it seems to be either sinking or floating on the ground. In Airbus WorldDEM4Ortho, urban areas are flattened to give DTM-like product thus\u00a0providing much better surface than SRTM 30 m. Let's see a few examples showing improvements over urban areas in before and after comparisons.\nAuckland, New Zealand \u2013 3D buildings are now sitting nicely on flat ground surface (WorldDEM4Ortho 24 m) in comparison to previously undulating surface (SRTM 30 m) where buildings seem to be sinking in the ground.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/a>\nBerlin, Germany \u2013 3D buildings are now sitting nicely on flat surface of WorldDEM4Ortho 24 m (after) in comparison to undulating surface of SRTM 30 m (before).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/a>\n\nEsri will keep improving the World Elevation Layers, Tools and derived information products with high resolution content from open sources and community maps for elevation program. You can look at the current data sources used by checking our Elevation Coverage Map<\/a>. If your organization has better elevation content that they can contribute, then check our Community Maps for Elevation<\/a> program to get in touch.\n\nIf you are interested in learning more about various elevation information products in the ArcGIS Living Atlas, then take a tour with this elevation story map<\/a>.","post_title":"Airbus WorldDEM4Ortho in Esri 3D elevation services","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"airbus-worlddem4ortho-in-esri-3d-elevation-services","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-06-11 13:07:26","post_modified_gmt":"2024-06-11 20:07:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/airbus-worlddem4ortho-in-esri-3d-elevation-services\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"blog","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":123161,"post_author":"6311","post_date":"2018-03-01 14:23:04","post_date_gmt":"2018-03-01 14:23:04","post_content":"ArcGIS Pro is used to build the maps and data analysis models you use throughout the ArcGIS platform. Here are some of the can\u2019t miss sessions at the Esri Developer Summit for ArcGIS Pro.\nArcGIS Pro Area in the Esri Showcase<\/h1>\nVisit the ArcGIS Pro area to talk to the product team about creating maps and analysis models, using geoprocessing tools, sharing your maps and scenes, and developing applications using Esri\u2019s ArcGIS Pro SDK.\nEsri Showcase Hours<\/h2>\n
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Urban Planning<\/strong><\/h2>\nWe are increasing our focus on Urban Planning solutions and we have several initiatives that we’d love to speak with you about to help us guide where we’re going in the future.<\/p>\n
\n- CityEngine has made tremendous strides to be better oriented as a tool for Urban Designers.\u00a0 Great work from partners, such as Houseal Levigne Associates<\/a>\u00a0and Garsdale Design<\/a> showcases how far CityEngine has come.<\/li>\n
- The 3D team will be eager to show you some of the upcoming capabilities planned for ArcGIS Urban<\/a>.\u00a0 Stop by the 3D Showcase and ask about what we’re planning.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":273702,"id":273702,"title":"Reduced2018UC-CityEngine","filename":"Reduced2018UC-CityEngine.png","filesize":118278,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Reduced2018UC-CityEngine.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-pro\/3d-gis\/3d-at-the-2018-esri-uc\/reduced2018uc-cityengine","alt":"","author":"6531","description":"","caption":"","name":"reduced2018uc-cityengine","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":273052,"date":"2018-07-08 16:58:52","modified":"2018-07-08 17:05:43","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":482,"height":324,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Reduced2018UC-CityEngine.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":143,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Reduced2018UC-CityEngine.png","medium-width":388,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Reduced2018UC-CityEngine.png","medium_large-width":482,"medium_large-height":324,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Reduced2018UC-CityEngine.png","large-width":482,"large-height":324,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Reduced2018UC-CityEngine.png","1536x1536-width":482,"1536x1536-height":324,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Reduced2018UC-CityEngine.png","2048x2048-width":482,"2048x2048-height":324,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Reduced2018UC-CityEngine.png","card_image-width":482,"card_image-height":324,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Reduced2018UC-CityEngine.png","wide_image-width":482,"wide_image-height":324}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"
AR, VR and other new visualization capabilities<\/strong><\/h2>\nThe experience of GIS is fundamentally changing as we are seeing more demand for Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, game engine dynamics, and higher visual quality.\u00a0 Work from Esri R&D and many of our partners is helping to push real world content from GIS into experiences that allow users to interact with their data in whole new ways.\u00a0 I expect to see much more on this over the next few years.<\/p>\n
\n- Ask about the AR capabilties in the ArcGIS Runtime SDKs at the Developer Showcase<\/li>\n
- Meet up with the ArcGIS Urban team and the CityEngine team at the 3D Showcase and ask about how we’re exploring VR for Urban Planning workflows<\/li>\n
- Check out our partners who are already delivering products for AR to our users, such as Argis Solutions<\/a> and Meemim Inc.<\/a><\/li>\n
- Ask the 3D team at the Showcase about the new edge rendering capability in ArcGIS Pro and the ArcGIS API for JavaScript, including the great new sketchy edge capability<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":273742,"id":273742,"title":"ReducedSketchApp","filename":"ReducedSketchApp.png","filesize":135351,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedSketchApp.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-pro\/3d-gis\/3d-at-the-2018-esri-uc\/reducedsketchapp","alt":"","author":"6531","description":"","caption":"","name":"reducedsketchapp","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":273052,"date":"2018-07-08 16:59:08","modified":"2018-07-08 17:05:43","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":582,"height":322,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedSketchApp.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":118,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedSketchApp.png","medium-width":464,"medium-height":257,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedSketchApp.png","medium_large-width":582,"medium_large-height":322,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedSketchApp.png","large-width":582,"large-height":322,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedSketchApp.png","1536x1536-width":582,"1536x1536-height":322,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedSketchApp.png","2048x2048-width":582,"2048x2048-height":322,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedSketchApp.png","card_image-width":582,"card_image-height":322,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedSketchApp.png","wide_image-width":582,"wide_image-height":322}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":"https:\/\/ralucanicola.github.io\/JSAPI_demos\/urban-sketch\/"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"
I3S and 3D Content<\/strong><\/h2>\nLast year, we were happy to have the Indexed 3D Scene Layer (I3S) specification<\/a> adopted by the\u00a0Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) as a Community Standard.\u00a0 We’ve seen numerous partners and others in the community start to produce I3S content that is directly usable in ArcGIS products.\u00a0 We’re also seeing a ton of other 3D content, such as point clouds, IoT, and reality capture data being integrated into GIS for whole new\u00a0experiences allowing us to explore our world.<\/p>\n\n- Check out our many content provider partners who will be here including Vricon<\/a>, Nearmap<\/a>, Orbit<\/a>, and many others.\u00a0 Ask them how they can help you acquire 3D content for use in your GIS workflows.<\/li>\n
- Visit the 3D Showcase and ask about I3S and how it changes the way 3D is shared and distributed across ArcGIS<\/li>\n
- While you’re at the 3D Showcase, ask about new capability to go directly from formats such as LAZ and zLAS to I3S to allow you to use your point cloud data in new workflows<\/li>\n
- Ask the Living Atlas team about the new AIRBUS content<\/a> that allows us to deliver the highest res 3D ground elevation data set that is available from any GIS vendor today for use in everyday<\/li>\n
- Attend the I3S related talks and ask at the 3D Showcase about the new capability to edit feature-based scene layers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":273722,"id":273722,"title":"ReducedHelsinki","filename":"ReducedHelsinki.png","filesize":289147,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedHelsinki.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-pro\/3d-gis\/3d-at-the-2018-esri-uc\/reducedhelsinki","alt":"","author":"6531","description":"","caption":"","name":"reducedhelsinki","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":273052,"date":"2018-07-08 16:59:01","modified":"2018-07-08 17:05:43","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":480,"height":270,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedHelsinki.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":120,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedHelsinki.png","medium-width":464,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedHelsinki.png","medium_large-width":480,"medium_large-height":270,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedHelsinki.png","large-width":480,"large-height":270,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedHelsinki.png","1536x1536-width":480,"1536x1536-height":270,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedHelsinki.png","2048x2048-width":480,"2048x2048-height":270,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedHelsinki.png","card_image-width":480,"card_image-height":270,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedHelsinki.png","wide_image-width":480,"wide_image-height":270}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"
See you at the UC!<\/h2>\n
I hope to see you at the UC this year and I’d love to hear your feedback.\u00a0 It’s another exciting year for progress in 3D with ArcGIS.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I’d like to thank our customers, including the University of Kentucky, for continuing to provide demo content for us to be able to test, develop, and demo the new capabilities that our users need.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n"}],"authors":[{"ID":6531,"user_firstname":"Chris","user_lastname":"Andrews","nickname":"Chris Andrews","user_nicename":"candrewsesri","display_name":"Chris Andrews","user_email":"CAndrews@esri.com","user_url":"","user_registered":"2018-03-02 00:18:31","user_description":"Chris Andrews is an experienced product management and technology leader who enjoys solving real world problems, establishing high performance teams, and connecting people and businesses in positive collaborations. Chris started off at Esri as the senior product manager for 3D across the ArcGIS platform, based in Southern California. Chris now leads a team of product managers with responsibility for ArcGIS Hub, ArcGIS Excalibur, 3D, ArcGIS Urban, AEC\/CAD\/BIM offerings, ArcGIS Business Analyst and more. Before Esri, Chris was the lead product manager for Autodesk\u2019s Infrastructure Modeler (now InfraWorks) and Digital Cities efforts and was previously in the enterprise integration industry focused on CAD-GIS integration. Chris has focused on strategic innovation, defining and driving to production new products at top tier software companies. He is active on social media and provides mentoring on 3D, product management, and technical career growth.","user_avatar":""}],"related_articles":[{"ID":73691,"post_author":"3611","post_date":"2016-09-22 08:25:15","post_date_gmt":"2016-09-22 08:25:15","post_content":"","post_title":"BIM-GIS Integration with IFC","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"bim-gis-integration-with-ifc","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2018-03-26 21:10:24","post_modified_gmt":"2018-03-26 21:10:24","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/bim-gis-integration-with-ifc\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"blog","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":71571,"post_author":"6531","post_date":"2016-04-01 11:53:36","post_date_gmt":"2016-04-01 11:53:36","post_content":"","post_title":"Increasing interest in the fusion of GIS and BIM","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"increasing-interest-in-the-fusion-of-gis-and-bim","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-08-11 10:25:16","post_modified_gmt":"2022-08-11 17:25:16","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/increasing-interest-in-the-fusion-of-gis-and-bim\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"blog","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":69501,"post_author":"6531","post_date":"2015-09-24 16:08:08","post_date_gmt":"2015-09-24 16:08:08","post_content":"","post_title":"Brave New 3D World","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"brave-new-3d-world","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2018-03-26 21:06:44","post_modified_gmt":"2018-03-26 21:06:44","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/brave-new-3d-world\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"blog","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":123341,"post_author":"8022","post_date":"2018-03-14 09:00:00","post_date_gmt":"2018-03-14 16:00:00","post_content":"
A broad collection of beautiful and useful geographic items are available to access within your own ArcGIS Enterprise environment, brought to you by ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World. Now, with the new 10.6 release, you can enjoy an even greater collection with a significant increase in content from previous releases. As our world is ever-changing, so is Living Atlas content, and we\u2019ll review some of the highlights in today\u2019s blog.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nWhat is Living Atlas of the World?<\/h2>\n
Living Atlas is a rich collection of ready-to-use, authoritative content, from maps, layers, and scenes to apps, Story Maps, and more. For example, if you need to find near real-time traffic speeds on an Atlanta freeway one day and a 3D scene of Linz, Austria the next, Living Atlas has you covered.<\/p>\n
These items are available for all members of your ArcGIS Enterprise deployment for enrichment, analysis, use in apps, maps and more. You can utilize Living Atlas content as is, or enhance it by incorporating your own data and layers.<\/p>\n
Living Atlas content is available in ArcGIS Enterprise by default, and can be configured to bring in content at the subscriber and\/or premium levels. You can also choose to download boundary layers from My Esri and host as feature layers in your Enterprise portal (highlighted a little further on in the blog). For more information on default, subscriber and premium levels of Living Atlas content, see Bern\u2019s blog here<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
New content in 10.6<\/h2>\n
<\/p>\n
U.S. demographic data<\/h3>\n
What was the average amount spent on retail goods in New York City in May? How about the market potential for D.C. residents to eat organic food? New 2017 demographic data will help you search for and answer these types of questions. Additional demographic layers include political affiliations, online banking patterns, commute times, pet spending, and more. That\u2019s right \u2013 if you need to determine if the amount spent on pet food in Milwaukee is higher or lower than the national average, you can do so using Living Atlas layers. Demographic information is fantastic for a range of analyses at different scales, whether you are interested in trends for a block group or for a whole state. Zoom in and out of your map to see variations in patterns based on different areas.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/h3>\nLandscape layers<\/h3>\n
Landscape analysis is a crucial part of civil engineering, land use planning, natural resource management, and ecosystem analysis and monitoring. The ArcGIS Enterprise 10.6 release contains updated versions of SSURGO (Soil Survey Geographic Database) data, which includes layers with attributes on soil hydrology, chemistry, texture, density, and nutrients. These beautiful layers provide all types of information on soil composition around the globe.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nAlso new in 10.6 are updates to NLCD (National Land Cover Database) imagery layers, including vegetation types, agricultural use, and impervious surfaces. These layers can be used for a wide variety of mapping analyses (and are quite visually stunning!)<\/p>\n
Tile layers<\/h3>\n
Take advantage of vector tile layers and web maps using the improved tiling scheme WGS84 Geographic, Version 2. This includes tile layers such as the World Navigation Map, Hybrid Reference Layer, dark and light gray canvas layers, and street maps. This new tiling scheme is enhanced for precision, and more than 20 items are included in the 10.6 release. Try out vector tile layers today and let us know what you think!<\/p>\n
<\/h3>\nBoundary layers<\/h3>\n
The 10.6 release brings in updates to boundary layers for a number of countries. Boundary layers are polygons that contain various levels of demographic information about a country, such as population or land area\/size. They are also available at different ranges based on the country, from counties to provinces.\u00a0 These layers are great for spatial analysis, such as aggregating data within a certain geographic boundary. They can also be used in scenes, apps and maps (as displayed below within a web map in ArcGIS Enterprise):<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nThere are also approximately 130 boundary layers available in My Esri to download and host as feature layers in ArcGIS Enterprise. If you are interested in these layers, head over to My Esri to take a look at the ones available.<\/p>\n
Mature support items in the Living Atlas<\/h2>\n
Keep in mind that Living Atlas content does have a lifecycle, which means some items may reach a state of mature support, and may ultimately be retired.<\/p>\n
Therefore, it is recommended that after you upgrade your Living Atlas content, you do a quick audit of the layers you are using in your maps and apps to determine if any have been tagged as mature support. If they have been tagged as mature support, it is recommended that you visit What's new in Portal for ArcGIS 10.6<\/a> to identify the replacement layer.<\/p>\n---<\/p>\n
We hope you are excited about the new Living Atlas offerings in 10.6! To read additional information on Living Atlas in ArcGIS Enterprise, see Julia\u2019s blog, Take advantage of Living Atlas content in your ArcGIS Enterprise<\/a>. We look forward to hearing more about how you\u2019re using Living Atlas content in your own geospatial maps, apps, and analyses!<\/p>","post_title":"ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World updates in ArcGIS Enterprise 10.6","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"arcgis-living-atlas-of-the-world-updates-in-arcgis-enterprise-10-6","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2020-02-21 12:22:54","post_modified_gmt":"2020-02-21 20:22:54","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/arcgis-living-atlas-of-the-world-updates-in-arcgis-enterprise-10-6\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"blog","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":123251,"post_author":"4501","post_date":"2018-03-06 13:24:21","post_date_gmt":"2018-03-06 13:24:21","post_content":"Elevation surface provides foundational layer for your work in 3D.\u00a0ArcGIS 3D clients such as ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online\u00a0Web Scene Viewer<\/a>, and\u00a0ArcGIS Earth<\/a> comes with a default elevation layer - Terrain 3D<\/a>. \u00a0Along with this default elevation layer, ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World<\/a> also provides TopoBathy 3D<\/a>, which combines topography (land elevation) and bathymetry (water depths) into one seamless layer. Terrain 3D and TopoBathy 3D are tiled elevation services that uses the LERC (Limited Error Raster Compression) tile format and are derived from World Elevation Terrain<\/a> and TopoBathy<\/a> respectively.\n\nA few weeks ago World Elevation layers (Terrain & TopoBathy) and Tools<\/a> were enhanced with Airbus WorldDEM4Ortho<\/a>. These updates are now rolled out to 3D elevation layers (Terrain 3D<\/a> and TopoBathy 3D<\/a>). Airbus WorldDEM4Ortho is a global dataset covering the entire earth\u2019s land surface (excluding the countries of Azerbaijan, DR Congo and Ukraine), which\u00a0has a resolution of 0.8 arc second (approx. 24 meters). It brings many quality improvements especially over urban areas in Europe, Asia, Africa and South America, which were previously using SRTM 30 m dataset.\n\nSRTM is a digital surface model (DSM), which represents elevation values of the natural and built features on the earth surface such as buildings, vegetation, etc. Due to its DSM nature and coarser resolution, urban areas especially with dense and high rise buildings appear to have small hills or undulating surface. When you overlay 3D buildings\/objects on this undulating surface, it seems to be either sinking or floating on the ground. In Airbus WorldDEM4Ortho, urban areas are flattened to give DTM-like product thus\u00a0providing much better surface than SRTM 30 m. Let's see a few examples showing improvements over urban areas in before and after comparisons.\nAuckland, New Zealand \u2013 3D buildings are now sitting nicely on flat ground surface (WorldDEM4Ortho 24 m) in comparison to previously undulating surface (SRTM 30 m) where buildings seem to be sinking in the ground.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/a>\nBerlin, Germany \u2013 3D buildings are now sitting nicely on flat surface of WorldDEM4Ortho 24 m (after) in comparison to undulating surface of SRTM 30 m (before).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/a>\n\nEsri will keep improving the World Elevation Layers, Tools and derived information products with high resolution content from open sources and community maps for elevation program. You can look at the current data sources used by checking our Elevation Coverage Map<\/a>. If your organization has better elevation content that they can contribute, then check our Community Maps for Elevation<\/a> program to get in touch.\n\nIf you are interested in learning more about various elevation information products in the ArcGIS Living Atlas, then take a tour with this elevation story map<\/a>.","post_title":"Airbus WorldDEM4Ortho in Esri 3D elevation services","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"airbus-worlddem4ortho-in-esri-3d-elevation-services","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-06-11 13:07:26","post_modified_gmt":"2024-06-11 20:07:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/airbus-worlddem4ortho-in-esri-3d-elevation-services\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"blog","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":123161,"post_author":"6311","post_date":"2018-03-01 14:23:04","post_date_gmt":"2018-03-01 14:23:04","post_content":"ArcGIS Pro is used to build the maps and data analysis models you use throughout the ArcGIS platform. Here are some of the can\u2019t miss sessions at the Esri Developer Summit for ArcGIS Pro.\nArcGIS Pro Area in the Esri Showcase<\/h1>\nVisit the ArcGIS Pro area to talk to the product team about creating maps and analysis models, using geoprocessing tools, sharing your maps and scenes, and developing applications using Esri\u2019s ArcGIS Pro SDK.\nEsri Showcase Hours<\/h2>\n
<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":273702,"id":273702,"title":"Reduced2018UC-CityEngine","filename":"Reduced2018UC-CityEngine.png","filesize":118278,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Reduced2018UC-CityEngine.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-pro\/3d-gis\/3d-at-the-2018-esri-uc\/reduced2018uc-cityengine","alt":"","author":"6531","description":"","caption":"","name":"reduced2018uc-cityengine","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":273052,"date":"2018-07-08 16:58:52","modified":"2018-07-08 17:05:43","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":482,"height":324,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Reduced2018UC-CityEngine.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":143,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Reduced2018UC-CityEngine.png","medium-width":388,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Reduced2018UC-CityEngine.png","medium_large-width":482,"medium_large-height":324,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Reduced2018UC-CityEngine.png","large-width":482,"large-height":324,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Reduced2018UC-CityEngine.png","1536x1536-width":482,"1536x1536-height":324,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Reduced2018UC-CityEngine.png","2048x2048-width":482,"2048x2048-height":324,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Reduced2018UC-CityEngine.png","card_image-width":482,"card_image-height":324,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Reduced2018UC-CityEngine.png","wide_image-width":482,"wide_image-height":324}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"
AR, VR and other new visualization capabilities<\/strong><\/h2>\nThe experience of GIS is fundamentally changing as we are seeing more demand for Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, game engine dynamics, and higher visual quality.\u00a0 Work from Esri R&D and many of our partners is helping to push real world content from GIS into experiences that allow users to interact with their data in whole new ways.\u00a0 I expect to see much more on this over the next few years.<\/p>\n
\n- Ask about the AR capabilties in the ArcGIS Runtime SDKs at the Developer Showcase<\/li>\n
- Meet up with the ArcGIS Urban team and the CityEngine team at the 3D Showcase and ask about how we’re exploring VR for Urban Planning workflows<\/li>\n
- Check out our partners who are already delivering products for AR to our users, such as Argis Solutions<\/a> and Meemim Inc.<\/a><\/li>\n
- Ask the 3D team at the Showcase about the new edge rendering capability in ArcGIS Pro and the ArcGIS API for JavaScript, including the great new sketchy edge capability<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":273742,"id":273742,"title":"ReducedSketchApp","filename":"ReducedSketchApp.png","filesize":135351,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedSketchApp.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-pro\/3d-gis\/3d-at-the-2018-esri-uc\/reducedsketchapp","alt":"","author":"6531","description":"","caption":"","name":"reducedsketchapp","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":273052,"date":"2018-07-08 16:59:08","modified":"2018-07-08 17:05:43","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":582,"height":322,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedSketchApp.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":118,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedSketchApp.png","medium-width":464,"medium-height":257,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedSketchApp.png","medium_large-width":582,"medium_large-height":322,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedSketchApp.png","large-width":582,"large-height":322,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedSketchApp.png","1536x1536-width":582,"1536x1536-height":322,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedSketchApp.png","2048x2048-width":582,"2048x2048-height":322,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedSketchApp.png","card_image-width":582,"card_image-height":322,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedSketchApp.png","wide_image-width":582,"wide_image-height":322}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":"https:\/\/ralucanicola.github.io\/JSAPI_demos\/urban-sketch\/"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"
I3S and 3D Content<\/strong><\/h2>\nLast year, we were happy to have the Indexed 3D Scene Layer (I3S) specification<\/a> adopted by the\u00a0Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) as a Community Standard.\u00a0 We’ve seen numerous partners and others in the community start to produce I3S content that is directly usable in ArcGIS products.\u00a0 We’re also seeing a ton of other 3D content, such as point clouds, IoT, and reality capture data being integrated into GIS for whole new\u00a0experiences allowing us to explore our world.<\/p>\n\n- Check out our many content provider partners who will be here including Vricon<\/a>, Nearmap<\/a>, Orbit<\/a>, and many others.\u00a0 Ask them how they can help you acquire 3D content for use in your GIS workflows.<\/li>\n
- Visit the 3D Showcase and ask about I3S and how it changes the way 3D is shared and distributed across ArcGIS<\/li>\n
- While you’re at the 3D Showcase, ask about new capability to go directly from formats such as LAZ and zLAS to I3S to allow you to use your point cloud data in new workflows<\/li>\n
- Ask the Living Atlas team about the new AIRBUS content<\/a> that allows us to deliver the highest res 3D ground elevation data set that is available from any GIS vendor today for use in everyday<\/li>\n
- Attend the I3S related talks and ask at the 3D Showcase about the new capability to edit feature-based scene layers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":273722,"id":273722,"title":"ReducedHelsinki","filename":"ReducedHelsinki.png","filesize":289147,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedHelsinki.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-pro\/3d-gis\/3d-at-the-2018-esri-uc\/reducedhelsinki","alt":"","author":"6531","description":"","caption":"","name":"reducedhelsinki","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":273052,"date":"2018-07-08 16:59:01","modified":"2018-07-08 17:05:43","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":480,"height":270,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedHelsinki.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":120,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedHelsinki.png","medium-width":464,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedHelsinki.png","medium_large-width":480,"medium_large-height":270,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedHelsinki.png","large-width":480,"large-height":270,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedHelsinki.png","1536x1536-width":480,"1536x1536-height":270,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedHelsinki.png","2048x2048-width":480,"2048x2048-height":270,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedHelsinki.png","card_image-width":480,"card_image-height":270,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedHelsinki.png","wide_image-width":480,"wide_image-height":270}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"
See you at the UC!<\/h2>\n
I hope to see you at the UC this year and I’d love to hear your feedback.\u00a0 It’s another exciting year for progress in 3D with ArcGIS.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I’d like to thank our customers, including the University of Kentucky, for continuing to provide demo content for us to be able to test, develop, and demo the new capabilities that our users need.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n"}],"authors":[{"ID":6531,"user_firstname":"Chris","user_lastname":"Andrews","nickname":"Chris Andrews","user_nicename":"candrewsesri","display_name":"Chris Andrews","user_email":"CAndrews@esri.com","user_url":"","user_registered":"2018-03-02 00:18:31","user_description":"Chris Andrews is an experienced product management and technology leader who enjoys solving real world problems, establishing high performance teams, and connecting people and businesses in positive collaborations. Chris started off at Esri as the senior product manager for 3D across the ArcGIS platform, based in Southern California. Chris now leads a team of product managers with responsibility for ArcGIS Hub, ArcGIS Excalibur, 3D, ArcGIS Urban, AEC\/CAD\/BIM offerings, ArcGIS Business Analyst and more. Before Esri, Chris was the lead product manager for Autodesk\u2019s Infrastructure Modeler (now InfraWorks) and Digital Cities efforts and was previously in the enterprise integration industry focused on CAD-GIS integration. Chris has focused on strategic innovation, defining and driving to production new products at top tier software companies. He is active on social media and provides mentoring on 3D, product management, and technical career growth.","user_avatar":""}],"related_articles":[{"ID":73691,"post_author":"3611","post_date":"2016-09-22 08:25:15","post_date_gmt":"2016-09-22 08:25:15","post_content":"","post_title":"BIM-GIS Integration with IFC","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"bim-gis-integration-with-ifc","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2018-03-26 21:10:24","post_modified_gmt":"2018-03-26 21:10:24","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/bim-gis-integration-with-ifc\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"blog","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":71571,"post_author":"6531","post_date":"2016-04-01 11:53:36","post_date_gmt":"2016-04-01 11:53:36","post_content":"","post_title":"Increasing interest in the fusion of GIS and BIM","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"increasing-interest-in-the-fusion-of-gis-and-bim","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-08-11 10:25:16","post_modified_gmt":"2022-08-11 17:25:16","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/increasing-interest-in-the-fusion-of-gis-and-bim\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"blog","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":69501,"post_author":"6531","post_date":"2015-09-24 16:08:08","post_date_gmt":"2015-09-24 16:08:08","post_content":"","post_title":"Brave New 3D World","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"brave-new-3d-world","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2018-03-26 21:06:44","post_modified_gmt":"2018-03-26 21:06:44","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/brave-new-3d-world\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"blog","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":123341,"post_author":"8022","post_date":"2018-03-14 09:00:00","post_date_gmt":"2018-03-14 16:00:00","post_content":"
A broad collection of beautiful and useful geographic items are available to access within your own ArcGIS Enterprise environment, brought to you by ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World. Now, with the new 10.6 release, you can enjoy an even greater collection with a significant increase in content from previous releases. As our world is ever-changing, so is Living Atlas content, and we\u2019ll review some of the highlights in today\u2019s blog.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nWhat is Living Atlas of the World?<\/h2>\n
Living Atlas is a rich collection of ready-to-use, authoritative content, from maps, layers, and scenes to apps, Story Maps, and more. For example, if you need to find near real-time traffic speeds on an Atlanta freeway one day and a 3D scene of Linz, Austria the next, Living Atlas has you covered.<\/p>\n
These items are available for all members of your ArcGIS Enterprise deployment for enrichment, analysis, use in apps, maps and more. You can utilize Living Atlas content as is, or enhance it by incorporating your own data and layers.<\/p>\n
Living Atlas content is available in ArcGIS Enterprise by default, and can be configured to bring in content at the subscriber and\/or premium levels. You can also choose to download boundary layers from My Esri and host as feature layers in your Enterprise portal (highlighted a little further on in the blog). For more information on default, subscriber and premium levels of Living Atlas content, see Bern\u2019s blog here<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
New content in 10.6<\/h2>\n
<\/p>\n
U.S. demographic data<\/h3>\n
What was the average amount spent on retail goods in New York City in May? How about the market potential for D.C. residents to eat organic food? New 2017 demographic data will help you search for and answer these types of questions. Additional demographic layers include political affiliations, online banking patterns, commute times, pet spending, and more. That\u2019s right \u2013 if you need to determine if the amount spent on pet food in Milwaukee is higher or lower than the national average, you can do so using Living Atlas layers. Demographic information is fantastic for a range of analyses at different scales, whether you are interested in trends for a block group or for a whole state. Zoom in and out of your map to see variations in patterns based on different areas.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/h3>\nLandscape layers<\/h3>\n
Landscape analysis is a crucial part of civil engineering, land use planning, natural resource management, and ecosystem analysis and monitoring. The ArcGIS Enterprise 10.6 release contains updated versions of SSURGO (Soil Survey Geographic Database) data, which includes layers with attributes on soil hydrology, chemistry, texture, density, and nutrients. These beautiful layers provide all types of information on soil composition around the globe.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nAlso new in 10.6 are updates to NLCD (National Land Cover Database) imagery layers, including vegetation types, agricultural use, and impervious surfaces. These layers can be used for a wide variety of mapping analyses (and are quite visually stunning!)<\/p>\n
Tile layers<\/h3>\n
Take advantage of vector tile layers and web maps using the improved tiling scheme WGS84 Geographic, Version 2. This includes tile layers such as the World Navigation Map, Hybrid Reference Layer, dark and light gray canvas layers, and street maps. This new tiling scheme is enhanced for precision, and more than 20 items are included in the 10.6 release. Try out vector tile layers today and let us know what you think!<\/p>\n
<\/h3>\nBoundary layers<\/h3>\n
The 10.6 release brings in updates to boundary layers for a number of countries. Boundary layers are polygons that contain various levels of demographic information about a country, such as population or land area\/size. They are also available at different ranges based on the country, from counties to provinces.\u00a0 These layers are great for spatial analysis, such as aggregating data within a certain geographic boundary. They can also be used in scenes, apps and maps (as displayed below within a web map in ArcGIS Enterprise):<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nThere are also approximately 130 boundary layers available in My Esri to download and host as feature layers in ArcGIS Enterprise. If you are interested in these layers, head over to My Esri to take a look at the ones available.<\/p>\n
Mature support items in the Living Atlas<\/h2>\n
Keep in mind that Living Atlas content does have a lifecycle, which means some items may reach a state of mature support, and may ultimately be retired.<\/p>\n
Therefore, it is recommended that after you upgrade your Living Atlas content, you do a quick audit of the layers you are using in your maps and apps to determine if any have been tagged as mature support. If they have been tagged as mature support, it is recommended that you visit What's new in Portal for ArcGIS 10.6<\/a> to identify the replacement layer.<\/p>\n---<\/p>\n
We hope you are excited about the new Living Atlas offerings in 10.6! To read additional information on Living Atlas in ArcGIS Enterprise, see Julia\u2019s blog, Take advantage of Living Atlas content in your ArcGIS Enterprise<\/a>. We look forward to hearing more about how you\u2019re using Living Atlas content in your own geospatial maps, apps, and analyses!<\/p>","post_title":"ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World updates in ArcGIS Enterprise 10.6","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"arcgis-living-atlas-of-the-world-updates-in-arcgis-enterprise-10-6","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2020-02-21 12:22:54","post_modified_gmt":"2020-02-21 20:22:54","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/arcgis-living-atlas-of-the-world-updates-in-arcgis-enterprise-10-6\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"blog","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":123251,"post_author":"4501","post_date":"2018-03-06 13:24:21","post_date_gmt":"2018-03-06 13:24:21","post_content":"Elevation surface provides foundational layer for your work in 3D.\u00a0ArcGIS 3D clients such as ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online\u00a0Web Scene Viewer<\/a>, and\u00a0ArcGIS Earth<\/a> comes with a default elevation layer - Terrain 3D<\/a>. \u00a0Along with this default elevation layer, ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World<\/a> also provides TopoBathy 3D<\/a>, which combines topography (land elevation) and bathymetry (water depths) into one seamless layer. Terrain 3D and TopoBathy 3D are tiled elevation services that uses the LERC (Limited Error Raster Compression) tile format and are derived from World Elevation Terrain<\/a> and TopoBathy<\/a> respectively.\n\nA few weeks ago World Elevation layers (Terrain & TopoBathy) and Tools<\/a> were enhanced with Airbus WorldDEM4Ortho<\/a>. These updates are now rolled out to 3D elevation layers (Terrain 3D<\/a> and TopoBathy 3D<\/a>). Airbus WorldDEM4Ortho is a global dataset covering the entire earth\u2019s land surface (excluding the countries of Azerbaijan, DR Congo and Ukraine), which\u00a0has a resolution of 0.8 arc second (approx. 24 meters). It brings many quality improvements especially over urban areas in Europe, Asia, Africa and South America, which were previously using SRTM 30 m dataset.\n\nSRTM is a digital surface model (DSM), which represents elevation values of the natural and built features on the earth surface such as buildings, vegetation, etc. Due to its DSM nature and coarser resolution, urban areas especially with dense and high rise buildings appear to have small hills or undulating surface. When you overlay 3D buildings\/objects on this undulating surface, it seems to be either sinking or floating on the ground. In Airbus WorldDEM4Ortho, urban areas are flattened to give DTM-like product thus\u00a0providing much better surface than SRTM 30 m. Let's see a few examples showing improvements over urban areas in before and after comparisons.\nAuckland, New Zealand \u2013 3D buildings are now sitting nicely on flat ground surface (WorldDEM4Ortho 24 m) in comparison to previously undulating surface (SRTM 30 m) where buildings seem to be sinking in the ground.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/a>\nBerlin, Germany \u2013 3D buildings are now sitting nicely on flat surface of WorldDEM4Ortho 24 m (after) in comparison to undulating surface of SRTM 30 m (before).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/a>\n\nEsri will keep improving the World Elevation Layers, Tools and derived information products with high resolution content from open sources and community maps for elevation program. You can look at the current data sources used by checking our Elevation Coverage Map<\/a>. If your organization has better elevation content that they can contribute, then check our Community Maps for Elevation<\/a> program to get in touch.\n\nIf you are interested in learning more about various elevation information products in the ArcGIS Living Atlas, then take a tour with this elevation story map<\/a>.","post_title":"Airbus WorldDEM4Ortho in Esri 3D elevation services","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"airbus-worlddem4ortho-in-esri-3d-elevation-services","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-06-11 13:07:26","post_modified_gmt":"2024-06-11 20:07:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/airbus-worlddem4ortho-in-esri-3d-elevation-services\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"blog","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":123161,"post_author":"6311","post_date":"2018-03-01 14:23:04","post_date_gmt":"2018-03-01 14:23:04","post_content":"ArcGIS Pro is used to build the maps and data analysis models you use throughout the ArcGIS platform. Here are some of the can\u2019t miss sessions at the Esri Developer Summit for ArcGIS Pro.\nArcGIS Pro Area in the Esri Showcase<\/h1>\nVisit the ArcGIS Pro area to talk to the product team about creating maps and analysis models, using geoprocessing tools, sharing your maps and scenes, and developing applications using Esri\u2019s ArcGIS Pro SDK.\nEsri Showcase Hours<\/h2>\n
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I3S and 3D Content<\/strong><\/h2>\nLast year, we were happy to have the Indexed 3D Scene Layer (I3S) specification<\/a> adopted by the\u00a0Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) as a Community Standard.\u00a0 We’ve seen numerous partners and others in the community start to produce I3S content that is directly usable in ArcGIS products.\u00a0 We’re also seeing a ton of other 3D content, such as point clouds, IoT, and reality capture data being integrated into GIS for whole new\u00a0experiences allowing us to explore our world.<\/p>\n\n- Check out our many content provider partners who will be here including Vricon<\/a>, Nearmap<\/a>, Orbit<\/a>, and many others.\u00a0 Ask them how they can help you acquire 3D content for use in your GIS workflows.<\/li>\n
- Visit the 3D Showcase and ask about I3S and how it changes the way 3D is shared and distributed across ArcGIS<\/li>\n
- While you’re at the 3D Showcase, ask about new capability to go directly from formats such as LAZ and zLAS to I3S to allow you to use your point cloud data in new workflows<\/li>\n
- Ask the Living Atlas team about the new AIRBUS content<\/a> that allows us to deliver the highest res 3D ground elevation data set that is available from any GIS vendor today for use in everyday<\/li>\n
- Attend the I3S related talks and ask at the 3D Showcase about the new capability to edit feature-based scene layers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":273722,"id":273722,"title":"ReducedHelsinki","filename":"ReducedHelsinki.png","filesize":289147,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedHelsinki.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-pro\/3d-gis\/3d-at-the-2018-esri-uc\/reducedhelsinki","alt":"","author":"6531","description":"","caption":"","name":"reducedhelsinki","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":273052,"date":"2018-07-08 16:59:01","modified":"2018-07-08 17:05:43","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":480,"height":270,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedHelsinki.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":120,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedHelsinki.png","medium-width":464,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedHelsinki.png","medium_large-width":480,"medium_large-height":270,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedHelsinki.png","large-width":480,"large-height":270,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedHelsinki.png","1536x1536-width":480,"1536x1536-height":270,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedHelsinki.png","2048x2048-width":480,"2048x2048-height":270,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedHelsinki.png","card_image-width":480,"card_image-height":270,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ReducedHelsinki.png","wide_image-width":480,"wide_image-height":270}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"
See you at the UC!<\/h2>\n
I hope to see you at the UC this year and I’d love to hear your feedback.\u00a0 It’s another exciting year for progress in 3D with ArcGIS.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I’d like to thank our customers, including the University of Kentucky, for continuing to provide demo content for us to be able to test, develop, and demo the new capabilities that our users need.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n"}],"authors":[{"ID":6531,"user_firstname":"Chris","user_lastname":"Andrews","nickname":"Chris Andrews","user_nicename":"candrewsesri","display_name":"Chris Andrews","user_email":"CAndrews@esri.com","user_url":"","user_registered":"2018-03-02 00:18:31","user_description":"Chris Andrews is an experienced product management and technology leader who enjoys solving real world problems, establishing high performance teams, and connecting people and businesses in positive collaborations. Chris started off at Esri as the senior product manager for 3D across the ArcGIS platform, based in Southern California. Chris now leads a team of product managers with responsibility for ArcGIS Hub, ArcGIS Excalibur, 3D, ArcGIS Urban, AEC\/CAD\/BIM offerings, ArcGIS Business Analyst and more. Before Esri, Chris was the lead product manager for Autodesk\u2019s Infrastructure Modeler (now InfraWorks) and Digital Cities efforts and was previously in the enterprise integration industry focused on CAD-GIS integration. Chris has focused on strategic innovation, defining and driving to production new products at top tier software companies. He is active on social media and provides mentoring on 3D, product management, and technical career growth.","user_avatar":""}],"related_articles":[{"ID":73691,"post_author":"3611","post_date":"2016-09-22 08:25:15","post_date_gmt":"2016-09-22 08:25:15","post_content":"","post_title":"BIM-GIS Integration with IFC","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"bim-gis-integration-with-ifc","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2018-03-26 21:10:24","post_modified_gmt":"2018-03-26 21:10:24","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/bim-gis-integration-with-ifc\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"blog","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":71571,"post_author":"6531","post_date":"2016-04-01 11:53:36","post_date_gmt":"2016-04-01 11:53:36","post_content":"","post_title":"Increasing interest in the fusion of GIS and BIM","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"increasing-interest-in-the-fusion-of-gis-and-bim","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-08-11 10:25:16","post_modified_gmt":"2022-08-11 17:25:16","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/increasing-interest-in-the-fusion-of-gis-and-bim\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"blog","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":69501,"post_author":"6531","post_date":"2015-09-24 16:08:08","post_date_gmt":"2015-09-24 16:08:08","post_content":"","post_title":"Brave New 3D World","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"brave-new-3d-world","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2018-03-26 21:06:44","post_modified_gmt":"2018-03-26 21:06:44","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/brave-new-3d-world\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"blog","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":123341,"post_author":"8022","post_date":"2018-03-14 09:00:00","post_date_gmt":"2018-03-14 16:00:00","post_content":"
A broad collection of beautiful and useful geographic items are available to access within your own ArcGIS Enterprise environment, brought to you by ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World. Now, with the new 10.6 release, you can enjoy an even greater collection with a significant increase in content from previous releases. As our world is ever-changing, so is Living Atlas content, and we\u2019ll review some of the highlights in today\u2019s blog.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nWhat is Living Atlas of the World?<\/h2>\n
Living Atlas is a rich collection of ready-to-use, authoritative content, from maps, layers, and scenes to apps, Story Maps, and more. For example, if you need to find near real-time traffic speeds on an Atlanta freeway one day and a 3D scene of Linz, Austria the next, Living Atlas has you covered.<\/p>\n
These items are available for all members of your ArcGIS Enterprise deployment for enrichment, analysis, use in apps, maps and more. You can utilize Living Atlas content as is, or enhance it by incorporating your own data and layers.<\/p>\n
Living Atlas content is available in ArcGIS Enterprise by default, and can be configured to bring in content at the subscriber and\/or premium levels. You can also choose to download boundary layers from My Esri and host as feature layers in your Enterprise portal (highlighted a little further on in the blog). For more information on default, subscriber and premium levels of Living Atlas content, see Bern\u2019s blog here<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
New content in 10.6<\/h2>\n
<\/p>\n
U.S. demographic data<\/h3>\n
What was the average amount spent on retail goods in New York City in May? How about the market potential for D.C. residents to eat organic food? New 2017 demographic data will help you search for and answer these types of questions. Additional demographic layers include political affiliations, online banking patterns, commute times, pet spending, and more. That\u2019s right \u2013 if you need to determine if the amount spent on pet food in Milwaukee is higher or lower than the national average, you can do so using Living Atlas layers. Demographic information is fantastic for a range of analyses at different scales, whether you are interested in trends for a block group or for a whole state. Zoom in and out of your map to see variations in patterns based on different areas.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/h3>\nLandscape layers<\/h3>\n
Landscape analysis is a crucial part of civil engineering, land use planning, natural resource management, and ecosystem analysis and monitoring. The ArcGIS Enterprise 10.6 release contains updated versions of SSURGO (Soil Survey Geographic Database) data, which includes layers with attributes on soil hydrology, chemistry, texture, density, and nutrients. These beautiful layers provide all types of information on soil composition around the globe.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nAlso new in 10.6 are updates to NLCD (National Land Cover Database) imagery layers, including vegetation types, agricultural use, and impervious surfaces. These layers can be used for a wide variety of mapping analyses (and are quite visually stunning!)<\/p>\n
Tile layers<\/h3>\n
Take advantage of vector tile layers and web maps using the improved tiling scheme WGS84 Geographic, Version 2. This includes tile layers such as the World Navigation Map, Hybrid Reference Layer, dark and light gray canvas layers, and street maps. This new tiling scheme is enhanced for precision, and more than 20 items are included in the 10.6 release. Try out vector tile layers today and let us know what you think!<\/p>\n
<\/h3>\nBoundary layers<\/h3>\n
The 10.6 release brings in updates to boundary layers for a number of countries. Boundary layers are polygons that contain various levels of demographic information about a country, such as population or land area\/size. They are also available at different ranges based on the country, from counties to provinces.\u00a0 These layers are great for spatial analysis, such as aggregating data within a certain geographic boundary. They can also be used in scenes, apps and maps (as displayed below within a web map in ArcGIS Enterprise):<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nThere are also approximately 130 boundary layers available in My Esri to download and host as feature layers in ArcGIS Enterprise. If you are interested in these layers, head over to My Esri to take a look at the ones available.<\/p>\n
Mature support items in the Living Atlas<\/h2>\n
Keep in mind that Living Atlas content does have a lifecycle, which means some items may reach a state of mature support, and may ultimately be retired.<\/p>\n
Therefore, it is recommended that after you upgrade your Living Atlas content, you do a quick audit of the layers you are using in your maps and apps to determine if any have been tagged as mature support. If they have been tagged as mature support, it is recommended that you visit What's new in Portal for ArcGIS 10.6<\/a> to identify the replacement layer.<\/p>\n---<\/p>\n
We hope you are excited about the new Living Atlas offerings in 10.6! To read additional information on Living Atlas in ArcGIS Enterprise, see Julia\u2019s blog, Take advantage of Living Atlas content in your ArcGIS Enterprise<\/a>. We look forward to hearing more about how you\u2019re using Living Atlas content in your own geospatial maps, apps, and analyses!<\/p>","post_title":"ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World updates in ArcGIS Enterprise 10.6","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"arcgis-living-atlas-of-the-world-updates-in-arcgis-enterprise-10-6","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2020-02-21 12:22:54","post_modified_gmt":"2020-02-21 20:22:54","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/arcgis-living-atlas-of-the-world-updates-in-arcgis-enterprise-10-6\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"blog","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":123251,"post_author":"4501","post_date":"2018-03-06 13:24:21","post_date_gmt":"2018-03-06 13:24:21","post_content":"Elevation surface provides foundational layer for your work in 3D.\u00a0ArcGIS 3D clients such as ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online\u00a0Web Scene Viewer<\/a>, and\u00a0ArcGIS Earth<\/a> comes with a default elevation layer - Terrain 3D<\/a>. \u00a0Along with this default elevation layer, ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World<\/a> also provides TopoBathy 3D<\/a>, which combines topography (land elevation) and bathymetry (water depths) into one seamless layer. Terrain 3D and TopoBathy 3D are tiled elevation services that uses the LERC (Limited Error Raster Compression) tile format and are derived from World Elevation Terrain<\/a> and TopoBathy<\/a> respectively.\n\nA few weeks ago World Elevation layers (Terrain & TopoBathy) and Tools<\/a> were enhanced with Airbus WorldDEM4Ortho<\/a>. These updates are now rolled out to 3D elevation layers (Terrain 3D<\/a> and TopoBathy 3D<\/a>). Airbus WorldDEM4Ortho is a global dataset covering the entire earth\u2019s land surface (excluding the countries of Azerbaijan, DR Congo and Ukraine), which\u00a0has a resolution of 0.8 arc second (approx. 24 meters). It brings many quality improvements especially over urban areas in Europe, Asia, Africa and South America, which were previously using SRTM 30 m dataset.\n\nSRTM is a digital surface model (DSM), which represents elevation values of the natural and built features on the earth surface such as buildings, vegetation, etc. Due to its DSM nature and coarser resolution, urban areas especially with dense and high rise buildings appear to have small hills or undulating surface. When you overlay 3D buildings\/objects on this undulating surface, it seems to be either sinking or floating on the ground. In Airbus WorldDEM4Ortho, urban areas are flattened to give DTM-like product thus\u00a0providing much better surface than SRTM 30 m. Let's see a few examples showing improvements over urban areas in before and after comparisons.\nAuckland, New Zealand \u2013 3D buildings are now sitting nicely on flat ground surface (WorldDEM4Ortho 24 m) in comparison to previously undulating surface (SRTM 30 m) where buildings seem to be sinking in the ground.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/a>\nBerlin, Germany \u2013 3D buildings are now sitting nicely on flat surface of WorldDEM4Ortho 24 m (after) in comparison to undulating surface of SRTM 30 m (before).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/a>\n\nEsri will keep improving the World Elevation Layers, Tools and derived information products with high resolution content from open sources and community maps for elevation program. You can look at the current data sources used by checking our Elevation Coverage Map<\/a>. If your organization has better elevation content that they can contribute, then check our Community Maps for Elevation<\/a> program to get in touch.\n\nIf you are interested in learning more about various elevation information products in the ArcGIS Living Atlas, then take a tour with this elevation story map<\/a>.","post_title":"Airbus WorldDEM4Ortho in Esri 3D elevation services","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"airbus-worlddem4ortho-in-esri-3d-elevation-services","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-06-11 13:07:26","post_modified_gmt":"2024-06-11 20:07:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/airbus-worlddem4ortho-in-esri-3d-elevation-services\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"blog","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":123161,"post_author":"6311","post_date":"2018-03-01 14:23:04","post_date_gmt":"2018-03-01 14:23:04","post_content":"ArcGIS Pro is used to build the maps and data analysis models you use throughout the ArcGIS platform. Here are some of the can\u2019t miss sessions at the Esri Developer Summit for ArcGIS Pro.\nArcGIS Pro Area in the Esri Showcase<\/h1>\nVisit the ArcGIS Pro area to talk to the product team about creating maps and analysis models, using geoprocessing tools, sharing your maps and scenes, and developing applications using Esri\u2019s ArcGIS Pro SDK.\nEsri Showcase Hours<\/h2>\n
- \n
- Check out our many content provider partners who will be here including Vricon<\/a>, Nearmap<\/a>, Orbit<\/a>, and many others.\u00a0 Ask them how they can help you acquire 3D content for use in your GIS workflows.<\/li>\n
- Visit the 3D Showcase and ask about I3S and how it changes the way 3D is shared and distributed across ArcGIS<\/li>\n
- While you’re at the 3D Showcase, ask about new capability to go directly from formats such as LAZ and zLAS to I3S to allow you to use your point cloud data in new workflows<\/li>\n
- Ask the Living Atlas team about the new AIRBUS content<\/a> that allows us to deliver the highest res 3D ground elevation data set that is available from any GIS vendor today for use in everyday<\/li>\n
- Attend the I3S related talks and ask at the 3D Showcase about the new capability to edit feature-based scene layers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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See you at the UC!<\/h2>\n
I hope to see you at the UC this year and I’d love to hear your feedback.\u00a0 It’s another exciting year for progress in 3D with ArcGIS.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I’d like to thank our customers, including the University of Kentucky, for continuing to provide demo content for us to be able to test, develop, and demo the new capabilities that our users need.<\/em><\/p>\n
"}],"related_articles":[{"ID":73691,"post_author":"3611","post_date":"2016-09-22 08:25:15","post_date_gmt":"2016-09-22 08:25:15","post_content":"","post_title":"BIM-GIS Integration with IFC","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"bim-gis-integration-with-ifc","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2018-03-26 21:10:24","post_modified_gmt":"2018-03-26 21:10:24","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/bim-gis-integration-with-ifc\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"blog","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":71571,"post_author":"6531","post_date":"2016-04-01 11:53:36","post_date_gmt":"2016-04-01 11:53:36","post_content":"","post_title":"Increasing interest in the fusion of GIS and BIM","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"increasing-interest-in-the-fusion-of-gis-and-bim","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-08-11 10:25:16","post_modified_gmt":"2022-08-11 17:25:16","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/increasing-interest-in-the-fusion-of-gis-and-bim\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"blog","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":69501,"post_author":"6531","post_date":"2015-09-24 16:08:08","post_date_gmt":"2015-09-24 16:08:08","post_content":"","post_title":"Brave New 3D World","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"brave-new-3d-world","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2018-03-26 21:06:44","post_modified_gmt":"2018-03-26 21:06:44","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/brave-new-3d-world\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"blog","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":123341,"post_author":"8022","post_date":"2018-03-14 09:00:00","post_date_gmt":"2018-03-14 16:00:00","post_content":"A broad collection of beautiful and useful geographic items are available to access within your own ArcGIS Enterprise environment, brought to you by ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World. Now, with the new 10.6 release, you can enjoy an even greater collection with a significant increase in content from previous releases. As our world is ever-changing, so is Living Atlas content, and we\u2019ll review some of the highlights in today\u2019s blog.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nWhat is Living Atlas of the World?<\/h2>\n
Living Atlas is a rich collection of ready-to-use, authoritative content, from maps, layers, and scenes to apps, Story Maps, and more. For example, if you need to find near real-time traffic speeds on an Atlanta freeway one day and a 3D scene of Linz, Austria the next, Living Atlas has you covered.<\/p>\n
These items are available for all members of your ArcGIS Enterprise deployment for enrichment, analysis, use in apps, maps and more. You can utilize Living Atlas content as is, or enhance it by incorporating your own data and layers.<\/p>\n
Living Atlas content is available in ArcGIS Enterprise by default, and can be configured to bring in content at the subscriber and\/or premium levels. You can also choose to download boundary layers from My Esri and host as feature layers in your Enterprise portal (highlighted a little further on in the blog). For more information on default, subscriber and premium levels of Living Atlas content, see Bern\u2019s blog here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
New content in 10.6<\/h2>\n
<\/p>\n
U.S. demographic data<\/h3>\n
What was the average amount spent on retail goods in New York City in May? How about the market potential for D.C. residents to eat organic food? New 2017 demographic data will help you search for and answer these types of questions. Additional demographic layers include political affiliations, online banking patterns, commute times, pet spending, and more. That\u2019s right \u2013 if you need to determine if the amount spent on pet food in Milwaukee is higher or lower than the national average, you can do so using Living Atlas layers. Demographic information is fantastic for a range of analyses at different scales, whether you are interested in trends for a block group or for a whole state. Zoom in and out of your map to see variations in patterns based on different areas.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/h3>\n
Landscape layers<\/h3>\n
Landscape analysis is a crucial part of civil engineering, land use planning, natural resource management, and ecosystem analysis and monitoring. The ArcGIS Enterprise 10.6 release contains updated versions of SSURGO (Soil Survey Geographic Database) data, which includes layers with attributes on soil hydrology, chemistry, texture, density, and nutrients. These beautiful layers provide all types of information on soil composition around the globe.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nAlso new in 10.6 are updates to NLCD (National Land Cover Database) imagery layers, including vegetation types, agricultural use, and impervious surfaces. These layers can be used for a wide variety of mapping analyses (and are quite visually stunning!)<\/p>\n
Tile layers<\/h3>\n
Take advantage of vector tile layers and web maps using the improved tiling scheme WGS84 Geographic, Version 2. This includes tile layers such as the World Navigation Map, Hybrid Reference Layer, dark and light gray canvas layers, and street maps. This new tiling scheme is enhanced for precision, and more than 20 items are included in the 10.6 release. Try out vector tile layers today and let us know what you think!<\/p>\n
<\/h3>\n
Boundary layers<\/h3>\n
The 10.6 release brings in updates to boundary layers for a number of countries. Boundary layers are polygons that contain various levels of demographic information about a country, such as population or land area\/size. They are also available at different ranges based on the country, from counties to provinces.\u00a0 These layers are great for spatial analysis, such as aggregating data within a certain geographic boundary. They can also be used in scenes, apps and maps (as displayed below within a web map in ArcGIS Enterprise):<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nThere are also approximately 130 boundary layers available in My Esri to download and host as feature layers in ArcGIS Enterprise. If you are interested in these layers, head over to My Esri to take a look at the ones available.<\/p>\n
Mature support items in the Living Atlas<\/h2>\n
Keep in mind that Living Atlas content does have a lifecycle, which means some items may reach a state of mature support, and may ultimately be retired.<\/p>\n
Therefore, it is recommended that after you upgrade your Living Atlas content, you do a quick audit of the layers you are using in your maps and apps to determine if any have been tagged as mature support. If they have been tagged as mature support, it is recommended that you visit What's new in Portal for ArcGIS 10.6<\/a> to identify the replacement layer.<\/p>\n
---<\/p>\n
We hope you are excited about the new Living Atlas offerings in 10.6! To read additional information on Living Atlas in ArcGIS Enterprise, see Julia\u2019s blog, Take advantage of Living Atlas content in your ArcGIS Enterprise<\/a>. We look forward to hearing more about how you\u2019re using Living Atlas content in your own geospatial maps, apps, and analyses!<\/p>","post_title":"ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World updates in ArcGIS Enterprise 10.6","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"arcgis-living-atlas-of-the-world-updates-in-arcgis-enterprise-10-6","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2020-02-21 12:22:54","post_modified_gmt":"2020-02-21 20:22:54","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/arcgis-living-atlas-of-the-world-updates-in-arcgis-enterprise-10-6\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"blog","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":123251,"post_author":"4501","post_date":"2018-03-06 13:24:21","post_date_gmt":"2018-03-06 13:24:21","post_content":"Elevation surface provides foundational layer for your work in 3D.\u00a0ArcGIS 3D clients such as ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online\u00a0Web Scene Viewer<\/a>, and\u00a0ArcGIS Earth<\/a> comes with a default elevation layer - Terrain 3D<\/a>. \u00a0Along with this default elevation layer, ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World<\/a> also provides TopoBathy 3D<\/a>, which combines topography (land elevation) and bathymetry (water depths) into one seamless layer. Terrain 3D and TopoBathy 3D are tiled elevation services that uses the LERC (Limited Error Raster Compression) tile format and are derived from World Elevation Terrain<\/a> and TopoBathy<\/a> respectively.\n\nA few weeks ago World Elevation layers (Terrain & TopoBathy) and Tools<\/a> were enhanced with Airbus WorldDEM4Ortho<\/a>. These updates are now rolled out to 3D elevation layers (Terrain 3D<\/a> and TopoBathy 3D<\/a>). Airbus WorldDEM4Ortho is a global dataset covering the entire earth\u2019s land surface (excluding the countries of Azerbaijan, DR Congo and Ukraine), which\u00a0has a resolution of 0.8 arc second (approx. 24 meters). It brings many quality improvements especially over urban areas in Europe, Asia, Africa and South America, which were previously using SRTM 30 m dataset.\n\nSRTM is a digital surface model (DSM), which represents elevation values of the natural and built features on the earth surface such as buildings, vegetation, etc. Due to its DSM nature and coarser resolution, urban areas especially with dense and high rise buildings appear to have small hills or undulating surface. When you overlay 3D buildings\/objects on this undulating surface, it seems to be either sinking or floating on the ground. In Airbus WorldDEM4Ortho, urban areas are flattened to give DTM-like product thus\u00a0providing much better surface than SRTM 30 m. Let's see a few examples showing improvements over urban areas in before and after comparisons.\n
Auckland, New Zealand \u2013 3D buildings are now sitting nicely on flat ground surface (WorldDEM4Ortho 24 m) in comparison to previously undulating surface (SRTM 30 m) where buildings seem to be sinking in the ground.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
<\/a>\nBerlin, Germany \u2013 3D buildings are now sitting nicely on flat surface of WorldDEM4Ortho 24 m (after) in comparison to undulating surface of SRTM 30 m (before).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
<\/a>\n\nEsri will keep improving the World Elevation Layers, Tools and derived information products with high resolution content from open sources and community maps for elevation program. You can look at the current data sources used by checking our Elevation Coverage Map<\/a>. If your organization has better elevation content that they can contribute, then check our Community Maps for Elevation<\/a> program to get in touch.\n\nIf you are interested in learning more about various elevation information products in the ArcGIS Living Atlas, then take a tour with this elevation story map<\/a>.","post_title":"Airbus WorldDEM4Ortho in Esri 3D elevation services","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"airbus-worlddem4ortho-in-esri-3d-elevation-services","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-06-11 13:07:26","post_modified_gmt":"2024-06-11 20:07:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/airbus-worlddem4ortho-in-esri-3d-elevation-services\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"blog","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":123161,"post_author":"6311","post_date":"2018-03-01 14:23:04","post_date_gmt":"2018-03-01 14:23:04","post_content":"ArcGIS Pro is used to build the maps and data analysis models you use throughout the ArcGIS platform. Here are some of the can\u2019t miss sessions at the Esri Developer Summit for ArcGIS Pro.\nArcGIS Pro Area in the Esri Showcase<\/h1>\nVisit the ArcGIS Pro area to talk to the product team about creating maps and analysis models, using geoprocessing tools, sharing your maps and scenes, and developing applications using Esri\u2019s ArcGIS Pro SDK.\n
Esri Showcase Hours<\/h2>\n
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<\/a>\n\nThis new hands-on training workshop will introduce you to ArcGIS Pro SDK concepts, helpful tips and practical steps to help you get started developing add-ins to extend ArcGIS Pro. Participants will walk through topics with the workshop instructor and then work through exercises using their own device with the Pro SDK and the Microsoft Visual Studio development environment.\n\nTopics will include:\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/02\/ProRoadmapFeb2018-1024x576.png\")
<\/a>\n\nArcGIS Pro is the premier desktop GIS for 2D and 3D mapping, analysis and editing. Come and hear from senior members of the ArcGIS Pro team as they discuss ArcGIS Pro\u2019s latest capabilities and what\u2019s planned for the future.\n