ESRI Canada Community Maps Program

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Community Topographic Basemap

• Template Based

• Collaborative

• Multi-Scale

• Authoritative Source

• Many Participants

Background

• Started Community Maps Program in 2009

• Small scale basemap (Canvec)

• Large scale basemap (Provincial and Community)

Canadian Community Maps Program

• Authoritative Data for Your Applications

• Consume in ArcGIS Desktop/Server/Online

• High Quality Maps

• Provide Feedback

Toronto

Moncton

Kamloops Nanaimo

Key Driver for the Program A National Web Basemap for Canada

Working Together Towards a Common Goal

• Building a National Web Basemap

• A Foundation for a National GIS

A New Community has Emerged

Community Maps Program

Community Maps Program Online Maps using Authoritative, Rich, Local Data Sources

• Community maps hosted by ESRI on ArcGIS Online

• Freely available to ArcGIS users

World Topo Map

Canada

World Imagery

Portugal

World Street Map

Hong Kong

ESRI wants to …

• Curate Online Basemaps

• Work with authoritative data providers (our users)

• Promote a community process that brings together key data providers

• Publish our collective results as a community map

• Provide iterative releases

• Work with you to update and maintain basemaps

• Use ArcGIS Online as a platform to facilitate this community initiative

Benefits of Participation

• Detailed Basemap for a Community is Online

• High-quality cartography with your accurate data

• High-performance and availability service

• No hosting costs or support required from provider

Benefits of Participation

• Basemap is freely available to ArcGIS and Web users – Use in your ArcGIS maps and apps

– Use in your public facing Web apps

• Developer APIs freely available to build Web Apps – REST, JavaScript, Flex, Silverlight APIs

available

– Combine your map services with community basemap

Benefits to Community Participation

• Citation of participant as data provider for its local area – Referenced in online documentation and related

marketing materials

– Promotes the valuable GIS work being performed by participant organizations

City of Toronto – 1:1,000

Mashup Example Basemap with Points of Interest as an operational layer

• The community map is the basis for many more maps and applications.

Top 100 Infrastructure Projects

http://top100projects.ca/

Keeping the Community Map Up to Date

Community Map

Exchange

Moncton

Natural

Resources

Canada

(National) 2-Way

Replication

Langley

2-Way

Replication

Toronto

Province

Published

– NRCan CanVec

– Toronto, ON

– Kamloops, BC

– Nanaimo, BC

– Moncton, BC

– Twp. of Langley, BC

– St. John’s, NF

– St. Albert, AB

– Banff, AB

– Regina, SK

– St. Paul, AB

– Brandon, MB

– Vancouver, BC

– District of North Vancouver, BC

– Saskatoon, SK

– Surrey, BC

– Oak Bay, BC

– Fredericton, NB

– Kingston, ON

Processing

– Gatineau, PQ

– Hay River, NWT

– Wood Buffalo, AB

– Brampton, ON

– Cowichan Valley, BC

– Fort St. John, BC

– Morinville, AB

– Prince George, BC

– Thompson-Nicola Regional, BC

Expression of Interest

• Olds College

• Saanich

• Victoriaville

• NWT

• Region of Peel

• University of Ottawa

• Woodstock

• Hamilton

• London

• Oxford County

• Sudbury

• York Region

• Grey County

• Brantford

• Halifax Regional Municipality

• Service Nova Scotia

• Miramichi

• Kenora

• Ville de Rimouski

• Ville de Lévis

• Village of Burns Lake

• Town of Beaumont

How do organizations participate?

1) Contact ESRI Community Maps Program Manager at:

communitymaps@esricanada.com

2) Program Manager will introduce and describe program details

3) Execute appropriate agreements • Open Data policy or Participation Agreement

4) ESRI Canada builds the map

5) Review map with participant

6) ESRI Canada will publish map on www.arcgis.com

To find out more please visit:

http://www.esricanada.com/communitymaps/

Demonstration

Community Maps - ArcGIS Explorer