URISA Texas Speaker Series November 27, 2017

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UTILIZING NEW ESRI TECHNOLOGIES FOR STREAMLINING WEB GIS A TxDOT Perspective

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USING A SINGLE ARCGIS PRO PROJECT TO PUBLISH SERVICES FOR AN ORGANIZATION Chris Bardash

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The Problem  Manage over 40 individual MXDs for each service layer for ArcGIS Pro Online

 No QA/QC associated with the process

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The Solution  Manage (publish and overwrite) all service layers within a single ArcGIS Pro Pro Project

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The Transition  Import all existing mxds into one ArcGIS Pro Pro Project

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The Transition  The symbology and layer names are retained from ArcMap to ArcGIS Pro

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The Transition  Alternatively, you can add each layer from an SDE or local drive to a single ArcGIS Pro Project by inserting a ‘New Map’ for each layer

 Rename the layer in your table of contents to appear the way you would like to see it appear when the user adds the data to their own map.

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Using tasks for quality assurance steps  Before publishing a service, it is run through an 8-step Task process for quality assurance

 Set of preconfigured sequential steps that guide users through a repeatable workflow to ensure consistency and quality for each published service layer

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Task Design Considerations  Use to guide and share knowledge – new person or new software  Interactive – select or create features  Improve efficiency – minimize mouse clicks  Improve quality – catch errors as they happen – no additional QA needed  Tasks use your (business) language  Tasks are configurable (no coding) URISA TX - Speaker Series Presentation

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Using tasks for quality assurance steps  Tasks can be easily created in ArcGIS Pro by creating: • Task Item – a high level overview of what the task item will achieve • Task – group of steps to complete a workflow • Steps – guides the user through workflow – Sequential – Loads actions/commands for user to perform – Required or optional URISA TX - Speaker Series Presentation

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Using tasks for quality assurance steps STEP BEHAVIORS Proceed automatically or manually

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Auto Run

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Auto Proceed

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Summary 1. Manage multiple service layers within a single ArcGIS Pro project 2. Use Tasks for quality assurance  Sequential and repeatable  Quality and consistency 3. Design considerations for Tasks  Use to guide, interact, and use business language  Step Behaviors  Manual  Automatic

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VECTOR TILES From Creation to Implementation

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Introduction  Need for consistent basemap across all agency applications  Need to represent our base layers in basemap – e.g. Districts, Planning Boundaries, etc. – Roadway network  Assets along roadway (e.g. pavement condition, projects, etc.) must properly align with our road network

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Previous Process - Raster Basemap Tiles  Huge MXD onerous to manage  Group layer for each zoom level  Complicated definition queries and label queries  Annotation for each layer for each zoom level

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Previous Process - Raster Basemap Tiles Issues: – Multiple zoom levels increase likelihood of inconsistency between each level • Duplication of effort for each – Schema changes – Easy to miss something – Symbology or labeling – Sometimes you would not see the results until after creating tiles

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Previous Process - Raster Basemap Tiles – In order to avoid labels being cutoff or appearing to be duplicated by bordering tiles • Had to create tile boundary polygons • Most labeling had to be converted to annotation – Any update requires a change to the annotation at each zoom level » This made the case for our switch to Vector Tiles URISA TX - Speaker Series Presentation

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Previous Process - Raster Basemap Tiles Enormous overhead in creating Raster Tiles: – Small mistakes were sometimes not corrected due to enormous time to produce tiles – PCs not powerful enough to handle processing – Processing in AGO is expensive (~1,000 credits) – Ultimately used Amazon machine to process tiles

Missing Interstate Highway Shields at this major intersection in Houston. Only occurs at this zoom level. Not worth reproducing tiles to fix.

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Vector Tiles Compared with Raster Tiles: – 10 minutes to create tiles for state of Texas all the way down through zoom level 22! – Map used to create tiles is simpler: • Single layer for each feature class • No need to duplicate definition queries for each zoom level • Labeling is dynamic and is only set once rather than for each zoom level • Control what draws at each level using GUI sliders for each symbol class – If you find a mistake you can quickly re-run the tiles after making the correction

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Vector Tile Usage & Configuration  Can re-symbolize existing tiles – Edit JSON  Implemented with single line of code change in applications  Will use in all web map applications as standard basemap

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Vector Tiles Downsides and possible improvements: – Less control in ArcGIS Pro for point symbology, such as highway shield, as available in ArcMap • Difficult to adjust placement of text inside shield – Still minor tile boundary overlap issues, however considerably improved – Cannot overwrite existing tiles in AGO. Must delete and reproduce in order to maintain URL, however time to produce new tile set makes this a negligible/manageable interruption

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Questions

Questions? Chris Bardash, GIS Manager [email protected] Texas Department of Transportation Transportation Planning & Programming (TPP) – Mapping Group Austin, Texas

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URISA Texas Speaker Series Resources • URISA Texas Website: https://www.urisatexas.org/ • Recorded Speaker Series Videos:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyw7rOmni7UMoiKQ2IlUSmA/featu red

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