NACIS 2015 PCD: Vector Cartography in ArcGIS

Vector Cartography in ArcGIS presented at the NACIS Annual Meeting at Practical Cartography Day. October 14, 2015

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1. Vector Cartography in ArcGIS Craig Williams, Esri https://speakerdeck.com/williamscraigm williamscraigm
2. • ArcGIS Online • Focus on thematic mapping • Map authoring in the browser • Data-driven defaults • Powered by ArcGIS JavaScript API • ArcGIS Desktop • Introduced ArcGIS Pro in early 2015 • Now on Release 1.1.1 • New UX and rendering engines in 2D and 3D
3. Near future • Continued synchronization of concepts across the platform (Online, Desktop, Mobile) • Thematic mapping • Labeling
4. Demo ArcGIS Online map authoring
5. Near future • Continued synchronization of concepts across the platform (Online, Desktop, Mobile) • Thematic mapping • Labeling • Cross-cutting new development efforts • 3D • Vector tiles
6. Why vector tiles? High DPI displays and… GPUs have changed the landscape • On your devices (OpenGL ES2) • In your browser (WebGL) • On your desktop (DirectX, OpenGL) • Even in virtualized systems (vGPU) Vector data can remain vector Raster data still best served as raster in most circumstances
7. Advantages of vector tiles • Display Quality - Best possible resolution for Retina displays - Small efficient format • Dynamic labeling - Clearer, more readable text - Label rotation with map • Map Styling - Multiple styles per tile set Labels rotate and flip
8. Vector tiles in ArcGIS Tiles produced in ArcGIS Pro (1.2) - Use the Mapbox vector tile spec • Which uses Google protocol buffers - Styling converted to Mapbox gl style spec More aggressive overzoom - Builds on generalization work done in past ArcGIS releases - Fewer tiles to download
9. Tile creation (entire world, all LODs) • Vector tiles - ~ 8hrs on a desktop machine - Tiles ~ 13 GB - Styles share tiles • Compared to raster - ~ many weeks on a server cluster per map style - Tiles ~ 20 TB
10. Demo Vector tiles
12. Planned ArcGIS vector tiles roadmap • Preview of vector tiles released back in July • Tile creation in ArcGIS Pro 1.2 (early 2016) • Services in ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Server 10.4 (early 2016)
13. Planned roadmap continued Tile consumption: - ArcGIS Runtime Quartz – Beta 2 • Esri implementation - ArcGIS JavaScript API – • 4.0 Demonstration capability now in Beta 1 • 3.x in research with ArcGIS Online viewer - ArcGIS Pro (future) • Will share Runtime implementation
14. JavaScript ArcGIS Runtime: Android iOS OS X .NET (Windows, Windows Phone) Qt (Windows, Linux, Android, and iOS) Xamarin (Windows, iOS, and Android)
15. Please ask questions This presentation can be found at: https://speakerdeck.com/williamscraigm