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gisdev-km
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Hi everyone, thanks for joining today's AMA with Esri's own @ajturner and @jgravois. We will be starting at 11AM Pacific!

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langdon
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Hello Andrew and John, can you provide a quick overview of your role at Esri and couple projects you are currently excited about? Thanks

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What is the biggest challenge you see regarding all things "open"? What can we as a community do to help improve that?

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:wave: @jgravois!

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2016-04-19 17:17
Hi Andrew, Hi John - I?m a developer who is actively using the runtime SDK to deploy enterprise mobile apps for field data collection. So far we are really impressed with the functionality and capabilities it provides. I?m curious if ESRI has any plans to release these capabilities in a more ?consumer friendly? way? By this I mean a license with a cost structure similar to other large complex SDKs like the Unreal engine rather than being tied to AGOL logins or single use runtime codes.

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@langdon @gisdev-km @mikedmapper I think we officially start in about 30 mins. And these are great questions. thanks for starting with them

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@ericbader:

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:wave:

gisdev-km
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Feel free to ask questions ahead of time! Past AMA experiences have seen a fury of questions!

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@esri is a super big company with lots and lots of opportunity, how do you guys keep a sense of focus?

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Have you guys seen my pen? It?s a really nice pen.

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happy earth week y?all! looking forward to this thing

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2016-04-19 17:59
Hey everyone. Let?s welcome @jgravois and @ajturner to the AMA. I?ll let them introduce themselves a little bit, and feel free to upvote any questions!

willcadell
2016-04-19 17:59
yay!

jgravois
2016-04-19 18:00
so my unofficial made up title is ?developer advocate?.

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bddavidson
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Welcome!

jgravois
2016-04-19 18:00
im a geographer by training, but these days i write a lot more JS. mostly cause i was never good at making maps to begin with

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jgravois
2016-04-19 18:00
i work on lots of different open source initiatives at Esri

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jgravois
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as well as collaborating with folks like Code for America in the civic transparency space

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ajturner
2016-04-19 18:01
Hi - I?m @ajturner - I help run the Esri R&D office in Washington, DC.

jgravois
2016-04-19 18:01
this is the first time ive been on the hook to answer questions from @steveoh since back when i worked in tech support

ajturner
2016-04-19 18:02
I was CTO of GeoIQ, which was acquired by Esri in July 2012 - that formed the new R&D center here. We?re mostly focused on open data, open source, and Web GIS technologies as well as developer engagement

ajturner
2016-04-19 18:02
@mikedmapper: you had a good question earlier about ?consumer friendly? licensing of our mobile Runtime SDKs. I?m curious to learn more what you mean

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:wave: @manny

jgravois
2016-04-19 18:03
and all the other good folks out there

ajturner
2016-04-19 18:03
@gisdev-km: you asked about ?biggest challenge you see regarding all things "open"? What can we as a community do to help improve that?"

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2016-04-19 18:03
honestly, the biggest challenge is defining and scoping ?open"

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ajturner
2016-04-19 18:04
4 years ago - Esri had a few open source projects on Codeplex and Sourceforge (remember those) and a scattering of other places. We decided to consolidate everything to GitHub and improve our processes and guidance for how more teams can be building and releasing open-source projects as a matter of their core job responsibilities

steveoh
2016-04-19 18:05
@jgravois: if you could change one thing about the company you work for what would it be?

jgravois
2016-04-19 18:05
@mikedmapper we definitely know that we?ve got some work to do in order to introduce viable consumer licensing.

steveoh
2016-04-19 18:05
oh and when did you get your first tat?

jgravois
2016-04-19 18:06
@willcadell: there are definitely wranglers, but i think the great thing about Esri is that we have so many folks working on so many different passions

gisdev-km
2016-04-19 18:06
How has the transition to consolidating everything to GitHub worked out? Have there been any intenral workshops in regards to introducing everyone to git?

ajturner
2016-04-19 18:06
steveoh: personally I would move Esri HQ to DC :simple_smile:

jgravois
2016-04-19 18:06
our user community is the same way. just because two different folks use our desktop software all day doesnt mean they are touching remotely the same things

ajturner
2016-04-19 18:07
@gisdev-km: it?s been an ongoing process for GitHub-ification. There was always a culture of code sharing in the company - but there are mechanics to Git, as well as GitHub specifics like PR that are documented, and @jgravois is doing training

jgravois
2016-04-19 18:07
trying to maintaining vision and direction, as well as keeping up with technology changes without alienating folks that are behind is what we?ve been doing for a long time.

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ajturner
2016-04-19 18:08
we also chose to use GitHub enterprise for all of our projects - so nearly *every* team in Esri now uses Git + GitHub for their daily work. we did that to remove any process burdens when working between entirely open-source and non-open source projects

zia
2016-04-19 18:08
Why there is no ESRI for Linux? :disappointed:

gisdev-km
2016-04-19 18:08
Well... there is the Runtime SDK for Qt

steveoh
2016-04-19 18:09
@ajturner: if you could change something about a product you ship or try to ship what would it be?

zia
2016-04-19 18:09
ArcGIS Desktop

jgravois
2016-04-19 18:09
@zia weve had Esri for linux for a long time with ArcGIS Engine

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2016-04-19 18:09
and more recently, in runtimes

steveoh
2016-04-19 18:09
@jgravois: why do you smell like curry?

robodonut
2016-04-19 18:09
Can you clarify what ESRI means when they say _Open Source_ . I've heard folks bemoan ESRI's use of the term

zia
2016-04-19 18:09
oh

jgravois
2016-04-19 18:10
(i know there are esri folks out there with more domain knowledge than me on lots of these questions, so please jump in if im botching anything)

gisdev-km
2016-04-19 18:10
@jgravois's coworkers are just sitting back eating :popcorn:, watching him sweat

yann
2016-04-19 18:10
yep

ajturner
2016-04-19 18:10
@robodonut: when we say _Open Source_ we mean _software source code that is publicly available for anonymous people to access and use without constraint_

ericbader
2016-04-19 18:10
@gisdev-km: @zia Linux is alove and well here at Esri. Sorry for not making that more transparent, we will work on that for you. Runtime Qt and Java support Linux: RHEL, Ubuntu, and we continue to investigate more, like SuSE

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:popcorn:

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2016-04-19 18:10
@robodonut: our default license is Apache 2.0

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2016-04-19 18:11
@steveoh i think everyone knows my stock answer is to open source pretty much everything, but i genuinely like having a more nuanced discussion, both within the company and out here in public

ericbader
2016-04-19 18:11
alive. Sorry. I need my glasses

jgravois
2016-04-19 18:12
shameless shoutout, but i want to remember to say THANK YOU to the folks at Maptiks (in our startup program) and the other admins in this Slack for all the work they dedicate to this resource


gisdev-km
2016-04-19 18:12
I think the real hero is giphybot.

ajturner
2016-04-19 18:12
@zia: ArcGIS Server also runs very well on Linux - so perhaps you mean something more specific?

steveoh
2016-04-19 18:13
he was talking desktop/pro

jgravois
2016-04-19 18:13
a link to an hour of my wretched voice talking about the basics of github to esri folks in a training session can be found here: https://esri.box.com/s/x4ncpn6lcnu5f91x5yoryvtpkuv9iibr

ajturner
2016-04-19 18:13
@robodonut: I?m curious what you?ve heard about Esri?s open source efforts. We always want to know where there are misconceptions or improvements that we can make

mikedmapper
2016-04-19 18:14
@ajturner: the runtime licenses (at the standard level) seem to be tailored to support apps that operate in an enterprise ecosystem, either ?authorized? by an enterprise AGOL account, an on-premise ArcGIS Portal, or using license codes that have to be purchased in packs of 25 for a few thousand $$. This is fine for large orgs that have ELAs, but if we were looking to release an app for public use - say for a citizen science type application - and wanted that app to include functionality from the ?standard? license level it would be not only extremely cost prohibitive, but also impossible to budget given an unknown level of public use. Other complex SDKs like gaming engines go for a flat fee or % of revenue model that is much more accommodating to consumer apps

jgravois
2016-04-19 18:15
@steveoh smelling like curry is a lot better than my pants smelled before i can tell you that

gisdev-km
2016-04-19 18:15
@jgravois: what hooked you with Leaflet vs jumping on board the Esri JavaScript API team with @yann, @rene, @khutchins and so forth?

gisdev-km
2016-04-19 18:15
Was it the lack of tattoos? :simple_smile:

jgravois
2016-04-19 18:15
@gisdev-km: its definitely not an either or. ive been helping with the JSAPI for a very long time

steveoh
2016-04-19 18:15
do you think esri is spreading themselves to thin on the platforms and products they create? Might this cause each product to not get the focus that it needs to succeed? Will we see this shrink to a more possibly sustainable group of core items?

julien
2016-04-19 18:16
@steveoh: asking the tough questions

jgravois
2016-04-19 18:16
but i love working on leaflet too. to be honest, i got excited about it at the time because i was looking for an excuse to learn about git and to learn about leaflet for the first time.

ajturner
2016-04-19 18:16
@steveoh good question - fortunately everything across ArcGIS ties back to a common information model

steveoh
2016-04-19 18:16
i?m mixing it up, i asked why he smelled like curry a minute ago :simple_smile:

ajturner
2016-04-19 18:16
I didn?t understand this before joining esri - but it?s an extremely elegant design that makes it far easier to scale

steveoh
2016-04-19 18:17
was it tough to adjust to the esri culture given where you came from?

ajturner
2016-04-19 18:17
everything we build needs to work with that information model - FeatureServices handle vector data. Same API across millions of datasets. WebMaps are arrays of FeatureServices + Styling. they power cartographic displays as well as Apps - even if they don?t have a map

jgravois
2016-04-19 18:18
if theres one thing ive learned in my years here, is that esri is relentless about trying to accommodate the requests of our users. to be honest, that makes things complex sometimes.

jgravois
2016-04-19 18:18
but i love seeing Esri pivot and do the right thing, even though ?steering the big ship? often takes time

ajturner
2016-04-19 18:19
@steveoh it was difficult to adjust to the size, but not the fundamental culture. At my previous companies + startups you could look around a lunch table and talk with all the 'decision makers? and probably every employee. At Esri we have flexibility to drive our own projects - but there are a lot of teams to coordinate with

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jgravois
2016-04-19 18:19
@steveoh, i think that spreading thin and having lots of different offerings is a better paradigm than one big monolith thats supposed to work for everyone

gisdev-km
2016-04-19 18:19
With other large tech companies, the employees kind of get to choose the projects they work on, is that the same sort of culture at Esri?

steveoh
2016-04-19 18:20
@jgravois: spaces or tabs?

jgravois
2016-04-19 18:20
this is why task oriented simple web applications work so much better than trying to recreate ArcGIS Desktop in the browser. (edited for clarity)

jgravois
2016-04-19 18:20
spaces, tabs, semicolons, no semicolons

steveoh
2016-04-19 18:20
haha

steveoh
2016-04-19 18:20
ok i?ll stop now

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ajturner
2016-04-19 18:21
@gisdev-km: definitely. I feel that even internally esri is like working in open-source communities. New projects start up all the time. They try to coordinate with other teams to get mindshare and code sharing. It?s hard to track everything but Pull Requests are generally accepted to any other project across the platform

robodonut
2016-04-19 18:21
@ajturner: there was a reddit post (https://www.reddit.com/r/gis/comments/3tturv/esris_commitment_to_open/) a while back that linked to this video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCmSrjj0q94) and folks were bemoaning there and there have been comments in the twitterverse

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ajturner
2016-04-19 18:21
and there are definitely strong opinions like open source communities.

jgravois
2016-04-19 18:22
i dont mind having the ?is esri open enough debate? but for the most part i think its bikeshedding

jgravois
2016-04-19 18:22
ive always been a lot more concerned with furthering the professional development of our customers than FOSS for the sake of FOSS

ajturner
2016-04-19 18:22
@robodonut I think you?re referring to the difficulty of ?open? in general. It?s a fuzzy term that is more a culture and intent than a binary

jgravois
2016-04-19 18:22
dont get me wrong, i LOVE open source, but when someone says that an Esri web template on github isnt open source because you need services behind it, i disagree

jgravois
2016-04-19 18:23
because for folks like me trying to learn a little JS in the evenings when i was a GIS analyst, it was incredibly valuable

jgravois
2016-04-19 18:23
and it helped me learn about JS and AJAX and REST and event listeners etc. etc. etc

jgravois
2016-04-19 18:24
and i had no interest or need at the time to also be a database administrator and to write my own server side code

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gisdev-km
2016-04-19 18:24
Favorite project of your career?

steveoh
2016-04-19 18:24
if you could change something about a product you ship or try to ship what would it be?

jgravois
2016-04-19 18:25
@gisdev-km: i honestly dont get too attached to them. i love the fact that i can jump from the JSAPI to koop, to esri-leaflet to terraformer to node-arcgis

jgravois
2016-04-19 18:25
and find things in common and things that are different

robodonut
2016-04-19 18:26
thank you both. I'm just wanting to understand the different perspectives of the discussion!

ajturner
2016-04-19 18:26
@steveoh there are a few paradigms that worked a decade ago on desktops or servers that we are re-architecting to align with web-future methodologies.

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ajturner
2016-04-19 18:27
take for example - the shapefile :simple_smile:

ajturner
2016-04-19 18:27
h/t @dmfenton

jgravois
2016-04-19 18:27
@robodonut oh for sure! i think its a valuable discussion to have

jgravois
2016-04-19 18:27
> With other large tech companies, the employees kind of get to choose the projects they work on, is that the same sort of culture at Esri?

jgravois
2016-04-19 18:28
@gisdev-km: my experience has been that everytime ive been able to identify a job that needed done that sounded interesting to me i was able to get myself up to speed and take a stab at it if i could be self directed

ajturner
2016-04-19 18:29
what are ideas you have for us at Esri or ArcGIS? what are painpoints that could be smoothed out?

mikedmapper
2016-04-19 18:29
There is a big push for 3D globe-type interfaces from ESRI right now? what do you feel are the markets/applications that will benefit from this?

willcadell
2016-04-19 18:29
oh! geotriggers are only in java :disappointed:

jgravois
2016-04-19 18:29
@ajturner i was getting ready to flip things too

steveoh
2016-04-19 18:29
you would pull the swap-a-roo on the ama :simple_smile:

jgravois
2016-04-19 18:29
what do y?all want to see more of? what should we be dedicating resources to?

robodonut
2016-04-19 18:29
Charting in JS. Cedar is nice but i want so much more

steveoh
2016-04-19 18:30
i like the idea of having a core lib for the esri js api

ajturner
2016-04-19 18:30
@mikedmapper: 3D is not most useful as a Globe - it?s in the immersive portrayal of the real world and potential world

gisdev-km
2016-04-19 18:30
I'd like to see licensing smoothed out a bit between standard and advanced. I almost feel like advanced should be elevated to specific SDE administration tasks but things like the 'Near' tool can be ran at Standard

ajturner
2016-04-19 18:30
@robodonut PR accepted! :wink:

jgravois
2016-04-19 18:30
@robodonut: this is a good one for charting that you may have already seen https://github.com/Esri/cedar

ajturner
2016-04-19 18:30
@robodonut but seriously - what else do you want in it?

dmfenton
2016-04-19 18:30
real estate (and related industries) is a market that benefits a lot from 3d

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mikedmapper
2016-04-19 18:30
spell check - how do we not have this in ArcGIS yet?

jgravois
2016-04-19 18:31
im not sure if you?ve heard, but the JSAPI is planning on open sourcing its widgets at 4.x. im really excited about that!

mikedmapper
2016-04-19 18:31
also - transparent PNG support in layout view

jgravois
2016-04-19 18:31
theyve worked really hard to refactor the API and if you havent used the Beta yet, it shows


mikedmapper
2016-04-19 18:32
also a ?convert runtime to geodatabase? tool that works with source files that are located somewhere besides the C drive

jgravois
2016-04-19 18:32
does everyone know that they can sign up for a free developer account for R&D?

ajturner
2016-04-19 18:32
@mikedmapper: good question. One fun, probably not well known fact, is that all our products support ~28 languages

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steveoh
2016-04-19 18:32
/points @yann +100 js 4

2016-04-19 18:32
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jgravois
2016-04-19 18:32
that it allows you to publish services for free

mikedmapper
2016-04-19 18:33
@ajturner: I assume all 28 languages have dictionaries available?

gisdev-km
2016-04-19 18:33
/points @rene +100 js 4

2016-04-19 18:33
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steveoh
2016-04-19 18:33
how do you think pushing portal on all of your customers is going to shape the future?

jgravois
2016-04-19 18:33
and that we have a program to give away software for free to non-profits?

jgravois
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gisdev-km
2016-04-19 18:33
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gisdev-km
2016-04-19 18:33
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gisdev-km
2016-04-19 18:33
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gisdev-km
2016-04-19 18:34
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ajturner
2016-04-19 18:34
@steveoh Portal provides a much more integrated administrative and content management experience than manually dealing with dozens of individual servers

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ted_chapin
2016-04-19 18:34
How long do you think before we have an all "Pro" desktop experience?

jgravois
2016-04-19 18:34
and that im hooking up Maptimes and Code for America Brigages working on social environmental justice projects (and education) with voucher codes for free credits?

zia
2016-04-19 18:34
@ajturner: During my whole university life, just like most of the universities out there, I learned ArcGIS. But the moment I passed out I found it expensive to buy and eventually started using QGIS, OpenJump and other open tools :disappointed: It was sad.

antoniolocandro
2016-04-19 18:34
I would like ESRI to release basic as a community edition, after all it's really so basic to be actually useful without extensions or things you can use in standard or advanced

dmfenton
2016-04-19 18:34
there is ArcGIS for Personal Use

ajturner
2016-04-19 18:34

tmcgee
2016-04-19 18:34
I've had Esri employees reach out to me privately to submit enhancements to the # open source project. They use it for LOB applications but cannot be open about using it/supporting it. As if they are not towing the "Esri line" if they openly promote. Is that a culture of fear or ???

zia
2016-04-19 18:34
Is that recent?

robodonut
2016-04-19 18:35
hoping for easier brushing, filtering and general connectivity between a service and a chart.

ajturner
2016-04-19 18:35
@antoniolocandro: see ^^ Personal Edition

flippmoke
2016-04-19 18:35
If we made a drinking game that was drink everytime you heard the phrase "Vector Tiles? at EsriUC how black out drunk would you get?

kdanaher
2016-04-19 18:35
@ajturner: Since you?re asking? I work in a cartography lab where we are exporting a lot of vector data cuts from Desktop for creating maps in Illustrator. Something seemingly simple that hasn?t been fixed (at least in 10.3) is the scale bar. It can get very wrong depending on projection and extent of the map. I have to manually convert to graphics and correct it based on geodesic measurement. We would love to see this fixed!

gisdev-km
2016-04-19 18:35
Is Personal Edition licensed as such to be able to particpate in community projects?

ajturner
2016-04-19 18:35
also any K-12 school in the US can get ArcGIS http://www.esri.com/connected

willcadell
2016-04-19 18:35
@flippmoke: doesn?t that depend on your capacity?

jgravois
2016-04-19 18:36
@flippmoke: this presentation provides a lot more clarity on what we?ve been doing. and it would get you civil war drunk: http://video.esri.com/watch/5015/vector-tiles-in-the-arcgis-platform

steveoh
2016-04-19 18:36
labeling of vector tile features is not awesome at the moment

ajturner
2016-04-19 18:36
@tmcgee: that?s a personal question - not a policy or culture of Esri

flippmoke
2016-04-19 18:36
Do you plan on updating to the Vector Tile Specification 2?

antoniolocandro
2016-04-19 18:36
@ajturner: personal might be fine in the Us a hassle to buy outside is due to regional partners. Also I believe it has restriction to well personal use

jgravois
2016-04-19 18:36
its an AMA andrew

jgravois
2016-04-19 18:36
im taking underwear questions over here

ajturner
2016-04-19 18:37
@steveoh vector tiles rendering is pending some big updates.

ajturner
2016-04-19 18:37
Remember we?re in mid-Conference season: FedGIS->DevSummit->UC

steveoh
2016-04-19 18:37
yup the churn!

steveoh
2016-04-19 18:37
no one said anything about underwear, just why you smell like curry :simple_smile:

tomwayson
2016-04-19 18:37
@tmcgee: I've used # for client projects - in my experience, if it was the right solution, no one has objected

tmcgee
2016-04-19 18:38
@ajturner: my impression from them is it was a cultural issue.

tmcgee
2016-04-19 18:38
@tomwayson: good to hear

ajturner
2016-04-19 18:38
@antoniolocandro: indeed when going global there are a lot of complications. We currently work in ~190 countries. Always the top of our minds, just rarely a ?straight-forward problem"

agmapper
2016-04-19 18:38
@kdanaher: you might find this interesting: http://www.esri.com/software/maps-for-adobecc

antoniolocandro
2016-04-19 18:38
Any stuff you see in other software like qgis that you say damn we want that in our desktop product?

rene
2016-04-19 18:38
I?ll jump on that one @tmcgee, I?m encouraged to contribute back to any project that?s useful when I can. I?m still _green_, but I haven?t seen it.

jgravois
2016-04-19 18:38
there are esri folks in the channel, but im going to try and file some of these enhancement requests and possible bug reports too. so dont worry if i dont reply individually

dmfenton
2016-04-19 18:38
same same for me with contributing to external projects

dmfenton
2016-04-19 18:38
its a non-issue

jgravois
2016-04-19 18:39
@antoniolocandro: im a hack with QGIS, but i cant say ive ever had that experience using it.

ajturner
2016-04-19 18:39
@tmcgee: and like any company there is still ?job responsibility? vs ?what I do in my spare time?. We support contributing to projects and generally raising the bar but everyone has things they need to ship

ajturner
2016-04-19 18:39
@antoniolocandro: QGIS has great Mac OS X support!

tmcgee
2016-04-19 18:40
@rene @dmfenton good to hear. The 2 that come to mind were not US-based so perhaps the culture is different in other offices.

ajturner
2016-04-19 18:40

jgravois
2016-04-19 18:41
im hearing a lot of questions about an ?Esri Culture? and im not sure i agree that there is one

ajturner
2016-04-19 18:41
@tmcgee: yeah, there are some 50 esri regional offices and int?l distributors located in 130 countries or so? (My numbers are guestimates).

jgravois
2016-04-19 18:41
obviously diversity and gender equality in tech are real issues that impact us too, but we have a ton of diversity, both in background and opinion

gisdev-km
2016-04-19 18:41
I would like to just provide feedback that my interactions with individual Esri folks have been great. Between Twitter, Slack, the #geodev meetups, DevSummit and UC, its enjoyable to meet with talented individuals across a wide range of skills

antoniolocandro
2016-04-19 18:41
When will ESRI give us direct postgis read/write not just query layers without need for server? I know probably server will be needed for more advanced stuff like versioning or GDB based on postgis

jgravois
2016-04-19 18:41
and that diversity is a strength

gisdev-km
2016-04-19 18:42
The only time I digress is dealing with Tier 1 support :wink:

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flippmoke
2016-04-19 18:42
How much geometry is correction is done by ArcGIS prior to it making vector tiles?

jgravois
2016-04-19 18:42
@gisdev-km: i actually spent more than half my time in tech support as a Tier 1 analyst

jgravois
2016-04-19 18:42
first in desktop and mobile, and later supporting Web APIs

williamscraigm
2016-04-19 18:43
@tmcgee: not sure why someone would need to do that in a hidden way

steveoh
2016-04-19 18:43
@jgravois: is there a code word to skip tier 1? I haven?t used it in a long time but would love to know if I could skip it

tmcgee
2016-04-19 18:43
@williamscraigm: I can't answer as to the why.

antoniolocandro
2016-04-19 18:44
I want to skip local support to just even reach US tier 1

antoniolocandro
2016-04-19 18:44
:disappointed:

jgravois
2016-04-19 18:44
hah. i am immensely proud of the tech support Esri provides. i think its one of our biggest value adds.

steveoh
2016-04-19 18:44
I agree with you. it brought me up to speed as a noob

jgravois
2016-04-19 18:45
that said, if you are ever working with someone and having a difficult time getting resolution, and its a time sensitive issue, please feel free to politely request that additional help be found

tmcgee
2016-04-19 18:45
I've been working with Esri web GIS for 15 years and I will say that Esri is certainly more open now than in the not too distant past. Encouraging.

mikedmapper
2016-04-19 18:46
@antoniolocandro: you can?t do this now with Postgres? We direct connect to SQLServer SDE databases all the time for attribute editing without going through ESRI services

agmapper
2016-04-19 18:46
@jgravois: Agreed, there is not just one culture. There are lots of flavors between divisions / departments / even between Redlands HQ and regional offices. I will say this: Esri Café culture is great. There is always a table of smart, welcoming people I can take my tray to for lunch.

williamscraigm
2016-04-19 18:46
@flippmoke: geometry correction like fixing ring order etc?

ajturner
2016-04-19 18:47
thanks @tmcgee - i?m glad to hear that. we want to keep that up and keep expanding our open source code projects, as well as always adding more standards API and making it easy to integrate with other platforms and projects

antoniolocandro
2016-04-19 18:47
@mikedmapper: I believe you can't with postgis you at least need third party plugin like gissquirrel

flippmoke
2016-04-19 18:48
@williamscraigm: winding order is one concern, but also fixing self intersections etc

steveoh
2016-04-19 18:48
@ajturner: where do you see yourself in 5 years?

jgravois
2016-04-19 18:48
@mikedmapper: i think @antoniolocandro is right. ive heard folks ask for it in the past, but i dont believe we are working on it at the moment

jgravois
2016-04-19 18:49
i know that kind of thing can be frustrating to hear, but we genuinely have a ridiculous amount of diversity in our user community with people asking for a lot of different things

ajturner
2016-04-19 18:49
@steveoh in a new house (we?re moving a few blocks over closer to the Capitol Building in downtown DC)

steveoh
2016-04-19 18:49
@ajturner: what is your go to interview question?

jgravois
2016-04-19 18:49
so lots of valid requests dont end up with the force behind them that you think there would be

mikedmapper
2016-04-19 18:49
any plans for linear referencing-type capabilities in the runtime? By that I mean the ability to say ?return point X at distance Y along line Z"

dmfenton
2016-04-19 18:50
ajturner: is that house painted white?

flippmoke
2016-04-19 18:50
@steveoh: "If you were a question would question would you be?"

antoniolocandro
2016-04-19 18:50
Postgis is being so wildly use it just seems insane not supported out of the box

dmfenton
2016-04-19 18:50
large columns in front?big fence?

ajturner
2016-04-19 18:50
@steveoh: the one you just asked :wink: also ?You spend a majority of your waking hours with us - what do you want to be doing & accomplishing that gets you excited?"

kdanaher
2016-04-19 18:50
@agmapper: A couple of our cartographers were invited and attended a workshop on that. We have a great workflow currently w/ ArcGIS Desktop, Illustrator, and MAPublisher, but it?s certainly possible that it could replace MAPublisher down the road for us!

williamscraigm
2016-04-19 18:51
@flippmoke: ArcGIS has a fairly strong and well defined geometry model that defines geometry validity. We have tools to repair invalid geometries. We don't auto-run these are part of VT creation, as there is a bit of an expectation that geometries are valid. That said, we do repair a few situations like polygons that aren't closed etc.

flippmoke
2016-04-19 18:51
Do you ever see ESRI contributing to non-web libraries such as Boost Geometry etc?

dmfenton
2016-04-19 18:52
flippmoke the Esri Geometry Engine is open source

dmfenton
2016-04-19 18:52
I wouldn?t call that a web library

jgravois
2016-04-19 18:52
@dmfenton i didnt think it was open sourced

agmapper
2016-04-19 18:52
@kdanaher: good - glad you are aware. I haven't used it yet but am excited by the possibilities.

jgravois
2016-04-19 18:52
but i could be wrong

steveoh
2016-04-19 18:52
i think you are right

jgravois
2016-04-19 18:52
the Java geometry library is


jgravois
2016-04-19 18:53
oh gotcha, thats what he was talking about from the beginning. my bad

gisdev-km
2016-04-19 18:53
@gisdev-km pinned a message to this channel.

dmfenton
2016-04-19 18:53
yup

robodonut
2016-04-19 18:53
I've heard tell that the spatial analyst engine is still the original engine that Morehouse wrote and its just be wrapped a bunch. is this the case?

gisdev-km
2016-04-19 18:53
@gisdev-km pinned a message to this channel.

jgravois
2016-04-19 18:53
oooh. more weird esri rumor questions, please!

ajturner
2016-04-19 18:53
a few other exciting open source projects: - LERC for raster compression : https://github.com/Esri/lerc - upcoming Python Notebook support & SciPy http://4326.us/esri/scipy/#/ - essentially anything from Mansour: http://thunderheadxpler.blogspot.com/

gisdev-km
2016-04-19 18:54
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dmfenton
2016-04-19 18:54
++ to anything from Mansour

jgravois
2016-04-19 18:54
@ajturner thanks for plugging those

dmfenton
2016-04-19 18:54
dude is giving out gold on the weekly

gisdev-km
2016-04-19 18:54
I don?t think @mraad is here today.

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jgravois
2016-04-19 18:54
your wish is his command

ajturner
2016-04-19 18:54
_summoned_

agmapper
2016-04-19 18:54
wow! that was something.

ajturner
2016-04-19 18:55
wonders if realizes we are all just Bots

jgravois
2016-04-19 18:55
ask @mraad anything

ajturner
2016-04-19 18:55
please do

gisdev-km
2016-04-19 18:55
I invited him? he?s not here

dmfenton
2016-04-19 18:55
scott morehouse writes all the code

gisdev-km
2016-04-19 18:55
slack auto joins on invite

dmfenton
2016-04-19 18:55
the rest of us are very convincing bots

jgravois
2016-04-19 18:55
:frowning:

jgravois
2016-04-19 18:56
scott morehouse flys by me like a bat outta hell in his falcon when im pedaling to work

ajturner
2016-04-19 18:56
Scala vector tiles rendering & server (because we can?t get enough of saying _vector tiles_) https://github.com/mraad/vector-tiles + https://github.com/mraad/vector-tiles-boot

jgravois
2016-04-19 18:56
i dont know if this is helpful for anybody, but im certainly having a good time

flippmoke
2016-04-19 18:56
I am just Mapbox?s fork of cleverbot

gisdev-km
2016-04-19 18:56
Will ?vector tiles? or ?platform? win out as the UC buzzword this year? :simple_smile:

jgravois
2016-04-19 18:56
hope you are too


dmfenton
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dmfenton
2016-04-19 18:57
Mansour is one of the more advanced bots written by smorehouse

gisdev-km
2016-04-19 18:57
giving away all my ?secrets?. I just republish @mraad?s work as my own

ericbader
2016-04-19 18:57
Look at the hair on that dude

jgravois
2016-04-19 18:57
@mraad: is my hero (and the count from sesame street). i love him dearly

ajturner
2016-04-19 18:57
?fact new Esri engineers need to build their own car from scratch: https://www.flickr.com/photos/caseorganic/9244609083

mikedmapper
2016-04-19 18:57
where are all the devsummit session recordings? Couldn?t make it this year because :baby:

jgravois
2016-04-19 18:58
@mikedmapper: good question. they will be posted very very soon

gisdev-km
2016-04-19 18:58
@mikedmapper: some are published for free, some are for purchase.

ajturner
2016-04-19 18:58

jgravois
2016-04-19 18:58
50 free videos i believe

mikedmapper
2016-04-19 18:58
looking for the iOS videos that were going to be free

zia
2016-04-19 18:58
How good are ESRI products in image processing? Satellite images, especially SAR data?

jgravois
2016-04-19 18:58
let me try and dig up a link to the blog i saw the other day

dmfenton
2016-04-19 18:59
zia: super advanced and awesome

mikedmapper
2016-04-19 18:59
have to make due with my pirated ?road ahead? phone videos

ajturner
2016-04-19 18:59
@ziaI think it?s something we pride ourselves on


dmfenton
2016-04-19 18:59
YUGE improvements coming for large datasets with on-the-fly processing


agmapper
2016-04-19 19:00

jgravois
2016-04-19 19:00
feel free to hit me up on slack or twitter if i didnt answer your question or you want to talk about anything else and thanks so much for coming!

ajturner
2016-04-19 19:00
@agmapper++

gisdev-km
2016-04-19 19:00
Ok, we are at the hour mark! I would like to thank everyone for coming and a huge thank you to @ajturner and @jgravois. If @ajturner and @jgravois are willing to stick around for a few minutes to answer any questions, feel free to ask

zia
2016-04-19 19:00
thx

jgravois
2016-04-19 19:00
of course

mikedmapper
2016-04-19 19:00
thanks for doing this!

willcadell
2016-04-19 19:00
woot!

gisdev-km
2016-04-19 19:00
/points @jgravois +100 for being awesome

2016-04-19 19:00
gisdev-km has awarded @jgravois 100 points

gisdev-km
2016-04-19 19:00
/points @ajturner +100 for being awesome

2016-04-19 19:00
gisdev-km has awarded @ajturner 100 points

bddavidson
2016-04-19 19:01
Thanks gents!

julien
2016-04-19 19:01
Thanks guys

tmcgee
2016-04-19 19:01
@jgravois @ajturner thank you

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willcadell
2016-04-19 19:01
nice work !

ajturner
2016-04-19 19:01
Fun times - thanks for the questions

gisdev-km
2016-04-19 19:01
We will leave this channel up for a bit so everyone can read through it and then will archive it and post it for later.

ajturner
2016-04-19 19:01
we?re in # and other channels most days

ajturner
2016-04-19 19:01
see people at FOSS4G-NA in Raleigh in May?

geo-nick
2016-04-19 19:01
@zia: also join the imagery webinars coming up http://go.esri.com/imageryseries

jgravois
2016-04-19 19:01
i?ll be in Raleigh. and Tucson before

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2016-04-19 19:02
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jgravois
2016-04-19 19:02
and New England after?

dmfenton
2016-04-19 19:02
will be at FOSS4G to talk all things Koop

willcadell
2016-04-19 19:02
Raleigh? FOSS4G?

agmapper
2016-04-19 19:02
@zia The on the fly image processing saves time and $$ since you don't have to store and tile all the intermediate information products you might want to serve out. It is really powerful, really fast.

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zia
2016-04-19 19:03
@agmapper: thx. I will check

flippmoke
2016-04-19 19:04
@ajturner: will see you at FOSS4G

jgravois
2016-04-19 19:04
@flippmoke: please hit me up too. if theres anything i can do to help facilitate collaboration, id love to help.

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flippmoke
2016-04-19 19:07
@williamscraigm: are you one of the devs working on VTiles?

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jgravois
2016-04-19 19:13
@flippmoke: not sure where he went, but craig works on a whole bunch of different projects including our work to cook tiles in ArcGIS Pro

flippmoke
2016-04-19 19:14
@williamscraigm: hit me up in chat :simple_smile:

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williamscraigm
2016-04-19 20:08
@flippmoke: sorry went to lunch. I'm the product owner for VTs at Esri. Will hit you up on chat.

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