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The developer team of CitySourced demonstrates how citizens can report issues to their local government to contribute information, such as pot holes, via smart phones and Web-based applications. This free, downloadable app lets citizens use their iPhone to report the problem, or they can choose to report a problem using a browser. Sophisticated analysis can be performed with the collected data.

The City of Frisco, TX, GIS team showcases SAFER: Situational Awareness for Emergency Response, a first responder system. Susan Olson, GIS Manager and members of her team highlight the use of intelligent maps in public safety throughout city departments. Assistant Fire Chief Paul Siebert illustrates how the system is used during a simulated fire at a school, to identify where the fire lanes and hydrants are, handle evacuation planning, and identify hazardous materials inside the building.

Carlos Salman Gonzalez reflects on his past achievements and challenges he faced in GIS career. Mr. Salman Gonzalez is the founder and CEO of SIGSA, the Esri distributor in Mexico.

Gil Grosvenor, Board Chairman, National Geographic Society, talks about the National Geographic GeoMentor program. Bigfork High School graduated seniors Tia Bakker and Ernie Cottle, along with teacher Hans Bodenhamer, then demonstrate their efforts to conserve caves in Glacier National Park. They identified concerns such as graffiti and ecological factors such as cave fragility. They used their finding to make conservation recommendations to help the park protect the caves.

National Geographic Society Board Chairman Gil Grosvenor recognizes Dr. Roger Tomlinson for his inventiveness in providing humanity with the ability to understand the Earth in ways never before thought possible. The award is also given to Jack Dangermond for transforming the field of geography and bringing the use of geographic information to virtually every field of human endeavor and every corner of the globe.

Richard Saul Wurman, founder of TED, talks about the 19, 20, 21 vision. He is an author, architect, and urban planner. Wurman examines how cities organize themselves, finding patterns, and comparing them. Jon Kamen, Chairman and CEO of Radical Media gives several examples of different cities and their population density and land use patterns. He emphasizes the need for comparative analysis in order to be able to ask the right questions and manage change.

ArcGIS 10 is designed to be everywhere. You can use it to discover, create, manage, visualize, analyze, and collaborate. It opens what you create to everyone. Geographic knowledge is stored locally, in enterprise systems, or in the cloud. Intelligent maps are a focus of 10, taking models, workflows, and more, and embedding it in a map that becomes a shareable template of geographic knowledge. ArcGIS 10 simplifies GIS. It has hundreds of improvements and is a stronger scientific platform.

Content is a fundamental part of what Esri delivers. Some of the work is being done by Esri and some by the user community. The City of Charlotte, NC, explains how contributing to a community basemap benefits the organization as well as users. Bern Szukalski provides an overview of ArcGIS Online basemaps including World Topographic Map, World Street Map, and World Imagery. He shows how these and other basemaps can be accessed through the basemap gallery picker with ArcGIS Explorer Online.

ArcGIS for Server can be rented in the cloud to complement your configuration, providing a scalable infrastructure. Another version of the cloud is ArcGIS Online, a network of distributed services. See how to find content at ArcGIS.com. Demo highlights World Topographic Map and shows how layers can be added to create a new map. This new map is shared publicly with everyone and can be opened in the ArcGIS.com Viewer, ArcGIS Explorer Online, or ArcGIS for Desktop for a richer GIS experience.

Jack Dangermond highlights key initiatives at Esri. A new GIS Portal Web site helps users discuss problems and vote on where they think Esri should go in its development. Esri is extending mobile, desktop, and the cloud with other capabilities, such as local government and defense templates. Jack announces a new Social and Community Analysis initiative. He also talks about Technical Support, the global partner network, special relationships, and GIS in education, and conservation.

ArcGIS 10 is a system that can be used anytime anywhere – on desktop in the office, or anywhere in the field or through the cloud. The demo shows productivity enhancements in ArcGIS for Desktop such as direct access to ArcCatalog from within ArcMap, easier searching for content, and a new parcel toolar. Field staff can access a new Mobile Project Center that lets them download maps created in ArcGIS for Desktop, and web editing tools are now more intuitive and easy to use.

Bob Pool, GIS Manager at Clark County, Washington, shows how he automates a developer packet template using the new map scripting environment. Esri’s map scripting environment is incorporated with Python script so that developers can write and develop code and immediately see the results.

Imagery is an important component of ArcGIS 10. With the ArcGIS for Server Image extension, massive volumes of imagery files, such as satellite and aerial data, can now be accessed very fast. The demo shows how a seamless mosaic is rendered dynamically on the fly. Multiple sources a brought together and interpreted at the same time. Users can also now see changes over time by merging information from different timelines.

Demo shows how ArcGIS Network Analyst is used to solve a location-allocation problem for a city’s health care service. The goal is to limit patient’s travel time to 6 minutes and determine the impact of the addition of new clinic locations. Also see how new ArcLogistics Online is used to create optimal routes for a fleet of vans, and how ArcLogistics Navigator provides drivers with in-vehicle route directions.

Understand your community based on a particular location. Learn what’s the lifestyle, population, age, household income, and education level of a location. Compare this location with another location (San Diego vs Burlington, VT). Demo also shows ArcGIS for iOS accessing ArcGIS Online basemaps and maps authored by others. Get your maps out to a larger audience.