1. Virtual Earth and ESRI Integration
Tim Warr
Microsoft Mapping Technology Specialist

2. Agenda
• Virtual Earth
– The Data
– The APIs
– Is it GIS?
• ESRI and Microsoft
– Virtual Earth in ESRI
– ESRI in Virtual Earth
• Architectures
• Getting started
• Questions

3. Virtual Earth

5. Microsoft in the Geospatial Market
Data Acquisition ...
... Processing ...
... and Presentation

6. Virtual Earth - The Data

7. Virtual Earth

9. Virtual Earth

10. Virtual Earth

11. Virtual Earth

12. Virtual Earth

13. Virtual Earth

14. Virtual Earth

15. Virtual Earth

16. Virtual Earth - The APIs

17. Virtual Earth Platform

18. Working in a Team
...and many more

19. Is it GIS?

20. Is it GIS?
“GIS is a computer
system for
capturing, storing, che
cking, integrating, ma
nipulating, analysing
and displaying data
related to positions
on the Earth's
surface.”
© Stanford University the
Use best tool for the job...

21. ‘Strengths’ ‘Challenges’
• •
Web Scalability Editing
• •
Content Geo-processing
• •
Presentation Accuracy
• •
Usability Spatial Analysis
• •
Extensibility Complex vectors

22. ‘Strengths’ ‘Challenges’ (web)
• •
Editing Scalability
• •
Geo-processing Content
• •
Accuracy Presentation
• •
Spatial Analysis Usability
• •
Complex vectors Extensibility

23. Web Map GIS
vs.

24. So how do you get the best from both???

25. A long-term affair...
Microsoft's largest COM license customer is...

26. Silverlight – Mainstream Tech
http://resources.esri.com/help/9.3/arcgisserver/apis/silverlight/samples/start.htm

27. Integrating ESRI and Virtual Earth

28. Integration Options
1. Virtual Earth Data in ESRI
ArcMap
ArcGIS Server
2. ESRI data/tasks in Virtual Earth
ArcGIS Server JavaScript Extension

29. Virtual Earth in ESRI

30. New with ArcGIS 9.3.1
• Virtual Earth Maps and Imagery
– Fast
• Quickly start project
• Performance
– Up-to-date
– Excellent quality
– Out of the box (ArcGIS Online).
– Any ArcGIS Server app
• (JavaScript, Flex, and Silverlight).

31. ArcGIS 9.3.1 Desktop

32. ArcGIS 9.3.1 Server

33. Virtual Earth in ESRI - Limitations
• 9.3.1 !
• Raster data
– No identify
– No tracing/snapping
– No networks
Solution
• No Bird’s Eye
Use Virtual Earth APIs
• No 3D
• No Geocoding
• No Routing

34. ESRI in Virtual Earth

35. ESRI ArcGIS 9.3 - DriveTime
http://resources.esri.com/arcgisserver/apis/javascript/ve/

36. ESRI ArcGIS 9.3 - Profile
http://resources.esri.com/arcgisserver/apis/javascript/ve/

37. ArcGIS Geoprocessing in Virtual Earth
http://maps.esri.com/mashup/ve/defaultVE.htm

38. Solution Architectures

39. Web
User
Corp
User
Virtual Earth
ArcGIS Server
API
‘Power’
User
Virtual Earth
Data
Your GIS Data
ArcGIS
Desktop

40. Getting Started

41. $$$$?
How much do you think it costs?

42. $$$$?
ArcGIS Desktop 9.3.1
– Free (50000 transactions)
ArcGIS Server 9.3.1
– Free 90 day trail
– Annual Subscription
ArcGIS Explorer
– Free if user has Desktop license
– Free 90 trail
– Unlimited use subscription
See http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/whats-new/index.html

43. Virtual Earth in ESRI
Go to ArcGIS Online...

44. Virtual Earth – Evaluation
dev.live.com/virtualearth

45. Virtual Earth – Going Live
Contact:
– Your Microsoft LAR or
– Email mapemea@winse.microsoft.com

46. Recap...
• Virtual Earth
– The Data
– The APIs
– Is it GIS?
• ESRI and Microsoft
– Virtual Earth in ESRI
– ESRI in Virtual Earth
• Architectures
• Getting started
• Questions

47. blog.timwarr.net
V-tiwarr@microsoft.com