A Fun Small Project about ESRI Canada

How GIS software uses other software to gather and display spatial info

I put this video together that shows the spatial distribution of ESRI Canada offices spanning from Vancouver, BC to St. John's, Nova Scotia.


I apologize for the lack of subtitle- 
* Video Song: By Moby called Extreme Ways and DJ Tiesto Instrumental



* The vid begins in Google Maps- to access Latitude and Longitude data for each ESRI office
* That info is entered into an MS Excel Spreadsheet along with other data fields. Ie. Address
* I show the final product of what we will end up with - then start a new project from scratch
* In ArcMap 10, I used a file geodatabase, and in it a point data feature class was created to hold the attribute data for all the ESRI offices (point data) locations
* The data from the MS Excel table is loaded into the feature class and the points are displayed in the data frame window of ArcMap 10 after I display using XY data. 


          -usually I would include domains, datasets and subtypes where applicable, but they are not included for the purpose of demo simplicity.


* Once the points are visible on the map, ESRI's basemap bing imagery is loaded to obtain a spatial reference for the point data.
* This gathered information is applicable in many cases:
- Potential employees or clients seeking knowledge of ESRI office locations
- ESRI's marketing ability to spatially assess their national reach
- With an increased attribute catalog more data can be used to relate/ compare spatial relationships
- A Buffer/Query can be created to assess distance of offices in Canada- as ESRI grows GIS can facilitate growth spatially from a distance. 

The following map displays the location of ESRI Canada's Toronto location in ArcMap 10. However, as a printed map it can only provide so much info- in geospatial software I can build on the analyses.

* With increased data comes increased information- and this is how I found ESRI's ArcMap 10 and the use of MS Excel and Google Earth to help in my pursuit of gathering info on ESRI Canada.