In the Business Analyst Web App, start by browsing the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World for information about homelessness. The homelessness information is based on a Point-in-Time count that summarizes sheltered and unsheltered homeless persons on a single night in January in 2019. Information about this program can be found on HUD Exchange. This layer is derived from the Continuum of Care (CoC) Program. This example will use the information about the homeless population that is publicly available in the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World. As I noted in my previous blog, information about homeless populations in the Unites States is sparse and information is not tabulated nationally for well known geographies likes Census Tracts or Counties. In order to highlight vulnerable populations, we want to examine the number of homeless individuals and the number of people living in shelters. This can be used as a model for adding other content from your own organization to create compelling and interactive infographics. In this follow-up blog, I am going to explain how I customized an infographic in the ArcGIS Business Analyst Web App with additional content from the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World. In my previous blog on this topic, I illustrated how an infographic about vulnerable populations, including information about homeless populations, can be used to plan for the impact in of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in the United States. Explore the full series by clicking the image above. You do require a subscription to ArcGIS Online (pricing info here) to be able to sign in but there is a trial version available.This blog is part of an eight-part series covering how to visualize COVID-19 impact with ArcGIS Business Analyst. Some of the functions are clunky and/or slow, but it is definitely great news and I can imagine how in few years this may become an essential tool for infographics designers to create and publish advanced data maps. It has been available for a while, and the first full version is slated for release in the second Quarter of 2017, with no specific date yet (it’s been delayed before). It’s then already arranged in layers and ready to edit and polish by manipulating colors, appearance and fonts with the usual Illustrator and Photoshop tools. Without leaving Illustrator and Photoshop you define the area extent, size and scale of the base map, then search for data map layers (street maps, political boundaries, terrain, satellite images, election data, demographic information, economic indicators, environmental, etc), and finally you add/download the map to your Adobe workspace. The partnership between ESRI and Adobe offers ArcGIS functions within Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop via an extension or plugin. Designers can access thousands of data-driven map layers inside the Adobe programs as vectors or raster files, and play with colors, layers and styles to customize the maps using the familiar tools of Illustrator and Photoshop.Ĭreating maps with the extension is fairly straightforward. With very, very few exceptions, those designers and graphics editors limit themselves to fairly basic mapping techniques that don’t take advantage of the power of GIS to uncover patterns through spatial analysis of large datasets. ![]() ![]() In this example we are pointing to ArcGIS Online so we are using. You can also change the default infographic in the app preferences. See the analysisJson object in the ReportPlayer doc for more options for specifying the area. The infographic template is set as the default and runs automatically from sites pop-up menus. In our sample, we will create a 3 mile ring around Esri’s headquarters in Redlands. The user decides what layers (which may come from government or private sources) are going to be combined in order to visualize, analyze, and interpret the data to show relationships, patterns, and trends. As I mentioned in a previous post, GIS packages such as ESRI’s ArcGIS are rarely used by designers or news infographics departments as they are expensive, difficult to learn specialized tools normally used by GIS analysts and cartographers. Specify an area in which to run the infographic for. GIS (Geographic Information System) software links location information in the form of databases with latitude and longitude coordinates to different types of information: demographic data to census tracts or divisions, election results to states, land use to natural or urban areas, etc. Design and communication professionals should be really excited about a recent development in mapping: ArcGIS maps for the Adobe Creative Cloud.
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