Adding content

- [Instructor] To recap, what we've done is we've set up our ArcGIS online organization, we've created a group, we've added a member to that group, and now we're going to add some data as content to our ArcGIS online organization. The first thing we need to do is make sure that you are signed in as your user one, which in my case, is Jane, so make sure that you are signed in as Jane, user one. And head over to the content tab. This is where you can start to populate your ArcGIS online organization with data. Now, click add item and there are a number of ways in which you can add items to your organization, from your computer, from a URL, from an application, or from a cloud drive. We're going to add content from our computer, so click from your computer and from the dialogue box, click choose file. Within your collaboration, infraworks, and ArcGIS folder, is a data folder, and within that folder, is a folder called for upload to ArcGIS online. So click on that and choose development outline.zip, hit open. And now it's going to ask you what the contents of this zip file are. If you drop down, you'll see that there are a number of things you can choose from, whether they're a cab drawing, or a map template, or geo database, or KML, or learning packages, numerous items. The shape file is probably the best known format for ArcGIS, for GIS itself really. But, notice that we're not just adding a shape file, a .shp, we're adding a zip file and this is the reason. If we had over to our Windows Explorer and I double click on the development outline zip, you'll see that within this zip package are one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, nine separate files. Now a shape file consists of between three, a minimum of three, up to nine different files. And even if we click on a .shp, ArcGIS online will not recognize it as a valid data source. So what we have to do is we have to package things up and we add that package to our ArcGIS online site. So again, it's going to ask us what the contents of this particular zip file are. So, shape file, geo database, those sorts of things. Leave the little checkbox that says publish this file as a hosted layer checked, we'll talk about this later in the video, and give it a title. We are going to change the name to BCP, Broadway Corridor Project, _development_outline. Next add some tags, and as I've said before, the more tags you have, the easier it will be for people who are searching for content within your organization to find items that are relevant to them. So for example, we might say Broadway Corridor, we've used this tag before, so we can just click on it. We probably haven't used other things such as outline, so that's new. We'll just type it in and hit enter, and we can continue to add tags as we see fit. We'll add one more that says design and then we'll hit add item. It will upload the item, it will publish it as a service, and it will take you to an overview page of that particular set of contents. So we'll see that we have BCP development outline. We can see who published it and it will create a service for us. Now this didn't take very long because it's simply an outline of what we want to do. Let's add something a little bit more complex. So again, we're going to go back to content. When we head back to my content tab, we'll notice that there are now two, for want of a better word, separate items, separate layers. The first is the original shape file of the development outline, the second is the hosted feature layer. And I mentioned we'll see what a feature layer is a little bit later on in this video. For now, let's add another set of content. So again, go to add item, from your computer, and this time, we are going to choose buildings. So click on buildings.zip, open that up. Again, it is a shape file, we're just going to leave the name as buildings and we can add some tags. So, Portland, these are building footprints. What else do they have, they have some height, we'll also add that it's part of the Broadway Corridor project, and once you're done with the tags, just hit add item. Now this item may take a little bit longer to upload simply because it consists of a couple of thousand individual footprints as opposed to just one outline, which was the Broadway Corridor development outline. So, once that's done, again we'll be taken to the overview page of the buildings, it will create a service for us, and it will give us the opportunity to either add a brief summary or edit the description, and edit the thumbnail as well. ArcGIS online does create a default thumbnail for us, however, if once the layer has changed, you want to create another thumbnail, all you have to do is click edit thumbnail and upload a new image of your buildings. On the right hand side, we have different ways of dealing with the data, including opening in a 2D map, or a 3D scene, so open in map view or open in scene view. Click open in scene viewer and the 3D scene window will be opened with the layer added to it. Here we are in a new scene, we have the layers, buildings. If we click on the legend at the right hand side, we can see that the buildings are these purple objects here. But, for right now, just click the ellipse at the right hand side of the building layer. Then click layer style. We want to choose a main attribute to visualize and we want to choose building use. Now this gives us an idea of how each building is used, so we have multifamily residential, we have industrial, we have single family residential, and there are all colored up according to a legend. The next thing we can do is we can choose a drawing style. We can either have a flat 2D map, we don't want that because scenes are 3D, we want 3D types, so click select on 3D types. And then click again to give you your options. Now what you can do is you can say these polygons all have height and we can specify an attribute within the attribute table to use as the height attribute. For this time, it is the roof elevation, so click roof elevation as the height field and click feet as the units. If it already says feet here, then just leave it as it is. It may or may not depending on how you set things up at the beginning of your ArcGIS online trial. For the elevation mode, just leave it on the ground. So on the ground is the same as basically draping it across a surface. So we don't have it relative to a scene or at an absolute height, it's just going to be wherever the ground is. We can now add labels or edges, which we're not going to do right now, but they are there in case you need them. And then click done. If you use your right mouse button right now and navigate around your view window, you can see that we have our 3D buildings, they've been elevated by height, and they've been colored by their building use. Now what we can do is we can save this scene so that other people within the organization can use it. So once you're done, click done at the left hand side over here and now we want to save the scene, so click save scene and call this Surrounding Buildings. Give it at least one tag, so we'll have building footprints, we could have Broadway Corridor, we could have height, and just click save. Your scene will have been successfully saved to my content, which is Jane's content, so she's the one who created the scene and when she goes back to her content, it will be there. So, what you can is you can go on the left hand side, use the home button to give you the drop down and click content. This will take you to the content tab of the organization and you'll notice that things have changed again. Not only are the development outlines and buildings there, but there are also the surrounding buildings web scene. Notice that it's a web scene, rather than a feature layer, or a shape file. I promised that we'd talk about what a hosted feature layer is and this is a manner in which you can expose vector data, so points, lines, polygons, et cetera, for viewing and querying and editing on the web without people having to have a desktop GIS to use the native files. So it's far more useful to people without ArcGIS or QGIS or something like that on their PC. So, with a shape file, whoever wants to use that will need some piece of software in order to get to it. With a hosted feature layer, you can expose it to people either inside or outside your organization and they can query, they can edit, they can use it within multiple applications without the need for specialized desktop software. The next thing we need to do is update the sharing privileges for our data sets.