Introduction to ArcGIS Schematics

I'm addicts and I want to welcome you all to today's live training seminar the topic of today's seminar is an introduction to ArcGIS schematics the format for the seminar will be to cover a series of three topics each topic will be followed by a software demonstration then we'll conduct a review of the material and wrap-up each topic with a Q&A session from your own questions that you send in the topics for today will be to go over an overview of the product so that we all have a baseline and then we'll delve into both some physical Network applications of the product and also some other applications beyond the physical networks so before we get too far into this I want to kind of establish a base definition for what we think of when we are speaking about schematics here at ESRI we have about three different definitions that the product all applies to one is just a simplified representation of an object or a set of objects where we're trying to understand the structure of the elements and how they operate so here in this diagram we have some electrical features here we have some outside plant features coming in to an inside plant perhaps a substation and we can see from the symbols here our switch positions and based on the symbology of a depiction of the switches we can get an understanding of how electricity flows through the substation so here we have a switch that's open the electricity will stop here we have some closed switches through which the electricity will flow we also think of schematics as a drawing or diagram representing a set of relationships here we've abstracted the physical network and reduced it so that we can very simply see the interdependencies between our hospitals and our electrical network substations so we've reduced a lot of the intervening elements that are in place in the field our switches and transformers to create a very simplified representation that allows us to understand the relationships between these features so if I were to have an outage at a substation I could very quickly see what hospitals might potentially be affected schematic sorry is also really just a way to represent any type of network or diagram in a symbolic system it's very much about visualization and another strength of the product is that it frees us from the scaling constraints that are traditionally imposed upon us by virtue of the GIS and a map based placement of features so oftentimes well almost always in the GIS features are placed at their physical location and oftentimes co-located elements are placed on top of one another or in very close proximity and this makes it very difficult to look at the connectivity of the elements while it's obviously important for the accuracy of your data having schematics allows extended visualization capabilities that you wouldn't otherwise have so that you can see the interdependencies among elements here I'm looking at resource dependencies for flights so my cabin crew schedule my cockpit crew and I can see how a delay in one flight can affect my other flights throughout the day so now that we've kind of established that definition I want to explore what is ArcGIS schematics and give you an overview of that it's obviously an ArcGIS desktop extension it's packaged with arcgis desktop and so you install it with the same CD through which you install any of the other extensions you activate the functionality of the extension by selecting the extension from the Tools menu in our catalog or arcmap and it's really for use in any applications concerned with connectivity relationships or inter dependency among elements and the graphics here show the toolbars that are available for use with an arcmap to create edit and save your diagrams some examples of where ArcGIS schematics is useful and we're going to explore this in more detail but just briefly traditional physical Network applications and also more abstract things like social networks or supply chain analyses the graphic here shows a personal geodatabase containing a schematic data set the schematic data set is stored within a personal geodatabase or your enterprise ste database and the documents themselves are stored underneath the schematic data set so arcmap is not only the primary interface for interacting with your map data but it's also the primary interface for acting interacting with your schematic diagrams and by having the same application be the front-end for managing those we have the ability to unite the logical and physical views we also have the ability to synchronize and have common symbology between our schematic diagrams and our map documents and that's fully configurable if you have specific diagram standards and symbol standards for your schematics that are different from your map document that's fine too and that can be configured but it makes it very easy to identify elements between the two diagrams and to import the symbols and share the symbols we can also synchronize selection so I can select some elements in my map and push it to the select to the schematic and obviously I can do the inverse as well we also edit and save diagrams from within arcmap and last but really not least since we are using arcmap we have at our fingertips the full analysis capabilities of the GIS that we can use to identify schematic elements for the purposes of synchronizing selection sets or for the purposes of defining the contents of the diagrams themselves so I can use my utility network traces I can use of course the Select by location select by attribute and any geoprocessing functions that I perhaps I may have written to identify and select features there's a number of advantages that the ArcGIS schematics extension offers over what we consider the more traditional applications or environments for maintaining schematic diagrams those traditional systems could be anything from hand-drawn drafted diagrams to your CAD systems or perhaps Microsoft Visio or any number of other applications you might use to edit schematics our GIS schematics offers an advantage in that the geographic and schematic data are stored within the same relational database management system and an extension of this advantage is that you can edit the data once within your geo database and schematics kanabi can automatically be updated to reflect that edit so this cuts down on the opportunity for you to introduce other errors because you have to perform the edit again it also can greatly reduce the backlog if you have schematic documents which are out of sync with your map or vice versa both systems really offer a full suite of layout refinement tools we have what we call algorithms in arcmap that automate a lot of the white space management and then of course there's also a suite of tools that you can use to align features or to move individual features manually to place them in your schematic diagram and once you've placed them you can save the diagram and you don't have to do it again we also as we showed in arcmap have the spatial views and the schematic views integrated into one single application so we can do things like identify and perform selection sets and push those selection sets between the two views and we also have the ability to simultaneously access multiple databases to define the contents of our schematic diagrams so of course we can consume data from our GIS database from the geo database but we can also pull in data from third-party systems into one single schematic diagram to integrate them into a common view so schematics is really concerned with connectivity it's it's really about showing relationships and interdependencies among elements and so we have a number of options by which we can derive connectivity obviously if you store your physical data inside a geo database and you've built the geometric network for that data we can consume the topological coincidence of the logical tables behind the geometric network to derive connectivity for your schematic diagram we can also derive connectivity from to and from attributions and in tabular data and of course if you have a third party system with perhaps its own API or a complex series of tables we can write custom code to derive to from connectivity which can then be consumed by our GIS schematics and lastly at the next release of ArcGIS schematics which is 9.2 will be able to consume network analyst route analysis layers a little bit about configuration of schematics I've mentioned that you know you can configure your symbols you also use an application called ArcGIS schematics designer which is a standalone application it's for use by administration level users this isn't a typical end user application you use it kind of as a one-off at the beginning of your schematics deployment and you use it to define the various diagram types that will be available to users in your organization and you also use it to define the symbology of your elements the labels of your elements and the contents of the various diagrams and that application is accessed by clicking on the geo database and the schematic data set within the geo database from our catalog and Rick is going to show us a little bit of that in the next demo so just to stress this and cover it in a slightly different manner as I said and as we saw in that arc catalog graphic we have our geo database the schematic data set is stored within the geo database and the schematic data set itself stores the configuration settings that we define with ArcGIS schematics designer and it also stores the schematic diagrams themselves that we generate from within arcmap and of course the ArcGIS schematics extension and that functionality is embedded within the arcmap application and finally as I mentioned before I don't want you to lose sight of the fact that we have the ability to pull in data from other databases so not only can we consume data from the geo database but if you have tabular data or a spatial data and other Thums we can also consume that data so that wraps up this topic I'm going to go ahead and turn this over to Rick for a software demonstration thanks will so during this part of the software demonstration hopefully I'm going to touch upon all of the key points that we'll just talked about and showed you in the slide part of the presentation I'm going to start off by looking at our catalog here what we're gonna do is go through the initial setup configuration of creating one of these schematic data sets all the way down to using arcmap to select some data and generate a schematic diagram so I want to show you the whole process from start to finish to start with when you would when you would be getting started the first time you install schematics on a machine the first thing that you need to do in both arcmap and in our catalog is enable the extension to do that you go to the Tools menu click the extension menu item that brings up a dialog box showing you all of the installed extensions so if you installed schematics that shows up in the list simply check the box and click close what that does is gathers a license for schematics and then enables the the various toolbars that you use to create your schematic diagrams and work with schematic data sets so for this first demonstration we're going to work with some data that is inside a geometric network so if I open up my minor ville electric map document here the best thing to do if you're using a geometric network is to create a map document and use arcmap to set up the symbology exactly the way you'd like to see this inside your schematic diagrams now note that that can be edited later on if you choose to have different symbology in the map than in your diagrams but this just gives us a good starting point so I have this map document all my symbology is configured next thing I need to do is either create add a database or using use an existing database to store new schematic data set in this case I'm going to go ahead and create a new personal geodatabase as we'll mentioned this could be a personal geodatabase it could be an SD e database or also at 9.2 we're introducing the new concept of a file geodatabase once you have your new database or an existing database you right-click and say new schematic data set once you have your new schematic data set you right click and choose to edit the project this opens up the schematic designer application for those of you watching this splash screen here you'll note that I am running version 9.2 of the software I will try and point out throughout this what the differences are in 9 1 and 92 but for the most part everything that you'll see today during these demonstrations is available in either 9.1 or 9.2 so now I'm inside my schematic designer application again - to follow on with what we'll mention this is an admin type of tool this is used one time to configure the schematic application and then your end users would never be in here they would use arcmap so you start off by creating a diagram type think of this as just a template for the type of diagrams you want to see inside your company for example in a utility type of company maybe you have transmission diagrams distribution diagrams inside plant diagrams those are all specific types of diagrams or now I'm just going to call this one default and say ok the only thing you would really need to do with your diagram type is maybe modify the builder or parameters the standard builder that you see over here in the schematic builder entry that is used for geometric networks if you open that up you'll see custom query based builder you would use this one if you're going to use tabular data that you're going to query directly and then also at 9.2 we have added this network data set builder and we'll give you a demonstration of that one here the next in the next round of demonstrations some of the parameters for the standard builder you can optionally check the box to initialize linked vertices what that means is when the diagram is generated the links on the diagram will look exactly like the features did inside of arcmap by default we do not check that box so the links are simplified as straight lines basically as the crow flies between the next two nodes that they connect we're going to leave that at it as is now you just need to tell the system what feature classes are going to be represented in the diagram type again since we're using a geometric network we have already configured a map document so we're simply going to use the tool to point to that map document the system now reads through the map document tries to find the geometric Network automatically highlights and selects the different feature classes that are part of the geometric Network we just say ok and then we hit the Save button what we have done here is created an element type in this designer tree view to represent every one of the feature classes we've pulled over the symbology automatically and we could use this tool to configure labeling modify symbology etc this save process is now taking all of this configuration information and storing it inside the schematic data set inside of our geo database so we're done with our configuration part of the work now all we need to do is open up our document select some data and generate a diagram as will point it out we can use all the power of arcmap to do that selection we could do a select by location we could do a select by attributes we could do a manual selection or in the case of a geometric Network we could also decide to run a trace for this demonstration I'm just simply going to manually select some areas here around this greeley substation you can see it selected a few features now I just click the generate schematic diagram button the user needs to point to a particular schematic data set remember you could have more than one schematic data set per database or or you might have databases in different locations within your company so the user just needs to know which one to point to here's the new personal geodatabase we created here's our new schematic data set the user needs to pick a diagram type remember you could have more than one diagram type to represent the different the different templates in this case we only configured one so that's my only option I give this diagram a name and I say okay schematics now reads the selection and the connectivity from the geometric Network and presents us with a new diagram in its own data frame so if we zoom in here a little bit on this diagram and the center part of it we can reduce some symbol sizes a little bit make things more readable at this point we could go ahead and take this schematic layer and drag it up and drop it right in with our geography data frame so now you're seeing a schematic diagram to look directly on top of the geography here you can see what I was talking about with the use linked vertices notice that the schematic elements here are just straight lines in this representation between the next pieces of our the next features instead of the way they were digitized in the map that's the default behavior and again is just that simple configuration check box I'm gonna go ahead and move this diagram back down into its own data frame and switch back to it once you have a schematic diagram now you are in a free-form environment you can move and manipulate all of the elements on the diagram all that you would like and there will it will not impact the underlying feature data so really is a free-form environment for you to do some diagramming in for example I might decide to use the schematic Network analysts toolbar maybe I just want to simplify this diagram to make it more readable I can select a node tell schematics to find everything connected to it and now I might use one of the many algorithms that are provided out of the box with schematics for example smart tree all the algorithms have properties pages you can modify some of the some of the configuration that it will impact the out the output of the algorithm so here I want to just leave it at default I'm gonna go from left to right on the screen when I say okay you can see a nice simplified representation there I'm going to do this a couple more times just to simplify the diagram this time I'm going to go top to bottom and now I'm going to come over here and I'll do left to right twice and then that's about all we'll do or will go right to left actually here we'll do that two times and now if i zoom in here a little bit more you see a much more simplified representation of that network so maybe this makes it easier for us to understand what's going on again I could go ahead and drag and drop this on to the geography and change over there doesn't make as much sense this time because I've completely modified the spatial relationships here but just to show you that it is a layer in the map and you can place it on the base map at any point in time so we'll move it back some other things that you might want to do inside of or using the schematics extension maybe you want to just rotate part of a tree around so for example I could select a node I can select a link that locks the rest of the chain and then from my editor menu I've got lots of functions rotate tree being one of those I'll click it twice and now we've rotated that branch around 90 degrees I could just use this tool to manually move some nodes so I grab things and just move them where I want them now you'll notice they're not nice and lined up if I want to line things up I can go ahead and select a couple of nodes use our align horizontally function select the next nodes and align these vertically and now we've got a nice clean looking diagram however now I've got a big gap between some of the the elements that are showing on the diagram another algorithm that you might want to run is our linear dispatch algorithm this algorithm just tries to analyze the link and automatically move the nodes so that there's equal space between the nodes so when I run it now you see the end result where we've met where we've moved the nodes to equally spaced things along that link I could undo go back to where it was or redo and go back to the algorithm I can use the identify tool here in arcmap directly on a schematic diagram what I end up seeing at the top level is a little bit of information about the schematic element itself and then if I go underneath it now I'm actually looking at some of the information from the feature in that feature class other things you might find interesting here which we'll talked about is the ability to select some items in a schematic diagram and push those over to the map so even though you've changed where things are located you always can reference back to the real world features so I click the propagate to map button and then when I go back to my geographic data frame you can now see the selection the selected items that I just had in my schematic diagram optionally I could go ahead and select some items over in the map and choose to push it the other direction now when I go back to my diagram we've not only highlighted but also zoomed in to the location of those elements on my schematic diagram so you always have that connectivity between things now I'll save that diagram and we'll go take a look back in our catalog now you'll notice that you see this new default diagram that we created showing up I can actually select it and preview that diagram in our catalog this is also where I would delete a diagram if I wanted to delete it other things that a company might want to do here is optionally create schematic folders again it is optional you can nest these as deep as you want just think about this like Windows Explorer you want to just modify the location of your files on your hard drive that's basically what this is doing so I can drag and drop my diagram into a different folder and now I've changed the location of it inside of our catalog and with that I'm going to turn it back over to will thanks Rick so I just wanted to review the topics from that last subject we established a definition for schematics basically drawings that are stressing the connectivity and the relationship of elements and which are in a scale-free environment that isn't necessarily tied to the geographic features we looked at some of the ways that schematics is integrated in arcmap and I think Rick's demos was an effective presentation of that and we discussed some of the advantages of ArcGIS schematics over traditional CAD systems we also looked at the various data source options available to us geometric networks - from attribution or custom code against a third party API to derive connectivity information and we also looked at the schematic designer interface and the architecture whereby you edit your configuration of your schematic data set with designer and it's available within the geo database and then consumed by the schematics extension from within arcmap so I'm going to go ahead and take some of your questions actually this one might be a good one for Rick I'll take a crack at it but mark and Toronto is asked do you know of any issues related to creating a schematic from an arc FM's set of features arc afem for those of you who don't know is a product from minor and minor one of our business partners in the utility space and they do use custom feature classes but we have done quite a bit of work with them and I'm not aware of any issues that we've encountered with using their features in creating schematics Rick do you have anything to add to that Marc the only thing that I would add here is that oftentimes in map documents that I've seen coming from minor and minor data the same feature class is represented multiple times with definition queries on those different layers schematics doesn't really like that when it's importing the symbology just that first time so when you're when you're doing that initial configuration you saw me do its best to just have the layer represented one time set the symbology import it into schematics then after that your user can have the layer multiple times with definition queries etc and generate diagrams and everything is fun okay Blaine from Tempe Arizona would like to know if a schematic data set can be exported as a shapefile if it can and it can also be exported as a set of feature classes in a geodatabase which leads me to a question from Rebecca and Charlotte's bill that says can schematic diagrams be exported to AutoCAD the diagrams can be exported to a shapefile or feature class and then you're welcome to use any of the tools in our tool box or perhaps the data interoperability extension to export that to AutoCAD or a CAD diagrams I think we're going to move on to the next topic and the interest of time but we will come back to question and answers at the end about each topic and I'll try and get to some more questions so our second topic today is concerned with looking at some physical Network applications of ArcGIS schematics this schematics really has utility networks in its its genes it was first developed for telco application and utility markets are very large users of schematic diagrams they have a number of various diagram types that they use in their day-to-day activities and that really goes across the board from energy space to telecommunications oil and gas and water supply and wastewater but basically the thing that these elements all have in common these industries all have in common is that they're dealing with the physical infrastructure elements that are out in the field that keep the lights on and deliver the commodities that we use in our day-to-day life and very concerned with physical connectivity of real world features obviously the ability to generate Network diagrams from schematics is a the most compelling reason to use schematics for utility applications also if you do have the arc FM minor minor product or perhaps telcordia x' network engineer product or any of our other business partners products in the utility space these applications have very demise then fit for purpose trace routines for the various application spaces and we can consume those trace results so you can perform these very advanced trace analyses to derive a selection set and then use schematics to consume that selection set to create schematic diagrams also the ability as Rick showed to create and overlay geo schematic diagrams on top of our underlying base map features is very useful and something that Rick is going to show us in the next demo is the ability to trace and visualize inside plant features so I can step from my physical network connectivity as derived from my geometric Network where the connectivity is based on topological coincidence and then step into perhaps connectivity that's derived from - from attribution and tables and then step back into my physical network also the ability to integrate with SCADA systems is a compelling reason to use our GIS schematics SCADA stands for supervisory control and data acquisition for those of you who aren't in this market space and it's basically systems that fryer alarms and monitor the health of network the network and various metrics on field equipment and allows for control remote control from a command center so perhaps in this diagram we can see that a switch position the diagram has been refreshed to reflect pretty much in real time a change in the switch position from open position to a closed position and lastly looking at cyber networks and how does physical networks and physical redundancy compare with the logical redundancy that we may have built into our communications networks schematics is also very useful in transportation markets and transportation shares in common that physical built real-world structure and physical plant really that utilities markets have and applications for schematics branches across really any of the transportation domains that you might think of everything from logistics and shipping to commercial or municipal raise private and public bus companies Turnpike authorities in the airline industry some common applications for schematics in the transportation industry are to generate straight line diagrams or oftentimes five-mile diagrams as a standard in the rail industry if you're familiar with the London Tube map for example or a standard metro map you can consume your physical plant assets or physical network features and create straight line diagrams from those features you could also use it to update and create switching plans or generate rail yard diagrams and as Rick is also going to show in the next demo we can consume Network data set analyses so if you perform a multi modal trace perhaps with Network Analyst we can take those data set features and create a schematic diagram so I'm going to go ahead and turn it over to Rick and he'll show us some of the topics that I just covered thanks will so at the beginning of this demonstration we're going to take a look at a network data set so the network data set we're looking at here comes to us from Paris it shows their metro system as well as the streets inside of Paris I'm going to be using the network analyst extension to solve a route so you you're able to place some points on the map and solve a route between those points for those of you not familiar with the network analyst extension or that would like more information you can go to this training website where you went today to view this one go to the archives and you will be able to find a recorded training session from the network analyst extension team what I need to do here is go to the Network analyst toolbar create a new route then you can go to that specific route and modify symbology or a few other things the only thing I'm going to do on the route is go into the properties and turn on the start time attribute I'm going to be using this as a label for my schematic diagrams now I use the tools to go ahead and plot out some sort of a route through this network let's just add three items here then we tell the system to solve that route network analyst does its thing to go ahead and find the the path between all of the points I added at that point it's similar to what you saw me doing the last demonstration I click generate schematic diagram I need to point to the schematic data set that was set up for the network analyst builder so here you can see I'm pointing to a network analyst analysis MDB file again optionally pick a diagram type it's a little different than the form you saw the last time if I had more than one route or more than one type of analysis from the network analyst extension I would be able to pick that particular layer in this drop-down then I simply give it a name just like I did before and generate the diagram the only thing that we've modified here is we've used rules inside of the schematics designer application to simplify the network a little bit we've modified what we call net junctions along this route so now I've got a nice simple little diagram I could drag this and lay it on top of the base map it looks exactly like the route that was generated by the result set from Network analyst I might now choose to do something like maybe reduce the vertices that straightens the line between these nodes I could undo that if I want to keep it exactly the way it looked from from the route itself next thing I'll do is generate a diagram from that same route except this time I'm going to use another diagram type that I have configured here the only difference with this diagram type is that I have automatically applied the hierarchical smart tree algorithm that we used in the last demonstration and it's set to go from top to bottom so when I create this diagram we end up with a nice little top-down diagram if I increase my label size here a little bit you can see it quite a bit of a difference here so here at this point maybe we want to gem over to the layout view inside of arcmap and move a few things around here so that we can take a look at all three representations at the same time so that's a pretty powerful feature with arcmap and with with the use of arcgis schematics so in this particular case we have the physical geography and the route we have a schematic representation of that exact route and then we have a pure schematic representation with a straight line diagram here alright now we're going to go back over to our Brazil sample and we're going to look at the concept of inside plant diagrams so to start with I'm going to open up this this my nerville database and talk a little bit about these tables you see with a prefix of ISP this stands for inside plant but before I dig into that I do want to point out that this particular piece of this demonstration is using a utility type of example but this this example could be anything right if you have tabular data and can tell schematics how to connect from one thing to another thing you can generate diagrams from it so for example it could be simply the org chart for your company if you can show me data that that tells me that the president is connected to the vice president vice-president to upper management all the way on down we can generate a diagram for that maybe it's tracking records for animal movements between ranches or tree trimming applications so on and so forth any type of tabular data can be used so real quick here we've got some nodes and we've got some linked tables with the node tables nothing really exciting here except for the facility ID you have to have a unique identifier for the node and in this case we need to know which substation that node belongs inside the the main part of the application when you're doing these custom query is the connectivity so in this example I'm using the busbar link table and we have two specific attributes configured in this example and that is my from equipment facility ID and my to equipment facility ID so for this first record for example I can see that this link connects from Junction 0 0 0 1 over to dynamic protective device number five we also in this table know that it belongs inside the Greely substation so from this type of tabular data with explicit attributes for connectivity I can generate a diagram so if we flip over to the my nerville map document we'll get rid of the last diagram that we created and I'm going to open an existing diagram from the data we were just looking at its my internal diagram for Greeley so what the system does here is read those read the connectivity from those tables and represent it now I've already used the schematic tools and modified this move things where I wanted it that those tables if you noticed did not have a shape field in them they're non its non spatial data so when I originally create this diagram the nodes are sort of randomly placed I use the tools to move them where I want to at that point I could go ahead and lay this on top of my geographic data frame and now I can actually see my schematic diagram directly on top of the base map the reason I can do that is I use the schematic tools to move all of the nodes from this diagram from the non spatial data and place them well I was on top of this base map so it really makes it look like the non spatial and the spatial data are all connected together I'm going to open up one more diagram from the geometric Network here and this one is a switching diagram for all of the feeders that come out of the Greeley substation this particular diagram has a bunch of node reductions done to it so we greatly simplified this and then we applied those smart tree algorithms these links might have hundreds of features in real life but we've simplified it down to just let you see the switches and the dynamic protective devices I'm going to go ahead and take my Greely drawing that we just looked at and add it to the same data frame so now we're looking at an example of non spatial and spatial data together at the same time up until now we've looked at all configuration quickly I'll show you some customization something you might want to do is set up some tracing that allows you to go between the physical geography and this non spatial tabular data so for example I can tell the system to run a trace you can see it went from the outside into the inside it did stop however if we jump in and take a look at the reason for that you'll notice that it hit a switch that was that was set into a position that that electricity could not continue through it so another piece of customization that I've added here is to allow the user to actually modify the position of one of those switches updates the record in the database so now if we step back and run that trace one more time from the same location we should see a much different result so here you can see it made it through the internal non spatial data and then back out into the spatial data and with that I'm gonna go ahead and turn it back over to will okay thanks for it so I hope Brix demos and material from the previous section gave you a good overview of utility applications and transportation applications of the schematics product this is kind of really as I said what it was built for in the first place and the next topic will explore some novel applications of the product but I want to take a couple of your questions first Allison from Tacoma would like to know if table relationships can be used with schematics yes they can actually we can consume relationship classes with custom rules in schematics to pull in features that are related to say our geometric network features or two elements which we already have in our schematic diagram and actually create a visual representation of that relationship with a link a bill from San Francisco's also asked what license level is needed for ArcGIS schematics ArcGIS schematics is licensed as an extension it's pricing is consistent with the other extensions however any user that has the extension installed has the ability to view diagrams without actually having a license of the product so in this scenario you might want to buy a limited set of licenses for some people in your organization who will be responsible for creating and updating and saving the diagrams but then you might make those diagrams available to a much wider audience of standard arcgis users and the schematics functional functionality is also available at the ArcView art editor and argument for licensing levels but of course you're subject to some of the other restrictions about geometric networks and things like that that you can do at those licensing levels so I'm going to go ahead and move on to the next topic in the interest of time and we'll take some more questions at the end all right so after we've looked at those physical plant and physical network applications I want to look at some other applications for the product there's a number of them beyond the utilities and transportation space and I kind of think of these as the non-traditional applications although they're becoming more and more mainstream and you're seeing more and more of them all the time schematics really at its heart offers us the ability to represent elements and how they're related and those elements can be spatial as we've seen or they can be a spatial objects this really extends the power of arcgis which kind of heretofore has been very concerned with physical assets and location of elements in the real world and real world features we can use schematics to depict flow also through non-physical networks by a non physical network I mean not a pipe that you can reach out and touch or a wire that you can reach out and touch but a social network perhaps or a financial transaction a much more abstract network we can look at abstract and indirect relationships between elements oftentimes this information is buried within a database and it's not obvious just by looking at tables but by configuring schematics to create a visual representation of that it makes the data much more palatable and we have a much more much greater ability to understand the data we can also look at inter dependencies among elements and by looking at the inter dependencies we can also identify hubs and points of weakness in our network where we might need to strengthen the network some of these a spatial things just to put it in perspective and give you a better understanding of that might be for example a plot or an ideology that's not a physical thing that you would ever put on a map but it might be useful to have a visual representation of that and tie it to other a spatial features or to your physical plant or physical features there's a lot of applications for schematics in the health and agricultural fields and that includes really any of the markets farming ranching epidemiology down to food packing and distribution this particular application shows animals traveling between ranches to distribution plants and you could use this kind of an application to track diseases or to track the animals themselves if you had an outbreak of a particular disease and needed to do a product recall or track animals that have potentially been affected you could use schematics to help you in that analysis here I'm talking about food supply chains but it doesn't take much leap of Internet the imagination to see how this could just be widget X and would it be and where are my suppliers for those elements and perhaps my supply chain is disrupted where are my other suppliers how can I get widget X quicker so that I can continue on with my manufacturing perhaps the intelligence and criminology markets are also big consumers of schematic products and schematic visualization capabilities and that really crosses over therm defense to Homeland Security and also to law enforcement and rip is going to give us a demo of this but there was a number of applications the ability to visualize social networks as I as I mentioned be they physical uh terrorist or criminal criminal networks the ability to track financial transactions and how money moves across borders perhaps looking at money laundering schemes and trying to figure out how money is being laundered also looking at the flow of communication and information or ideas among groups and among individuals and in a homeland security application following how critical infrastructure can be protected so we had a simplified presentation of that earlier but really we're looking at this is an electrical feature and these are water features we're looking at an outage in my electrical network affecting the delivery of power to water features which then affect whether or not water is delivered to critical assets and critical infrastructure like my hospitals for example and we're simplifying this quite extensively through custom configuration of the schematics product to remove the clutter really and get to the heart of the matter and we can also use schematics to manage the event response so what are the capabilities that I need to respond to an event to a homeland security threat where are the assets that I need to respond to that event the event and how do I deploy them and what's the command and control structure for deploying those assets out into the field to respond to the event so I'm going to go ahead and turn this over to Rick for our last demonstration of the day and then we'll come up with some questions for you all right so for our last demonstration here it's going to be a little bit different than the other demonstrations that we've been looking at up to this point up to this point we have been looking at physical networks we looked at the standard builder diagrams we looked at custom query types of diagrams in this particular example we are going to take a look at something that we're prototyping here on the 9.2 version called the social network analyst in this particular prototype what we wanted to do was sort of simulate an environment like you would see for those of you in the US on a TV show like crime-scene investigators where you see him use a whiteboard they put a bunch of pictures up they draw lines with chalk between things trying to create relationships to solve a problem up until this point all the demonstrations that I've shown you schematics was truly just a consumer of data that already existed in this particular example we're going to use schematics to generate new data that we're going to visualize so here I've got this new little social Network Analyst toolbar the user can bring up these social network social network symbols here they can pick between nodes and links we've set up for this example we've got a couple of different types of links people organizations events material and it just filters the types of symbols and in the same thing down on the links so really all the user needs to do here is select a particular node and click on the map to draw it so we already have a little bit of a scenario going here let me turn on some labels and you'll see that we have mr. Jones he was robbed this triangle is our robbery event and we also can see here that we found a gun at that particular robbery so I'm going to expand on this just a little bit I'm going to add a new suspect so I click the suspect node and then I simply click on the map I'm presented with an object editor and with this object editor I can add as much or as little information as I want we could reverse geocode if you're using this diagram on top of a base map you could reverse geocode the location the user clicked on or as the user starts typing in enough information if the system feels that it can reverse geocode you can go ahead and reverse geocode the main thing that you would want to do for this prototype is at least put in some sort of a name and this is used for that label so I'm going to put in criminal and say accept and now we see this new node one thing to note any of the elements you see on here with a red outline around them just means that they were not geo coded there's no red outline means that it was geocoded for the links I'll show you the difference in a minute if it's a solid link means that this is a confirmed linkage if it's a dashed link means that it is not confirmed so now I'm going to go ahead and just use the create link tool I select a particular node and then I start to drag and just try to connect whatever I need to so here we'll go ahead and connect this criminal to the gun we get another little editor you notice when I pick criminal to weapon I get two options for the type of link this criminal either owns or uses that weapon here I can check the confirmed confirm link if I don't confirm it it's dashed I can change the date and I can put some sort of a description that will be used for the label so when I say ok here now we get the dashed link and we have a little label there that says user now I can use all the tools you've seen to this point to go ahead and manually move things around if I chose to geocode these elements I can optionally select one of these things and tell the system to put it at its initial position that's another one of these algorithms that's here in my layout cast drop-down if I did that to a node it would go if I geocoded it it would move that node to its XY position from where the geocoding happened so you can see this is just a quick prototype that allows you to simply digitize things and then use the power of schematics to lay it out into a nice storyboard to try and solve a particular problem and with that I'm gonna go ahead and turn it back over to will thanks Rick so we're gonna go ahead and wrap up I hope that Rick's demos really drove some of the novel applications of schematics home to you what I really want to get across is to try and just you know start you guys thinking about potential applications for the product beyond the physical plant there's obviously a lot of them and you know schematics is really extending the functionalities of ArcGIS ArcGIS for all the great things it does really as until now just been concerned with physical assets and the placement of placed things in the real world and schematics really takes it to the next level and that allows us to look at these abstract things or a spatial elements and tie them back to the geography to perform novel analysis and ways that we really couldn't before so I hope it's really kind of whetted your appetite and giving you some food for thought I'll go ahead and take a few questions that we've gotten one question comes from Eldon in Provo Utah he's wondering if schematics can be served out of our GIS server we technically the answer is yes if you have a server and you have schematics installed on the machine you can publish the diagram it's not actually licensed for this and if you're very limited in how you can interact with the diagram there's no web controls for example for interacting with the schematic diagram at 9.2 you will be able to use ArcGIS schematics in ArcGIS engine applications so the schematics components will be available there Charles in Springfield is asked if the diagrams can be published through arc IMS they can be published through arc IMS again if you use our map server and you have schematics installed on the machine if you publish a map document containing schematics the diagram will be there you are kind of limited again in your interaction capabilities you also always have the ability to output the schematic layout we saw Rick interacting with the schematics in the layout view so it's just a layer in arcmap and we can export that as a PDF file or any number of raster image formats that you can then serve out through your web application and also as I mentioned before you can also export elements to shape files and then of course you could serve them through arc IMS or to a feature class Tanner from Albany is asked if there are rules that can be applied to control the way objects connect to or relate to one another yes there actually are there's a number of rules in the current product and these are being extended and new ones are being added for 9.2 we have the ability to reduce elements as we kind of saw with some of the super span we call it a super span where we remove intervening elements so that we can really focus on just the elements that were interested in although the connectivity of those elements is of course based on the very low-level basic geometric network connectivity so we can remove elements based on their attribute values based on the degree to which they connect by degree I mean a number of elements to which they connect so features that only connect to one element can be removed for example and then I also obviously spoke about the relationship class rules that we can use and let's see I think we might have time for one more question Mike from Nashville says can I assume you can create a schematic map and publish it an arc reader for others to view the answer to that question is yes you can use ArcGIS publisher to create and publish a map document a PMF file containing a schematic diagram and then it will be available to users that have arc reader all right so I think it looks like we're out of time I hope you enjoyed today's seminar I want to refer you to some other sources of information there is a professional services training class that I offer called working with ArcGIS schematics you can click on the instructor LED icon there or visit the URL indicated on this page there's also product tutorials that are installed with the product at the path of c arcgis our computer tutorial Docs as shown here and lastly of course there's always the product pages and the support pages the product page for schematics has a number of excellent videos and further demos to give you some more ideas or which may be a little more tailored for your particular application space and you can visit those pages by clicking on the arcgis icon there as well so again I hope you enjoyed today's seminar and on behalf of yes sir I'd like to thank you all for attending

Channel: Mahmoud Abdelrahman

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Keywords: Introduction, to, ArcGIS, Schematics

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Length: 57min 49sec (3469 seconds)

Published: Mon May 02 2011