Esri Data Viewer demos your data on a Mapbox map
By: Anthony Calamito
We had a great time last week in San Diego at the Mapbox Popup HQ, during the Esri International Users Conference. It was great to chat with Esri users who were curious about how to maximize their investment in Esri alongside Mapbox’s visualization and dissemination capability.
Mapbox provides a cloud-native, scalable, and modern IT platform for live location data. Our maps are based on data collected from over 640 million end-users each month and over 300 million miles of road data each day, providing teams with real-time accuracy of traffic, road conditions, and more. Interoperability and standards are built into the core of this platform so we can support developers and analysts working in many different mapping environments and database systems.
For Esri users specifically, Mapbox works with traditional file formats (shapefiles, KML, GPX files, etc.) and we make it incredibly easy for users of these file types to use Mapbox Studio to upload their datasets, style the data, and view it on a Mapbox basemap. Once the data and map are styled, we support serving that data back out to the ArcGIS Online platform to provide a beautiful basemap in a familiar interface. Customizing the data via data-driven styles and controlling all aspects of the data layers will help your teams understand and interpret your data most effectively.
To get a sense for how your Esri data can look on a Mapbox basemap, check out our new ESRI Data Viewer. Drag and drop your Shapefiles (.shp) or GeoJSON (.geojson) files into the demo, and visualize the datasets right away on the basemap. If your data is in an Esri Feature or Map service, we can handle that as well. The Data viewer reaches out to the service, gathers the GeoJSON, and rapidly displays the data.
Want to learn more about visualizing your data on Mapbox maps or interoperability between Esri and Mapbox? Get in touch with our team.
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