This is a non-commercial, demo application made at the Esri R&D Center Zurich for building exploration in Manhattan. It is built on top of ArcGIS API for JavaScript and allows users to explore some of the highest buildings in Manhattan in 3D.
- Data driven visualization of buildings in Manhattan
- Highlighting of selected buildings
- Display information from different sources for selected building
- Node.js 20.19+
To start:
npm install
npm run dev
Then open your browser at http://localhost:3000/
npm run build
The dist folder then contains all the files for the web app which can either be copied to a web server or pushed to the gh-pages branch to be served at https://arnofiva.github.io/arcgis-core-template.
In order to use the gh-pages approach, see the following instructions. Make sure you remove an existing dist folder if it has been created from a previous build.
Deploy to GitHub Pages
You can skip this part if you used the template by copying all branches, which includs the gh-pages branch that is part of this project.
If you only copied the main branch, follow these steps to create an orphan gh-pages branch (meaning it does not share any history with main):
rm -rf dist
git checkout --orphan gh-pages
git rm -rf .
git commit --allow-empty -m "Init empty branch"
git push origin gh-pages
Return to main branch:
git checkout main
The following will create a dist folder (fails if it already exists) and make it point to the root of the gh-pages branch:
git worktree add dist gh-pages
Once the previous steps have been completed, you can repeat the following every time you want to deploy a new version of your local code:
npm run build
cd dist/
git add .
git commit -am '🎉'
git push origin gh-pages
cd ../
The following external libraries, APIs, open datasets and specifications were used to make this application:
- Scene Layer: Service and Package Standard
- D3.js for the timeline. D3.js is shared under a BSD 3 clause license.
- Wikipedia API / MediaWiki is used to retrieve a small description of the building. All retrieved pages are under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. See Wikipedia Terms of Use for details.
- 3D building model published on the Open Data portal of DoITT under these Terms of use.
- Manhattan neighborhoods provided by Catalog Opendata City under a Open Data Commons Attribution License.
This demo application is for illustrative purposes only and it is not maintained. There is no support available for deployment or development of the application.
Esri welcomes contributions from anyone and everyone. Please see our guidelines for contributing.
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