Building and Using the Esri Social Media VGI Mapping Application

—Bronwyn Agrios and Jeff Archer

Esri has used a social media/volunteered geographic information (VGI) application as part of our ongoing response to incidents like the Gulf oil spill, flooding in Pakistan, and earthquakes in New Zealand. In this session, we'll be looking at how the Esri Social Media/VGI application was built and how you can download and adapt it for your own needs. We'll take a look at some of the decisions that made the application what it is today. We'll also look at the code and technology behind the application and go through some of the lessons we learned the hard way so that you won't have to.