Access Free Web-Based Mapping Data

KADE KING: All right, real quick before we get started. I don't know-- some of you may have gotten an email from me. We uploaded a new version of the handout yesterday. So if you guys have it on the class, you can put down the newest one. They're very similar. There's just a little bit of additional information on the InfraWorks portion at the end.

So the front part hasn't changed at all. So just wanted to let everybody know that there is that new handout available. That's updated. Some of you might have just downloaded it today and then you're good. [CHUCKLING]

All right. Everybody ready to go? Who's awake? You guys all awake?

[CHUCKLING]

Anybody ride the high roller last night?

Yeah.

Yeah? I got on. It really was nothing. It was like standing out your hotel window. It goes so slow.

[LAUGHTER]

It's high, but it was cool. There was some neat-- I got some neat shots on my camera of the moon right on the spokes of the Ferris wheel there. It was pretty cool because it was a pretty good-sized moon. So anyway. So everybody have a lot of fun? Those of you stay here get some early sleep. All right.

My name is KaDe King, and I'm one of the two presenters for this class. I'll introduce myself, and then I'll let James introduce himself. We're Pretty much doing half and a half here. So I'll start, and then James will finish this off with a roar with InfraWorks. So I work for US CAD, and I've been there for 15 years. We are a West coast training center and reseller. I've been using AutoCAD since 1987, and I've been teaching and training and doing other types of work and mostly teaching since 1993.

As far as industry goes, primarily I worked several years in the natural gas industry utility. But since I've been in the training center channel, I've done a little bit of everything. I work with all different kinds of government agencies-- county, federal, state, city, extensively with GIS and various other projects that they have.

But I'm excited to be here today. The intention of this session is to talk about web-based mapping data. So what we're talking about there, just so everybody's clear, is online services or servers that you can connect to without having to download any files. So our online servers. Now, there's plenty of other data that you can download as well if you want to download. It'll all be on the same site, so you'll see it all. So James, if you want to introduce yourself?

JAMES LORD: Hi, I'm James Lord. I used to work for [INAUDIBLE] for about 12 years. [INAUDIBLE]. And I've kind of taken on [INAUDIBLE] since it was Project Galileo [INAUDIBLE] changed [INAUDIBLE] few more times [INAUDIBLE].

KADE KING: All right, awesome. OK, so the first thing we're gonna just take a quick look at is our objectives for this class. So we basically have four objectives. Number one is to learn where you can access these resources, a good starting point. So what I found was a nice online starting point for everyone, and we'll take a look at that, and then from there some other sources that you can go to.

And then we'll be looking at actually how to configure within AutoCAD Map or Civil 3D. Either one of those has the same engine for accessing those resources. So we'll look at how to create those connections and map in Civil 3D and then look at some basic configuration or styling of those services. And then I'll turn it over to James, and he's going to show you how to do the same thing in InfraWorks, how to access those same connections and how to configure those and style those.

So just a little bit on WMS and WFS. Any of you here have made a connection to a WMS or WFS server? Wow, OK. So we have quite a few. So a WMS is basically a server that provides online georeference map images. OK? It is not necessarily data. It's all images. Anything WMS is an image. So it's raster data.

And then WFS is a web feature service that allows you access to geographical map features, kind of like a shape file versus a TIFF, all right? So those are kind of what we have, those two. So that said, just a little definition for everyone so you can kind of get a feel for that. So where do we start? This is probably one of the hardest parts about deciding how do I get this access to this information? Where do I find it?

So I actually found a really great blog post that I thought was-- it's only about two years old, which is actually pretty good. I'm just going to switch over to the internet here. So this is the blog post that I actually found. And it's from opengeospatial.org. It was a blog post written by somebody on there. I don't know.

So he talks about finding these WMS, WFS services, as well as a few other types of services. And one of the first things-- what they do is they basically give you links to various geoportal server. And each one that they give you has thousands of links to different services. Now, there's a lot of different places that we are all from and all live and that we all need to access data from.

But any of your-- if you live here in the US, most of the states have their own website or portal with all kinds of information, and those are a great place to start as well. But these websites-- this blog is-- the link is in your handout. So everything I'm going to show you is in your handout. So you don't have to worry about writing this down or anything like that. You have that handout.

So this is the first site that I found a lot of really great links to start. From there, there's several sites. One of those is-- well, let's see. Let me switch back to the PowerPoint here so you can see it on here. So the first site-- one of the sites in here is the data.gov. Some of you have probably used data.gov to grab services.

As is Geoportal, the GEOSS Portal, Skylab WMS Server List. So these are just a few of the many sites out there. Each one of these sites has thousands of server links. So the amount of data is staggering that's available. It's almost overwhelming. You're like, uh, where do I go next? It's almost too much to data.

So this was the, I think, the hardest thing that I-- has anybody ever tried to make a WFS or WMS connection and it wouldn't work? Like, you couldn't get it to download? So this is actually why I'm doing this session. Because a couple of years ago when I first started using this, I couldn't get it to work. And so this was one of my goals was to puzzle out, figure it out, and then maybe share those tips with other people.

So these are the three things that I found that were key-- and this is in your handout-- to connecting to a WFS and WMS services. Check the URL. 9 times out of 10, if it's not working, the URL that they gave you on the website has a space or something weird in it. And when you paste it over into AutoCAD Map or Civil 3D or InfraWorks, it doesn't work because there's a space or an error in there somewhere.

So here's my tip. Paste it into Notepad first, examine the link and make sure there's not any breaks or spaces, and then paste into a map or Civil 3D or InfraWorks. Trust me, it works much better than just throwing it in there. What I actually do is create like a Notepad document of common sites that I go to, paste them in there and just save it, and then go back to that Notepad document every time. It's much faster.

Second, make sure that when you create the connection inside the software that the dialog box has completely expanded. Because sometimes the map connect in AutoCAD Map will slide and hide things that you need. And I'll show you that when we jump in the software. And then the third thing is watch for the service or the version that when you go to connect to it. And I'll show you that in the software as well.

That's actually a big kicker. If you have data and the data in the URL doesn't specify which version it is, you have to tell what version it is. And that's kind of a guessing game because there's a few different ones in the software so that not show you primarily and this will be your handout as well for WFS using 1.0.0, which is one of the versions listed will give you-- it pretty much works all the time if you don't have a version and it's not working.

And then for WMS, it's the 1.1.1. If it doesn't have a version, it'll pull it automatically. So I'm going to go ahead and jump over into AutoCAD Map. Oh, actually, let me show you one other thing here.

This one-- I just thought-- I had to pick a place to focus on. We all like Hawaii, right? Everybody wants to go to Hawaii or be bit in Hawaii? So we did this same presentation about a month ago. Has it been close? Maybe not quite that long--

JAMES LORD: Yep.

KADE KING: --in Hawaii on the island of Oahu. So we decided Hawaii would be a nice little vacation while we're here, so that's what we're going to kind of be looking at. This is Hawaii's statewide GIS site. And if you come in here, and then let's say I want to get, let's say-- oh, let's pick some elevation data. Oh, didn't that switch?

OK, well I'll just kill the PowerPoint since it doesn't want to switch and see if we can get it to-- there we go. Now we have it. It's all good? No strange looks anymore? All right. Thank you. So this is the Hawaii statewide GIS site. And they actually have a very good like site.

If you live in Hawaii or you have to do anything in Hawaii, you almost don't have to go anywhere else but this site. It's so good. So, for example, let me we go back to the main page so you guys can see it. There you go. So this is their main page. They have their islands here, and then they have all the types of data that are available to download here.

So I can come in, and say I want elevation data. I can look at the various elevation data that they have available. And they tell you this is a feature service. Let's say I wanted the island of Lanai. So I can click on that, and they have downloadable data here. But they also have APIs, which are your WFS and WMS connections.

You kind of have to dig around a little bit because you might not realize that API is the server. For some of you who are more familiar with some of the server terms you'd probably find it right away. But some of us are more layman, right? You don't really know all these server terms. So you kind of have to dig around a little bit sometimes.

But if I wanted this data, I could come in and grab that link and paste it in. Like I said earlier, some sites are way better than others, OK? Some are really stable and the data links are all good, and others, not. So you kind of have to watch what you're doing on those and just kind of experiment with them. All right, so I wanted to show you that in kind of how easy that was. Depending on what you're trying to do, you can get a lot of data really easy.

All right. OK, so I'm going to jump into AutoCAD Map now. And we'll do a presentation here. OK, so just to give everybody a little bit of introduction, whether you're using Map or Civil 3D-- I have Map open. But if you were using Civil 3D, all you have to do in Civil 3D is come in and switch to the planning and analysis workspace and you'll have full access to your map functionality.

If you don't want to switch your workspace, you can still do everything we're doing. All you have to do is to get to the pieces that you need. First of all, you're going to need the Map Task pane. And in the handout it goes over this, but there is a command called Map W space that will open that Task pane. So if you want to leave your Civil 3D interface and then just go to get the Task pane, you can type Map W space.

If you're using the map interface, you can go to the Home tab and click Connect right here, or you can go to the display manager on the Task pane and Get Data and Connect to Data here. So there's really a number of ways that you can access this tool. Now, once I get in this tool, all I have to do is click Connect and they'll get me in there. And this is our dialog box here.

I'm going to make it bigger, just because I've learned in bad ways if this isn't big enough, you don't see what you need half the time. So a little easier-- if you have a large monitor, you can make this as big as you need it. So I'm sure a lot of you have experimented with adding other types of connections, like shape file connections, maybe SDF or a raster image.

The one where we're going to be working primarily today is adding WFS or WMS connections. So I'm going to go ahead and click on the Add WFS Connection. And then remember what I told you, that I use a Notepad document to store these. So I have a Notepad document here. And what I'm going to put first is just the national map service.

Now, I don't know if you guys can see this. I probably should paste it into Word so you can see it. But at the end, hopefully a few of you can see that. I know it's super tiny because it's Notepad. There's a set of numbers at the end. Can anybody see that? Or it says like-- see how it tells you the service, the version? Notice this link doesn't have it, and this one doesn't have it, and this one doesn't have it.

Any of them that don't have it, that's ones that you need the version for. So when you've tried this in the past and it hasn't worked, it's probably because of that. It doesn't know its version. So I'm just going to pull this top one here and grab that. And I'll just pop that in over here. I can change the name of this connection. That's just a nickname.

Since this is the national map service, I'm just going to name it NMS for the National Map Service. And then I could come in-- if you're not sure of the version, like I said, you can always add that version in there for it. And you it won't hurt to add it. Even if it already has a default, it'll go what it's defaulted anyway. So I'll click Connect.

It's going to ask you for a login. You just pick login. You don't have to put anything in there. Unless you know some-- all the ones that are public, they have no login. You Just click Login. So it creates a connection to this. This is all online. I'm not downloading anything. It's directly connecting across to server. So I can come in and I can choose what-- oh, I forgot to open my other file.

I'll try this again. I'm glad I didn't get too far. So what I have in the background here, by the way-- I just have some boundaries that I made just to make my life a little easier. This is just a square around the Hawaiian Islands. And these are squares around like the US and Alaska and whatever. So I'm just going to come in here. And, like I said, I'm going to create a connection here.

Go to-- oh, I picked the wrong one there. There we go, that's better. Log in. There we go. Now we're back online. So I'm going to pull up the coastline. And let's see what else I'll get. Maybe some airport information and maybe some road information. And then I'm going to click to Add that to the Map with a Query.

Who's used the Add to Map with Query? It's a lifesaver. If you haven't used it, it's kind of hidden, right? You have to hit the little down arrow to get to it. You guys see what I did? Click on little down arrow. Really important. If this site has data for the entire US, do I really want to pull in the data for all the entire US? Probably not. So I'm going to Add to Map with Query.

It's going to come up into a query box, and I'm going to tell it to Locate on the Map by a Rectangle. And then I'm just going to kind of minimize this. And then I'll just use this rectangle as my base. And then I'm just going to pick OK, and it's going to pull that data in. And I can minimize this for just a minute and let it go there. So what you'll see is that it brought in the coastline boundaries for all of the Hawaiian Islands.

And it also brought in dots that represent the airports. And it also brought in probably primary road systems, probably highways throughout those islands. Kind of cool? Pretty fast, actually, considering the data that's out there. But Add to Map with Query will save you a ton of time.

Now, I'm going to bring in-- let's see. I'm going to bring in a WMS next you can see that one. So I'm going to add a WMS connection. And let's see, which one do I want? I'm going to do the US coastal relief model which is kind of cool. This one kind of has the wow factor, so I like to use it. It's kind of cool. So this is the-- I'm just going to call it CRS, the Costa Relief Model, CRM.

And I'll plug that in. And very important here, this one definitely needs to be-- you guys remember which one it was? I always have to look up? [CHUCKLING] Let's see what it was. Was it 1.0.0?

1.1.1. Thank you. Somebody on their handout. I always have to look it up. I have another document that has them listed their, so I was like [INAUDIBLE]. So I'm gonna go ahead and connect it. And just going to log in. So you can see it created the connection. If you get an error message at this point, you probably picked the wrong version, or you didn't specify a version, or the path is wrong, OK?

Every time it's going to be one of those errors. Guarantee it. So once you have this-- with the WMS, the WMS-- this is one of the things that I noticed. If this box is squished up, it does this. And you see this, and you think you didn't get anything. So really, what you're going to do is just grab this box and put it down. And then you see that you do have something in the schema. And you can grab that. You can add that to the map.

Now, it's going to look a little weird when you first get it. And that is because I am focused on the Hawaiian Islands here. But I'm going to sample the raster that came in because it came in at a much higher level. You'll see it by zoom out. It brought in the whole US, the whole world coastal relieve map, basically. And I really want the Hawaiian Islands down here.

So I'm going to zoom back in, and I'm going to right click on the connection inside the display manager and I'm going to sample that raster. So anything that's raster data, you may need to zoom in and re-sample it after you load it. And you can see this is kind of cool, right? And, of course, the speed this will load will depend on your internet connection.

But this is some neat stuff. We can see-- and I just re-sampled it again so it'll look a little clearer. But we can see-- this is Oahu. This is Oahu, isn't it?

JAMES LORD: Oahu.

KADE KING: So there's Oahu. We've got Honolulu area here, we've got Diamond Head down here. But you can see this is kind of cool. Did you guys know that most of the Hawaiian Islands is underwater? It's kind of neat, actually. You look at this and you can see it. So that's kind of cool.

So those are your two basic types of services. It's actually very easy once you know the tricks. Right? Easy, right? Looks easy. It's as easy as it looks once you know the tricks. So a last couple of things that you might be interested in within here is once you've added something in here, learning how to manipulate inside the display manager a little bit. I know most people who have Map really don't-- most people have Civil 3D. How many of you have Civil 3D in this room? Anybody just a Map user?

OK, there we go. So proves my point. So Civil 3D users generally don't use this display manager, so that a lot of them really don't know how to use it. So I wanted to hopefully explain that just a little bit. First of all, one of the things that's kind of good to know is that there is a draw order part to this display manager.

If you switch to the draw order, you can change the display order in which they stack. For example, map base is the AutoCAD elements. So you know my little rectangles that I have with my boundaries? If I wanted those to be on the top, all I have to do is drag them to the top and then let the system put those in front of things.

If I want the roads and the coastline and the airport above the map, I can certainly do that. And you can see now, hopefully here-- see how it's on top of my map now? So a very important component is to be able to mess with that draw order to be able to see what you want. Back under the groups is where you can kind of manipulate those in other ways.

What if I don't want to see this coastal relief map for a little bit here? So I'm going to just go ahead and I can uncheck that and I'll turn that off and I can get back to my other data. Any type of imagery that you're connected to will probably be a little slower. So if you're not using the imagery right at that moment, it's a good idea to just uncheck it until you need to turn it back on.

And then in here, I have the roads, I have coastline, and I have the airport symbols. Well, if you want to change what those look like-- because they just come in on a default-- you can select the element. Go to Style. And then inside that Style menu, you can manipulate what that looks like. So I can come in and change it so I can say oh, instead of a circle, I want it to use a star.

And on the star, I want it to be like a specific size on here. Maybe I want it to be-- we'll do-- if I get it to work. Hopefully that's a good. Hopefully I didn't make it too small. Trying to remember what the default should be. But that's all right. And then I can change the color to whatever I want. Oh, yeah. I made them way too small. [CHUCKLING] Let's see here. What is this? Style. There we go. All right, I'll just use Device Size. That's all right.

So the device size basically changes those as you zoom in. So you can see them. If you do Map, Map does them a specific size, so 100 feet or 50 feet or whatever. And device does a size relative to the zoom level. So those are all the airports that they have in Hawaii. Kind of cool. Just like anything else, you can turn those layers off you don't want to use those.

And the same thing with the roads. If you've never used the map styling tools, you can also create themes based on the type of data. Like, if I wanted to theme the airports based on the elevation of each airport, I could theme them based on the elevation. Now how can I do that? Well, this is WFS data, remember? So if it's WFS, that means it has information about the roads, about the airports, about the coastline in the background.

So if I click on Airport, here, for example, and I-- just going to right click, and I'm going to go to Show Data Table. You can also click on Table from the menu right here. And it'll open up the data table and that's connected to whatever you highlighted. So you can see here there's not a heck of a lot of data. Like, it's the Hawaiian Islands. There's not that many airports.

You can see all the airports. You can see basic data, like the code name for the airport. It has the elevation over here in a column called ZB3. So there's-- there's some-- I found-- I'm trying to remember where it is. I have the link somewhere. But if you Google, you can find a list of codes that they use this data to try to help you figure out what each column is.

So most of the sites where you pull the data will have like a master page that shows that the information as well. So that's kind of cool. So what we're going to do is I'm going to hand over to James. And then at the end, we'll allow some time for questions. OK? All right, James.

JAMES LORD: All right. Who's used in InfraWorks before? All right, a couple of you? How many of you guys like InfraWorks? All right, same people. All right, so let's talk about InfraWorks. For those of you that don't know what InfraWorks 360 is, InfraWorks 360 is basically what we term as a GIS garbage disposal. You can throw anything with GIS information in it and then render it up to make it look pretty.

I'm going to continue with what KaDe was building here. I'm going to use some information from the Hawaiian Islands. Let me refresh this page and see what it gives us. So they have all this free information on here right now. I'm going to be using the elevation information just to get our islands built. I'll throw in some transportations to show you what the roads look like on one of the islands. And then I have some parcels, also, for Kauai as well.

So let me go into InfraWorks. So just starting with nothing, basically, in InfraWorks, it's a super easy task. Has anyone used Google Earth before? I hope you've used Google Earth before.

KADE KING: [CHUCKLES]

JAMES LORD: So you can you have the ability now to basically create your own models from nothing. So there is this tool inside of a Model Builder inside of InfraWorks that allows you to create something from nothing. I think the internet's running slow, which is why my model's not closing at the moment, so I'll just keep talking.

So basically, Model Builder, what you do is you type in just like Google. You type in an address. Here we go. So I'm going to Model Builder. The requirements for this program is you must be online. You have to have an Autodesk ID. You can get a 30-day trial with your ID. Once that 30 days is up, then you lose a lot of the tools. You just get really basic, simple tools to play with.

But they're not going to completely cut you off from your models. But you no longer have access to a Model Builder, either. So once your 30 days is up, if you don't have a license of it, then you can't play with it. So let's just say Hawaii, for instance. I'm going to type in Hawaii. Hawaii, United States. And here's my little islands. The limits here.

So right here, the maximum area that I can get for free is 200 square kilometers. For most of your projects that's probably gonna be OK. For all of these islands, definitely not going to fit. I know I tried it one time to get like chunks of islands and tried to piece it all together. But I finally found a better way to do it, which I'm going to show you today.

But anyways, you can click and drag around the areas that you want. If you are over your square, you can keep coming down until you can get that red lettering to say under 200. And then once you're under 200 that's about the size that you're going to get. Where does this information come from? So, the roads. Open street maps. Same information that they use for your navigation systems on your phones to locate centerline information and tell you which direction you're gonna go.

The buildings-- so the buildings come from open street maps. If you want to know if a particular area has-- if you have buildings or not, if you go to OpenStreetMaps-- if I could spell-- and then I can search a location. Let's say-- Los Angeles should have a bunch. Ah, what is it doing? Go back. There we go.

And so it only matters if the jurisdiction that you live in has submitted this information into the-- why is it not working? Well, I'll just zoom in here. We'll find something. So, if you see building footprints on OpenStreetMaps, then these are the same footprints that will go over to InfraWorks. As far as height information, it just generally sends a random code applies to it in a style of what it looks like.

So it's not going to look the height in the real world. There are tricks to it. Some of the tricks are when you get the satellite imagery and you have the shadows cast in the satellite imagery and you know when that imagery is taken, because you can go to bing.com and say this satellite image was taken on this date, you can adjust the tools in InfraWorks to say the date and the time. And you can just drag your building so the shadows match.

That's the quickest way to do / it's not exactly the most time-efficient way to do it, but you can get buildings with the heights look. Other than that, there are other companies. These ones are not for free. But there's a company called CyberCity3D which does make premium buildings. And they can bake on textures, so they look just like it in real life. So you're looking-- look just like what you see in Google Earth.

They also have another product that they use, that they have their own, free mapping and information. So this is their online version of their maps. And if I want to say here, show me all the hotel units, they already have there's information already all coded out. If you click on a building, you get a bunch of information. Like, this is the Sheraton Waikiki, how many units it has, what's the address, and sometimes it tells when it was built. It just depends on what information you ask for, but they can give you lots and lots of information.

All right, so back to InfraWorks. The imagery comes from Bing satellite imagery. So Microsoft's version of their maps, satellite maps. The accuracy can be changed, and I'll show you how to change inside of InfraWorks once you get it, and then the elevation data. So in the US, the elevation data comes from USGS. It's about 10 meters accuracy. So it's not the best, but you can use it for getting started on a project.

Once you're satisfied with you area, you just type in a name, like whatever you want. My model. And we typically within about less than 10 minutes, you're going to get a little model of that kind of looks like this. It's like grayed out. And it's just ready for you to download. But it takes a good 10 to 20 minutes to download, so I'm not going to sit here and bore everybody while that downloads.

So I have this Oahu galaxy here that I've already kind of prepped. This was starting a brand-new drawing without nothing. So if you want to see something, I'll show you something what InfraWorks will bring in as the model builder. So let's go to this one. Has anybody used the model builder yet? A couple of you? OK, good. Nice.

So some things to note. If you had InfraWorks in 2014, if you had the suite, it was included until the end. Then they pulled it out. And then they gave you this LT version, which did not include the model builder. So then you had to buy it. And then they had all these other modules you had to buy until recently. Now they're all one program again.

And the only way to get it without just purchasing the program is to do what the suites have changed to. The suites have changed to collections. So collections-- you can get that. You can get Autodesk vehicle tracking. You can get Civil 3D and all the other programs you want. So if you're interested in that, you should do that. This model's gonna take too long to pull up, so I'm going to crush this and start over.

Has anybody run into trouble in InfraWorks or model builder?

AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE]

JAMES LORD: You what?

AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE] 200 square-foot kilometer.

JAMES LORD: Your 200 square-foot kilometer, yes. So there are ways to trick it. And I can show you how I'm going to trick it on here to get my 200. So in this particular case, the Hawaiian Islands are way more than 200 square kilometers. And I want them all in one model. I don't want to have to go into a little 200 square-foot sections for this thing.

So with KaDe's help, basically her and I found online, we found the website for the Hawaiian Islands under the elevations. And they have all of the 100-foot contour elevations for each of the islands. So they have it for Lanai, Kauai, which is my favorite island, Hawaii, and then Oahu, and then some of the other, litter islands.

So in order to bring all those in, you can do exactly what KaDe said. Some of them actually have connections on them. I think the connections--

KADE KING: You have to click on them first.

JAMES LORD: Oh yeah, you have to go into them. And then they have up here, they have the APIs. And you can connect through the API service. Sometimes InfraWorks is little funky with this API service. So if you can't get this to work for you the first time, then you still can download the shape file and use the shape file as well.

Shape files, I also noticed, load faster. So I'm going to show you-- I'm going to do Kauai through the API, and then we'll actually go a little better for that. All right. So it still says it's opening. How many of you guys experience this hurry up and wait inside of InfraWorks?

KADE KING: [CHUCKLES]

JAMES LORD: All right. And you'll notice in the handout, when I give you a lot of things, when I tell you to go do something, it will be at the very end. There'll be a little note that says, go grab some coffee.

AUDIENCE: [LAUGHTER]

JAMES LORD: Because you're going to be waiting around for a while. Yes. This is the program likes to hold our computers hostage. Thankfully, you can still work on AutoCAD Civil 3D or something else, or check your emails, but it does take a while sometimes for the models to open.

AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE]

JAMES LORD: Yes, you can reduce your quality remodel as well. This one's not set very high. I could make it even lower. It didn't have this issue this morning. You know, it always does this when you're supposed to be here presenting in front of people.

AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE]

JAMES LORD: Yeah, and we're on the internet here. So it should be coming up soon. Well, let's talk about this. This is what I'm going to do next.

KADE KING: I should get you my plug.

JAMES LORD: [CHUCKLES] Yeah. So basically, what happens-- I'm going into-- and this is where you would add that WFS. So how many of you are familiar with the data source panel that's inside of-- OK. So if you don't know where the data source panel is, you push on this thing I call the big eye. And that big eye is basically the Create and Manage button. And then there'll be these other tools that pop out of the side of the eye.

And you can say, create and manage your data. And then once you have this open-- so you click that little Rubik's cube, and then you click on this thing that looks like a little-- I don't know, looks like a trash can to me. But just hit on the data sources. And then it pops out this data sources panel off to the right.

And I think I'm going to crash just one more time just for fun.

KADE KING: Do you want to switch to my internet?

JAMES LORD: Yeah, let's try and switch to your internet and see if that will help. Thank you.

KADE KING: Mine seems to be working faster.

JAMES LORD: And that's another thing, too, is Map is not a new program. Map's been around for a while, so a lot of the bugs have been cooked out of it. InfraWorks has been around since about 2014, and they release a new one every four months. My computer just recently took a crash or two weeks ago. And I handed it to my IT department, and I said, here, can you fix this? He's like, sure.

And then he gives it to me, trying to download models. So my new models-- they just won't open. I click on them. Nothing's happening. Then I looked at the About, and he had loaded 17.1. And 17.3 is the latest one, so I had to go download that one. Here's another note. If you are downloading InfraWorks and you're going to your manage.autodesk.com where you're supposed to download them, that's not the most current one.

Because that's where he downloaded it, and that's where I downloaded the first one. You have to go to just to the main Autodesk website like you're going to get a trial version. And then just take the trial version. That's the latest. All right. Come on, keep thinking. See? I knew I should have never closed it. [CHUCKLES]

All right, so when it comes in by using the WFS, it's going to give us this little box here. And this box basically tells us what kind of information is inside of that link. So you can check off what you want or don't want. And, for our instance, we would basically take in the Kauai file. And then in InfraWorks, it doesn't really know anything about your information. So it's going to say that things are not configured. And it doesn't know what kind of feature to put it.

So everything in InfraWorks has to have a feature. Let me scroll down. I have some feature stuff here. So features can be anything from the terrain. That's like the surface data. Point Clouds, you can bring in Point Clouds. It even has cool tools to process Point Clouds, if you haven't seen those. Coverage areas-- think of the coverage area as just like maybe your scope of work or a grassy area or a piece of asphalt or something like that that you're just laying over, you kind of draping over a surface. That's kind of a covered area.

Bodies of water-- that's pretty explanatory. Buildings-- when you're bringing in buildings-- and I'm going to show you how to bring in a building later if this thing ever opens. Railways-- you can design railways. It automatically imports railways from the open street maps if it shows railways. If you happen to have a amusement park, like Disneyland or something in your model, it will show the little-- what are those things called? Roller coasters as railways. Like, they have little railway things going on them.

The trees-- it doesn't really important trees, but you can turn things into trees. And they have things called city furniture like people and all kinds of crazy stuff. Pipelines, drawing lines, Autodesk IMX. So drawing line is basically if you have maybe a parcel line or something and you want to just show line work draped on top of your surface, you can use that to drape line work.

The IMX is kind of the Autodesk version of way to import and export stuff from the actual InfraWorks model itself. And basically, what it does is it can have-- you can take it to Civil 3D, and then you can export it and then bring it back to InfraWorks and it'll know what's going on. 3D models-- those are just basically anything you can grab from free sources, like Trimble SketchUp. And I'm going to show you an example of that.

3D models-- the CityGeo. Looks like it's finally coming up for me. And then you can bring in Revit files and the AutoCAD Utility Design files. So let's hurry up this-- make this hurry up and bring us some models. Looks like we have Hawaii, and we have Maui, and it's working on Oahu is gonna to take a while. But here's Kauai.

So let's bring in some more information on Kauai. I'm going to make this larger, use this big eye that I was talking about. And here's that Rubik's cube and my data sources. So right now, basically, I brought that in. It's terrain. And how I did that was I used this little plus button. I came down and said it's going to be that WFS.

And it kept the last one I had. And then I would just say, OK, because we don't have a username or password. And then it was just-- it's gonna dump it up at the top and say, well, here's everything that's available. I'm just going to uncheck everything except for Kauai because I already have everything else in here. And not all of these will work.

Some of the stuff, like for the ocean depth, I was really hoping-- that would be really cool to see in here. But it won't work inside of here. I've tried different ways. So let's just do the Kauai, and it says up here, no feature. So if I double click this Feature, the very first thing I have to do is tell it what it is. So what is it? This is going to be terrain, right?

I have to give it a coordinate system. So here's the thing. Sometimes the websites aren't very good at telling you what the coordinate system is or what coordinate system they're using. A lot of them don't use state planes or whatever. Thankfully, they're super responsive on this website. And within like 10 minutes she got back to me and said, yeah, we're using the UTM 83 metric. So I was like, OK. And every time I use that one it falls right we're supposed to.