ArcGIS Hub is a cloud-based engagement platform that allows organizations to communicate more effectively with their communities. You can create ArcGIS Hub sites to organize and share resources and information, and collaborate with internal and public audiences around a specific project, topic, or goal.
What ArcGIS Hub includes depends on the license you have, either ArcGIS Hub Basic or ArcGIS Hub Premium.
ArcGIS Hub Basic
ArcGIS Hub Basic is available with all ArcGIS Online subscriptions. This means that if you have an ArcGIS Online account through your organization (or institution, company, university, and so on), you can start using ArcGIS Hub today.
You can do the following with ArcGIS Hub Basic:
- Create unlimited websites and pages using the site editor.
- Build a catalog of searchable content for each of your sites using the site's content catalog.
- Work with other collaborators with an ArcGIS Online account by adding them to edit groups that are connected to your site, pages, and content.
- Access select templates to deploy a set of configurable sites and apps focused on specific topics and solutions.
- Control who can access your site’s content (including specific items) using sharing controls.
ArcGIS Hub Premium
ArcGIS Hub Premium expands on ArcGIS Hub Basic functionality by adding various engagement and collaboration features such as initiatives, projects, discussions, and more. You also have access to a separate community organization to manage and work with constituents, volunteers, and other collaborators.
You can do the following with ArcGIS Hub Premium:
- Choose a template from the template gallery to get started with predesigned sites and configurable applications, or start from scratch by creating a blank site and customizing it to fit your needs.
- Turn your site and its content into a template so that others have access to deployable solutions for their use.
- Add community members outside of your employee organization, such as students, volunteers, and partners, to work alongside you and your colleagues on initiatives and projects, contributing feedback and content, and other activities related to your site.
- Use Hub projects to track and share information about organized efforts to meet short-term goals.
- Leverage initiatives to establish and monitor larger, long-term objectives that may span multiple projects.
- Create events for your sites, initiatives, and projects to bring people together around important issues and activities.
- Create discussions to have private communication based on items of content within groups.
- Create private or public discussion boards to allow participants to share feedback on predefined topics; integrate a map into the discussion for geographic context.
Ideas and inspiration
Organizations from many sectors, including government, business, education, and nonprofit, use ArcGIS Hub to connect and communicate with internal and public audiences. The following are examples of how you can use Hub to connect with others:
- Create a data portal for sharing internal GIS data across an organization or with a class.
- Announce proposed plans, projects, and updates relating to a local comprehensive urban plan.
- Showcase content related to a specific topic, such as research to restore local habitats or efforts to increase volunteer work within a community.
- Share a volunteer sign-up form as part of your site on increasing volunteer work within a community.
- Start an outreach campaign with events, surveys, and emails by creating a call-to-action for people to follow your site.
For more examples, see the ArcGIS Hub Gallery.