GIS Talk bot

Talking to DevDude

Inspiration

We heard about Sonar last year on Andrew Turner presentation and we though that we could build a bot that could be setup to work within an organization, so any Esri Customer could launch it own bot easily.

What it does

We will develop a chatbot that allow anyone to query information from public items within an ArcGIS Organization..

How we built it

We have used:

Challenges we ran into

One of the biggest challenges was to understand how to properly manage of this services together
We also had to deal with asynchrony issues
Work with a team 100% remotely

Accomplishments that we are proud of

We are proud we could build this bot which could be re-use and extended by any customer

What we learned

How to work with api-rest-js
How to do advanced searches using the REST API
How read attachments directly from the API and match them with the features
How DialogFlow works
How Telegram bots works

What's next for GIS Talk bot

Improve and add more search terms (and aliases)
Incorporate more actions (ask about admins, groups, ..., but also help users to start building storymaps, web maps, etc)
Add images to the telegram cards
Improve the webhook for other integrations: HTML5 interface, Facebook, Slack, ....
Finish and test the documentation
Any ideas?, please help us opening a issue