Online GIS - From Vision to Reality

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ESRI EUROPEAN USER CONFERENCE
Online GIS - From Vision to Reality
Günter Dörffel, ESRI Germany
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• Agenda
• A typical request
• The technology Basically simple !
• History of GIS-Internet-Development
• Reality What we can do today
• Conclusions
• A future conversation

Agenda
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Develop a website for us
What do you want to communicate ?
A typical request
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JUST get us on the web ...
To whom do you target your message ?
A typical request
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JUST GET US on the web ...
How many hits do you expect per hour ?
A typical request
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JUST GET US ON THE WEB !
Are you committed to maintain the service ?
A typical request
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DO IT, now, maximum performance and
flexibility... !
There is no general solution for GET US ON THE
WEB !
A typical request
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The technology Basically simple !
This is the general setup for network computing
The technology
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History of GIS-Internet-Development
MapObjects-IMS 1.0
2.0 (incl. ISA)
Adapt
ArcView-IMS 1.0 with ESRI MapCafê
Extend
Arc-IMS 3.0
Create
XML 1.0
CGI ISAPI /
NSAPI Servlet Technology
Java 1.0 Java 1.1

Java 2.0
HTML 3
HTML 4
(Tables, JavaScript...)
(Stylesheets, ...)
1995 1996
1997 1998
1999 2000
History of Internet-GIS
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The Reality GIS on the internet today
Interfacing
Functionality
Technology
Data
ZIP Ship Data
Apply Server-sided GIS functionality
Dynamically influence Mapcontent and -extent
Allow Retrieval of Information on static
Map-elements (ImageMap !)
Publish static
RESULTS/MAPS of Projects
1995 1996
1997 1998
1999 2000
From GIS-Add-On

to IT-Component
What we can do today
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There is no general solution for GET US ON THE
WEB !

• Internet-GIS is available as
• scalable out-of-the-box solutions
• scalable professional technology

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• For every project, a framework of
• focus
• functionality
• infrastructure
• additional considerations (time to market,...)
• has to be defined, before solutions can be
  offered

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Conclusions
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Questions to be aware of
A) Focus/Functionality Describe the user
group(s) to be adressed B)
IT-Infrastructure/Performance Are there
IT-infrastructural prerequisits to be met
? C) Organisation Who manages/updates the
data/service ...
Be prepared, when you visit our
Internet-product-center !
A future conversation