ArcGIS Server CadreBad name, good mission

Wyatt Pearsall

Two-fold Purpose

Answer questions about geospatial web applications

Make it easy for people at DWR to create them

Questions

What's a web app?

What's the difference between an app and a site?

What is the ArcGIS Server?

What's a service?

How is a service created?

How to build effective services?

How to build a web map?

What makes a good web map?

Should I use ArcGIS Online?

Infrastructure needed to support web maps?

Cost?

Permissions?

A lot of good questions, a lot of people asking them

The cadre was formed to answer them

(If you have any of these questions, join the Cadre!)

Make it easy for people at DWR to create GIS web

apps

Setting the scene:

When the cadre was formed...

10.0 server

No enterprise GIS web apps

No enterprise GIS services

No clear workflow to make an app

Ad hoc permissions

:(

What needs to change?

Ability to work on apps; reduce the barrier to entry

Staging & Production

Having two separate environments solves many

problems

Staging permissions can be looser

(join the cadre and you can make apps and services in the staging environment)

DTS doesn't need to ensure the staging server's integrity

Experimentation!

You don't need to be an expert to start working on an

app

(making it easier to create!)

How about creating apps?

Best practices / standards espousing good design

principles

Collection of resources

Workshop on creating services

Brownbag on creating services and applications

Upcoming 2 day training

...but dive in!

What's the workflow?

Step-by-step guide from a map and idea to an

application

https://github.com/wpears/dwr-web-map-resources

Server names, urls, going from staging → production

Templates

Make it as easy as possible to have a fully-featured

application

...but also easy to customize

And no additional cost or platform lock-in

Use them!https://github.com/wpears/tw

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Making it easy for people to create geospatial web apps

Come to the cadre with questions!

We'll work out the answers and benefit together

We love helping with fledgling apps!

3rd Wednesdays of the month, 2pm in 435

Resources

See you then~!