GIS Application Deployment

City Planning and Development DepartmentKansas City Missouri

City Planning’s Applications

•GIS Creation: ArcInfo, MGE

•CAD Creation: Microstation

•GIS Analysis: ArcView, MapInfo

•GIS Viewing: ArcView, MapObjects, ArcIMS, Webmap, and Map Guide •GIS Programing: AML, Avenue, Visual Basic

MapObjects•GIS Database: Oracle, Access

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Brief Overview of GIS use

City Planning and Development

Finance

Public Works Engineering

Water Services

Health Department

Aviation

Environmental Management

Others (Fire, Police, EDC)

Three Main Components

Server Installed on NT server Use Microsoft, Netscape

Author Install on desktop Use to create maps

Viewer Free download Use to view maps online

How the components work together

Diagram

Our Map Requirements

Specific data layers

Identify parcels with “tool tips”

Zoom to a specific neighborhood

Search and zoom a specific address

Retrieve parcel information

To create a map

Create/Gather resources

Author Map

Link or embed in a web page

To create a map

Create/Gather Resources SDF files

Free loader program with software (or download) Created batch file to run Created from various digital data formats Identify unique elements with a “key”

Data Sources Thematic maps Text/Point files

To create a map

Author Map Use MapGuide Author component Set map properties Add data layers Set layer properties Save MWF

To create a map

Link or embed in a web page Use html to create a page with a map or link to

the map

To create a map

Show simple map

Additional requirements

Specific data layers Use shapefiles where available Parcels with identifying “tool tip”

Avenue to get address on parcel shapefile from KIVA database Driveways, pavement edge

AML to convert from dgn Lot numbers, dimensions

AML to create access table MapGuide reads text, height, angle, location from database

Water shutoff Link parcel layer to db2 database

Additional requirements

Zoom to a specific neighborhood

Search and zoom a specific address HTML forms to select, enter Javascript using the MapGuide Viewer API to

zoom ColdFusion to query database for address and to get

parcel coordinates to zoom to parcel

Additional requirements

Retrieve Parcel Information ColdFusion to query database for selected

parcel information HTML/CFML to format report

Results