If You Can Browse This Map, Thank a Desktop

Bill Dollins

Senior Vice PresidentZekiah Technologies

Maryland

www.zekiah.comgeobabble.wordpress.com

Weall

knowthe

partyline

Web Apps Are Cool

Desktop Apps Are Not

Web Maps Are Cool

Desktop Maps Are Not

Is thedesktop

stillrelevant?

You

tell

me

Return?

Mid-‘90sto

Mid-’00s

We Know Where That Got Us

But then a shift…

Why?

2KB RAM

32KB Storage

1.024 MHz

2KB RAM

32KB Storage

1.024 MHz

http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2009/07/20/how-powerful-was-the-apollo-11-computer/

8 GB RAM(~4,194,304x)

250 GB Storage(~8,192,000x)

3.06 GHz(~2988x)

That’sa lot

toleave

onthe

floor

What

about

GIS?

GIS Is “Heavy”

A casein point:the Esri

Web ADF

Out of the Box:

1 MB

Round Trip

The servercarries

the load

Enter theREST API

Andits Clients

Sharing the load

If You Can Browse This Map, Thank a Desktop

And

the

Second

Way?

DesktopGIS

is theOnramp

forWeb

Mapping

“100%”- James Fee

WeoGeo

“90%”- Kate Chapman

FortiusOne

ArcGIS ServerServices

StartOn the

Desktop

Whowants

tobeonthe

desktop?

“The Cloud”

WeoGeoTools

forArcGIS

GeoCommonsArcGISToolbar

Arc2EarthCloud

Explorer

QGIS Support forOSM and

MapServer

Why?

Because you don’t want to be that kid

The “GeoWeb” can’t exist without the “GeoDesktop”

Don’tForget

theDesktop

Questions?