Google Maps is a hugely successful product. Initial popularity due to great speed, cartography, and user interface design grew to near dominance of online mapping when routing and Street View were added. Once GIS users realized there was a better way to access spatial data and functionality, they quickly became dissatisfied with traditional GIS. But GIS is much more than what Google Maps provides ... Paul Joyce of we-do-IT addresses the issue of Why your users want Google Maps, not your GIS ... And what to do about it!Paul has worked extensively with Smallworld, ESRI and Intergraph GIS systems. A recent project of his involved establishing an enterprise-wide adoption of GIS technology, using a combination of consumer-targeted (Google Earth, Google Maps), and open source server technologies (GeoServer, PostgreSQL).youTube ...Pt One: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yT3-3aMX44oPt Two: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJSpDbi12zQPt Three: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImBywcXTH0chttp://www.gita.org.auhttp://www.we-do-IT.com
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1. GITA gisDrinks
Why your users want Google Maps, not your GIS ... and what you can
do about it
2. Comparing Google Maps with Others
Cartography
Speed
User Interface
Functionality
3. Cartography Typical GIS
4. Cartography Yahoo Maps
5. Cartography Bing Maps
6. Cartography Google Maps
7. Cartography
41latitude.com
Label readability
Number of labels
Label placement
Town icons
... more
8. Speed
No waiting 5-15 seconds for a redraw
No refresh button
Googles infrastructure > your IT departments
9. UI SIAS
10. UI G/NetViewer
11. UI G/MobileViewer
12. UI ArcGIS Explorer Online (ribbon)
13. UI ArcGIS Explorer Online (new)
14. UI ArcGIS Viewer for Flex
15. UI ArcGIS.com Viewer
16. UI Bing Maps
17. UI Google Maps
18. Functionality
What your GIS looks like to most of your users
19. Functionality
Less is more
Web GIS Desktop GIS
Web GIS = Workflow support server-based geoprocessing
20. Good Reasons To Surrender
>150 million users
>19 billion km of routes served last year
Cartography, Speed, UI
Street View
API
Hundreds of updates per year
training, implementation, licence costs
productivity, scalability
21. When
Internet and users that only need location are candidates for a
Google Maps-based solution
22. How
Google Maps + placemarkers
Google Fusion Tables
Google Maps API + custom/product
23. If You Cant Or Dont Want To
Just support workflows
Pay attention to user experience
cartography: basemap + operational, imagery
speed: maps, geoprocessing
ui: simple, clean, workflow support
24. Thanks
