Is Mobile the Future of GIS? Matt Sheehan WebMapSolutions

About Matt Sheehan  Principal & developer WebMapSolutions  Company formed in 2006  Location focused Web and Mobile Application Developers

Agenda Background - Internet to Web 2.0 to mobile - Internet to Web 2.0 to mobile - Geospatial history - Geospatial historyMobile - Mobile Demystified - Mobile Demystified - Geo-Mobile applications - Geo-Mobile applications

Background

History - Internet to Web 2.0 to Mobile  Lynx, Mosaic & HTML  Javascript  2004 Web 2.0 “Web as Platform”  Flash (2004)  AJAX (2005)  Flex (2006) and Silverlight (2008)  Mobile Flex, HTML5, Objective-C, Java

GeoSpatial History   Harvard Laboratory For Computer Graphics And Spatial Analysis   Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) - built on Harvard Graphics developments   Intergraph Corporation – IBM spin off   1996 – MapQuest launched   1997 – ESRI launch MapObjects IMS   2000 – ESRI launch ArcIMS   2000 – 2006 MapServer and GeoServer are released   2002 – ESRI launch ArcIMS   2005 – Google maps is released   2005 – OpenStreetMap founded   2007 – Yahoo, Microsoft offer mapping sites and API’s   First GPS enabled smart phone   2012 – Mobile Maps, GIS & LBS

Mobile

Mobile Demystified  Mobile is confusing! - Hardware - Smartphones & Tablets - Hardware - Smartphones & Tablets - Platforms – iOS, Android, Windows.. - Platforms – iOS, Android, Windows.. - Software – Web v native v hybrid - Software – Web v native v hybrid - Languages – Mobile Flex, HTML 5, Objective-C, Java … - Languages – Mobile Flex, HTML 5, Objective-C, Java …

Hardware  Smartphones - Screen size 2.1 – 4” - Screen size 2.1 – 4” - Good for routing, check-in apps etc - Good for routing, check-in apps etc  Tablets – Screen size 7” – 10.1” – Screen size 7” – 10.1” - Offers the possibility of richer more complex apps - Offers the possibility of richer more complex apps

Mobile Apps  Web - Javascript/HTML 5 = most mobile browsers - Javascript/HTML 5 = most mobile browsers - Flash, Flex & Silverlight– not Apple iOS - Flash, Flex & Silverlight– not Apple iOS  Native – Installed apps eg. Objective-C (iOS) advantages – performance? disadvantage – built for one platform  Hybrid - Installed apps eg. Adobe Mobile Flex advantages – runs on most platforms disadvantage – performance?

Applications of Mobile Technology

Location Focused API’s  Maps and more Google, MapQuest  GIS – ESRI  Other location service – Foursquare, Facebook, GeoLoqi - GeoMarketing, GeoFencing, GeoSocial

Available Mobile GIS Apps  ESRI – Free app iOS & Android. ArcGIS.com  ESRI – ArcGIS Online templates  WebMapSolutions – GeoMobile for ArcGIS Free app iOS, Android, Blackberry Free app iOS, Android, Blackberry

Sharing your GIS Data  ArcGIS Server – dynamic, tiled, feature lyrs  ArcGIS Online – web maps  Shapefiles  Other – GeoServer, Mapserver

Mobile GeoSpatial Applications Visualization  View your data as layers over basemaps – fields, soil type etc  Both static and dynamic data

Mobile GeoSpatial Applications Management and Coordination  Tracking and coordinating field workers  Live data updates from the field

Mobile GeoSpatial Applications Query & Search  View feature attributes. Query for features with specific attributes

Mobile GeoSpatial Applications Tools  Geospatial tools for specific work flows – buffering, measure, routing

Mobile GeoSpatial Applications Data Collection  The end of pen and paper  Adding & updating features – field fertilization

Mobile GeoSpatial Applications Updates, Editing, Annotation  Feature and Attribute Editing.  Updates done in the field sent to central server

Mobile GeoSpatial Applications Online/Offline  No Wi-Fi …. no problem!  Caching data on the mobile device

Is Mobile the Future of GIS?  Mobile = Opportunity  Context  New users  New tools  New markets

Questions  Should we re-label ourselves - location based solution providers?  Is this the end for Trimble?  Will be start also looking to Google etc for (GIS) solutions?

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