1. Is Mobile the Future of GIS? Matt Sheehan WebMapSolutions

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

3. 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

4. Background

5. 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

6. GeoSpatial History  1960-75 -  1960-75 - Harvard Laboratory For Computer Graphics And Spatial Analysis   1969 - Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) - built on Harvard Graphics developments   1970 - 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   2008 - First GPS enabled smart phone   2012 – Mobile Maps, GIS & LBS

7. Mobile

8. 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 …

9. 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

10. 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?

11. Applications of Mobile Technology

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

13. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

23. 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?

24. Thank You - Questions?  Website and Blog: www.webmapsolutions.com www.webmapsolutions.com  Twitter: www.twitter.com/flexmappers  YouTube: www.youtube.com/webmapsolutions matt@webmapsolutions.com