AGX and AGS goodness
After hearing more come out about ArcGIS Explorer (AGX) this past week some may be asking if AGX is a Google Earth killer. If you are one of those folks, be sure to read James’ recent post to find out why this isn’t the correct question.
There is one thing that I left the UC with a fiery desire to do…set up ArcGIS Server 9.2, set up a geoprocessing service and a service to distribute 3D buildings and share with the world. We have most of this ready to go other than deciding what geoprocessing service to set up, and I still have some time to decide before 9.2 ships. Random thoughts on a Saturday night.
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My main interest in AGS was the notion of multi-user editing via a HTML client. This brings to mind the idea of community cartography.
Say you have an impossibly large complex map, all you would need is to set up the drawing standards and anyone could draw a small part of the map. Conceputally I think it would be to cartography/GIS what the SETI project was to number crunching.
What do you think?
AA
I am very attached to the idea of these new technologies (AGS, GE, etc) meeting the goals set up in the participatory GIS literature. While we still have the problem with differential access, I can definitely imagine a web-based global mapping project, or a user updated base map (building torn down…delete the polygon).
My curiosity, though, is whether AGS could be the back-end for ‘community cartography’ projects, or will it be the generally accepted open source or project-oriented software that will be the back-end? Open data, it seems, often sits atop free systems.
On the other hand, I think that AGS is definitely going to have an impact on the data update process of the public sector, especially for local and state data (Frank has more specific thoughts on that topic).