Transcript School Locator

School Locator
Using GIS data in non-traditional
ways
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Requirements
• Build a web page that a user can enter an
address and get back their school
attendance information
• The web page would have the same lookn-feel of the school district’s website
• The web page needs to be kept simple
and user friendly
• Include a map of the schools and
boundaries
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Solution
• Create a web service to delivery the
school information
• Enhancements to the IMS
– Create maps showing a school and its
attendance boundary
– Allow for another websites to create maps
from the AIMS IMS
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Remarks
• The current IMS didn’t meet the needs
and wants of the school district.
– Shows all schools
– Doesn’t visually relate the address location to
the school
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School Locator WS
• The school locator web service provides
a service to lookup school attendance
areas for a given address.
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In Use
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Maps
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School Locators
• The web service can be used by different
school districts to provide a service to its
communities.
• It can be embedded into a web page
according to the school district’s look-nfeel.
• Gardner-Edgerton
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Traditional GIS Consumption
• Hard-copy maps
• GIS format
– Shapefiles
– Geodatabase
• Internet mapping
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A new paradigm
• Web Services
– Embedded in familiar applications
• Access
• Web page
– GIS analysis completed beforehand
• Point-in-poly operations
– Address Web Service
– School locator web application
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Web Service Inside
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GIS and Web Services
• Web services provide information as
opposed to simply data.
– The school locator web page displays
attendance information, not just points on a
map
• Easily distributable
• Data maintained and stored in a central
location
• GIS analysis is performed beforehand
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GIS for the masses!!!
• Non-GIS professionals can use GIS
information.
– IT professionals can create applications to
consume a web service
– End-users may not know the information
their getting is from a GIS system, but they
still get their information
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