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Flexible and Usable WebGIS for the Organisation Karolina van Schrojenstein Lantman – Orlinska GIS & ICT Advisor Grontmij Nederland B.V. The Netherlands 1
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Flexible and Usable WebGIS for the
Organisation
Karolina van Schrojenstein Lantman – Orlinska
GIS & ICT Advisor
Grontmij Nederland B.V.
The Netherlands
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Engineering office, ~ 9.000 employees, Offices in West and North Europe
100: combining industry knowledge with sustainable geo-ICT solutions – Software development, maintenance, implementations
and administration of tailor-made and standard applications
35: PL, Advisors, software developers – Open source & ESRI based
– Clients & users of our software: Waterboards, Ministries, provinces, municipalities, Tennet, Shell, Insurance companies
Grontmij… GIS&ICT… Team GIS
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Let’s step out from our special/spatial world
for a moment…
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A bigger picture…
World of specialists is very small
Only when technology gets user-friendly enough it
will be widely adopted and used
It’s not about # of buttons or functions but about how
well do you understand the needs (and limitations)
of your users
Value of every application can be measured with
how well it supports the end users needs
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WebGIS <> GIS online
…so why would it be any different for WebGIS
We want that everyone within an organisation
uses WebGIS
WebGIS is not for GIS specialists
WebGIS is not the same as GIS over the internet (searching in google is not the
same as sending SQL queries over the internet)
WebGIS is for everyone!!
This has very important consequences
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Users of GIS vs. Users of WebGIS
Few
Can be trained
Technology and innovation is
interesting
A lot of different work processes
Need flexibility
Understands GIS jargon
Many
Can’t be trained / don’t want to be
trained
Do not care for technology and
innovation
Repetitive work processes (not
necessarily frequent)
Need extreme user friendliness
Understands work process jargon
(legal, maintenance, administration,
spatial planning)
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What most WebGIS offerts to its users?
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Navigeer
De kaart naar
Een locatie
Zoek een
adres op
Voer een
Selectie uit
Zoek een
straatnaam op
Stel de afdruk
Parameters in
Maak een
afdruk
Zoek een
Perceel op
identificeer
Zoom de
Kaart in
Zoom de
Kaart uit
Verschuif
De kaart
Geselecteerd
resultaten
Activeer
Een laag
Buffer
Geselecteerde
objecten
Genereer een
rapport
Export als
CSV
How it should be…
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I want…
Close the
Sint Jacobsstraat
for maintenence
12.09 - 14.09
Evaluate if one
is allowed to
start a cafe at
Hoofdstraat 33
Generate work
orders for mowing
grass
(wherever
it’s needed)
Where does this bring us? – purpous
specific applications
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WebGIS
WebGIS
interface 1
Technology A
WebGIS
interface 2
Technology B
WebGIS
interface 3
Technology A
WebGIS
interface 4
Technology C
How does it look like?
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Server
Database connections
Map services
Security
Couplings
Integrations
Reports
Searches
Workflows
Management of purpose specific applications
Intranet
application ‘basic’
application
‘Spatial
planning'
application mobile
app
Conclusions
Users of WebGIS <> users of GIS
WebGIS <> GIS over the internet
Only when the whole organisation is
using info in WebGIS, you can get the
ROI
No lose steps in known work processes
It is possible to satisfy flexibility and
complexity at the same time
Application management does not have
to be a nightmare with the right tools
Technology to make it happen is
already available
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Karolina van Schrojenstein Lantman - Orlinska
@orlinska @GeoWeb4, @GrontmijNL
orlinska.com software.grontmij.nl
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