I was just thinking I would be cool to add GIS functionality to my website. Does anyone out there know how to do that?
The back bone of a geographic information system is the database. Soooo you have to have some semblance of a database. So maybe you would like your clients to be able to search all jobs that you have completed in the last year. You will need a database that contains a unique identifier for the job, the lat, the long, and date the job was completed and the client name. This is a really simplified database but you get the idea.
With that information you can you google maps to upload this to your site, ArcGIS also has a module to do this too.
Again this is overly simplified but the database is the key.
You can imbed a web map in a web page via Arcgis online. You can make maps with coordinates from excell overlaid on ESRI base maps. Arcgis is free, and you can post maps with up to 1000 features for free, anything above that they charge you. Hope that helps.
> You can imbed a web map in a web page via Arcgis online. You can make maps with coordinates from excell overlaid on ESRI base maps. Arcgis is free, and you can post maps with up to 1000 features for free, anything above that they charge you. Hope that helps.
Checked out their website. It doesn't look free to me. Looks like they start at $2500 per year. Am I missing something?
Yes, there's definitely no such thing as a free lunch anymore with Esri. They still occasionally dangle trial subscriptions to ArcGIS Online, but eventually you have to ante up big time for it.
I used to write for Professional Surveyor about web mapping and embedding GIS capabilities into a website. Searching for my name (Rudy Stricklan) and the Professional Survey (now xyHt) archives should still have those articles online.
I also have given presentations to survey groups about setting up websites with GIS web mapping capabilities. Here are links to a couple:
http://s3.amazonaws.com/MapAutoCommonDocs/Web-Enabling%20Your%20Survey%20Data.pptx
Unfortunately there are no notes for either presentation, but most of the slides are cookbook in nature.
Rudy Stricklan, RLS, GISP
Yea ESRI has there hand out every step of the way. How I understand it is you can create a map for yourself, with the 1000 feature limit for free, unless ESRI has changed this. If you want to start adding people in your organization, then they start charging credits. You can try signing up here https://accounts.esri.com/signup.... then after you sign up go here to login to arcgis online http://www.arcgis.com/home/index.html. From there you should be able to create maps, but to what level ESRI will let you go without paying will probably be minimal. You tube has a lot of video's about creating maps, Imbedding Web Maps and using just Excel files as opposed to Shapefiles/Feature classes to make maps.
Hope it helps.
Todd Jester, GISP
