Potential commercial applications

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1 Georg Börner / Axel Schaefer con terra GmbH, Münster / ESRI Geoinformatik GmbH

2 Content Objectives Method Inventory Form Status Quo Preliminary Analysis Next Steps Case Study: ArcWeb Services 2

3 Objectives Work package Description: Analyse the market in terms of potential applications Provide a detailed description of user and business requirements Task Description (2.2): Compile and describe potential commercial applications Check existing applications (who make use of gazetteer functionality - in the broader sense) Analyse & evaluate these results in order to derive requirements for the egn service (content, quality) To provide input to other work packages 3

4 Method / Inventory Form Survey within the egn project consortium Inventory form was developed Basic information: Name, Operator, Description Sector information: public / private Information about the business model /commercial aspect Information about the Platform / Medium Web-Address and Screenshots (if possible) Gazetteer Information: Database, Service, Name Attributes, Accuracy, Completeness, Variants, Service Level Inventory form was sent to the consortium members in order to gain a wide range of existing applications 4

5 Status Quo 19 Applications are documented in the inventory (not really representative) No input from consortiums partners recieved so far What we have: Web-Map applications Web Catalogue Services Desktop-GIS Routing Business-Finder What we do not have: CD-ROM Map / Atlas-Production 5

6 ArcMap and external Gazetteer Gazetteer and map contain different attribute data Gazetteer: typical (name, type, description, rank ) Map: project specific (area, population, income ) Projects take use of projectspecific attribute data. Potential conflict: projectspecific attribute data / additonal name attributes by EGN-Service 6

7 Forest-GIS (FGIS_online) Gazetteer search catagories used: Administrative Units Forestal Units Forestal Units have to be consistent with thematic data of the operator Operator derives forestal units from time to time from his own thematic data External Gazatteer Services (geonames.org) planned - only for additional use! 7

8 EGLV Intranet Viewer Gazetteer search catagories used: Waterbodies / Sections Sewage Plants Pumping Stations All with several additional name attributes! Very high quality requirements: Consistency with own thematic data Daily updates ArcSDE Server Processes Additional use of external, commercial Address- Information planned 8

9 Address-Finder data Address data in most applications needed Addressfinder interface needed (street, housenumber, city) Addresses vs. Places 9

10 Preliminary Analysis Most commercial applications make use of their own Gazetteer Service & Database the use of external Services is not very popular yet The most common search catagories are: Complete address information (!!!) Administrative units Other search catagories or additional attributes are rarely used. If used, they are derived from own thematic data of the operator In most cases, additional attributes are a part of thematic data and no part of the gazetteer data. Gazetteer search is entry point to further GIS-Processing Accuracy Point coordinates (Address information) Bounding-Box (all other units) 10

11 Preliminary Analysis The Update frequency is mostly not very high (annually) The Gazatteer Database always has to be complete in respect of the area covered by the project Orthography can be catched up by the Application (Sounds like, Wildcards, ) Variant names are rarely used at the moment. Local, regional or nationwide applications do not need them. Applications with international focus use duplicated entries for different languages / or only in the originating language. But: Increasing need is expected (cross-boarder-acitivities, globalisation) Real commercial applications (e.g. vodafone) require a very high service-level (performance, reliability, service-hours) 11

12 Next Steps We would like to complete the inventory Input from the consortium needed! Final Analysis 12

13 ArcWeb Services (AWS) Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), providing on demand geodata- and geoprocessing-services, interfaces and applications. System-architecture: 99,9% reliability. Advanced hosting on different data-centers. Usage, clients and interfaces: Support of webbrowser, userdefined clients, mobile applications. Usage of APIs. Products: 4 product groups free services chargeable services specialized solutions Hosting of user-defined data and services. Account and charging: serveral user-accounts. Charging by a well-defined, transaction-based accounting. 13

14 ArcWeb Services: What is it? Ready-to-Use Applications GIS Web Services All Hosted at ESRI Maps & Spatial Data Available On-Demand 24/7 Serving Millions of Maps per day... to Hundreds of Online Applications 14

15 Content Streets Shaded relief Place names Demography DOQQs TOPO Satellite Imagery Weather Traffic More 15

16 Capabilities Mapping Query Proximity Search Geocoding Routing Gazetteer Search Reports More 16

17 Hosting: AWS Data Centers Professional Data Center Highly secure Extremely redundant (fail safe) Utility computing model 17

18 Searching for data by attribute queries Places: London Points of interest: Disneyland Addresses: 380 New York St, Redlands CA Business names & categories: Pizza Phone numbers: Cell phones: by provider Domains & IPs: 18

19 Accessing ArcWeb Services Access by SOAP, OGC OpenLS, ArcWeb Explorer JavaScript, REST, or the J2ME Mobile Toolkit Access by standard Web browser or ArcGIS Desktop products. Access by developed applications Authentication system to validate access to its services and data. 19

20 Access free SOAP Service PlaceFinder 20

21 Authentication to services and data Validate access to services and data Acquire time-limited authentication token. WS-Security 1.0 compatibility 21

22 ArcWeb Business Model Simple Pay-as-you-Use Business Model Buy blocks of 100,000 Credits 22

23 Four categories Public Services Free to individuals and developers For non-commercial use Commercial Services For Government and Commercial Simple Pay-as-you-Use Business Model Hosted Services Outsourced Enterprise GIS ESRI hosts the Application you build on ArcWeb Focused Solutions Complete solution based on project specific services and data. 23

24 ArcWeb Public Services: for non-commercial use Subset of ArcWeb Commercial Services Free APIs & Applications Unlimited Access for: Developers Individuals 2D Maps 3D Globes 24

25 ArcWeb commercial services: full data and service use Full set of data and services. 500 terabytes of data. Continually updated. Free API and applications. For GIS-Professionals, developers and service providers (ASP). To build up own solutions in intranet or internet. Transaction based credits. 25

26 ArcWeb managed services: for outsourced Enterprise GIS Mobile Desktop Web Web Applications GIS Web Services Maps & Spatial Data Customer Applications are hosted at ESRI 26

27 ArcWeb focused solutions Complete solutions based on specific services and data. BOA: business analyst online Map Studio for homeland security Map Studio for media Flood map report 27

28 Summary Free and commercial services Free services contain a subset of data and services. Commercial services uses full set of data and services. Own data, services and applications can be outsorced by customer. Open APIs for different accesses Desktop based and web-based Credit based payment Granular for the several services and data. 28

29 What a Gazetteer does Search for a name. View it in the map. 29

30 Gazetteer Workflow Find a Place Do something on that place Gazetteer service Map Gazetteer mostly for beginning of geoprocessing process. address-based search for accurate placement place-names for approximate placement Other way round for location based services Where am I? 30

31 Gazetteer part of a service architecture Location based services Gazetteer, Address Finder, reverse Gazetteer Feature Service Filter requests to attribute data Map Service Maps, Globes Geoprocessing Answers to specific spatial topics Connection from name to coordinate Connection to attribute data Connection to rendered map image or globe Connection to tasks 31