NPS Natural Resource & GIS Programs Inventory and Monitoring Program RIMC – April 2010 Geospatial Functions in IRMA: Extreme Mash-Ups (just to prove it can be done…) RIMC Web Mapping Session

NPS Natural Resource & GIS Programs Inventory and Monitoring Program RIMC – April 2010 NRInfo Portal = IRMA User Interface

NPS Natural Resource & GIS Programs Inventory and Monitoring Program RIMC – April 2010 Functional Goals Spatial Searching across NRInfo Portal Spatially-enable References and visualize locations

NPS Natural Resource & GIS Programs Inventory and Monitoring Program RIMC – April 2010 Mash-Up “Architecture ”

NPS Natural Resource & GIS Programs Inventory and Monitoring Program RIMC – April 2010 Technical Challenges ASP.NET MVC, ASPX/ASCX –NRInfo custom MVC structure –Nested ASCX controls on ASPX pages –Data Transformation : SqlGeography  GML .Net JSON.Net GeoJSON Ambition vs. Reality: –Common API and controls –Sacrificing elegance and logic for performance

NPS Natural Resource & GIS Programs Inventory and Monitoring Program RIMC – April 2010 Integration and Extensibility NPMaps and IMR Integration: –OpenLayers, ExtJS GUI, GeoExt core data model –Service-based content REST and SOAP ESRI and Bing services Extensibility: –REST vs. GeoJSON vs. GML –Spatial data typing: SqlGeometry vs. SqlGeography –ArcGIS 10: REST-based editing; API enhancements; QueryLayers

NPS Natural Resource & GIS Programs Inventory and Monitoring Program RIMC – April 2010 NRInfo – Release 8 May 28 !!! –Geospatial search for References and Certified Species Lists –View Reference locations –Create Reference bounding boxes