1. Vending GIS Services & Petroleum Data with ArcIMS
2001 ESRI PUG Meeting
John D. Grace, Ph.D.
Earth Science Associates

2. Project Goals Technical Goals: Commercial Goals:
Deliver Data on Single GOM Leases
Provide Maps, Charts, Tables & Download
Commercial Goals:
Disaggregate GOM3 GIS product
Sell Data & GIS Services on Web
GOM ArcIMS Project

3. Java vs HTML Viewer HTML Java Highly Customizable Easy Deployment
Quick Load w/o Plug-Ins
Casual User Sufficient
Highly Customizable
On-the-Fly Responses
Supports Advanced Users
HTML
Java
Limited Solutions
Load Time & Plug-Ins
Programming Complexity
GOM ArcIMS Project

4. Data Served Attribute Data on: Records Production Data 5 million
Reservoirs 7,500
Leases 7,000
Wells ,000
Completions ,000
Platforms ,000
Pipelines ,000
Production Data million
GOM ArcIMS Project

5. Functionality Limit Access to a Single Lease/Session
Map & Edit Theme Legends
Identify, Select, Measure
Chart Production & Development Data
Create Tables
Download Tabular Data
GOM ArcIMS Project

6. System Design Browser ArcIMS 3.0 (Java Viewer) Production DBFs
Open Separate
Browser
HTML Window
Web Server
Execute
Excel from VB
ArcIMS 3.0
(Java Viewer)
Dynamically
Write .axl(s)
in Perl
Table, Chart
& Download
Map
Requests
Requests
ODBC
Download Requests
Execute
Excel from VB
Production
in Oracle
DBFs
Shapefiles
System Server
GOM ArcIMS Project

7. Examples from Lease GOM Beta
GOM ArcIMS Project

8. Lessons - So Far Minimize Response Time
Keep Shapefiles as “Thin” as Possible
“Just-in-Time” Data Service
Segregate Non-Mapping Functions
Java Must be Justified
Commercial Reason (e.g., Limit Access)
Serving Advanced Functionality
GOM ArcIMS Project

9. Tiered GIS Strategy Casual User Intermediate User Power User
ArcIMS - HTML Viewer
Overview Data & Simple Tools
Intermediate User
ArcIMS - Java Viewer & Linked Functions
Overview + Local Data & Strong Tools
Power User
ArcView & Linked Functions
GOM ArcIMS Project

10. Wanted: Beta Testers
GOM ArcIMS Project