1. O AK R IDGE N ATIONAL L ABORATORY U. S. D EPARTMENT OF E NERGY An Assessment of GIS Server Software: “Out of the Box” Solutions Aaron Myers Dan Getman Oak Ridge National Laboratory AAG Annual Meeting San Francisco, CA May 4, 2015

2. O AK R IDGE N ATIONAL L ABORATORY U. S. D EPARTMENT OF E NERGY Motivation and Goal  Motivation  Providing Clients and other Researchers with the best Web GIS Solution to meet their needs.  Goal  Assess both open source and proprietary Web GIS Software in terms of cost, functionality, ease of use, and performance.

3. O AK R IDGE N ATIONAL L ABORATORY U. S. D EPARTMENT OF E NERGY Outline  5 GIS Server Software Packages  Minnesota Map Server  Oracle MapViewer  MapGuide Open Source 1.1  ArcIMS 9.2  ArcGIS Server 9.2  Performance Testing  Summary and Conclusions  Future Research

4. O AK R IDGE N ATIONAL L ABORATORY U. S. D EPARTMENT OF E NERGY Minnesota MapServer  University of Minnesota  http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/  Open Source Web-GIS  Renders Spatial Data for the Web  Not Aspiring to be Functioning GIS  Creation of.Map Files Controls Functionality of Server

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6. O AK R IDGE N ATIONAL L ABORATORY U. S. D EPARTMENT OF E NERGY MapGuide Open Source  Autodesk MapGuide Enterprise  First Full Version Released Jan. 2007  http://mapguide.osgeo.org/home  OGC Compliant  Raster Support through GDAL  Embedded Database  Develop in PHP, Java,.NET  Still in Development Phase

7. O AK R IDGE N ATIONAL L ABORATORY U. S. D EPARTMENT OF E NERGY MapGuide Open Source

8. O AK R IDGE N ATIONAL L ABORATORY U. S. D EPARTMENT OF E NERGY Oracle MapViewer  Oracle  http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/m apviewer/index.html  Java Based Visualization Tool  XML Request/Response, Java Client, and JSP Tag Libraries  Develop using any programming language  Requires the Oracle 9i or 10g Database  Raster support through Oracle Spatial

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10. O AK R IDGE N ATIONAL L ABORATORY U. S. D EPARTMENT OF E NERGY ArcIMS 9.2  ESRI  http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/arcims/ab out/overview.html  Returns “snapshot” of interactive map .AXL or.MXD File can be used for data loading and representation  GUI Interfaces for Administering, Authoring, and Designing Websites  Custom requests through ArcXML  Available separate from other ESRI Products

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12. O AK R IDGE N ATIONAL L ABORATORY U. S. D EPARTMENT OF E NERGY ArcGIS Server  ESRI  http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/arcgisserv er/index.html  Requires the use of ArcCatalog which is only available with ArcGIS Desktop .Net Web Templates readily available  ArcMap to Author Maps  ArcCatalog or Web Manager for Site Administration  Complex pricing structure

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14. O AK R IDGE N ATIONAL L ABORATORY U. S. D EPARTMENT OF E NERGY Server Summary ServerInstallationUser Support Server Administration Cost MapServer.zip or Platform Specific Build Web Documenta tion/FAQ Map DocumentsFree ArcIMSCD InstallESRI Users Forums GUI/Web Administrator > 8,000 ArcServerCD InstallESRI Users Forums ArcCatalog/Web Based > 40,000 MapGuidePlatform build, Install Program Developers /Users Forum Web Studio Autodesk Studio Free MapViewer.zip Download Oracle Users Web Based Administration >1,500

15. O AK R IDGE N ATIONAL L ABORATORY U. S. D EPARTMENT OF E NERGY Server Summary ServerMap Display GeocodeFeature Query Spatial Query Raster Analysis MapServerXNoXXLimited ArcIMSXXXXLimited ArcServerXXXXExtensive MapGuideXXXXNo MapViewerXXXXNo

16. O AK R IDGE N ATIONAL L ABORATORY U. S. D EPARTMENT OF E NERGY Server Summary ServerWMSWFSOutput Types ExtendibilityDatabase Connect MapServerXX PNG, JPEG, PDF.Map FilesArcSDE, Oracle ArcIMSXX JPEG, PNG, GIF ArcXML, ColdFusion,.NET, etc. ArcSDE ArcServerXX PNG, JPEG, SVG ArcObjects,.NET, Java ArcSDE, Oracle, DB2, SQL MapGuideXX PNG, JPEG PHP,.Net, Java MySQL, ArcSDE ODBC MapViewerXNo PNG, JPEG Any XML Language Oracle

17. O AK R IDGE N ATIONAL L ABORATORY U. S. D EPARTMENT OF E NERGY Performance Testing  Jakarta-JMeter 2.2  1 – 50 Users  10 Requests per User  MapServer, ArcIMS, ArcServer, MapViewer  Data  LandScan USA  GRID/GeoTiff (0.52/0.93 MB)  San Francisco County Boundary, Roads, Transit  Vector (10 MB)  Server  Intel Zeon 3.2 GHz  4 Gbs RAM  1 Gbps Connection Speed  IIS 6.0

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23. O AK R IDGE N ATIONAL L ABORATORY U. S. D EPARTMENT OF E NERGY Conclusions  MapServer:  Stable Data, Simple Map Display, Low User Volume, Low Cost  ArcIMS  Simple Map Display, Image Services, High User Volume, Moderate Cost  ArcServer  Closer to Functioning GIS, Complex Maps/Spatial Analysis, High Cost, Additional Resources  MapGuide Open Source  Low Cost, High Level of Product Knowledge, Vector Data  Map Viewer  Established Oracle Database, Attribute Queries, Visualization of Data, Low Cost

24. O AK R IDGE N ATIONAL L ABORATORY U. S. D EPARTMENT OF E NERGY Future Research  MapGuide Open Source  Increase Dataset Size and Extent  Add additional functionality  Geocoding  Spatial/Feature Query  Raster Analysis  Perform additional performance testing  Test with all data in a database