1. NEARC 2009 - Nashua, NH Using a Mix of Technologies to Collect and Present Geographic Information on the Web (or desktop) Aleda Freeman MassGIS (Office of Geographic and Environmental Information) Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EOEEA) http://maps.massgis.state.ma.us/temp/NEARC_webservices_09.ppt

2. NEARC 2009 - Nashua, NH Short history of online mapping at MassGIS Examples of requests to web map services + responses Gallery of the wide variety of applications (and technologies) using the services 3 Parts

3. NEARC 2009 - Nashua, NH Created in 1988 as the GIS office for the Executive Office of Environmental Affairs (EOEA) and its constituent agencies 1999 Legislation (MGL chap 21 sec 4B) established the “Office of Geographic and Environmental Information” in EOEA. Its mission is very broad: “Collect, consolidate store and provide geographic and environmental information in order to improve stewardship of natural resources and the environment, promote economic development and guide land-use planning, risk assessment, emergency response and pollution control.” What Is MassGIS?

4. NEARC 2009 - Nashua, NH MassGIS Users PUBLIC SECTOR State agencies Regional planning agencies Cities and towns Colleges and Universities Federal agencies PRIVATE SECTOR Private non-profit organizations GIS consulting firms Engineering and surveying firms Colleges and Universities Utilities

5. NEARC 2009 - Nashua, NH History of Web Mapping Services at MassGIS Late 1990s: Use of ESRI ArcView Internet Map Server (discontinued) From late 1990s to today: Use of ESRI ArcIMS 1999: Mass.gov E-gov initiative spurs development of OGC WMS/WFS mapping service 2002: MassGIS offers OGC standard based WMS/WFS with custom software (MapAccess) (requests translated to ArcIMS XML) (discontinued) 2004: Installation of GeoServer (open source, reference implementation of OGC standards) Oracle with ESRI SDE is the common data storage for all these map servers

6. NEARC 2009 - Nashua, NH Current Online Mapping ESRI ArcIMS GeoServer map servers data storage types of applications OpenLayers MapBuilder ESRI ArcMap iPhone Flash uDig Gaia Google maps Google Earth desktopbrowser SDE with Oracle

7. NEARC 2009 - Nashua, NH 2 Main Types of OGC Requests WMS – Web Map Service (GetMap) -Image of a map returned (PNG, TIFF, etc) -Can get a legend graphic WFS – Web Feature Service (GetFeature) -Feature info returned (attributes and/or coordinates) For WMS or WFS: -Can filter on attributes or geometry -Can get data back in > 3,000 projections Requests can be URL or XML Many output formats: JPG, PNG, GML, KML, SHP, PDF, XLS, CSV

8. NEARC 2009 - Nashua, NH WMS URL Example http://giswebservices.massgis.state.ma.us /geoserver/wms?VERSION=1.1.1&REQUE ST=GetMap&SERVICE=WMS&LAYERS=ma ssgis:GISDATA.TOWNS_POLYM,massgis:G ISDATA.SCHOOLS_PT&STYLES=Black_Lin es,&BBOX=232325.38526025353,898705. 3447384972,238934.49648710093,90374 9.1401484597&SRS=EPSG:26986&WIDTH =570&HEIGHT=435&FORMAT=image/png

9. NEARC 2009 - Nashua, NH WMS Result

10. NEARC 2009 - Nashua, NH WFS URL Example http://giswebservices.massgis.state. ma.us/geoserver/wfs?request=GetFe ature&version=1.0.0&service=WFS& propertyname=TOWN,POP2000&type name=massgis:GISDATA.TOWNS_P OLYM&CQL_FILTER=POP2000>1000 00

11. NEARC 2009 - Nashua, NH WFS Result (partial)

12. NEARC 2009 - Nashua, NH Clients to MassGIS OGC WMS/WFS Clients using OGC WMS/WFS can connect to MassGIS’ GeoServer for maps and data Clients include: Simple URLs (in an image tag on a web page for example) Viewers built w/ OpenLayers (JavaScript library) Viewers built w/ MapBuilder (JavaScript library) Viewers built w/ Java or JSP ESRI ArcMap Open Source GIS desktop clients (such as uDig, Gaia) Google Earth Google Maps USGS The National Map Clients I don’t know about

13. NEARC 2009 - Nashua, NH Agencies/Orgs with Apps Using MassGIS web map services Programmers doing their own work: DEP, DCR, DOE, DFG, MassHistoric, Town of Amherst, Merrimack Valley Planning Commission, USGS Orgs getting benefit of MassGIS- created applications Community Preservation Coalition, State Police, CZM, Massachusetts Broadband Initiative

14. NEARC 2009 - Nashua, NH Client – ArcMap

15. NEARC 2009 - Nashua, NH Client – ArcCatalog/ArcMap

16. NEARC 2009 - Nashua, NH Client – DCR Forestry Viewer (OpenLayers) http://maps.massgis.state.ma.us/dcr/forestry/forestry23.html

17. NEARC 2009 - Nashua, NH Client – DCR Forestry Viewer (OpenLayers)

18. NEARC 2009 - Nashua, NH Client – State Aid Viewer (Google maps) http://drwren.com/true/stateaid.html

19. NEARC 2009 - Nashua, NH WMS URL Example http://giswebservices.massgis.state.ma.us/ geoserver/wms?&REQUEST=GetMap&SERVI CE=WMS&VERSION=1.1.1&SLD=http://drw ren.com/true/data/0209percent.xml&FORM AT=image/png&BGCOLOR=0xFFFFFF&TRAN SPARENT=TRUE&SRS=EPSG:3395&BBOX=- 905423.213366068,5215286.832320966,- 7827151.696402048,5293275.489246919& WIDTH=256&HEIGHT=256

20. NEARC 2009 - Nashua, NH Online SLD Snippt

21. NEARC 2009 - Nashua, NH Client – The National Map (ESRI HTML viewer) http://nmviewogc.cr.usgs.gov

22. NEARC 2009 - Nashua, NH Client – GOS Gadget (Windows Vista or 7)

23. NEARC 2009 - Nashua, NH Client – MBI Survey (Google Maps geocoding) Massachusetts Broadband Institute Survey http://www.massbroadband.org/mapping/survey.html

24. NEARC 2009 - Nashua, NH Client – MBI Survey (Google Maps + WMS) Massachusetts Broadband Institute Survey http://maps.massgis.state.ma.us/broadband/broadband_survey_results.htm

25. NEARC 2009 - Nashua, NH Client – Welldrillers (MapBuilder)

26. NEARC 2009 - Nashua, NH Client – CZM MORIS (Java Web Start) http://www.mass.gov/czm/mapping

27. NEARC 2009 - Nashua, NH ITD XML Gateway Some agencies (DEP, EOHHS) not allowed to contact MassGIS web services server directly – requests must go through ITD XML Gateway and be validated by schemas Available through the gateway: WMS WFS Geocoding requests to ArcIMS (AXL, not OGC)

28. NEARC 2009 - Nashua, NH ArcIMS statistics 80 mapservices (composed maps) 5,700 requests/day 1,000 geocodes/day 40 viewers use maps or geocoding

29. NEARC 2009 - Nashua, NH GeoServer statistics 851 layers 1,266 SLD named styles >22,000 requests/day images served from cache 23% of the time

30. NEARC 2009 - Nashua, NH Recent New Events Upgraded GeoServer (from 1.6.5 to 1.7.6) - 100+ new rasters - XLS, CSV outputs - curved labels - faster - many other improvements/bug fixes

31. NEARC 2009 - Nashua, NH Planned Improvements Currently profiling GeoServer vs. SDE to see where improvements in data access can be made Plan upgrade to GeoServer version 2.0 Continue to document ways of accessing the web mapping services on lyceum site.

32. NEARC 2009 - Nashua, NH MassGIS Webservices Info http://lyceum.massgis.state.ma.us Working examples of requests and responses with MassGIS data Subscribe via RSS for updates http://www.mass.gov/mgis/mapping.htm Links to many online mapping applications http://groups.google.com/group/massgis_webservices Public Google group for users (56) of the services http://spatialreference.org Look up EPSG code values for projections http://maps.massgis.state.ma.us/temp/NEARC_webservices_09.ppt This Powerpoint

33. NEARC 2009 - Nashua, NH