Download Three Main Components

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GIS Application Deployment
City Planning’s Applications
•CAD Creation: Microstation
•GIS Creation: ArcInfo, MGE
•GIS Analysis: ArcView, MapInfo
•GIS Viewing: ArcView, MapObjects,
ArcIMS, Webmap, and Map Guide
•GIS Programing: AML, Avenue, Visual Basic
MapObjects
•GIS Database: Oracle, Access
City Planning and Development Department
Kansas City Missouri
Brief Overview of GIS use
City Planning and Development
Finance
Public Works Engineering
Water Services
Health Department
Aviation
Environmental Management
Others (Fire, Police, EDC)
Three Main Components
Server
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Installed on NT server
Use Microsoft, Netscape
Author
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Install on desktop
Use to create maps
Viewer
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Free download
Use to view maps online
How the components work
together
Diagram
Our Map Requirements
Specific data layers
Identify parcels with “tool tips”
Zoom to a specific neighborhood
Search and zoom a specific address
Retrieve parcel information
To create a map
Create/Gather resources
Author Map
Link or embed in a web page
To create a map
Create/Gather Resources
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SDF files
Free loader program with software (or download)
 Created batch file to run
 Created from various digital data formats
 Identify unique elements with a “key”
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Data Sources
Thematic maps
 Text/Point files
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To create a map
Author Map
Use MapGuide Author component
 Set map properties
 Add data layers
 Set layer properties
 Save MWF
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To create a map
Link or embed in a web page
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Use html to create a page with a map or link to
the map
To create a map
Show simple map
Additional requirements
Specific data layers
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Use shapefiles where available
Parcels with identifying “tool tip”
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Driveways, pavement edge
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Avenue to get address on parcel shapefile from KIVA database
AML to convert from dgn
Lot numbers, dimensions
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AML to create access table
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MapGuide reads text, height, angle, location from database
Water shutoff
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Link parcel layer to db2 database
Additional requirements
Zoom to a specific neighborhood
Search and zoom a specific address
HTML forms to select, enter
 Javascript using the MapGuide Viewer API to
zoom
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ColdFusion to query database for address and to get
parcel coordinates to zoom to parcel
Additional requirements
Retrieve Parcel Information
ColdFusion to query database for selected
parcel information
 HTML/CFML to format report
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Results