tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86458133357706248722024-03-16T01:09:56.577+00:00Georelated - Mapping, GIS and Location Intelligence TechnologyGeorelated.com provides news, reviews and articles about Maps, GIS, Web Mapping and spatial technology.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8645813335770624872.post-71064157194829206462012-10-01T21:23:00.001+01:002012-10-19T18:45:32.963+01:00Geocloud: ESRI ArcGIS Online Reviewed<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is the third part in a series of articles from Georelated providing a summary of some of the major cloud mapping services, their capabilities and key differentiators. This article will examine <a href="http://www.arcgis.com/about/" target="_blank">ESRI ArcGIS Online</a>. Previous articles in this review series: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">ArcGIS Online is a large collection of GIS capability and data. ArcGIS Online provides "Hosted" and "Content" web services, mobile and web application programming interfaces, web mapping explorer application for sharing and collaboration, ArcGIS integration and Excel integration. It offers broad range of capability with ESRI product suite wide integration and support for a wide range of development technologies.<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX6b3jpBvOXoOKPYPajkJFoUKFOqBH8lPPy0A4eGh-HEcak6WrY1rf7e7R3siINyMnjnmpJpjpoQS5kFAdPlpgKtzbNsHTWSBxA3uLjz3xJ8GRxGkoH3uCWoYGIbXgQSgmVU-Eixq_QRKZ/s1600/Bing_Maps.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="55" sda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX6b3jpBvOXoOKPYPajkJFoUKFOqBH8lPPy0A4eGh-HEcak6WrY1rf7e7R3siINyMnjnmpJpjpoQS5kFAdPlpgKtzbNsHTWSBxA3uLjz3xJ8GRxGkoH3uCWoYGIbXgQSgmVU-Eixq_QRKZ/s200/Bing_Maps.jpg" width="200"></a><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is the second part in a series of articles from Georelated providing a summary of some of the major cloud mapping services, their capabilities and key differentiators. </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This article will examine Microsoft Bing Maps API.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> In the </span><a href="http://www.georelated.com/2012/02/cloud-web-map-api-services-reviewed.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">first part</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> of the series Georelated examined Google Maps API v3. The articles are aimed at a technical audience of architects or developers. <a href="http://www.bing.com/maps/explore/" target="_blank">Bing Maps</a> is Microsofts cloud mapping service API. Bing Maps was originally launched in 2005 as MSN Virtual Earth and has seen many different names since this time (Live Search Maps, Windows Live Maps, Windows Live Local, and MSN Virtual Earth). </span><br>
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This article examines Google Maps API.<a href="http://code.google.com/apis/maps/index.html" target="_blank"> Google Maps API v3</a> provides a <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/" target="_blank">Javascript</a> and <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/flash/" target="_blank">Flash RIA </a>controls, <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/webservices/index.html" target="_blank">web services</a> and embeddable <a href="https://developers.google.com/earth/" target="_blank">Google Earth</a>. It supplies base mapping and geocoding data within the service.</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj3ZTM6ChyphenhyphenaHl1IVrkFH8cUL9jLCpcvVEP6wk1wRzVmTyMXUvHUZKaj7sK1ltFUR_bXTBRRs3YBb9Wu5Aw5Be5VFkuUTFsmC0qMgZBChv3Mk7uNwiLvIa3PSc2gjVKyEYUHXUSwY2au3gj/s1600/silverlight-flash-html5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj3ZTM6ChyphenhyphenaHl1IVrkFH8cUL9jLCpcvVEP6wk1wRzVmTyMXUvHUZKaj7sK1ltFUR_bXTBRRs3YBb9Wu5Aw5Be5VFkuUTFsmC0qMgZBChv3Mk7uNwiLvIa3PSc2gjVKyEYUHXUSwY2au3gj/s1600/silverlight-flash-html5.jpg"></a>This is the 4th post in the Web Mapping series examining the technology that will change the boundaries of what is possible for geospatial applications. In this post we will take a look at Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight as technology enablers for Web Mapping. The post will illustrate concerns over the future of these technologies, examine their adoption for GIS and Web Mapping and review the direction of the key technology vendors.<br>
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In the recent Web Mapping post series Georelated.com examined the new opportunities that have emerged for vastly improved web mapping through <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5" target="_blank">HTML 5</a> and its support for <a href="http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/" target="_blank"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto;">SVG</span></a>, <a href="https://www.khronos.org/registry/webgl/specs/1.0/" target="_blank"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto;">WebG</span>L</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canvas_element" target="_blank">Canvas</a> and massively improved performance. We examined the <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1783755897">practicality and benefits of </a><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto;"><a href="http://www.georelated.com/2011/10/fall-of-tiled-map-image.html" target="_blank">vector web mapping</a> as an alternative to web mapping using pregenerated tile images</span> and the <a href="http://www.georelated.com/2011/10/rise-of-globe-in-web-mapping.html" target="_blank">potential of globe web mapping visualisation</a> without plugins or desktop software. In this post we will examine the opportunities for 3D web mapping created through advances in browser technology, HTML5, WebGL and new evolutions in web mapping.<br>
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<span style="color: #444444;">In the last post </span><a href="http://www.georelated.com/2011/10/fall-of-tiled-map-image.html" style="color: #444444;">"The Fall of the Tiled Map Image"</a><span style="color: #444444;"> Georelated.com provided some background on why we believe web mapping is on the cusp of a new generation moving away from the image tile map to vector mapping. In this post we will examine the potential of HTML 5 Globe Web Mapping and the changes in technology that make this possible.</span></div>
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Pregenerated tiled map images as used by <a href="http://maps.google.com/">Google</a> Maps, <a href="http://www.bing.com/maps/">Microsoft Bing</a> and many GIS focused vendors has been the dominant solution GIS web
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For many years there has been a limited choice of geodatabases when looking for a single solution for all geodata models. Only <a href="http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/options/spatial/overview/introduction/index.html">Oracle</a> Spatial and<a href="http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/arcgisserver/index.html"> ESRI</a> offered comprehensive coverage of spatial models.<a href="http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/options/spatial/overview/introduction/index.html"> Oracle</a> Spatial provided database models and algs for vector, network, raster and topology in addition to the usual database refinements and in database geocoding. <a href="http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/arcgisserver/index.html">ESRI</a> offered ArcGIS Server with comprehensive support for Vector, Network and Raster models but left topology to the clients and had no offering for geocoding.Competitors such as PostGIS, MapInfo Spatialware, Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL only offered support for vectors.<br>
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