Keynote to Esri Dev meetup in June 2011, inspired by the Washington Post's periodic "Five Myths" series.

1. One Man’s Opinion
Ahead

2. MYTHS
ABOUT GIS
IN 2011

3. THE
DESKTOP
IS DEAD!

4. We
all
know
the
party
line

5. Web Apps Are Cool

6. Desktop Apps Are Not

7. Web Maps Are Cool

8. Desktop Maps Are Not

9. Return?

10. Mid-‘90s
to
Mid-’00s

11. We Know Where That Got Us

12. But then a shift…

13. 8 GB RAM
(~4,194,304x)
250 GB Storage
(~8,192,000x)
3.06 GHz
(~2988x)

14. GIS Is “Heavy”

15. A case
in point:
the Esri
Web ADF

16. Out of the Box:
1 MB
Round Trip

17. Enter the
REST API

18. And
its Clients

19. Sharing the load

20. The desktop is alive and well
and living in your browser

21. Desktop GIS is the Onramp for Web
Mapping

22. ArcGIS Server
Services
Start
On the
Desktop

23. “100%”
- James Fee
WeoGeo
“90%”
- Kate Chapman
GeoIQ

24. WeoGeo
Tools
for
ArcGIS
GeoCommons
ArcGIS
Toolbar
GeoCat
Bridge

25. Why?

26. Because no one wants to be that kid

27. The “GeoWeb” can’t exist without the
“GeoDesktop”

28. MAPS ARE
THE
TRUE POWER
OF GIS!

29. Maps can be a lot of things…

30. Informative
By Esri Disaster Response

31. Beautiful
By Bill F. Greer

32. Unusual
By Bill Dollins

33. Maps have been around
longer than GIS
http://ny-image1.etsy.com/il_fullxfull.228972589.jpg

34. Spatial processing adds power

35. 1:1
1:M
M:M

36. A B
http://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=30402

37. Use background spatial processing

38. Visualize spatial outputs appropriately

39. Export
STREAMLINE.ZIP9_POINTS
Required Fields
PREF_CITY_STATE_NAME_LAST_LINE
ZIPCODE field
ZIP4HIGH
ARC_ZIP4
* CITY
Required Fields
CITY_FIP
CITY_NME
* COUNTY
Required Fields
COUNTFIP
COUNT_NM
* FED_HOUSEDISTRICTS
Required Fields
FEDHREPN
* PUBLIC_SCHOOL_DISTRICTS
Required Fields
SCHDISNU
SCHDISNM
* ST_HOUSEDISTRICTS
Required Fields
STHREPNU
* ST_SENATEDISTRICTS
Required Fields
STSENNUM
* Asterisks indicates layers that need to be verified and
exported to model as changes occur
Joins
City
Required Fields
PREF_CITY_STATE_NAME_LAST_LINE
CITY_NME
‘Export’
Update
Query
Step1
Required Fields
ZIPCODE field
ZIP4HIGH
ARC_ZIP4
CITY_NME
CITY_FIP
Table Join
Spatial Join
City Component
Required Fields
ZIPCODE field
ZIP4HIGH
ARC_ZIP4
CITY_NME
CITY_FIP
Step2
Required Fields
CITY_FIP
CITY_NME
COUNTFIP
COUNT_NM
FEDHREPN
SCHDISNU
SCHDISNM
STHREPNU
STSENNUM
ZIPCODE
ZIP4HIGH
ARC_ZIP4
Update_FIELDS
Required Fields
CITY_NME = Helena – CITY_FIP= 31180
CITY_NME = West Helena – CITY_FIP = 74450
CITY_NME – Little Rock Airforce Base – CITY_FIP = 41000
STAT_FIP = 05
STATE_NM = Arkansas
Add_FIELDS
Required Fields
STCOCFIP
X
Y
RECRTDTE
ALL_FIELDS
Required Fields
CITY_FIP
CITY_NME
COUNTFIP
COUNT_NM
FEDHREPN
SCHDISNU
SCHDISNM
STHREPNU
STSENNUM
STAT_FIP
STATE_NM
STCOCFIP
ZIPCODE
ZIP4HIGH
ARC_ZIP4
X
Y
RECRTDTE
Remove Duplicate Values in
ZIP_ZIP4 field
File name
DHS_EDW_AREA_GIS_EXTRACT
Spatially-Enabled ETL
Arkansas GIO

40. What’s
a
developer
to
do?

41. Spatial SQL

42. ArcObjects (!?)
http://images.spatiallyadjusted.com/killing-arcobjects_001.jpg

43. GIS IS
DISRUPTING
THE WEB!

44. Location is Everywhere

45. The Web Loves Location

46. The Web and GIS? Not So Much…

47. Map Tiles (and Web Mercator)
Maptiler.org

48. REST

49. JSON

51. The Web Has Disrupted GIS

52. Spatial processing adds power

53. Code-
Free GIS!

54. The “Do All” Button

55. What are you talking about?
1990s
2000s
2010s?

56. THIS
ISN’T
GIS!

57. #NoGIS
#Paleo
#NeoGeo
#GIS
Desktop
#WMSisDead
#GeoAgnostic
REST
SOAP
ArcGIS
FOSS4G
Android
iOS
WP7
Web
Cloud
#OSM

58. Walls suck!

59. It’s All Good

60. Communities Work

61. Bill Dollins
bill@zekiah.com
Twitter: @billdollins
Zekiah Technologies
www.zekiah.com
Thank You!