AJAX and GIS at GeoWeb | July 25th, 2006
I’m speaking at GeoWeb on Thursday, July 26 at 10:35am.
GIS Applications on the Web: Possibilities and Limitations
Speaker: Andre Charland, co-founder,eBusiness ApplicationsNitobi
Google Maps put Ajax on the map for consumers and developers alike. There is a growing trend towards porting GIS and mapping software to the web. In this presentation, Charland will speak to the possibilities and limitation of various Rich Internet Application (RIA) technologies, including Ajax, Flash and FLEX. He’ll approach it from both the professional Web developer’s perspective of moving into a Web environment – an environment that is as rich and visually engaging as traditional GIS applications; and the user’s perspective – moving toward a desktop experience and usability issues.
I’m really looking forward to this talk as I think mapping and GIS is really cool and we’re only at the tip of the iceberg, not just on the web but for other devices too. I’m going to be on the look out for some cool topo map applications.
UPDATE: Here’s my slide deck in PDF and PPT. Here’s the link to a whole bunch of map mashups. I’ll upload the movies shortly.
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July 30th, 2006 at 12:08 pm
[…] Dave put together this cool little demo for the talk I gave at GeoWeb last Thursday.We wanted to show closer integration of the desktop and the browser environments. So we used a list of addresses (actually lat/long coordinates) in Excel, copied and pasted the list into the nitobi grid which was mashed-up with up with Google Maps. It was pretty slick, I’m not sure if I emphasized in my talk how important this type of workflow is going to be in the future. Users should have to make a cognitive switch between the desktop and web environment (IMO). If you I can see the data let me get copy it, paste it, drag it, drop it or move through it with the keyboard. Come on! I want arrow keys, tabbing, I want to send email by hitting ctrl+enter like I can on the desktop, these are not hard to implement they just take some thought and care from the application designer. […]