John Nerge, GISPCity of Brooklyn ParkMinnesota, USA23 July 2015

Building and maintainingflexible, focused GIS apps

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This is not an app demo

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Brooklyn Park

68 square km26 square mi

78,000 people

~ 400 staff

10 GIS usersMSPAirport

Mall ofAmerica

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GIS at Brooklyn Park

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ArcGIS Online apps

20+

Externalpublicapps

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ArcGIS Online site100+ layers

ArcGIS OpenData

(under review)

Brooklyn ParkGIS

Internal apps

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Externalthird party

apps3

ArcGIS for DesktopArcGIS for ServerArcGIS Online

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What’s our secret ingredient?

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Spatial views

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Processnew data

Appendnew data

Deleteold data

Repeat

Automating maintenance

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Zero maintenance

Time(work hours)

Output(data)

No output while automating

No time once automated

ROI

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Application design

Configure CustomizeTortoise Hare

I’m cutting edge!

Oh no, there’s a new API!

BEST not first

Mine’scooler.

COTS solution!

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Gather the requirements

Build the app

Test with users

Polish and deploy the app

Maintenance mode

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Launchapp

Initialrequest

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We can rebuild them (but don’t)

but learn from them!13

Putting it all together

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Beyond GIS

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IT people are your friendsIT

You

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John Nerge

john.nerge@brooklynpark.org

www.brooklynpark.org/maps

Thank you

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