If You Can Browse This Map, Thank a Desktop
Bill Dollins
Senior Vice PresidentZekiah Technologies
Maryland
www.zekiah.comgeobabble.wordpress.com
Weall
knowthe
partyline
Web Apps Are Cool
Desktop Apps Are Not
Web Maps Are Cool
Desktop Maps Are Not
Is thedesktop
stillrelevant?
You
tell
me
Return?
Mid-‘90sto
Mid-’00s
We Know Where That Got Us
But then a shift…
Why?
2KB RAM
32KB Storage
1.024 MHz
http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2009/07/20/how-powerful-was-the-apollo-11-computer/
8 GB RAM(~4,194,304x)
250 GB Storage(~8,192,000x)
3.06 GHz(~2988x)
That’sa lot
toleave
onthe
floor
What
about
GIS?
GIS Is “Heavy”
A casein point:the Esri
Web ADF
Out of the Box:
1 MB
Round Trip
The servercarries
the load
Enter theREST API
Andits Clients
Sharing the load
And
the
Second
Way?
DesktopGIS
is theOnramp
forWeb
Mapping
“100%”- James Fee
WeoGeo
“90%”- Kate Chapman
FortiusOne
ArcGIS ServerServices
StartOn the
Desktop
Whowants
tobeonthe
desktop?
“The Cloud”
WeoGeoTools
forArcGIS
GeoCommonsArcGISToolbar
Arc2EarthCloud
Explorer
QGIS Support forOSM and
MapServer
Because you don’t want to be that kid
The “GeoWeb” can’t exist without the “GeoDesktop”
Don’tForget
theDesktop
Questions?
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