Flexible and Usable WebGIS for the

Organisation

Karolina van Schrojenstein Lantman – Orlinska

GIS & ICT Advisor

Grontmij Nederland B.V.

The Netherlands

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Engineering office, ~ 9.000 employees, Offices in West and North Europe

100: combining industry knowledge with sustainable geo-ICT solutions – Software development, maintenance, implementations

and administration of tailor-made and standard applications

35: PL, Advisors, software developers – Open source & ESRI based

– Clients & users of our software: Waterboards, Ministries, provinces, municipalities, Tennet, Shell, Insurance companies

Grontmij… GIS&ICT… Team GIS

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Let’s step out from our special/spatial world

for a moment…

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A bigger picture…

World of specialists is very small

Only when technology gets user-friendly enough it

will be widely adopted and used

It’s not about # of buttons or functions but about how

well do you understand the needs (and limitations)

of your users

Value of every application can be measured with

how well it supports the end users needs

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WebGIS <> GIS online

…so why would it be any different for WebGIS

We want that everyone within an organisation

uses WebGIS

WebGIS is not for GIS specialists

WebGIS is not the same as GIS over the internet (searching in google is not the

same as sending SQL queries over the internet)

WebGIS is for everyone!!

This has very important consequences

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Users of GIS vs. Users of WebGIS

Few

Can be trained

Technology and innovation is

interesting

A lot of different work processes

Need flexibility

Understands GIS jargon

Many

Can’t be trained / don’t want to be

trained

Do not care for technology and

innovation

Repetitive work processes (not

necessarily frequent)

Need extreme user friendliness

Understands work process jargon

(legal, maintenance, administration,

spatial planning)

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What most WebGIS offerts to its users?

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Navigeer

De kaart naar

Een locatie

Zoek een

adres op

Voer een

Selectie uit

Zoek een

straatnaam op

Stel de afdruk

Parameters in

Maak een

afdruk

Zoek een

Perceel op

identificeer

Zoom de

Kaart in

Zoom de

Kaart uit

Verschuif

De kaart

Geselecteerd

resultaten

Activeer

Een laag

Buffer

Geselecteerde

objecten

Genereer een

rapport

Export als

CSV

How it should be…

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I want…

Close the

Sint Jacobsstraat

for maintenence

12.09 - 14.09

Evaluate if one

is allowed to

start a cafe at

Hoofdstraat 33

Generate work

orders for mowing

grass

(wherever

it’s needed)

Where does this bring us? – purpous

specific applications

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WebGIS

WebGIS

interface 1

Technology A

WebGIS

interface 2

Technology B

WebGIS

interface 3

Technology A

WebGIS

interface 4

Technology C

How does it look like?

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Server

Database connections

Map services

Security

Couplings

Integrations

Reports

Searches

Workflows

Management of purpose specific applications

Intranet

application ‘basic’

application

‘Spatial

planning'

application mobile

app

Conclusions

Users of WebGIS <> users of GIS

WebGIS <> GIS over the internet

Only when the whole organisation is

using info in WebGIS, you can get the

ROI

No lose steps in known work processes

It is possible to satisfy flexibility and

complexity at the same time

Application management does not have

to be a nightmare with the right tools

Technology to make it happen is

already available

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Karolina van Schrojenstein Lantman - Orlinska

E karolina.orlinska@grontmij.nl

@orlinska @GeoWeb4, @GrontmijNL

orlinska.com software.grontmij.nl

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