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—Brian Timoney, The Timoney Group
Drowning in both data as well as a mind-numbing quantity of tools and applications, Oil & Gas has been challenged in finding an approach for delivering visual intelligence to its non-technical management: the folks who both make the high-dollar decisions and have no time for reading instruction manuals, let alone formal training classes.
By combining the popular and intuitive Google Earth interface with OGC web standards such as WMS and KML, GIS/IT departments can serve broad audiences without the painstaking architecting and programming of first generation web mapping applications. Further, by using open standards, GIS shops can access both relevant 3rd party data streams such as those provided by the USGS and the BLM, as well as harness the capabilities of ArcServer 9.3 to easily publish their in-house data as WMS or KML.
This presentation will discuss how to quickly access government sources of topo maps, land grid, and lease information. Then, in using ArcServer to stream internal datasets, we will do a quick overview of streaming "big" data, customizing the info balloon, and intelligently hyperlinking individual features to other data repositories.
By combining open standards with the Google Earth interface, GIS/IT departments are no longer facing the grim prospect of "re-inventing the wheel" in creating their own internal web mapping system from scratch. Rather, by combining freely available 3rd party data streams with ArcServer's new capabilities to publish internal data sets, they give a broad audience of non-technical users easy access to critical information.