Abstract Constructing a Practical and Powerful GIS Web Portal Framework Track: Application Development Author(s): William Keever This presentation will take the audience from exploring business requirements to software construction of a GIS portal and will detail the opportunities and pitfalls encountered. The City of Aurora, Colorado had a fundamental need to answer geographic related questions in a more intuitive and productive way. A project was initiated and a goal defined to create a web based mapping portal designed in such a way to surface many kinds of documents and data linked to a geographic location. The GIS portal could be used by non-specialized staff in various departments to quickly answer internal, business, and citizen inquiries. The portal framework was built with standard tools and integrated ArcGIS Server, Web ADF, .NET web services, and disparate data sources into a framework designed to easily incorporate additional future data and document types. William Keever City of Aurora 15151 E Alameda Pkwy Aurora , Colorado 80012 United States Phone: 303-739-7482 Fax: 303-739-7547 E-mail: wkeever@auroragov.org |