Abstract

Atlas of NSW - A framework for sharing Government information
Track: Application Development
Authors: Pedro Harris, Stephen Lead, Danny Savic, Tony Hope, Daniel Miller

The Atlas Of NSW is a new online data-sharing framework, providing NSW Government with a mechanism for quickly web-enabling GIS layers and non-spatial datasets.

Our aim was to build a flexible framework which links an intuitive but powerful GIS front-end with vast quantities of text, photographs, charts and tables held by various NSW Government departments. The system is aimed at non-expert users, including the education sector.

We turned to ArcGIS Server 10 and the latest JavaScript API, which allowed us to exploit the power of time-aware datasets, Feature Layers, and seamless cached map layers, including Bing Maps.
This presentation will explain how ArcGIS Server 10 allowed us to web-enable the rich legacy of datasets managed by NSW Government, in a framework which may easily be re-deployed for future applications.
We will explain some of the challenges encountered in the process, and the techniques we used to overcome these hurdles.