Abstract

Mobile GIS Web Portal using ArcGIS Online Web Maps
Track: Mobile GIS
Authors: Feng Xia

ArcGIS Online enables anyone to easily create and share maps and geographic information. It works well in the on-premises environment where the local resources are accessible. However, those contents are not available outside the corporation firewall. Our customers require a secured GIS web portal that can be easily accessed through a mobile device with single authentication. We are building a mobile GIS portal that leverages the ArcGIS online contents and provides them through a JavaScript web application. To access the internal resources we design a proxy service that will reroute all internal ArcGIS server requests and hyperlinks such as feature attachments and hyperlink attributes in the ArcGIS online web map data to a secured internal access channel. By using HTML5 and ArcGIS JavaScript API we are able to provide a mobile GIS portal to both field and office users to access and share GIS contents through a web browser.