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School Locator

Build a user-friendly web page allowing users to input an address and retrieve school attendance details with interactive maps. Integrate a school locator web service for multiple school districts to enhance community services.

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School Locator

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  1. School Locator Using GIS data in non-traditional ways http://aims.jocogov.org

  2. Requirements • Build a web page that a user can enter an address and get back their school attendance information • The web page would have the same look-n-feel of the school district’s website • The web page needs to be kept simple and user friendly • Include a map of the schools and boundaries http://aims.jocogov.org

  3. Solution • Create a web service to delivery the school information • Enhancements to the IMS • Create maps showing a school and its attendance boundary • Allow for another websites to create maps from the AIMS IMS http://aims.jocogov.org

  4. Remarks • The current IMS didn’t meet the needs and wants of the school district. • Shows all schools • Doesn’t visually relate the address location to the school http://aims.jocogov.org

  5. School Locator WS • The school locator web service provides a service to lookup school attendance areas for a given address. http://aims.jocogov.org

  6. In Use http://aims.jocogov.org

  7. Maps http://aims.jocogov.org

  8. School Locators • The web service can be used by different school districts to provide a service to its communities. • It can be embedded into a web page according to the school district’s look-n-feel. • Gardner-Edgerton http://aims.jocogov.org

  9. Traditional GIS Consumption • Hard-copy maps • GIS format • Shapefiles • Geodatabase • Internet mapping http://aims.jocogov.org

  10. A new paradigm • Web Services • Embedded in familiar applications • Access • Web page • GIS analysis completed beforehand • Point-in-poly operations • Address Web Service • School locator web application http://aims.jocogov.org

  11. Web Service Inside http://aims.jocogov.org

  12. GIS and Web Services • Web services provide information as opposed to simply data. • The school locator web page displays attendance information, not just points on a map • Easily distributable • Data maintained and stored in a central location • GIS analysis is performed beforehand http://aims.jocogov.org

  13. GIS for the masses!!! • Non-GIS professionals can use GIS information. • IT professionals can create applications to consume a web service • End-users may not know the information their getting is from a GIS system, but they still get their information http://aims.jocogov.org

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